Thai rookie Sankham World Championships second round challenges 4-time World Champion Higgins! The two have met 8 times in history, with Higgins slightly dominant with 5 wins and 3 losses, the most recent of which was in the second round of the 2021 Snooker Welsh Open, when Higgins won 4-1!
At the beginning of the game, Sankam obviously did not get into the form in time, and had a chance to win the first 3 innings, especially the 3rd set, in the face of a good situation, losing a simple black ball! Higgins made a beautiful snooker and won the 3rd set several times! In the 4th set, Sankam scored a beautiful bench hand, but only scored more than 20 points before the attack was interrupted, and the game went into a tug-of-war! In defense, Higgins attacked the bag blue ball out of the blue ball, and Sankam cleared the pink ball to win, trailing Higgins 1-3 to end the first half!
Back from the break, Higgins scored a single shot 90 in the 5th set to 4-1, in the 6th set Higgins went wrong and the attack was interrupted, Sankam seized the opportunity to chase back a set 2-2 in defense, and In the 7th set, Sankham played his own accuracy advantage, although the attack was not smooth, it was good to complete the super score twice, and won the 7th set 3-4 behind Higgins!
Game 8 Plot Reversal and Reversal! 46 minutes of defensive battles! Higgins took the lead and scored 35 points before moving into defensive battles again! Defensively, Sankham scored into the far table combination, and due to the poor position of the white ball, the choice to paste the coffee ball formed an obstacle, resulting in Higgins being fined 16 points! It was not solved until the 5th shot, but there was no opportunity to attack, the defense continued, due to the long period of defensive two-man state decline a lot, many times there were various mistakes! In the end, Sankam overtook the point in the chaos, ending the first stage with a 4-4 draw with Higgins!
In the same period of Karen Wilson's match against Bingham, both were in good shape, and at the end of the first stage, Bingham temporarily led 5-3!
At 2:00 a.m., these 4 people will have the second stage of the match! Later Neil Robertson vs Lisowski, Trump vs McGill! Stay tuned!