On April 18, 2022, the Snooker World Championships continued, with post-90s star McGill beating Hayfield 10-7 to become the sixth player to advance to the round of 16, waiting for Trump and Hussein. Wafi's winner, McGill, is expected to fight Trump again.
McGill is a post-90s player who has won the ranking championship twice in his career and reached the final four of the World Championship, when he lost to Karen. Wilson, the tiebreaker between the two sides was impressive, last year McGill eliminated O'Sullivan to advance, although he has not won the championship in recent years, but came to the big game, the overall performance is relatively stable, the first round draw to Hayfield, it is a good sign for him.
Looking at the world rankings alone, McGill is 13th, Hayfield is 43rd, the two are not a level of players, Hayfield has broken through the qualification tournament for two consecutive years, eliminating Chinese players Zhou Yuelong and Yuan Sijun, and the battle record McGill has a slight advantage, but the reference value is not large, because the most recent time was six years ago, McGill attacked and defended evenly, but his on-field performance lacked stability.
The first round of the World Championship was 10 wins in 19 innings, divided into two stages, the first half ended with a nine-inning, McGill led Highfield 6-3, the two performed decently, McGill was more comprehensive, the first set Hayfield won the fight 64-33, mcGill played a single 56 points in the second set, 85-36 also in color, and mcGill hit piecemeal in the third set to win another set 54-12.
Then McGill took advantage of the chase, played a single 71 points, 70 points to win two consecutive sets, continue to open up the point difference, the sixth set Highfield is not willing to show weakness, play a single 59 points also in color, the seventh set McGill won 87-23, the eighth highfield played a single 55 points, to win a 94-15 set, the ninth set Hayfield made a mistake, McGill repeatedly started to complete the super score 76-16.
At the beginning of the second half, Hayfield won the fight 74-7 in the 10th inning, Hayfield lost the super score in the 11th inning, McGill cleared the stage to complete a single reversal, played a single 59 points, and won 64-63, the 12th set had a mutual error, Hayfield won a set back 95-44, Hayfield played a single 73 point in the 13th set, mcGill stopped in time in the 14th set, and won 81-43 on multiple occasions.
In the 15th inning, Hayfield made a mistake and scored only 30 points to interrupt the attack, McGill took the lead and won another set 75-43, 9-6 to win the match point, in the 16th set Hayfield saved a match point 94-1, mcGill scored a single 51 in the 17th set, ended the game 90-32, and finally eliminated Hayfield 10-7 to advance to the Round of 16 of the World Championships, waiting for Trump and Hussein. The winner of Wafi.