On April 22, 2024, Beijing time, the World Snooker Championship continues! In the just-concluded 1/16 final match, Chinese teenager Lu Haotian lost 5-10 to world champion Shaun Murphy and failed to create a new record in the World Championships! With Lu Haotian's exit, there are only 3 people left in the Chinese army, namely Ding Junhui, Si Jiahui, and Pang Junxu! Murphy will next face Stephen Maguire, who defeated Captain Carter 10-7 and successfully advanced!
Lu Haotian is ranked 26th in the world, and his best result in participating in the World Championships 4 times is to reach the round of 16! This season, Lu Haotian is in excellent form and has reached the semifinals of the Wuhan Open, and in the last round of the qualifying round of this World Championships, Lu Haotian defeated the dark horse Jenson Kendrick 10-7 to advance to the main event! Magic Shaun Murphy is ranked 6th in the world, has won 12 ranking tournaments in his career, and has won three major championships at the same time, achieving a Grand Slam! However, this season's form is sluggish, and most of the tournaments are out early! Only a single game limited time match has played a brilliant performance of 147!
In the first stage of the game, Shaun Murphy played well, scoring 53 points, 71 points, 90 points, 111 points and a wave of 3 consecutive wins, leading Lu Haotian with a total score of 6-3. Lu Haotian's defense in the whole first stage was very bad, there were repeated leaks, he relied too much on offense, and many of them were blind attacks, and he forced to attack without good offensive opportunities, which led to giving Murphy a lot of opportunities, and they were all caught by Murphy!
In the second stage, in the tenth game, the two sides gave each other opportunities, and finally Murphy seized the opportunity to get started many times and won 63-58! In the eleventh game, Murphy scored 60 points with a single stroke and won another game with 95-7! In the twelfth game, Murphy scored 53 points with a single stroke and made a fatal mistake, and Lu Haotian seized the opportunity to reverse and pull back a game with 63-59! In the thirteenth game, Murphy scored 55 points with a single stroke and won 80-15! The total score was 9-4 and he took the lead to get the match point! In the fourteenth game, Lu Haotian scored a single stroke of 117 to win and save a match point! In the fifteenth game, Murphy scored 81 points in a single stroke to end the game! The total score was 10-5 to defeat Lu Haotian and advance to the round of 16!