Beijing time on April 18 news, the first round of the snooker World Championship, seeded player Mark Allen was dragged into a bitter battle, in the face of qualifier Donaldson's grinding style of play, Mark Allen's mentality is obviously wrong, after winning the first set with a single shot of 80 points, Mark Allen lost 2 consecutive sets, as of the end of the fifth set, Mark Allen was already in the general bureau 2-3 behind the situation.
In the opening first set, Mark Allen showed excellent hand feel, winning by 80 points in a single shot, 105-1, and easily won the first set, establishing a 1-0 advantage in the General Bureau. It is worth mentioning that during the break, Donaldson took the initiative to talk to Mark Allen, perhaps, this is also one of Donaldson's psychological tactics.
After that, Donaldson adopted the tactic of slowing down the pace of the game, as we all know, Mark Allen is known as the "little steel cannon", is a player who is very good at playing against the opponent, it is clear that this campaign, his opponent Donaldson also knows this, especially in the case of Mark Allen in the first set to blast a single shot 80 points to win, Donaldson is more determined to his grinding style of play.
In this way, the pace of the game was completely slowed down, some obvious offensive opportunities, Donaldson will also choose to defend, Mark Allen was affected by the opponent, the mentality began to be impatient, Donaldson succeeded, Mark Allen's game rhythm was completely disrupted, for Mark Allen's offensive style of play, this is simply a kind of torment, a single game of more than half an hour has become the norm.
Donaldson won the third and fourth innings 80-9, 78-7, and scored 50 and 78 consecutive singles, of course, each set was a long and time-consuming time! Mark Allen won the fourth set with a single 61 points. In the fifth inning, Donaldson continued to slow down the pace of the game, grinding the audience and also grinding opponents, and the live camera captured his bad smile, which was worth playing.
Mark Allen was completely silent as Donaldson scored 68 points and won the fifth set 124-0. In the sixth game, Donaldson actually ran out temporarily, which was a disrespectful performance of the opponent! The domestic snooker commentator even said that after so many years of commentary, it was the second time he had seen this situation, and Mark Allen could complain to the referee.
Considering that this table will have to take over the 21:30 game later, Donaldson's behavior is also too irresponsible! I'm afraid that the first nine innings of the first stage of the match between Mark Allen and Donaldson are about to be postponed, and according to the rules of the Snooker World Championship, every game must start on time, and if the previous game on the same table is too slow, then it will be postponed directly.
I have to say that in the first round of this World Championship, Donaldson is too bad! Various small tricks, deliberately slowing down the game, making temporary appearances, disrespecting opponents, resulting in the imminent postponement of the game. Once, Donaldson won Ding Junhui 3 times in 11 days, and was known as Ding Junhui Bitter Lord, this battle, Ding Junhui Bitter Lord was too bad, and tortured Mark Allen badly. Fortunately, Mark Allen finally won the sixth set 69-32, chasing the general score to a 3-3 draw.