In the early morning of April 20, the snooker World Championship ended the first leg of a focus battle, and finally the post-90s star Jack Lissovsky was in a hot state, shooting 2 shots to break the 1004 50+, leading qualifier Matthew Stevens 6-3 at halftime, who blasted out the 9th set before halftime, forced a change of life in the 2-6 situation, avoided a 2-7 unfavorable situation, and retained a glimmer of hope of reversal. In another match played in the same period, China's Yan Bingtao scored 2 strokes to break 9 50+ and beat qualifier Chris Wakelin 10-6 on aggregate to successfully meet defending champion Mark Selby.
Lisovsky is a relatively early player after the 90s, long-term mixed in the TOP16, but unfortunately is still a championless player, and Stevens is a post-70s star, known as the Welsh Dragon reputation, has reached the world championship final, won the world runner-up, but now old, the state is very unstable, this game is not optimistic about the side. At the beginning of the game, Lisovsky blasted two 50+ shots to take a 2-0 lead in an instant, and then the two sides entered a tug-of-war, stevens won two sets with 87-17, 73-9 scores, and the total score was 2-2! After resting in the 5th-6th inning, Lisovsky began to exert his strength, and he shot a single shot of 106 points and 100 points in a row, opening the total score 4-2!
In the 7th set, Stevens still failed to score consecutive points, and Lisovsky extended the score again with a 125-6 innings by two 50+, 5-2! In the 8th set, Lisovsky won the set 61-37 in a multi-legged offensive and defensive transition, bringing the total score to 6-2! In the 9th inning, Lisowski took the lead, but after scoring 25 points, the offense was interrupted, and Stevens scored a single 108 points to close the game, which was the first 50+ and 100 in the first half of the Welsh Dragons! Yan Bingtao of the No. 1 table next door did not let the upset appear, and the aggregate score was 10-6 to repel Wakelin, and in the second round, he met Selby and became the second Chinese player to advance to the round of 16.