In the early morning of April 17, the Snooker World Championship ended the first matchday competition, and the defending champion Mark Selby defeated qualifier Jamie Jones 10-7 with a 3-1, 8-3 lead, taking the lead in the round of 16 and waiting for the winner between Yan Bingtao and Wakelin. In this game, Selby blasted a 3-stroke 100th and made his 100th career breaker in Crucible, becoming the fourth player in the history of the World Championships to achieve this feat, the top 3 being O'Sullivan, Higgins and Hendry.
As a post-80s player, although Selby is not the first in terms of the total number of ranking matches, ranking behind Robertson and Trump with 20 ranking titles, its horror is that the total number of "three major" champions has as many as 9, including 4 world championship winners, which has surpassed Mark Williams and is on par with Higgins! This is a very remarkable achievement, because Selby has always been able to achieve a good position in the World Championships, he has exploded the most hundred in the World Championships is also the most in the 80s, the third hundred of this game became his 100th hundred in Crucible, reaching the "double hundred" record.
In the Crucible Breaking 100 list, Selby is followed by Murphy, Robertson, Ding Junhui and Trump, who were once called the "80 Five Tigers", who are also expected to complete this achievement in their careers, and mark Williams and Matthew Stevens in the top ten, but their total number of breakers in Crucible is less than 60, and it is basically impossible to complete 100 in the few careers behind. Next, Selby will face the winner between Yan Bingtao and Wakelin, as a Chinese fan, really pinch a cold sweat for Yan Bingtao, if Yan Bingtao wins, he will play against Selby, who is in good shape, wishing Yan Bingtao a successful promotion, looking forward to the 4th showdown between the two of the season, the first 3 Selby lost.