The 2021-2022 World Snooker Championships ended their sixth matchday, with world champions Trump and Thailand's Sancam beating their opponents to win the last two round-of-16 spots, with Sankam beating seeded Brecher 10-5 upset and Trump beating Iran's Hossein Wafi 10:4, both advancing to the second round. In the first stage of the second round at the same time, China's Zhao Xintong's state showed greater ups and downs, although he played a single shot to break 100 and two shots of 70+, but unfortunately played poorly on the defensive end, temporarily trailing Maguire 3:5 after the first stage of the game. In a game focusing on the "master-apprentice war", master Mark Williams was in a state of explosion, shooting three hundreds, two 70+, three shots 50+ after a 7:1 lead over the apprentice, the "dark horse" Jackson Page of this World Championship.
Zhao Xintong, the No. 7 seed of the tournament and the highest ranked Chinese player, was the second round opponent of "Little Brother Maguire", and the two performed strongly in the first round of the competition, Zhao Xintong won the qualifier Clark 10:2 in the first round, which was also the most disparity in the first round of the competition, and Maguire's first round of competition was to knock out the 10th seed Of the Tournament Sean Murphy, and strongly advanced to the round of 16 of the World Championships, and the two will compete for a place in the quarterfinals.
Zhao Xintong and Maguire have not played much before, the most recent is the British Championship many years ago, when Zhao Xintong was eliminated from Maguire, but this season the two are in very different shapes, Zhao Xintong has won two ranking championships in a row, and Maguire is grainless, but after coming to the World Championships, Maguire's state seems to have been going up, which is a test for Zhao Xintong. The second round of the game will be divided into three stages, the first stage of the game began, Zhao Xintong entered the state very quickly, he took advantage of the opponent's mistake to score 72 points and then won the first set 110:16 to win the first set, the second set of Maguire was not willing to show weakness, and then blasted out a single shot to break the hundred and then pull back a city, the first two sets of the two sides fought 1:1 draw.
In the third set, the two sides competed fiercely, both had offensive opportunities but did not form a continuous score, Maguire won another set with more stable play to win another set at 58:16, the big score was 2:1, the backward Zhao Xintong then launched a counterattack, in the fourth game Zhao Xintong single-handedly scored 86 points after the opponent made a clean sheet and equalized, the fifth game Zhao Xintong was full of firepower, single shot 136 points and then kept a clean sheet Maguire, the big score was 3:2. In the sixth inning, Zhao Xintong missed a good opportunity to expand the score, losing a simple yellow ball after scoring 52 points in a single shot, and Maguire laughed at the gift of 65 points to win, and the two sides drew the first six sets to a 3-3 draw. In the seventh game, Zhao Xintong took the lead in getting 28 points and then gave up the offensive right, Maguire single-shot 107 points after winning and reversing the score, in the eighth game Maguire fought more and more courageously, using the far platform to attack and win by a single shot of 80 points, after losing three consecutive sets, Zhao Xintong ended the first stage of the game with a 3:5 trail maguire, Zhao Xintong needed to catch up in the second stage of the game.
The second round of the match was another match by world champion and No. 8 seed Mark Williams against the young Jackson Page, both of whom are Welsh and are a veritable mentor-apprentice relationship, Mark Williams said before the game that if the World Championships are lost, then losing to Jackson Page is the most appropriate thing. Under the guidance of the "golden left hand", Jackson Page has made significant progress in recent years, he is a dark horse in this competition, from the qualifiers he has been upset to advance to the main round, in the first round of the competition he eliminated the world runner-up, the No. 9 seed Hawkins, the second round of the game with the master Mark Williams has attracted much attention. However, unfortunately, Jackson Page completely lost his state in front of the master, and the world champion Mark Williams was in a state of explosion, fully controlling the initiative of this "master-apprentice war", at the beginning of the game, Mark Williams was in a state of explosion, playing a single shot after 125 points to win, a big score of 1:0 lead.
In the second game Jackson Page still can't let go in front of the master, Mark Williams single shot 74 points and then won another set 78:0, the third game "dark horse" Page finally had the opportunity to attack, but the mistakes were still unable to form a continuous attack, Mark Williams shot 50 points and then won another set at 73:27, leading 3:0. In the fourth set, Mark Williams continued his solo performance, hitting multiple offenses and shooting a single 50 point before winning another set 105:4 to extend the score to 4:0.
Jackson Page, who was behind by a large score, was completely confused in the following games, and Mark Williams, who was leading by a big score, did not give the apprentice any face, in the following three innings, he played a single shot of 100 points, 75 points, 51 points, 121 points and then won three consecutive sets, the big score was 7:0, in these three games, Page did not score a point, and in the first seven innings, Page only scored 37 points, averaging only a little more than five points in one set, which can be said to have suffered a fiasco. In the final round of the first stage of the game, Mark Williams finally showed mercy, And Page narrowly won 73:60 after several attacks, chasing the score to 1:7, and in order to play with the master in three stages, Page had to catch up in the second stage of the game.