The 2021-2022 World Snooker Championships ended on the fifth matchday, with three more seeded players beating their opponents to advance to the Round of 16. China's snooker leader Ding Junhui wasted a good start, he was defeated by fifth seed Karen Wilson with a 3-0 lead in the opening and a 5-4 end to the first stage of the match, and the total score was 8:10 against the opponent and did not qualify, which was also the fifth time that Ding Junhui was eliminated in the first round of the World Championships after the 2007, 2012, 2014 and 2021 World Championships. Like Karen Wilson, there was also world champion Higgins, who fell behind Tachaia 4:5 in the first stage of the game, but with the perfect performance of the second stage, Higgins finally defeated the opponent 10:7 and advanced to the second round. Lisovsky, one of the "91 Three Masters", broke out in a cold sweat in the second stage of the game, and Lisovsky, who led 6:3 in the first stage, was equalized by Stevens in three consecutive sets at the beginning of the second stage, but fortunately he adjusted in time to finally beat his opponent 10:8 and joined hands with Karen Wilson and Higgins to advance to the round of 16.
Ding Junhui's match with the No. 5 seed Karen Wilson is considered to be the closest match in the first round, although Ding Junhui's world ranking is far inferior to Karen Wilson, but after all, he was once the world number one, and his recent state has rebounded significantly. The first stage of the game between the two was very fierce, although Ding Junhui won three consecutive sets to establish an advantage, but Wilson then chased three consecutive sets to color and equalize the score, Ding Junhui's state fluctuated so that Karen Wilson, who was not in good shape, chased the score, and at the end of the first stage of the game, Ding Junhui temporarily led Karen Wilson 5:4, and Ding Junhui's gradually tired mental outlook in the second half of the course laid the groundwork for the final defeat. At the beginning of the second stage of the game, Ding Junhui continued the problem of unstable state, and was reversed by Karen Wilson when leading the big score, and the two sides returned to the same running line in a 5-5 draw.
In the 11th game, Ding Junhui's state has rebounded, after scoring 96 points, he won 101:1, and the big score was leading again, and in the 12th game, Karen Wilson did not want to show weakness and then played a single 85 points after a clean sheet Ding Junhui equalized again. In the 13th game, Ding Junhui's offensive state was still bursting, after scoring 122 points, he kept a 126:0 clean sheet against the opponent, and in the 14th game Karen Wilson was not affected by Ding Junhui's consecutive high scores, he blasted out a single 99 points after the fourth equalizer of the game, the two sides fought a 7:7 draw.
In the 15th inning, Karen Wilson, who had fully found the feeling of the game, played 126 points and then kept two consecutive clean sheets ding Junhui and took the lead 8:7 for the first time, and in the 16th game, Ding Junhui scored 117 points and stubbornly tied the score. The 17th game became the turning point of the game, Karen Wilson hit a single shot of 65 points and then stopped the attack, Ding Junhui made a mistake when he hit the powder ball, the opponent laughed and won the match point 77:54, the 18th game Ding Junhui missed the opportunity again, Wilson blasted a single shot 62 points to end the game, the total score of 10:8 eliminated Ding Junhui, advanced to the second round.
Karen Wilson's back-end force strong promotion, his good friend Lisovsky is also the back-end force refused to be reversed, with the "uncrowned king" Lisovsky and world runner-up Matthew Stevens competed for the round of 16, the two of them in the first stage of the game to 6:3, Lisovsky temporarily led. At the beginning of the second stage of the game, Matthew Stevens was in a state of flux, and he scored 54 points, 99 points, and 69 points in a row to win three consecutive sets to tie the score to 6:6, and the two returned to the same running line.
In the 13th game, Lisovsky stopped the loss in time, scored 78 points and then won 78:8 to regain the lead, in the 14th game Matthew Stevens missed the equalizer, Lisovsky singled out 51 points and then won 65:55 to continue to expand the score, in the 15th game Lisovsky continued to play 83 points again after a clean sheet Opponent went down to the next city and won the match point 9:6, Matthew Stevens once again exerted his strength, he singled 71 points, 69 points and then won two consecutive sets to tie the score to 8:9 In the 18th inning, Lisovsky did not give his opponent too many opportunities, and after several attacks, he won 93:33, defeating his opponent 10:8 on aggregate and advancing to the round of 16.
At the end of the game, there was also world champion Higgins, the No. 6 seed Higgins and Thailand's Ta chaiya competed for a place in the round of 16, and the first stage of the game was very fierce, Higgins was in poor form and temporarily fell behind 4:5. Higgins quickly equalized at the beginning of the second stage, and after the 6-6 draw, Higgins won two consecutive sets to open the score, Tachaia used Higgins's mistake in the 15th set to pull back a set to chase the score to 7:8, and the steady Higgins then won two consecutive sets, defeating Tachaia on aggregate 10:7 and advancing to the Round of 16 of the World Championships. In addition to the three seeded players Higgins, Karen Wilson and Lisowski who were promoted on this matchday, the players who have previously advanced are O'Sullivan, Selby, Neil Robertson, Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao, Mark Allen, Mark Williams, Anthony McGill, Bingham, Jackson Page and Maguire.