On April 21, 2022, Beijing time, the Snooker World Championship continued, and the first round of the game broke out again, and the 11th seed Luka Brechel lost 5-10 to Thailand's Sankam, suffering a round of travel. So far, three seeded players have been eliminated in the first round, namely Barry Hawkins, Sean Murphy and Luka Brechel. There will be only one last seat left in the Round of 16, which will be produced between Trump and Hussein Wafi.
This season, two players have made people shine, first Zhao Xintong, followed by Luka Brechel. The two players have a lot of similarities, such as both are sharp in attack and both are particularly talented players, and this season began to cash in on their talents. Luca Brechel has long been on the rise, but the past two seasons have been relatively silent, until this season won the ranking championship and the runner-up of the three major competitions, Luka Brechel returned to the fans' attention.
With her outstanding performances this season, Luka Brechel is ranked 11th as a seeded player in this World Championship, the 11th seed of the tournament. The first round opponent is San kam from Thailand, mentioning Thai snooker, perhaps Takchaia is more famous, but San Kam is also very strong, he broke through from the qualifiers, suddenly played the role of a dark horse, the first round of the main round was surprising.
Facing Brechel, Sancam shot two shots in the first half to break the hundred, once leading Brechel 6-1, although the latter chased two consecutive sets, but Sankam still led 6-3, and the prospect of promotion is very large. Throughout the first half, Brechel did not have a single shot of more than 50 points, and he was a big surprise on the offensive end.
In the second half, Brechel was still in a slump, giving people a feeling of absent-mindedness, not only unable to play their real strength, but also a lot of unnecessary mistakes, Sankham became more and more courageous, winning three consecutive sets in the second half to win 9-3 match points. Subsequently, Sankam hit 147 in the 13th inning, but unfortunately made a mistake in the middle of the way, giving Brechel a chance, who finally shot a 50+ to save a match point.
Back from the break, Sankham bench attack lost hand, Brechel got started, the halfway home ball was not ideal, but Brechel flipped the bag to score, quite wonderful, he played his first shot of the game to break the hundred, once again saving a match point. In the 15th set, Sankham risked attacking and missing a hand, Brechel got the opportunity, but lost the color ball, Sankham started again, this time did not miss the opportunity, after winning this set 10-5 to eliminate Brechel, unexpectedly advanced to the round of 16, the next round against Higgins.
In this case, three seeded players have already been out of the first round, namely Barry Hawkins, Sean Murphy and Brechel. Among them, Barry Hawkins and Brechel outs are really underdogs, and Sean Murphy's loss to Stephen Maguire is a normal result, because the two players are equal in strength. With only the last seat left in the round of 16, Trump led Wafi 6-3 and took the initiative, but Wafi is also very tenacious, and Trump cannot be taken lightly!