As of this morning, on the second day of the first round of the World Championships, Maguire won four games in a row to complete the reversal after falling behind 6-7, defeated the ninth-seeded Carter, and advanced to the round of 16 together with Fudd, Trump and Jones!
In the tournament that has ended, a total of three seeded players have been eliminated in the first round, namely defending champion Brecel, No. 11 seed Zhang Anda and No. 9 seed Ali Carter!
In addition, the No. 5 seed Selby is also in poor form, 2-7 behind the newcomer O'Connor, the situation is critical, and the qualification is slim!
Chinese player Lu Haotian fell behind Murphy 3-6 in the first stage, but this score is still acceptable, after all, the strength is not as good as Murphy, and the gap is not too big!
If Lu Haotian can play extraordinarily in the second stage, it is still possible to achieve a reversal and a big upset!
After all, in the first round, except for Trump and Forde, most of the seeded players did not perform well, but the qualifiers were all powerful and amazing!
For example, the veteran Maguire, a qualifier ranked 28th, hit 114 and 134 in the first stage to break 100, and completed a four-game winning reversal in the final stage, directly knocking down the ninth seed Carter!
There is also a newcomer to the qualifying tournament O'Connor, as a rookie who made his debut at the World Championships, facing the four-time champion Selby, he played an incredible five consecutive victories, with an amazing performance of two consecutive shots to break 100 and three shots of 50+, leading Selby by a score of 7-2.
In the face of such a hot newcomer, no matter how powerful Selby is, if he wants to complete the reversal in the second stage, I am afraid the possibility will be very small!
Murphy and Lu Haotian, and Selby and O'Connor will continue in the tiebreaker this afternoon and evening, respectively.
In addition, the match between Williams and Si Jiahui will also start at half past nine this evening, if according to the current general performance of the qualifiers, will Si Jiahui take the lead like them?