In the early morning of April 21, Beijing time, the 2022 World Snooker Championships gave birth to another qualifier: Lisovsky. In the next round, Lisovsky will challenge champion number one favourite Neil Robertson, who has won 1-10 in the past, which is a super big challenge. 2-time World Championship runner-up Matthew Stevens out, facing Lisowski, once from 2-6 to 6-6 draw, and, in the case of 6-9 behind, Matthew Stevens once again saved 2 consecutive match points, but unfortunately, Matthew Stevens was finally 8-10 out, no chance of a big reversal, quite a pity!
In the history of the World Championships, Matthew Stevens has a very good record, having won 2 runners-up, 4 semi-finals and 3 times to reach the quarterfinals. Matthew Stevens, nicknamed the "Welsh Dragon", had a tragic career, counting the two times he was runner-up at the World Championships, he lost seven times in the finals of the ranking tournament, ranking first in the history of professional snooker in the final. Of course, outside of the rankings, Matthew Stevens won the Snooker Masters, one of three major events. In addition, the only ranking champion, Matthew Stevens also won one of the three major British Championships, only a world championship away from snooker Grand Slam honors, from this point of view, Matthew Stevens is lucky.
The first stage played the first 9 innings. Lissovsky won the first set 74-28. In the second set, Lisovsky scored a single 53+58 to win. In the third inning, Matthew Stevens pulled back a set 87-17. In the fourth set, Matthew Stevens went on another set 73-9. After being tied by his opponents, Lisovsky exploded madly, breaking the 106 and 100 points with two consecutive shots, and then played two consecutive 50+ in the seventh set, won again in the eighth set, won 4 consecutive sets, and scored 2-2 to 6-2 from the general bureau to regain the lead and establish a four-set advantage. In the ninth inning, Matthew Stevens pulled back a set, breaking 108 points with a single shot, and fell behind 3-6 in the first stage.
The second stage determines the winners. Matthew Stevens continued the good form of the final innings of the first stage, scoring 54 points, 99 points, and 69 points, and then chased three more sets to tie the General Bureau to 6-6. Lissovsky also responded strongly, scoring 78 points, 51 points and 83 points, winning three consecutive sets and taking the lead in the general bureau 9-6. However, Lisovsky, who was holding the match points, suddenly lost power, and Matthew Stevens saved two consecutive match points with 71 and 65 points. In the eighteenth set, although Lisovsky made another mistake and failed to end the opponent with a single shot, Matthew Stevens also failed to seize the opportunity to complete the reversal, and in the end, Lisovsky finally cashed in on the match point and advanced to the round of 16 10-8.
Unfortunately, Matthew Stevens did not have the opportunity to make a big comeback, and he was still only one world champion away from the snooker slam. In addition, Matthew Stevens also failed to change his fate, failed to become the first person in this world snooker championship to finally reverse the promotion in the first stage of 3-6 behind, so that the eight players who appeared in the first round of the world championship 3-6 behind in the first stage were all eliminated! Lisovsky became the 13th person to advance to the Round of 16 after Selby, Yan Bingtao, Jackson Page, Mark Williams, Bingham, McGill, Neil Robertson, Higgins, Zhao Xintong, Maguire, Mark Allen and O'Sullivan.