On the evening of April 21, 2024, Beijing time, the first round of the World Snooker Championship was in full swing, and Chinese player Lu Haotian challenged the world's No. 8 Shaun Murphy.
Murphy and Lu Haotian
In the first game of the game, Murphy made two shots and scored 53 points to take a 1-0 lead. In the second game, Lu Haotian scored 33 points and lost the green ball when he hit the K ball, and Murphy took over the table, scoring 71 points in a single stroke and winning another game. In the third game, Lu Haotian started three times, scoring 13 points, 36 points, and 46 points respectively, and pulled back a game. In the fourth game, Murphy scored a 90 points, and at the end of the first half, Murphy led Lu Haotian 3-1.
Shaun Murphy
After halftime, in the fifth game, Lu Haotian lost the pink ball at the critical moment, and after Murphy cleared the table, the game score came to 58–58 draw; In the sixth game, Lu Haotian scored 82 points with one shot and equalized the score.
In the seventh game, Murphy scored 66 points in the first two hands, and did not exceed the score, Lu Haotian also got a chance, but unfortunately it was interrupted after only 5 points, and then Murphy added another 48 points to win the game. In the eighth game, Murphy made three shots, 64-0 to achieve a super score, and the score came to 5-3. In the ninth game, Murphy scored 111 points in a single stroke and won the game.
Lu Haotian
The score of the first leg is as follows (Lu Haotian vs Murphy):
23–71（53）；33–75（71）；95–4；1–90（90）；65–58；90（82）–19；5–114；0–64；20–111（111）。
At the end of the first stage of the first round, Lu Haotian temporarily trailed Shaun Murphy 3–6, and the two sides will play the second stage of the competition at 5 pm on the 22nd.
Shaun Murphy