In the early morning of April 23rd, Beijing time, the 2023 Snooker World Championships continued. In the second round of a focus match, Ronnie O ‘Sullivan, the seven-time world champion "Rocket", started to hang up. After the twelfth game, he won 10 match points with 10-2, beating his opponent Wafi Ayuri down in the dumps. In this state, the eighth world championship is very promising.
The second round match between O ‘Sullivan, the world’s number one, and Ayuri, the world’s number 23, was very simple. The former showed his attack to the fullest, while the latter was firmly pressed on the sofa and watched his opponent score one red ball and one colored ball.
In the first stage of the match between O ‘Sullivan and Ayuri, as soon as the defending champion of the World Championships came up, he showed Ayuri his great strength. In the first game of the competition, O ‘Sullivan won with a single shot of 78 points, with a strong start of 78-1 and a 1-0 lead. In the second game, O ‘Sullivan scored 78 points in a single shot again, with Ayuri sealed 78-0 and leading 2-0.
In the third game, after Ayuri lost two games in a row at the beginning, he scored 64 points in this bureau, pulled back a game 70-53, and the score was 1-2. In the fourth game, O ‘Sullivan once again showed his domineering strength. He scored two 50+shots (68 points and 51 points) in this bureau, 120-0 again sealed Ayuri, leading 3-1. The two sides entered the inter-office rest.
In the fifth game, after a short intermission, O ‘Sullivan won 74-29 and led 4-1 through several handovers. In the sixth game, O ‘Sullivan further improved his offensive feel. He blasted a single shot with 102 points, 102-0 nil for Ayuri and a 5-1 lead.
In the seventh game, O ‘Sullivan scored 57 points in a single shot and won 88-42, expanding the score advantage to 6-1. In the eighth game, Ayuri scored 58 points in a single shot, and 64-44 pulled back a game with a score of 2-6, avoiding the embarrassment of the score being 1-7 in the first stage.
After a night’s rest, O ‘Sullivan and Ayuri fought for the second stage. After coming back, Ayuri’s state didn’t improve, but O ‘Sullivan wound up. After his wave of 6-0 offensive, Ayuri won 10 individual match points 12-2, which made him depressed.