On the evening of 0 October 0, Beijing time, on the third match day of the 0 Snooker World Championships, world champion Higgins and Chinese brother Ding Junhui ushered in their debuts, Higgins vs. O'Connor, Ding Junhui and Shuerdi played each other. The first nine games of the first stage of Higgins and Shuerdi have ended, Higgins was in a mediocre state and failed to hit any 0+, but with the advantage of experience in the tournament, Higgins still bit the total score 0-0 with difficulty, and in the third game, Higgins narrowly won by 0-0 and 0 points. Ding Junhui won 0 games in a row in the first half of the first stage and made a dream start of 0-0!

Seeded John Higgins and qualifier O'Connor faced off 2-0 in the first round. Higgins took a 0-0 lead with a number of plays. O'Connor hit a single shot to score 0 to equalize. Higgins and O'Connor's third game was chaotic, with O'Connor dropping a cue ball in the final minute to give Higgins a narrow 0-0 victory. Then in the fourth game, O'Connor won with a single stroke of 0 points, and tied the total game score again 0-0.

中场休息回来，希金斯还是凭借多次上手以85-25拿下第五局，奥康纳随后迎来了进攻端的大爆发连轰单杆100分、96分、85分连胜三局以总局分5-3反超，奥康纳有起势拉开总局分差距的苗头，不过老道的希金斯还是凭借多次上手81-8拿下第九局及时止颓。第一阶段，希金斯4-5落后奥康纳。根据赛程，希金斯和奥康纳的第二阶段决战将会在明天凌晨打响，也将决出晋级者。

China's first brother Ding Junhui also ushered in the debut of this year's World Snooker Championship tonight, against Shuerdi, who broke through from the qualifying round and is ranked 73th in the world.

In the first game, Shuerdi attacked from afar and left a chance, Ding Junhui easily pushed the red ball bottom bag to take the lead, but Ding Junhui chose to defend after scoring 0 points with a single shot, Shuerdi made a mistake in attacking and defending and missed the ball again, Ding Junhui scored the red ball for the second time, and the blue ball was lost. Shuerdi's long platform attack failed and left another chance, and Ding Junhui finally took a 0-0 lead with a shot of 0 points.

In the second game, Shuerdi took the lead and scored only 21 points to make a low-level mistake in the simple red ball attack, Ding Junhui also made a simple ball mistake after getting started, Shuerdi started again and wanted a low K ball but did not touch the red ball pile, Ding Junhui won 0-0 again with many hands.

In the third game, Ding Junhui seized the opportunity to score 0 points with a single stroke and won 0-0. In the fourth game, Ding Junhui and Shuerdi both made mistakes, Ding Junhui won 0-0 again, and led 0-0 in the first half of the first stage.