At 9:30 p.m. Beijing time on April 22, the 1/8 final of the Snooker World Championship, the two new stars of China's snooker played at the same time, Zhao Xintong and Maguire began the second stage of competition, and Yan Bingtao began the first stage of competition with Selby.
In the first stage, Zhao Xintong was not calm enough to play, 3-5 behind, of course, this is Also Zhao Xintong's consistent way of playing, but Zhao Xintong did not play as accurately as before. Overall, the rhythm of the game is on Maguire's side, Maguire, who is more than 40 years old, is no longer a young man, the ranking 6 champion is now playing very smart, not hard with Zhao Xintong, with Soft Kegang, and finally ended the first stage with a 5-3 overall score ahead of Zhao Xintong.
I have to say that Maguire is indeed very smart, and the result of the hard fight with Zhao Xintong is the result of the first round of Jamie Clark: a 2-10 fiasco!
In the second stage, Maguire continued his very clever playing style, and Zhao Xintong could not find his own rhythm at all. In the ninth inning, Maguire won 72-6 to extend the overall division lead to 6-3. In the 10th set, Maguire took the lead in establishing an advantage and was already overrun. Zhao Xintong extreme turnover, relying on 1 snooker + 1 super far platform, Zhao Xintong finally made up for the lack of points on the table, completed the clearance, 63-61 limit counter-kill, and forcibly beat 3-7 into a 4-6 general score.
Seeing Zhao Xintong's crazy reversal, the British audience at the scene could not suppress their inner excitement, and whistled in the stands, exclaiming for Zhao Xintong's performance!
Opponent Maguire also laughed, perhaps, for Zhao Xintong's extreme reversal of this round, he also felt incredible for Zhao Xintong from the bottom of his heart!
Another table, almost at the same time, was also in the second set of this stage, another Chinese rising star Yan Bingtao also completed the extreme turnover, 0-67 behind Selby, and finally completed the reversal, scored the last black ball, completed the kill 74-67, and chased the general score to a 1-1 draw.
At this point, defending champion Selby had a black face and he missed a fantastic 2-0 start! Moreover, in the second set, Selby also took the lead in playing a single 50+, the first two innings, Selby played two consecutive single-shot 54 points, the first set was 101-12 first, and the second set was 67-74 by Yan Bingtao's limit reversal.