On April 25, Beijing time, the Snooker World Championship came to the last matchday of the second round. With four-time champions John Higgins leading 11-5 in the first two stages, there were no surprises in the third stage, and finally defeated Sankham 13-7 to advance to the quarter-finals. So far, 75 Three Jaio Sullivan, Mark Williams and Higgins have all reached the Quarter-Finals of the World Championships.
Higgins is currently ranked 6th in the world, while Sankam is only 38th in the world, and there is a big gap in strength between the two. However, after passing two rounds of qualification, Sankham eliminated the 11th seed Brechel in the first round and advanced to the second round. However, in the face of the old Higgins, Sankam was unable to continue his magical journey.
In the first stage, Higgins led 4-1 and was tied by Sancam in three straight sets. But in the second stage, Higgins ushered in a big explosion, he played a wave of crazy attacks to win seven consecutive innings, and In 7 games, Sancam only scored 93 points. At the end of the two stages, Higgins was far ahead of 11-5, just two sets away from advancing to the quarter-finals.
In the 17th inning of the third stage, Higgins made a mistake after a single shot of 62 points, and Sankam then tenaciously completed the clearance, and the two sides tied 63 points. In the black ball grab, Sancam defended a mistake, And Higgins put the black ball into the middle bag to win 70-63, thus winning 8 match points 12-5. In the 18th inning, Sankham scored a 70-point clean sheet with Higgins. In the 19th set, Sankam started smoothly again, scoring 14 reds and 14 blacks, and then attacked the last red ball wrong, missing 147, but still chased 7-12.
In the 20th set, Higgins finally did not waste a chance and scored with two shots. In the end, Higgins won 13-7 with Sankham to advance to the quarter-finals. In this way, 75 three Jessimokins, O'Sullivan and Mark Williams have successfully advanced to the top 8, which makes people feel that the old Ji Futuo is determined to be in a thousand miles.