On April 20, the first round of the 2022 World Snooker Championships continued, with China's brother Ding Junhui debuting, and the Challenge Will No. 5 seed and world number five England star Karen Wilson. The two will play the first round of two stages of the game in two sessions today, in the morning 9 sets of local time, Ding Junhui started well, took a 3-0 lead, but then lost 3 consecutive sets, was tied, and then Ding Junhui won two more consecutive sets, temporarily leading 5-4. In the game, Ding Junhui played 1 shot to break the hundred, plus 5 strokes 50+, while Wilson also played 1 shot to break the 100, 1 shot 90+ data.
As the leader of China's snooker, he has suffered a sharp drop in ranking this season, and can only pass the qualifiers again after 2016 and re-enter the world championship main competition, continuing his record of participating in the Crucible Main Tournament for 16 consecutive years. Meeting wilson, the world's 5th-ranked post-90s leader in the first round, is not a good signing for Ding Junhui. Happily, Ding Junhui gradually improved his form in the two ranking tournaments before the World Championships, winning the top 4 of the Turkish Masters and the top 8 of the Gibraltar Open.
In the past professional event record, Ding Junhui's 6 wins and 8 losses were slightly inferior, but many of the games that Ding Junhui lost were invitational tournaments, and the only time the other two grabbed 10 matches was in the 2017 World Open final, when Ding Junhui won 10-3 and won the ranking tournament. In the last two meetings of the season, the two have won one game each, and there is not much gap. In addition, for Ding Junhui, this season ended an embarrassing record on Wilson, or quite morale-boosting, the second round of the Turkish Open, Ding Junhui defeated Wilson 5-3, ending his own spell of encountering the world's top 16 seeds in more than a year to embarrassingly 14 consecutive defeats.
In the first four innings of the first stage, both of them basically won with one shot. In the first set, Ding Junhui scored 64 points with a single shot; in the second set, he directly completed the break of 100 and scored 110 points; in the third set, Ding Junhui got started twice, played two 50+ in a single inning, and directly made a 3-0 opening. In the fourth set, Wilson seized the opportunity to play, and also scored a hundred, single 101 points, pulled back a set, and fell behind 1-3 into the intermission.
In the 5th set, Ding Junhui suffered a reversal by Wilson in the lead, lost 57-68, and was chased back in another set. In the sixth set, Wilson seized the opportunity to get started, directly scored 95 points, completed the good play of winning three consecutive sets, and chased to a 3-3 draw. In the seventh set, Ding Junhui scored 54 points in one shot first, and then was chased by Wilson, and fought until the final battle for powder balls and black balls, Ding Junhui won two accurate far platforms consecutively, completed the kill, stopped the losing streak, and led again 4-3. In the eighth set, Ding Junhui scored 82 points in a single shot to lead 5-3. In the last set, the two defended each other, Ding Junhui made a slider error, Wilson completed the super point, and Ding Junhui temporarily led 5-4. Tomorrow at 2 a.m., the two will continue to compete in the second phase until the final 16 seat is decided.