With Mark Williams beating Jackson Peggy 13-3, the 2022 World Snooker Championship also took the lead in producing the first quarter-finalist, and Ronnie O'Sullivan overtook 100 in the second round to take a 6-2 lead over Mark Allen to end the first stage.
Later in the day, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao of the Chinese Snooker Army made their official appearances, with Yan Bingtao playing against Selby in the first stage of the showdown, while Zhao Xintong had already ended the first stage of the showdown to temporarily trail Stephen Maguire 3-5.
The first stage of the match between Zhao Xintong and Maguire was a pity, Zhao Xintong began to make frequent mistakes after establishing a 3-2 lead at the beginning, and Maguire also seized the opportunity to complete two 60+ and one hundred consecutive wins to enter the second stage 5-3.
In the second stage, Zhao Xintong failed to enter the state first, the continuous bench failed to score and the accuracy was somewhat outrageous, Maguire certainly did not miss the opportunity to open the score of the evil opportunity to directly score 6-3 Zhao Xintong temporarily trailed three sets.
The key tenth set Zhao Xintong still attacked the long platform fruitlessly, Maguire scored the yellow ball for the second time just over the score, but Zhao Xintong did not give up on continuing to try snooker on stage, and made a precise defense in the case of only pink balls and black balls left, Maguire solved the ball mistake Zhao Xintong soared into a difficult powder ball and finally achieved a single-game reversal 4-6 to chase the score.
In the next two sets, Zhao Xintong did not find his hand because of the reversal of the previous set, while Maguire took advantage of the victory to chase first completed 60+ and then pulled the score to 8-4 by taking two consecutive sets in multiple hands. Fortunately, Zhao Xintong made a snooker through the luck ball in the eleventh set, and Maguire vigorously solved the ball to miss the opportunity Zhao Xintong came on stage to complete 60+ super points to 5-8.
In the next two sets, Zhao Xintong's playing style had serious problems, knowing that he still had to force the attack when he knew that his hands were cold, which also led to frequent mistakes, and Maguire was very eager to see such a situation once again after a wave of two consecutive wins, Maguire completely opened the score 10-5.
In the last inning of the second stage, Zhao Xintong forced the attack on the coffee ball after getting started, but Maguire did not continue to score in return, but Zhao Xintong lost a simple red ball again when he was about to overscore, and Maguire came up to achieve a single-game reversal to lead 11-5.
Looking at the entire second stage, Zhao Xintong seems to be fighting with himself, knowing that the game is not good or crazy attacking instead of slowly trying to find the state of the game through defending Zhou Xuan, so that Maguire has entered the decisive stage with a huge lead.