The first round of the 2022 World Snooker Championships ushered in a high-profile duel, "China's snooker brother" Ding Junhui VS "90s" Karen Wilson, the two will compete for a ticket to the world championship round of sixteen.
Ding Junhui is the last Chinese player to appear at this World Championship, earlier Zhao Xintong defeated Jamie Clark, Yan Bingtao defeated Chris Wakelin in the second half of the two have successfully advanced to the round of sixteen, and young player Lu Haotian is defeated by Bingham in a round of travel.
Ding Junhui as a qualifier to break through the first round of the game against seeded player Karen Wilson, the two sides have previously played a record of six wins and six losses, the most recent meeting was in the recent Turkish Masters, Ding Junhui was the last laugh.
For the results of this round of draws, many fans have said that this is a next draw, after all, the first round of the world's top eight players is indeed not a good news, in fact, in other words, Karen Wilson is also bitter about Ding Junhui, after all, Ding Junhui can be said to be the strongest representative in the qualification tournament, and the 14 career ranking championships are even more crushing Wilson.
The game began Ding Junhui took the lead in kicking off, Wilson forced the attack fruitlessly leaked out of the opportunity, Ding Junhui accidentally crashed into the yellow ball foul after starting the K kick-off pile, fortunately, Wilson had a bad start to lose the long platform Again Ding Junhui completed the single 60+ to get the opening red.
The next two sets of Ding Junhui's state can be described as very hot, in the second set Wilson opened the ball leaked out of the long platform Ding Junhui directly and accurately soared in and blasted out the first shot of the game over 100-0 lead, in the third set Wilson had the opportunity to pull back a ride in the case of the white ball accidentally fell into the bag, Ding Junhui smiled and accepted the gift to complete 50+ again to continue to expand the lead.
Facing Ding Junhui's fiery feel, Wilson began to deliberately strengthen the defense in the fourth inning, and after a you come and I, Wilson's high-quality defense forced Ding Junhui to force an offensive error, and Wilson returned the shot to break 1-1-3 into the half-time break.
After the break, both sides began to decline, but in the tug-of-war, Wilson was better, first grabbing Ding Junhui's pole error and reversing it in a single set, and then blasting out a single shot 80+ in the next journey, Wilson won two consecutive sets to pull the score to 3-3.
The next two sets are particularly critical, but also very test Ding Junhui's psychological quality, fortunately, Ding Junhui was not frightened by Wilson's gradual warming of the feel, steady and steady and two more journeys and almost bombed over 100 to establish a 5-3 lead again. In the last set of the first stage, Ding Junhui had the opportunity to reverse, and the defense appeared wilson to score a super score to enter the decisive stage with a 4-5 score.
Looking at the state of Ding Junhui's opening in the entire first stage, it can be said that it was very hot, but after returning from halftime, Wilson seized the opportunity to win two consecutive sets to equalize, and could have continued to extend the lead after 3-1 lead, but Ding Junhui's subsequent low-level mistakes buried a good situation.
However, through the first stage of the duel Ding Junhui also exposed the weakness that should not be, as we all know, Ding Junhui's pole strength has always been his own skill, and it is the world's top level, but the pole in this game not only did not play its due strength but also frequently made mistakes became the key factor in losing several rounds. The tie-breaker phase will continue at 2:00 a.m., and it remains to be seen who will succeed in breaking through.