On the evening of April 22, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker World Championship continued to start the first round of the showdown, and the high-profile Beijing Tongzhou star Lu Haotian played poorly in the decisive stage, and finally lost to the No. 8 seed and world champion Shaun Murphy and missed the round of 16.
In the first stage of the 9-game duel, Lu Haotian played poorly, and Murphy caught Lu Haotian's mistake in the first game, and hit a single stroke of 50+ to win the first 1-0.
In the second game, Lu Haotian attacked the green ball and blew up the red ball, but the target ball popped up at the mouth of the pop bag, and the red ball piled up to give Murphy a "dowry", and the latter took advantage of the situation to easily change the score to 2-0.
As we all know, Si Jiahui can easily handle Murphy because Xiaohui's key ball error rate is very low, and he dares to fight, and can efficiently catch Murphy's mistakes and repeatedly stage single-game reversals, which can put a lot of pressure on the opponent.
Obviously, Lu Haotian's offensive error rate has been difficult to improve, including simple misalignment.
In the 3rd game, Lu Haotian faced the open game, but he personally "disabled" it, and there was a mistake in calling the position.
Fortunately, Murphy wasted the opportunity, so Lu Haotian won the game and changed it to 1-2.
In the crucial 4th game between the two sides, Lu Haotian rashly attacked the combination ball and made a fatal mistake, giving up a good game, and Murphy unceremoniously hit a single shot of 90 points to expand the score to 3-1.
Be sure to put pressure on Murphy, otherwise the opponent will become more and more arrogant, turning it into an individual exhibition match, and Murphy will open up the point difference.
Although Lu Haotian won two games in a row to make the score 3-3 in the subsequent game, the good times did not last long and he lost three games in a row, ending the first stage of the competition with a total score of 3-6.
In the decisive stage, Lu Haotian made a faint move as soon as he came up, and in the face of the upcoming 4-6 situation, he lost the key black ball, and then was forcibly reversed by Murphy to expand the score to 7-4, and Lu Haotian was completely in trouble.
In the 12th game, Lu Haotian's various major offensive mistakes increased, and Murphy approached the match point with a total score of 8-3!
In the following game, Lu Haotian, who was behind by a large score, could only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and after the adjustment between the games, he blasted out a single stroke to break 100 and successfully saved a match point, chasing the score to 5-9, but unfortunately the state came too late, and finally was eliminated with a total score of 5-10 and missed the round of 16.
Lu Haotian, who played two more rounds of qualifying, still failed to "hold his life" in the first round of the main competition, there is no doubt that the blow is huge, I hope Xiao Lu will not be discouraged, go back and work hard to improve his skills, and come back next year!
So far, there are only 3 people left in the Chinese Snooker Army, namely Ding Junhui, Si Jiahui and Pang Junxu!