In the early morning of April 19, Beijing time, in the first round of the Snooker World Championships, Chinese rising star Lu Haotian appeared to challenge world champion Bingham. In the first set, Lu Haotian fell behind 0-54, 71-63 extreme turnover, single set to pick out the world champion, staged a big reversal, although winning quite thrilling, but still showed The tough side of Lu Haotian, of course, there is also a lot of luck.
This is the third time in Lu Haotian's career that he has played in the main tournament of the World Championships, after Lu Haotian had eliminated Fu Jiajun in the 2018 World Championships to reach the round of 16. Last season, Lu Haotian also entered the main stage of the World Championships. This season, Lu Haotian started from the qualifiers and entered the Crucible World Championship for the second consecutive year. Bingham was a strong player, having won the 2015 World Championships and becoming the oldest player to win the World Championships for the first time, setting a record. In this campaign, in the first round of the 2020 World Championships, Lu Haotian challenged world champion Bingham. In this tournament, Bingham is the No. 12 seed of the World Championships, and Lu Haotian is the qualifier. In his career, Lu Haotian and Bingham have no professional record of playing against each other.
As soon as he came up, Bingham scored a long red ball and showed a good hand. Next, Bingham scored consecutive points and attacked around the black ball, however, Bingham did not choose a strong K ball, just sporadically K out a few red balls, giving himself the opportunity to continue to attack, Bingham played the bottom bag red ball there was a mistake, the mother ball failed to get up after the magazine, the black ball did not have to attack, Bingham could only give up the attack, 46-0 lead. After that, Bingham scored the red ball again to extend the lead to 54-0. In the case of the mother ball sticker, Bingham conceded a red ball.
Lu Haotian scored the red ball in the middle bag and began to get started, constantly scoring around the low score value color ball, chasing to 30-54, but Lu Haotian's mother ball went wrong, resulting in his own attack being broken. Subsequently, the two began to compete on the defensive end, lu Haotian made a snooker for Bingham, and Bingham was awarded 9 consecutive points. After the third solution, Bingham missed the ball, back in his seat, Bingham showed a very dissatisfied expression, obviously, for his just one shot, Bingham was very disappointed, he understood that he was likely to encounter the opponent's reversal in this round.
Lu Haotian started again, chasing 53-54, or because the mother ball was not delicate enough, Lu Haotian failed to win a single shot. After that, Lu Haotian attacked the yellow ball and left the opportunity for the opponent, Bingham scored the yellow ball, the coffee ball but failed to score the simple blue ball! And it was also directly given to Lu Haotian the opportunity to simply play the blue ball bottom bag. Losing the shot, world champion Bingham couldn't believe his standard and lowered his head in remorse.
Lu Haotian seized the opportunity to complete the clearance, narrowly won 71-63, and completed the big reversal. In the first round, the overall standard was low, the two exchanged big gifts, and Lu Haotian was lucky to win the final victory.