On April 13, 2022, Beijing time, the Snooker World Championship continued to qualify, and the famous Tachaia shot a 4-shot breakthrough to eliminate Matthew Serte 10-7 to advance to the main tournament.
In the fourth round of the qualifying round, Matthew Celt and Tacchaia played at table one, and such an arrangement raised doubts. Although it is more reasonable to arrange the zhuo ci in accordance with the world rankings, many fans believe that the match between Ding Junhui and David Liri is more suitable for the first table, or the game between Stephen Maguire and Zhou Yuelong can also be at the first table, after all, Ding Junhui and Stephen Maguire are more influential.
However, Matthew Celt and Tachaia fought back against the doubts with action, especially Tachaia, who was arguably the best player of the matchday.
Before the start of the World Championships, Tachaia's world ranking was only 53, as a former seeded player, Tachaia has slipped at the speed of light in these two seasons, although he has a gorgeous style of play, but the performance is very unstable, ranking can explain the problem. For Tachaia, the World Championship is significant because he faces relegation pressure.
As a result, Tacchaia broke out in a desperate situation, eliminating Padgett 6-4 in the second round and Jack Jones 6-5 in the third round. Facing Matthew Celt in the fourth round, Tacchaia scored 145 points, 138 points, 101 points, 116 points, plus 5 par 60+, beating Matthew Celt with a near-perfect performance, advancing to the main tournament and successfully relegating.
In fact, Matthew Sert also played very well, he shot a hundred, four shots 60+, he and Tacchaia dedicated a wonderful game, indeed worthy of staying at table one.
Many Chinese fans said that they hope that Tachaia will draw Zhao Xintong in the first round of the main game, on the one hand, the two have similar styles of play and advocate attack. Secondly, Tachaia has advanced to Crucible in 2018, 2019 and 2020, losing to Higgins, Trump and O'Sullivan in the first round, with Higgins finishing second in that tournament and Trump and O'Sullivan both winning.
The players in the first round of the main tournament against Tachaia have all reached the final, and if Zhao Xintong draws Tachaia, he may be able to replicate such a feat. Of course, there is also Yan Bingtao may also draw Tachaiya, Yan Bingtao's good defensive ability may limit Tachaia's attack, for China's two seeded players, Tachaiya is a good opponent. The regular draw ceremony will be here soon, so let's wait and see!