In the first round of the 2022 World Snooker Championships, China's Lu Haotian played against Bingham, and in the end, Bingham easily eliminated Lu Haotian 10-5, becoming the 10th player to advance to the round of 16 after Selby, and in this game, Bingham also scored a single shot of 140 points.
After defeating Xu Si, Lu Ning and Dominic Dale in a row, Lu Haotian after consecutive defeats, he entered the main game and maintained a fairly good state; the 12th seeded player and world champion Bingham is very strong, and is also known as the "second brother" by Chinese fans. The two have no official record of matchmaking before, but it is clear that Bingham is stronger from the strength of the two alone, and for Lu Haotian, it is difficult to beat Bingham in the long-term system.
In the first stage, Lu Haotian narrowly won 71-63 in the first set, Bingham returned with a 65-0 clean sheet in the second set, and Bingham scored again with 52 points and 97-22 in the third set, and won 2-1. In the 4th set, Lu Haotian blasted out a single shot of 103 points to win easily, 2-2 draw.
However, from the beginning of the 5th inning to the 8th inning, Bingham broke out, continuously blasted out a single shot 54 points, a single par 85 points, a single par 86 points, a single par 140 points, easily won four consecutive sets after a 6-2 lead, the 9th inning, Bingham single shot 68 points made a mistake, Lu Haotian seized the opportunity to single shot 69 points single set reversal, after the first stage, Lu Haotian fell behind 3-6, very passive.
In the second stage, the 10th set, Bingham played 65-0 clean sheets several times, and extended the advantage 7-3. In the 11th set, Lu Haotian's offensive form was still not good, and Bingham went down to 8-3. In the 12th and 13th innings, Lu Haotian scored 86 points and 62 points in a row, chasing two consecutive innings to 5-8. In the 14th set, Bingham scored 68 points, won the match point 9-5, and won the 15th set, 10-5 easy to advance.