On April 18, the first round of the 2022 World Snooker Championships continued, and in the two matches that have already ended, the 8th seed Williams and the 13th seed McGill both won and advanced to the round of 16. Among them, the three-time champion "Golden Left Hand" Williams is in good shape, blasting out 4 shots to break the hundred, beating amateur Michael White 10-3 to win the Welsh Civil War, and in the next round he will continue to play against his compatriots, 00 after dark horse Peppa. McGill, on the other hand, won 10-7 against Highfield, and the game was uneventful and the scene was quite dull.
White was previously a top 16 player in the world rankings and won the ranking tournament, but in the past few years his form has fluctuated greatly, falling out of his profession, and this year he played as an amateur, winning four consecutive qualifying matches to enter the main tournament. The two had met earlier in the first round of the World Championships, when White had won Williams, but today he was dudded. In the first five innings, Williams scored 3 shots to break the 100, and there were 2 70+, once taking a 7-0 lead, after which Little White fought back strongly, taking the last two sets in a row, williams led 7-2 to end the first stage.
At the beginning of the second stage, Williams won two more consecutive sets and won the match point directly at 9-2, and a big win was almost inevitable. White struggled again in the 12th inning and seized the opportunity to shoot a single 83 to reclaim a match point. But in the last set, Williams did not let the game continue, once again staged the hundred-break moment, played the game's fourth single shot of the hundred-point 121 points, ended the game 10-3, after advancing to the round of 16 will encounter the dark horse of the World Championships, his Welsh 00 compatriot Page, the latter eliminated the 9th seed Hawkins 10-7 in the first round.
As the 13th seed, Scotland's McGill, facing the challenge of the world's 43rd ranked Highfield, the two were more fragmented in the first stage of the 9-inning game, and after Hayfield first made the next set, McGill won four consecutive sets, playing a single 56, 70 and 71 points to win 4-1. The two then won two sets each of the remaining four innings, with Hayfield scoring 59 and 55 points, and mcGill took a temporary 6-3 lead to end the first stage.
After the start of the second stage, the two still did not have too much offensive firepower, McGill only hit two 50+, while Highfield actually scored the highest single 73 points of the game, and the two won four sets each, and finally McGill won 10-7 and successfully advanced. As the game commentators said, the highest score of a single shot in the first round of the game was only 71 points, which is enough to win the game, which is enough to explain the low level and gold content of this game. In the second round McGill will face the winner between Trump and Wafi. In addition, in the first nine innings of Allen's first-stage match with Donaldson, Allen temporarily led 5-4.