From the evening of April 20 to the early morning of tomorrow, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker World Championships will start the fifth matchday competition. "China's first brother" Ding Junhui and championship favourite Judd Trump will play. The matches are: Ding Junhui vs Karen Wilson, Judd Trump vs Wafi Ayuri. Starting from 17:00 this afternoon, CCTV5+ and CCTV5 will be divided into two time slots to broadcast the two matches live.
The 2022 World Snooker Championships, the most important event of the year, is the most important event of the year, with the top 16 seeded players in the world rankings, as well as players who have advanced to the main tournament through qualifiers, competing for this most important event for 17 days. On the fifth matchday, there will be a total of 5 matches, "China's first brother" Ding Junhui, the winning big favorite Judd Trump, and the 4-time world champion "Wizard" John Higgins will play.
In the early hours of this morning, Masters champion Yan Bingtao, in the match against Chris Wakelin, blasted two hundred and nine 50+, 10-6 victory over the opponent to advance to the round of 16. Together with Zhao Xintong, who has already advanced, a total of 2 Chinese players have advanced to the round of 16. It is a little regrettable that Lu Haotian lost 5-10 to his opponent in the match against World Champion Stuart Bingham and did not qualify.
The fourth matchday also ended the first half of the first round. Four-time World Champion Higgins, 4-5 behind Tachaia Unu. No. 14 seed Jack Lisowski led Matthew Stevens 6-3.
The upcoming fifth matchday matchups are: Ding Junhui vs Karen Wilson (17:00), John Higgins vs Tapchaia Unu (second half, 17:00), Judd Trump vs Wafi Ayuri (21:30), Jack Lisovsky vs Matthew Stevens (second half, 21:30), Ding Junhui vs Karen Wilson (02:00 next morning), Luka Braisel vs Noppen Sancham (02:00 next morning).
"China's first brother" Ding Junhui will face "囧哥" Karen Wilson in the first round. The two have met twice this season, one each, and must have a strong play to qualify. In the first round, Trump was played against single-time limit champion Ayuri, with greater hopes of qualifying.
Starting from 17:00 in the afternoon, CCTV5+ and CCTV5 will broadcast the live broadcast of Ding Junhui and Trump matches in two sessions, and the specific live broadcast arrangements are as follows.
17:00 2022 World Snooker Championship - Round 16 (Ding Junhui vs Wilson, CCTV5+);
22:25 2021/2022 World Snooker Championship - Round 1 (Trump Wafi, CCTV5), looking forward to and wishing Ding Junhui to defeat his opponents to advance to the round of 16.