The 2021-2022 World Snooker Championships continued, with two Chinese players performing well in the fourth matchday competition, with seeded Yan Bingtao playing well in the second stage of the tournament, and finally winning 10:6 to advance to the second round. World champions Bingham and Neil Robertson took a huge lead in the first stage of the tournament, and finally the two defeated Lu Haotian and Ashley Hu gill by the same score of 10:5, respectively, to advance to the Round of 16 of the World Championships. In the first stage of the two first round matches, the winner of the first round, four-time World Championship winner Higgins is not in good shape, after the first stage of the game, Higgins 4:5 upset behind Thailand's Ta chaiya, the promotion situation is quite grim. And the "uncrowned king", one of the "91 three masters" Lisovsky is full of firepower, with two shots to break the hundred, four shots 50+, Lisovsky in the world runner-up Matthew Stevens in the competition to take the advantage, after the first stage of the game, Lisovsky temporarily 6:3 lead the opponent, the prospects for promotion are bright.
The No. 6 seed and four-time World Champion Higgins, whose first-round opponent is Thailand's "fast gunner" Takchaia, Higgins is in stable form this season, reaching the final six times and winning five runners-up, and Higgins, who is stable, is one of the favorites to win the world championship. Tachaia is a qualifier who won the single-time limited time championship and has a reputation as a "fast gunner" because of his fast offensive shots, and the two have played each other many times, with Higgins taking the advantage.
However, higgins was not in good shape in the first stage of the first round of the game, and was seized by the opponent after losing simple balls many times, and after nine sets in the first stage, Higgins was temporarily behind 4:5. At the beginning of the first stage of the game, Tacchaia took the lead in the first set, the first game Tacchaia attacked several times and then took the lead in the next city at 95:32, the second game "Wizard" Higgins stopped the loss in time, with a more stable play to win a city at 84:30, the third game Tachaia was in a bursting state, a single shot of 80 points after higgins won another set, the fourth game world champion Higgins played a single shot 128 points and equalized, the first four games were equally divided into a 2-2 draw.
After returning from a short break, Tachaia suddenly exerted his strength, the fifth game was fiercely contested between the two sides, Tachaia attacked several times and then won another set at 85:21, the big score was 3:2, the sixth game Higgins was still unstable, Tachaia seized the opportunity to blast 61 points and then won another set, leading Higgins 4:2. Trailing Higgins then woke up like a dream, in the seventh game, "Wizard" Higgins showed his excellent ability to surround the ball, single shot 106 points and then won back a city 107:1, in the eighth game Higgins continued to work hard, single shot 98 points after a clean sheet Ta Chaiya, tenaciously chased the score to 4:4 draw, the ninth game Takchaia state bursting, single shot 114 points after winning, the big score 5:4 lead to end the first stage of the game. Although the score gap between the two has not been widened, Higgins must adjust his state in time to advance to the next round, after all, the opponent is not weak and in good shape.
Unlike the No. 6 seed Higgins, who was temporarily behind, The No. 14 seed of the tournament and one of the "91 Three Masters", Lisovsky, was in a state of flux, and after the first stage of the first round with world runner-up Matthew Stevens, Lisovsky temporarily led his opponents by a large margin. Lisovsky, along with McGill and Karen Wilson, is known as the "91 Three Masters", unfortunately Lisovsky has reached the final of the ranking round six times but lost all of them and won the runner-up, so he is also called the "uncrowned king". Lisovsky's opponent in the first round was Stevens, who reached the final of the World Championship and was runner-up, the strength should not be underestimated, lisovsky entered the form quickly at the beginning of the game, and in the first set he attacked several times and won the first set 74:28. In the second set, Lisovsky was in even better shape, shooting 53 points and 58 points before winning another set 111:7 to lead 2-0. In the third set, Stevens stopped the loss in time, scored several offensive points and then pulled back the first set at 87:17, and in the fourth game Stevens still won 73:9 in the face of the situation and equalized.
In the second half of the first stage, Lisovsky completely took the initiative, in the fifth game Lisovsky was full of firepower, he won after scoring 106 points, the big score was 3:2 again, in the sixth game Lisovsky was still hot, he played 100 points and then won another set, the big score was 4:2, in the seventh game, Lisovsky played a single 52 points, 73 points and then won another set at 125:6, and the big score was 5:2 far ahead of Stevens. In the eighth game, Lisovsky still occupied the initiative although his firepower was weakened, he played several times and won another set at 61:37, after winning four consecutive sets, Lisovsky led Stevens 6:2, and in the ninth game Stevens did not let the opponent continue to expand the score, and single shot 108 points to chase the score to 3:6, retaining a glimmer of hope of promotion. At the end of the first stage, Lisovsky temporarily led Stevens 6-3, and as long as the second stage of the game did not play abnormally, Lisovsky advanced to the second round of the game basically without much problem.