In the early morning of April 21, the Snooker World Championship ended the first leg of a focus battle, and finally Belgium's post-90s star Luca Brechel was in no state, the game was once 1-6 behind, did not shoot a 50+, half-time 3-6 difficult to drag Thai star Nopon Sancham, there is a great upset rhythm. In another match played at the same time, China's Ding Junhui lost 8-10 to the world's fifth Karen Wilson and made a round trip to Crucible for two consecutive years.
Brechel is a well-known Belgian post-90s player, holding two ranking championships, and this season's status is back to the peak, reaching two ranking finals to win a championship and return to the TOP16. Sankam is a well-known player in Thailand, who has reached Crucible many times and reached the round of 16 of the World Championships in 2020, and this time the outside world is still unanimously optimistic about Brechel winning. The game began with a mixed match between the two sides, the first four innings did not hit any 50+, the first 2 sets, Sancham won 2 consecutive sets with 93-15, 70-60 scores, in the 3rd set, Brechel won 81-34, in the 4th set, Sancham won 58-46, And Sanham went to the break with a 3-1 lead.
Back in the fifth inning, Sankam blasted a single shot to score 110 points, 4-1 on aggregate! In the 6th set, Sankam won another set 68-28 and the match came to 5-1! In the 7th set, Sankam broke 127 points with another shot, and the total score was 6-1 completely crazy! In the 8th set, Brechel struggled to pull back a set 68-31, and in the 9th set, Brechel went on another set 82-36. Ding Junhui and Wilson at the No. 1 table next door played the most exciting first-round matchup of this World Championship, Ding Junhui lost 8-10 to the world's fifth, and The Chinese star missed the round of 16.