Xinhua News Agency, Sheffield, April 21 (Reporter Prince Jiang) Chinese player Ding Junhui beat Scottish player McGill 10:7 in the first round of the world snooker championship on the 21st, and advanced to the top 16 for the fifth consecutive year.
Ding Junhui led 6:3 after the first stage of the game the day before afternoon. As long as he won four more games, he could win. The second stage was more intense that morning. In the 10th game, Ding Junhui scored 99 points in a single shot, expanding the advantage to 7:3. In the 11th game, the two were caught in a struggle. McGill seized the opportunity to get started and won 68:29. Ding Junhui played even better next, with the highest single-shot score of 134 points and 8:4 since the start of the game. McGill returned a single shot 69 points, Ding Junhui did not get a point, 8:5, the gap narrowed again to 3 points.
Ding Junhui, who encountered resistance, resisted the pressure and once again launched a single-shot 91-point zero-seal opponent in the 14th game, and got the match point at 9:5. However, McGill performed tenaciously. The next two games were both defeated and defeated in the backward situation, with the total score becoming 7:9. In the 17th game, Ding Junhui made a mistake after scoring 22 points. After a defensive war, he started again, separated the platform with a single shot of 106, and also locked the victory at 10:7.
Ding Junhui was very happy after the game. He said, “today’s opponent played better than yesterday. I made a lot of mistakes. After he won two games in a row, he was full of confidence, and I dare not take it lightly, because he is likely to turn over.”
He also said: “In fact, I started the Games after 9:5, but I didn’t handle the ball well, and the connection was not very good. Of course, I still had an advantage, and I never gave him a chance in the last game.”
Ding Junhui’s next opponent is the winner between No. 7 seed trumpu and Thai player Tachiya. The match will start at 7 pm on the 27th (2 am Beijing time on the 28th). If he wins, he is most likely to face O’Sullivan in the quarter-finals. For such a lottery result, Ding Junhui said: “After winning this victory, my confidence has greatly increased. If I want to win the Championship, you must beat all the excellent players.”
He also said: “I don’t worry about who the opponent is, because you can’t avoid it, I just need to play my own game well. I need to learn from O’Sullivan. He can always play at his own pace. I hope I can grow up as soon as possible and become a player like him.”
This is Ding Junhui’s 13th consecutive world championship since 2007. In the past four years, he has been promoted to the third round at least every time. The best result is to enter the final in 2016 and finally win the runner-up against Selby.
Ding Junhui also became the second player to advance to the top 16 after defending champion Mark Williams. Another Chinese player Tian Pengfei will compete with Maguire in Scotland in the second stage later. Tian Pengfei will lead by 5:4 in the first stage. Chinese player Luo Honghao will also appear in the afternoon of that day against former world champion Murphy.
The total prize of this year’s World Championship is as high as 2.231 million pounds (about 19.44 million yuan), of which 500000 pounds (about 4.36 million yuan) is the champion, which will be produced on May 6.