On April 25, Beijing time, all the quarter-final seats at the Snooker World Championship will be created. In the game that has ended today, Higgins defeated Sankam 13-7 to advance to the quarter-finals, and all 75 three masters successfully sat in the top-8.
Higgins shot a 7-50+ and a 2-shot 100 in the just-concluded match to eliminate Sancham 13-7 to advance to the quarter-finals. In the first set, Higgins scored 59 points to take the lead in the opening. In the second set, Higgins scored 82 points to win another set. In the third set, Higgins scored 90 points through multiple starts to take a 3-0 lead. In the fourth set, the two sides began to fight, and after several attacks and defenses, Sankam had the advantage and recovered the first set 69-59.
In the fifth inning, Higgins scored 90 points, again extending the lead to three innings. In the sixth set, the two sides engaged in a tug-of-war, and this time Sankam still won the fight, winning 72-50 to recover a set. In the seventh set, Sankam won the fight again, returning the set 75-30 to make it 4-3. In the eighth set, the two sides were once again caught in a tug-of-war, and Sancam scored 70 points several times to tie the score to 4-4 at 70-50.
In the ninth inning, Higgins led again 80-8. In the tenth inning, Higgins blasted out a single shot of 125 points to take advantage of the two sets 125-1. In the eleventh set, Higgins scored 68 points through multiple starts to take a 7-4 lead 68-9. In the twelfth set, Higgins scored 60 points to keep an 83-0 clean sheet with Sancham to take an 8-4 lead.
In the thirteenth set, Higgins was still on the line, with a single shot of 69 points to establish an advantage, and won another set 94-4. In the fourteenth set, the two sides began to fight, higgins played on the side of the defense, won by a narrow margin of 65-58, the score came to 10-4. In the fifteenth set, Higgins broke another hundred, scored 100 points, and took an 11-4 lead 100-13. In the sixteenth inning, Sankam finally regained a little touch, scoring 64 points in a single shot to recover a set.
In the seventeenth inning, Higgins scored 62 points to reach match point with an absolute advantage. In the eighteenth inning, Sankam scored 70 points to save a match point, and in the nineteenth inning, Sankam blasted a hundred, a single 112 points, and the score came to 12-7. In the twentieth inning, Higgins did not give Sancam another chance, and scored 90 points to end the game and reach the quarterfinals 13-7.