The 2021-2022 World Snooker Championships continue, with China's Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao both playing on this matchday, with Zhao Xintong playing against Maguire in the second stage of the competition, while Yan Bingtao will compete with defending champion Selby for the first stage of the competition, which will be particularly eye-catching. In the first two matches, the two "75 three masters" players were in a state of explosion, the two both played a 6:2 disparity on this match day, and finally the three-time World Championship champion Mark Williams, who led 7:1 in the first stage of the game, defeated Page with a total score of 13:3, and it took only two stages to advance to the quarterfinals, while O'Sullivan temporarily led the "small steel cannon" Mark Allen 6:2 to end the first stage of the competition, and O'Sullivan, who was already dominant, occupied the initiative to advance.
The tournament's top seed O'Sullivan's second-round opponent is "Little Steel Cannon" Mark Allen, the two are a pair of "sworn enemies", each duel will be accompanied by off-court factors, before the game both sides are full of confidence in the victory of the game. O'Sullivan beat David Gilbert in the first round and was in pretty good shape, while Mark Allen beat Scott Donaldson and was equally good, with O'Sullivan having a certain advantage in the historical record of the two. However, in the first stage of the game, O'Sullivan was clearly in better shape, in the first game O'Sullivan entered the form quickly, while Mark Allen entered the state slower, O'Sullivan bench attacked and shot a single shot after 87 points to win and the next city to win the first place. Not to be outdone, Mark Allen scored 68 points and equalised 93-0, with the two sides drawing the first two sets at 1-1.
At the beginning of the third set, O'Sullivan gradually occupied the initiative on the field, and he won after scoring 131 points in a single shot, and the big score was 2:1 against Mark Allen, and in the fourth game, O'Sullivan continued to work hard, scoring 69 points to win, and the big score was 3:1 to lead the opponent into the intermission. In the fifth game O'Sullivan's firepower did not decrease, and Mark Allen was still in poor shape, O'Sullivan single shot 96 points to win, in the sixth game O'Sullivan's offensive state declined, but unfortunately Mark Allen did not seize the opportunity, O'Sullivan won 75:23 after multiple attacks, and won another set, leading 5:1. In the seventh game Mark Allen missed the opportunity again, O'Sullivan attacked several times and played a single 57 points to win 82:53, a wave of five consecutive games after a 6:1 lead, the eighth game Mark Allen finally opened the pot, he played multiple attacks and won 69:22, the first stage of the game ended, six-time World Championship winner O'Sullivan led 6:2.
"75 three masters" Another player, three-time world champion Mark Williams faced the young Jackson Page, the first stage of the two games unexpectedly showed a one-sided situation, the 47-year-old Mark Williams was in a state of explosion, played three shots to break the hundred, two shots 70+, three shots 50+ after a 7:1 lead over apprentice Jackson Page, to advance to the quarterfinals there is almost no suspense. In the second stage of the game, it was thought that the young Jackson Page would launch a crazy counterattack, but did not expect to face the master Mark Williams, Page's state was still very depressed, so that the two only played two stages of the game to end the whole game. At the beginning of the second stage of the game, Mark Williams took the lead, he played a single shot 110 points when the score was ahead and won, the big score was 8:1, the 10th game, Jackson Page missed the opportunity, single shot 69 points and failed to exceed the score, Mark Williams seized the opponent's mistake to complete the clearance and won the 70:69 one-point reversal, the big score was 9:1 far ahead, so that there was no suspense in the game.
Jackson Page still didn't have many chances in the 11th inning, and Mark Williams shot two single-shot 65 points before winning 130-8 to extend the score to 10-1. Jackson Page finally pulled back a set in the 12th inning, winning 81-13 after several attacks, struggling to get a set from the opponent. In the 13th game Mark Williams continued to perform wildly, scoring 117 points to win, in the 14th game Mark Williams scored a single shot of 127 points to win, the big score was 12:2 to get the match point, which was also the sixth shot of the game Mark Williams blasted out the hundred, the 15th game jackson Page single shot 63 points and then chased another set, the 16th game Mark Williams did not let the game continue to the third stage, single shot 56 points and then won 84:4, the total score of 13:3 "Dark Horse" Page, a stage ahead of schedule to reach the quarter-finals of the World Championships, is also the first player to reach the quarterfinals of this World Championship.