On April 20, 2022, the Snooker World Championships continued, with Higgins eliminating Tachaia 10-7 to become the 12th player to advance to the round of 16, waiting for Brechel and Noppon. The winner of San kamm, so far the 75 three masters have all passed the first round of tests, and are expected to achieve another good result.
Higgins is a legendary player in the history of snooker, currently ranked 6th in the world, has won 31 times in his career, including four world championship champions, just this season Higgins has won the runner-up many times, lost to Robertson and others, for the 75 three masters, to the long game system, the biggest opponent is himself, need to maintain concentration, concentrate on playing every ball.
The first round opponent is the world's 52nd ranked Tachaia, the latter is the only Thai player who has won the ranking championship, repeatedly reached the world championship 32, has not been able to go further, draw Higgins is not a good sign, it is very difficult to qualify, the two sides have a relatively close record, Higgins once defeated Tachaia in the first round of the World Championships 10-8 to advance, the two have different styles, Higgins is stronger.
In the first half of the nine innings, Tacchaia led Higgins 5-4, Tachaia took the lead 95-32 in the first set, Higgins equalized 84-30 in the second set, Tachaia scored a single 80 points in the third set to return the color, in the fourth set Higgins blasted a single shot 128 points to complete the clearance, after half-time, Tachaia won 85-21 in the fifth set, and Tacchaia scored a single 61 points in the sixth set to take a 4-2 lead.
Then Higgins blasted out a single shot of 106 points, 98 points in a row to win two innings, the ninth set of Thachaia in time to stop the loss, blast out a single shot of 114 points, both have a strong ability to score consecutively, but Higgins simply made too many mistakes, in the face of the opportunity ball failed to grasp, very unfortunate.
At the beginning of the second half, in the 10th set, Tatchaia played a single 42 points to interrupt the attack, Higgins played a single 75 points, in the 11th set Higgins scored 43 points and made a mistake, Ta chaiya played a single 77 points, in the 12th set Higgins played a single 47 points, and then Higgins played a single 53 points to chase 6 draws, and in the 13th set Higgins took advantage of the situation to chase and blasted out a single 100 points to win another set.
In the 14th set, Tacchaia missed a good opportunity, Higgins played twice, completed the super point at 65-37, in the 15th set Higgins took a 51-37 lead, there were 27 points on the table, Tacchaia completed the clearance to win a set, in the 16th set Higgins won the fight 58-40, 9-7 to get the match point, in the 17th set Tat chaiya only scored 5 points and made a mistake, Higgins grabbed the mobile phone and scored a single 65 points to end the game.
In the end, Higgins eliminated Tachaia 10-7 to advance to the Round of 16 of the World Championships, and all the seven five and three masters advanced, and they once again moved forward hand in hand.