On the evening of April 19, Beijing time, the snooker 2022 World Championships ended another first-round focus battle at the Crucible Opera House, and the much-anticipated Chinese teenager Lu Haotian lacked stamina in the round of 16 with the 12th seed Bingham, and finally the opponent was eliminated.
As a new generation of Chinese players, Lu Haotian is a more alternative player in the first 32 miles, and has performed badly in recent years, but as soon as he arrived at the World Championships, he took the plunge and has reached the final round of the World Championships for two consecutive years.
In fact, as early as the early stage of the career, Lu Haotian participated in the World Championships in 2013 and 2014, but due to poor performance, he was relegated, in the 2018 season, Lu Haotian changed his face and returned to the professional game, and there was a big change in the style of play, from the earlier conservative playing style to radical, and in the qualifiers for grabbing 10 in the world championships, he broke through three levels in a row to enter the main game, setting off a "Lü Whirlwind" of full attack and full defense in Crucible:
In the first round, 10-5 swept Hong Kong star Fu Jiajun, the second round forced Master Huo to be overwhelmed, the latter had to take a shrinking defense to curb Lu Haotian's offensive frenzy, so Lu Haotian unfortunately lost 10-13 and missed the top 8.
In 2019, Lu Haotian was reversed by Ma Dai in the final round 7-10 and did not qualify for the main round, and in 2020, he fell back to the third round of the qualifiers, last year because of Sangham's temporary withdrawal, Lu Haotian repelled Chang Bingyu in the final derby to enter the final, but was hoisted by a small steel cannon in the first round of the main round 2-10.
In the qualifying round of this World Championship, Lu Haotian broke through in the China Derby for two consecutive rounds, and the last round was once an 8-1 critical hit "Astros" Dell, and finally entered Crucible again with an aggregate score of 10-4.
But unfortunately, he drew a draw, and in the first round, he encountered the 2015 World Championship champion Bingham, although Lu Haotian did not fall behind in the opening, he also blasted out a single shot of 103 points to break the hundred high score to force a 2-2 draw with the second brother.
But in the game that followed, the second brother exploded and sledgehammered: 54 points, 85 points, 86 points, 140 points, and ended the first half with a wave of 4-1, 6-3 on aggregate.
Stage 2 re-battle, the two sides of the key 10th set, Bingham in the defensive end of the water, and in the offensive end even if not to play does not leak out of the opportunity, after the multi-shot defense, Lu Haotian took the lead in exposing the flaws in the far stage, Bingham hit the super score to expand the score to 7-3, Xiao Lu shi was completely in trouble.
In the 11th set, Lu Haotian sealed the left and right pocket lipstick balls with a high-quality snooker, Bingham Za shot a strong obstacle ball, Lu Haotian grabbed 22 points and successfully exploded the red ball, but the luck was extremely bad, and there was no red ball to play.
In the stalemate, Lu Haotian's steady defense made Bingham defense irresistible, forced to attack the red ball of the far platform Bianku and hit it, after the start, in the case of the black ball being kicked to the Bianku, Bingham played a single 60+ in the chaos and won another round to approach the match point.
3-8, Lu Haotian had already stepped into the ghost gate with one foot.
Although Lu Haotian then played consecutive singles of 80+ and 60+ to chase the score to 5-8 to obtain a valuable period of innings adjustment, he was ultimately unable to return to heaven, and unfortunately missed the round of 16 with an aggregate score of 6-10, and the second brother will play the winner between Ding Junhui and Wilson in the 1/8 final.
It is worth mentioning that after Lu Haotian was out, he completely lost the opportunity to play the Chinese derby in the 1/8 final.
As a result, Director Ding's pressure soared, not only to repel the difficult Wilson in the first round, but also to deal with the tiger-eyed Bingham in the second round.