On April 23, 2022, the Snooker World Championship continued, and China's Zhao Xintong appeared again, impacting the quarterfinals, against qualifier Maguire, and the two stages of the game ended, Maguire led Zhao Xintong 11-5, and lost suspense in advance.
Zhao Xintong, a seeded player and no. 6 in the world, has won the British Championship and the German Masters this season, sweeping Jamie 10-2 in the last round. Clark advanced, the first time in his career to reach the World Championship Round of 16, by the expectations of outside fans, Zhao Xintong has good accuracy, strong continuous scoring ability, but the quality of defense is not high, the temporary play lacks stability, more dependent on the feel, prone to ups and downs.
Although Maguire is only ranked 40th, he is no different from the seeded players, has the ability to eliminate the world's top ten, and Maguire defeated Sean 10-8 in the last round. Murphy advanced, last year Murphy lost to Selby to get the runner-up, this encounter with Maguire turned out of the first round, although this season Maguire's results are not ideal, but to the long game system, Zhao Xintong wants to win is indeed not easy.
The two sides only met once in their careers, when Maguire eliminated Zhao Xintong 6-2 to advance, the reference value is not large, the victory or defeat still depends on the on-field play, Maguire uses a more conservative tactic, through high-quality defense, to limit Zhao Xintong's attack, in addition, Maguire has rich experience in the competition, the balance of attack and defense is very difficult, resulting in Zhao Xintong is difficult to maintain his rhythm, and soon fell into the downwind.
In the first stage of the game, Maguire fell behind 2-3 to win three consecutive sets to take a 5-3 lead, Maguire blasted out a single shot of 102 points, 107 points, 80 points, 65 points, Zhao Xintong blasted a single shot of 136 points, 86 points, 72 points, to the chaos or Maguire is better.
This was followed by the second stage of the game, the 9th set Maguire won 72-9, the 10th set Zhao Xintong fell behind to complete the clearance reversal, won 63-61, in the 11th set Maguire played a single 64 points to interrupt the attack, and then won back a set 71-16, in the 12th set Zhao Xintong only scored 27 points before making a mistake, Maguire played a single 82 points to win another set, and in the 13th set Zhao Xintong played a single 72 points to return to color.
In the 14th set, Maguire played a single 31 points to turn into defense, and then Zhao Xintong's offensive mistakes were a big gift, Maguire played a single shot of 49 points, winning 70-0, in the 15th set Maguire scored a red ball and made a mistake, Zhao Xintong had no feel, only 17 points to interrupt the attack, the two competed defensive skills, Zhao Xintong was not an opponent, Maguire played a single 61 points and won another set to take a 10-5 lead.
In the 16th set, Maguire won the fight 56-42, the two stages of 16 innings were played, Maguire led 11-5, Zhao Xintong wanted to achieve a reversal, he had to play an 8-1 score, facing the current Maguire, it was almost impossible to do this.