At the Snooker World Championship, he finally ushered in O'Sullivan's debut, the first round of the game against Gilbert, the two fought fiercely for 15 innings, O'Sullivan first suppressed and then rose, the big outbreak will "Brother Potato" out of the game, contributing a wonderful event. On the other side, Zhao Xintong, who was not optimistic before the game, broke out, defeating Jamie Clarke, bringing surprises to Chinese fans, and Zhao Xintong and O'Sullivan both broke into the round of 16, a step closer to the top 8 of the two.
Looking back at the game, O'Sullivan opened slowly and hotly, although the first stage still continued the rocket's unique style, but did not enter the best state, but the opponent Gilbert also had a very large pressure, he had already expressed his ideas before the game, did not want to meet the big four, but was afraid of what came, but against O'Sullivan, gilbert had no chance of winning.
In the second stage, Gilbert tried to fight back, narrowing the gap with O'Sullivan 5-6, and then O'Sullivan broke out, dominating the field, blasting out a hundred and a single 80+, and finally locked in a 10-5 victory.
Because of the gap in strength between the two, the result of the game was expected by many fans, and this victory brought a new victory to O'Sullivan, who successfully equaled Hendry's Crucibles winning record (70 games), hoping that O'Sullivan would continue to work hard and move towards the goal of impacting Hendry's 7 titles.
Zhao Xintong, who is in the lower half of O'Sullivan," also performed well, and fans were generally not very optimistic about Zhao Xintong before the game, and many British media predicted that he might have a round trip, and even the professional media "Snookerbacker" also gave the same prediction, believing that Zhao Xintong would lose 8-10 to Clark, and also predicted that only Yan Bingtao could win among the four Chinese players. But the result was unexpected, and Zhao Xintong's big explosion surprised the fans.
Zhao Xintong is a player with dark horse potential, he once won the British Championship championship when he was unknown, and he also refused to rise again in the short-lived, to the World Championships, Zhao Xintong is still hot, he broke into the Round of 16 of the World Championship for the first time in his career.
Throughout the game, Clark did not choose to be conservative, but instead attacked Zhao Xintong, who was good at attacking, just in Zhao Xintong's comfort zone, making Zhao Xintong feel hot, the first half of the two shots broke 7-2 dominant, in the second half, Clark suffered consecutive defeats, Zhao Xintong won 10-2 against the opponent, strong into the round of 16, next, Zhao Xintong is about to meet Stephen Maguire.
If Zhao Xintong can advance to the top 8, then he is likely to face the "rocket" O'Sullivan, Who has won the first victory, is in a particularly good mood, he does not shy away from answering the reporter's opinion about potential opponent O'Sullivan, Zhao Xintong frankly wants to meet O'Sullivan, and then hopes that O'Sullivan can "educate" him.
Subsequently, Zhao Xintong also talked about his teammates, thinking that Ding Junhui could get through the first round, yan Bingtao and Lu Haotian were also in very good shape, and believed that they would bring victory.