On the evening of April 23, the first round of the 2018 World Snooker Championship continued. Ding Junhui played three 50 + and one shot broke 100 to lead Xiao Guodong 6-3 in the Chinese Derby that began in the second period of the day, ending the first phase of the competition. The second phase of the two players will start at 5:00 p.m. Beijing time on April 24. In another game, magician Sean Murphy and Jamie Jones fought in the second stage to the decisive game, and Murphy was finally reversed by his opponent in the advantageous situation of 8-5 lead, losing the game 9-10 to become the second seed player out of the first round.
In the afternoon of krusburg, there was an important Chinese Derby in the first round. Ding Junhui, the leader of snooker, played Xiao Guodong, the two-year-old leader of the second tier team. Before that, the two sides had five fights. Xiao Guodong's only victory over Ding Junhui was at the China open in 2009. Since then, Ding Junhui has won four consecutive victories against Xiao Guodong. The most recent meeting was at xiaoguodong At the China open, which just ended this year, Ding Junhui won 6-2 easily. This meeting is the first match between the two in the world championships.
The game starts at about 2:30 p.m. when Ding Junhui kicks off in the first game, Xiao Guodong uses the mother ball sinking defense. After two rounds of regular defense lines, Ding Junhui accidentally hits a red ball to the mouth of the middle bag bag. Xiao Guodong pushes the red ball of the middle bag near the bottom Library and hits a single 82 point shot to win the first game. After the kick-off in the second set, Ding Junhui tried to attack from afar, a red ball bounced near the top pocket and the mother ball stopped in the middle stage. Xiao Guodong got 54 points in the pocket red ball and lost the red ball in the middle pocket. Ding Junhui received 30 points in the middle stage and was interrupted. Xiao Guodong made mistakes in the defense of the remaining three red balls. Ding Junhui started to clear the red ball again but was in the color At the ball stage, Xiao Guodong made the score 2-0 when he lost the coffee ball.
In the third game, Ding Junhui left a red ball near the blue ball point after kick-off. Xiao Guodong pushed the red ball to the top of the bag with a big deviation of the bottom bag. Ding Junhui got 12 points when he hit the red ball in the bag, then he didn't enter the position and turned to defense. After a long time of deadlock, Ding Junhui used the mother ball to stick the red ball lightly near the bottom pool for defense, leaving the red ball attack opportunity. Xiao After Guodong got 42 points, he returned the ball's right with a simple black ball bottom bag attack, and Ding Junhui once again went to the 68 point stage to recover a game.
At the beginning of the fourth game, the two sides fell into a long defensive stalemate. Xiao Guodong accidentally dropped his mother ball but didn't leave a chance. During the long defensive process, the ball was messy. Xiao Guodong's successful attack in the red ball, which was very difficult in the first half of the stage, finally broke the stalemate. After 43 points, the black ball of the frame attack was deflected out and gave up the right to the ball. Ding Junhui started three times Smashing the red ball, but losing the green ball in the color ball stage makes the game variable again. However, Ding Junhui relies on superb ball control skills to make a tight snooker twice to force the opponent to release the ball. Xiao Guodong tries to do snooker, and Ding Junhui pulls the score to a 2-2 level after failing. In the first half of the game, the one stroke performance of hitting the bottom bag of tieku blue ball is enough to be selected into the 10 Good ball.
After intermission, Xiao Guodong enters the fifth set. The red ball near the right side of the library deflects to leave the pocket. Ding Junhui gets 15 points in the first hand and then moves into the defense. After several rounds, Xiao Guodong's mother ball sink defense quality is not high and he gets the chance of middle pocket. Ding Junhui goes back to the stage to clear the score with 124 strokes. In the sixth set, Xiao Guodong's defense left the red ball in the middle of the bag. Ding Junhui got 39 points on the thin red ball near the bottom of the pool and then missed the chance to send the ball. Xiao Guodong received 46 points and was interrupted. When there were three red balls left, the middle bag attack missed the chance to stay. Ding Junhui went on to play two times after that and the score expanded to 4-2.
In the seventh game, Xiao Guodong scored a red ball but didn't connect to the colored ball at the beginning of the game. After a few strokes of entanglement, Xiao Guodong scored 36 points on the red ball again near the base of the game, and a simple red ball attack error interrupted the score. After that, Ding Junhui got only 9 points on the first hand with accuracy twice. After one stroke of the red ball attack at the base of the game, he left a chance to the opponent, and Xiao Guodong got on the third time The score came to 3-4. In the eighth inning, Ding Junhui got 19 points in the middle of the red ball in the second half of the stage. After several rounds of deadlock, Xiao Guodong made high-quality defense. Ding Junhui returned to the ball to keep the chance. Xiao Guodong got 12 points in the upper hand and also made a mistake to interrupt the attack. After a period of entanglement, Xiao Guodong's far-off attack missed more opportunities to send. Ding Junhui regained the leading edge of the two innings with 57 points in a single shot.
In the ninth game, after the kick-off, Xiao Guodong went into the red ball bottom bag and got a chance to send out the simple black ball bottom bag attack when he got 9 points. Ding Junhui took over only 8 points and turned to defense. After Xiao Guodong returned to the ball, Ding Junhui got the combination ball attack, but then the bag in the attack coffee ball deflected out and handed the table to the opponent. Xiao Guodong took over with only 12 points and the attack was interrupted Ding Junhui once again locked up the winning game with 72 points on a single stroke. In the first stage, the score of the two sides was set at 6-3, and Ding Junhui was ahead of three games.
At the same time, another game was the second stage of Sean Murphy's game against Jamie Jones. In the first stage, the two sides fought 5-4, Murphy led by one game. At the beginning of the second stage, Jones drew 5-5 with 67 points of a single stroke in the tenth game. After that, Murphy successively played one stroke 50 + and two strokes broke through 100 in three games to rewrite the score into 8-5, but Jones also paid back two strokes 50 + and In the 17th game, Murphy won 63-26 and got the match point first. In the 18th game, Jones played 124 single shots to drag the game into the decisive game. In the last game, Murphy was too cautious, and Jones still tried to attack boldly. After two starts, Jones got 72 points to lock the win. Finally, Murphy lost 9-10 and became the second seed player out of the first round.