On April 22, the 32-16 rounds of the Snooker World Championship continued, and Chinese player Lu Haotian and Murphy played the second stage of the competition. After 15 rounds of competition, Lu Haotian lost 5-10 and became the second Chinese player to go out of this World Championships. In the game, Murphy shot 7 shots of 50+ and 1 shot to break 100, and Lu Haotian shot 1 shot to break 100 and 1 shot of 50+.
In the first stage of the game, Murphy scored a 53 points to take the lead, and in the second game, Murphy made persistent efforts to score 71 points. Lu Haotian recovered 1 game in the 3rd game, and then in the 4th game, Murphy scored 90 points in a single stroke and entered the halftime with a 3-1 advantage.
After the break, Lu Haotian scored 82 points in a single stroke in the 6th game, and chased two games in a row to a 3-3 draw. But after that, Murphy played three consecutive whips, including 111 points in a single stroke in the ninth game, and Murphy ended the first stage of the game with a 6-3 advantage.
In the second stage, Murphy won two games in a row, including a single-game reversal in the 10th game of the precise long platform. In the 12th game, Lu Hao scored a difficult key black ball every day and narrowly won to recover 1 game. In the 13th game, Murphy won another game with 55 points in a single stroke and won the match point 9-4.
After the break, Lu Haotian scored 117 points in a single stroke on the long platform and saved the first match point. In the 15th game, Murphy scored 81 points in a single stroke, successfully cashed in the match point, and won the whole game 10-5.