On the morning of April 19, Beijing time, a match in the first round of the 2022 Snooker World Championship and the match between Lu Haotian, a 25-year-old from mainland China, and Stewart Bingham, the 12th seed and 46-year-old star of this tournament, has just ended. After 9 rounds of intense competition, although Lu Haotian played a single shot of more than 100, but the state was not good, there were more mistakes, and finally entered the half-time with an unfavorable situation of 3-6 behind, and the situation was extremely unoptimistic.
In this tournament, Lu Haotian advanced from the qualifiers to the main tournament, first in the second round of the qualifiers to defeat Xu Si 6-4, then in the third round 6-3 defeat to Lu Ning, in the fourth round 10-4 victory over Dominique Dell, to reach the round of 32 of the World Championships, to qualify for the main tournament. This game is the encounter between Lu Haotian and Bingham, in terms of comprehensive strength, Bingham is definitely above Lu Haotian, and the winning rate is also greater. Lu Haotian once participated in the world championships for the first time in 2018, the first round of the upset eliminated the seeded player Fu Jiajun, a historic reach of the round of 16, if Lu Haotian can beat Bingham in this game, he will equal his career record and once again break into the round of 16 in the Crucible tour.
In the first set, Lu Haotian opened the ball to leave a loophole, Bingham scored a 46 points, Lü Haotian defense left another opportunity, Bingham scored another 8 points; Lü Haotian scored 30 points after the offensive mistake, made a snooker; Bingham was fined 9 points for two consecutive mistakes, Lu Haotian scored 14 points, Bingham seized The opportunity of Lü Haotian's offensive error, scored 9 more points, and Lu Haotian won the first set with a reversal.
In the second set, Bingham Bench attacked and scored a red ball and lost a run, scoring 44 points after playing again; after several rounds of defense, Bingham attacked again on the bench and scored 20 consecutive points to win back a set.
In the 3rd set, Lü Haotian made a mistake in the attack, Bingham took the opportunity to shoot a 52 points, Lu Haotian seized the opponent's offensive mistakes, lost position after scoring 15 consecutive points, and missed a chance to win; Bingham got 15 points on the hand, and after multiple rounds of defense, Bingham scored another 30 points to play 97-15.
In the 4th set, Lu Haotian scored a red ball in the first hand, Bingham made a mistake in attacking, Lu Haotian shot 103 points to win a set, and the two sides came to the intermission at a 2-2 draw.
In the 5th set, Lu Haotian's kick-off once again left a loophole, Bingham Changtai attacked and scored 54 points; Lü Haotian seized the opportunity left by the opponent's offensive mistakes, and after scoring 16 points, there was a mistake in the attack, losing a good game; Bingham scored 25 consecutive points to win the game.
In the 6th set, Lu Haotian made an offensive mistake, and Bingham scored 85 points in a single shot to win, extending the lead to 4-2.
In the 7th set, Lu Haotian's third kick-off left a loophole, Bingham scored 24 points with a precise bench attack; Lu Haotian's defense left a loophole, Bingham scored 28 points in a row; Lu Haotian's defense made another mistake, Bingham pushed the ball into the warehouse, and won another round with an 86-point clearance, rewriting the big score to 5-2.
In the 8th set, Lu Haotian defended a mistake, and Bingham first shot out 140 points to clear the table, and then the next set.
In the 9th set, Lu Haotian, who had been in poor form, made another offensive mistake, Bingham scored a 68 points, Lu Haotian seized the opponent's simple offensive mistake, a shot of 69 points cleared the table, pulled back a set, and ended the first half of the game with a large score of 3-6.
The second half of the match between Lu Haotian and Bingham will start at 21:30 tonight, whether Lu Haotian can stage a good reversal and reach the round of 16, please pay attention. Let's cheer for Xiao Lu together!
In addition, in the other three games from last night to this morning, Anthony McGill beat Liam Hayfield 10-7, Mark Williams beat Michael White 10-3 and Mark Allen beat Scott Donaldson 10-6 to reach the round of 16.
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