The 2021-2022 World Snooker Championships continue, with the two world champions challenged in the first two second-round first-stage matches. Four-time World Championship winner and No. 6 seed won and then lost in the match against qualifier Sankam, who lost three consecutive sets when he led 4:1, and the first stage of the game was temporarily tied with the opponent 4:4, "Wizard" urgently needs to adjust to the state as soon as possible, otherwise the promotion situation is not optimistic. And another world champion Bingham in the game against the "strongest after 90" Karen Wilson was refused to be reversed, he lost two consecutive sets when he led 4:1, the last set of the first stage of the game, Bingham attacked many times to win, after the first eight games, the 12th seed Bingham unexpectedly led Ding Junhui "Terminator" Karen Wilson 5:3, taking the lead.
Four-time World Championship winner, No. 6 seed, known as the "wizard" Higgins in the second round of the match opponent is Thailand's famous Sankam, which is Higgins's two consecutive rounds of this World Championship against Thailand's famous player, the first round of the game he came to reverse the defeat of Thailand's famous Tachaia. Against Asian players, Higgins's advantage is actually still very large, but against Sankam, Higgins is careless, the two have previously fought with almost the same win-loss, Higgins has a slight advantage, this season Higgins's state is relatively stable, six times into the final, is the most of all players, he has become one of the favorites to win the championship in this competition. However, Higgins is after all a veteran of nearly half a hundred years old, his state and peak period are certainly not the same, Sancham has recently started a very strong momentum, against Higgins, Sancham may not have no chance to win.
At the beginning of the game, Higgins and Sancham entered the state very quickly, the first two games were Sankam took the lead in attacking, but unfortunately did not play a single high score to give Higgins a chance to reverse, in the first game Higgins played a single 59 points behind at 15:47 to win and the next city to win first, the second game was Sankam's first attack after a mistake, Higgins single shot 82 points and then the next city, the third game Higgins still took the initiative, after multiple attacks to win another set at 90:20, The big score was 3:0.
In the fourth set, Higgins missed a great opportunity to extend the score, he stubbornly reversed the score when the score was behind, and unfortunately lost the key goal, and Sankam won a narrow 69-59 to win back the set. In the fifth set, Higgins fired a single shot at 90 points and then won another set with a 90:0 clean sheet, leading 4:1 in the big score, the trailing Sankam did not tie his hands, and then in the next two sets, although he did not play a high single score, he still chased two sets in a row at 72:50 and 75:30, and the score was forced to 3:4, and in the eighth game, the two sides entangled for nearly an hour before Sankamm won 70:50, and after winning three consecutive sets, he stubbornly chased the score to 4:4.
The No. 5 seed Karen Wilson's second-round opponent is world champion Bingham, both of whom defeated Chinese players in the first round of the match, of which "囧哥" Karen Wilson reversed the defeat of China's famous Ding Junhui, and Bingham easily defeated Chinese teenager Lu Haotian. Karen Wilson and Bingham have played well at the last few World Championships, Karen Wilson has reached the quarter-finals of four consecutive World Championships, while Bingham reached the final four at last year's World Championships, although Bingham did not perform very well in the usual ranking competitions, but after coming to the World Championships, he became a thriving tiger. Karen Wilson's world ranking is higher than Bingham's, but from the first round of competition, Karen Wilson's state has not yet adjusted to the best, there are some luck components to beat Ding Junhui, the comprehensive strength of the two is actually not much difference, the outcome of the game depends entirely on the impromptu play, the two have met at the World Championships five years ago, but Wilson laughed to the end.
At the beginning of the first stage of the game, Karen Wilson took the lead in the first set, the first set Karen Wilson attacked many times and then won the next city 75:48, the second set of the game was similar to the first set, but the final victory belonged to Bingham, Bingham repeatedly attacked and won a city at 74:48, the third game Bingham was in good shape, and Wilson was not in good shape, Bingham played a single shot and then won another set, and in the fourth game Bingham still occupied the initiative on the field. After multiple attacks and a single 54 points, he won to take a 3-1 lead, and in the fifth game Bingham scored 57 points to win another set, and then won a 4-1 lead after winning four consecutive sets. Trailing Karen Wilson then gradually returned to form, the sixth game Karen Wilson single shot 81 points to win, the seventh game Karen Wilson was in a hot state, single shot 103 points after the score was forced to 3:4, the final set of the first stage of the game the two sides were fiercely contested, world champion Bingham refused to be tied, he repeatedly attacked and won 69:38, the big score of 5:3 to end the first stage of the game.