In the early morning of April 27, Beijing time, the last 1/4 final of the 2023 World Snooker Championship ended, and China's Si Jia Hui eliminated McGill 13-12 in the total game to advance to the last 4 of the World Championship, so that Si Jia Hui set a great historical record, becoming the first person to reach the semifinals as a debut player in Cruzburg this century!
In this World Championships, a total of 5 Chinese snooker players participated in the main stage of the competition, Ding Junhui was directly shortlisted as a seeded player with the world ranking, and Si Jiahui, Fan Zhengyi, Pang Junxu, Wu Yize 4 post-00 young players broke through from the qualification round to the round of 32. In the first round, except for Si Jiahui, the remaining 4 Chinese players were all out. After beating Murphy 10-9 in the first round to win the first World Championship, Scarlet eliminated seeded Milkins 13-7 in the second round to advance to the quarterfinals. In this round, facing McGill, who is also a qualifier, Scarlet has drawn 8-8 with his opponent in the first two stages. In the final stage, Scarfia and McGill were completely on the same line, and the 25-inning, best-of-13 match had actually become a best-of-9 game.
Judging from the past record of meetings, Scarlet has a clear advantage, in the past three meetings, Scarlet has won all 3 games, and two of them are 9 games 5 wins, so we are full of infinite expectations for Scarfar! In fact, McGill has reached the top 4 of the World Championships, far better than Scarlet in terms of overall strength and competition experience, and McGill has won 2 ranking tournament championships in his career. In the past, Si Jia Hui became famous in Chinese fan circles with 2 victories against Ding Junhui, and now, Si Jia Hui is recognized by fans around the world as a qualifying + debut player at the World Championships.
In the third stage, Scarlet Hui insisted on his own style of play, no matter what kind of defense, as long as there is a chance is to attack, although sometimes it seems irrational, but Scarlet Hui also eliminated world champion Murphy and seeded player Milkins with this extreme style of play and entered the quarterfinals, so this is Scarfar, there is no need to discuss whether his style of play can be conservative. With a reckless attack, Scarlet even took the match point 12-11 first, and McGill blasted a 100-100 shot in the 24th inning.
In the tiebreaker, that is, the 25th game of the whole game, McGill missed the ball defensively, and Scarlet seized the opportunity to score the lipstick ball, but unfortunately the red ball from the distance could not be scored, but in the end, Scarlet won the tiebreaker and defeated McGill 13-12 in the total game to advance to the last four.
In this way, the semi-finals of this year's World Snooker Championship are fully matched: Brecel vs Scarlett, Selby vs Mark Allen.