On April 12, Beijing time, the third round of the Snooker World Championship qualification tournament continued. China's post-00s young player Yuan Sijun broke out of the big cold, facing the world ranking, Yuan Sijun played a very outstanding performance, the whole field blasted 3 shots to break the hundred, and finally 6-1 to hang the opponent, strong into the decisive round. Another game also broke out, with World No. 22 Joe Perry losing 3-6 to Page, who was only 90th.
Yuan Sijun, a post-00s youngster, has successfully advanced to the 6-3 score in the previous two rounds, but this time he faces Ryan Day, who has won the ranking championship for 5 times in his career. Ryan Day is currently ranked 22nd in the world and is the No. 6 seed in qualifying, with a strong team. However, in this game, Yuan Sijun completely played the momentum, which made Ryan Dai unexpected.
In the first game, Ryan Day played smoothly, single-handedly blasted 69 points, and finally won the lead 90-24. But soon the balance of the game came to Yuan Sijun's side, and after the two sides fought in the second set, Yuan Sijun won 59-13. Since then, Yuan Sijun has shown his strong continuous offensive ability. In three consecutive sets, Yuan Sijun scored 106 points, 126 points and 120 points, all of which kept a clean sheet.
At this time, Ryan Dai has lost the momentum and feel, after all, sitting in the field for three games without a point, the feel will slowly disappear. In the next two sets, although Yuan Sijun failed to continue the feel of continuous attack, he still won 63-30 and 85-13, and finally defeated the opponent 6-1 and strongly advanced to the qualifying tiebreaker round.
Another underdog comes in Joe Perry, the 48-year-old veteran, who is currently ranked 22nd in the world. But facing Jackson Page, who is only 90th in the world, Joe Perry collapsed with a 3-2 lead, losing 3-6 after losing four consecutive sets and being eliminated. In the rest of the game, Carter beat Gao Yang 6-4, Milkins beat Cao Yupeng 6-3, Sankham beat Wells 6-3, Hayfield narrowly beat Cahill 6-5 and Stevens beat Creig 6-1.