In the early morning of April 19, the snooker World Championship ended a focus battle, China's post-90s rising star Lu Haotian performed poorly, only 1 shot out of the half to break 1001 100 60+, the first stage 3-6 behind world champion Stuart Bingham, the second stage needs to fight back to the opponent at least 7-3 or more to win, and there is still a theoretical possibility of advancing to the round of 16. In another match played in the same period, Northern Ireland's Mark Allen beat Scotland's post-90s Scott Donaldson 10-6 to meet Ronnie O'Sullivan in the next round.
Lu Haotian is one of the few two players of the Chinese legion from the qualifiers, the other is Ding Junhui, this is his third time to enter Crucible, facing Bingham's signing, the outside world has certain expectations for it, although Bingham is the 2015 World Championship champion, but the state of the past two seasons is extremely unstable, so Lu Haotian should have played. The game began, the first set, the two sides came and went, Lu Haotian won 71-63 hard, Bingham 65-0 clean sheet Lu Haotian in the 2nd set, Inning 3, Bingham played a single 52 points, the total score was 2-1 to win! In the 4th set, Lu Haotian blasted out a single shot of 103 points, 2-2 into the break.
After resting, Bingham took over the game at the beginning of the 5th inning, playing a single 54, 85 and 86 points to open the game 5-2 on aggregate! In the 8th inning, Bingham blasted his first shot of the game to break the 100 singles and score 140 points, leading 6-2! These 4 innings Lu Haotian only scored 16 points, the process is very painful, the 9th set before the end of the half, Bingham once again played a single 68 points, looking like it was going to end 7-2, Lu Haotian resisted the pressure, played a difficult single 69 points, 1 point reverse the total score of 3-6 dragged Bingham, retaining a glimmer of hope of promotion, the second stage of the game between the two sides will be played at 21:30 on April 19. Next door, the No. 2 table Allen blasted a 2-shot 50+ to eliminate Ding Junhui's "Star" Donaldson 10-6 on aggregate, and will compete with O'Sullivan for a place in the top 8 in the second round.