China's Ding Junhui took on wildcard Jin Long in the first round. Jin is from Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, and he took full advantage of Ding's below-par effort.
The 30-year-old grew in confidence as the match went on. He scored a break of 66, but failed on this red. Ding Junhui took the chance and made a snooker and he narrowed the gap to 29-67.
Ding pressed-on and arranged another snooker, but made a mistake on a black ball and conceded the first frame to Jin. The favored Ding had an uphill climb in round one.
The second frame saw Jin take the lead with a break of 63 points. The story became nearly the same as the first frame. Ding started to come back, but was not able to save it. Jin took the second frame 76-65. And he cruised from there. Jin seized a surprise 5-1 victory. Ding is out of the running in Haikou .
2012斯諾克海口公開(kāi)賽進(jìn)入到正賽,首輪就爆出大冷門,被寄予厚望的丁俊暉在中國(guó)德比中1:5敗給金龍,爆出本屆賽事頭號(hào)冷門。金龍也打破7年魔咒,首次在正式大賽上戰(zhàn)勝丁俊暉,而且還是在國(guó)際排名賽正賽。