On April 24, the 2022 World Snooker Championship entered its ninth matchday competition, and the last four matches of the second round were competed in the first two stages. Trump leads McGill 10-6 and Higgins leads Thailand's dark horse San Kam 11-5, with the two just a stone's throw away from victory. Robertson, the biggest champion, was 7-9, unexpectedly behind Lissovsky, and Beat Ding Junhui to advance to Wilson to draw 8-8 with Bingham.
As the 4th seed of the tournament, Trump played against 13th seed Scotsman McGill, and the two played very stiffly in the first stage of the 8-inning match, drawing 4-4 and each playing a shot to break the hundred. In the second stage, Trump began to exert his strength, after a 5-5 draw, Trump won three consecutive sets to open up the point difference, and then although McGill pulled back one set, the last two sets were still won by him, with the help of the second stage 6-2, Trump took a 10-6 lead in both stages.
Four-time champion and no. 6 seed Scotland "Wizard" Higgins, following the first round of the match against Thailand's Tachaia, the second round against another Thai dark horse San Kam, the two in the first stage of the same battle to a 4-4 draw, the Thai equalizer in the backward situation, showing a certain strength. But after the start of the second stage, Higgins fully grasped the initiative on the field, opening a direct wave of seven consecutive wins, opening the point difference, taking an 11-4 lead, and in the last set, Sankham won to stop the decline, but Higgins led 11-5, basically winning.
Australia's 3rd seed Robertson, the biggest favourite to win the World Championships this year, played against 14th seed Lisowski, and the two launched an offensive battle, in the first stage Robertson blasted a 2-shot break, trailing to a 4-4 draw in the face of falling behind. At the beginning of the second stage, Lisovsky also hit 2 consecutive shots to break the 100, expanding the lead again, and then the two came and went, alternately taking their respective innings, and Lisovsky was obviously more proactive, blasting out the third shot of the game to break the hundred, ending the second stage with a 9-7 lead.
Karen Wilson, the No. 5 seed who won the first round against China's brother Ding Junhui, played against former champion Bingham. The two also fought a 4-4 draw in the first stage, with Wilson scoring 100, but Wilson fell behind 1-4 at the beginning and then won three consecutive sets to equalize. In the second stage of the 8 sets, Bingham also sent a breakthrough 100 moments, while Wilson continued to rely on one shot to win, biting the score, and finally the two continued to draw 8-8, entering the third stage of the decisive moment.