In the early morning of April 20, the Snooker World Championship ended the first stage of a focus battle, and the final 4-time World Championship champion John Higgins, after falling behind 2-4, shot 2 consecutive high scores in time to stop the loss, and took out 2 shots in the half to break 100 90+ performance, 4-5 slightly behind Tachaia. In another match played in the same period, China's Lu Haotian lost 5-10 on aggregate to Bingham, who will face the winner between Karen Wilson and Ding Junhui in the second round.
Higgins has only won one invitational title this season, but through a stable performance, he won the first place in the European series, taking 150,000 pounds, which made the elderly Higgins a strong contender for the championship. As a brother in Thailand, Tachaia has entered Crucible for 3 consecutive years from 2018 to 2020, but has not won. The game started with neither side scoring well consecutively, but the overall pace was faster, with Tachaia winning 95-32 in the first inning, Higgins winning 84-30 in inning 2, Tachaia scoring 80 points in the 3rd inning, Higgins scoring 128 points in the 4th inning, and the average time of Tachaia in the first 4 innings was less than 20 seconds.
Back in the 5th inning of the break, Tacchaia once again won 85-21 on a piecemeal basis! In the 6th inning, Thachaia scored 61 points 4-2! In the 7th inning, Higgins woke up like a dream and blasted a single shot of 106 points, and in the 8th set Higgins added another 98 points, and the total score came to 4-4! In the 9th set, Tacchaia broke the hundred and won. The second stage of the match between the two sides will be held at 17:00 Beijing time on April 20. Bingham, who was on the No. 1 table next door, shot a 100-7 50+ to beat mainlander Lu Haotian 10-5 on aggregate. Then at 2:00 a.m. Yan Bingtao's match will produce results, while Duan Lisovsky and Stevens appear, "Inverted Sword Flower" will push relevant reports in time, so stay tuned.