The 2024 Snooker World Open took the lead in ending eight 32-in-16 competitions, in the game that started at 2:30 pm Beijing time on March 20, the world's fourth-largest Brecel lost to Maguire 1-5, and the world's fourteenth Milkins lost to Wafei 2-5. In the remaining six games, Ding Junhui 5-1 Cao Yupeng, Murphy 5-3 Joe Perry, Kyren Wilson 5-3 Hugill, David Leary 5-2 Dominic Dell, Barry Hawkins 5-2 Robbie Williams, Rickie Wharton 4-5 Ben Wollaston. So far, the top 16 of this year's Snooker World Open have taken the lead in determining 8 people, and in the next round of the showdown, there is already a focus battle determined: Ding Junhui PK Murphy!
The new world champion had a slump at the start of the season, but he was back in form as he reached the final with back-to-back wins at the Riyadh Masters. In this round, facing the former top16 player Maguire, Brecel should have advanced, but Brecel felt cold, and in a not very exciting battle, Brecel finally lost 1-5, and Maguire advanced to the round of 16.
Another top16 master, Milkins, also overturned in this period of the game, and Iran's first brother Wafi, Milkins played not ideally, only played a shot of 50+, although once 2-1 led after the end of the first three games, but after the third game, Milkins began to collapse, one after another mistakes, Wafei seized the opportunity to win four games in a row, from 1-2 to 5-2 reversed the world's 14th Milkins to enter the round of 16.
In this period, Barry Hawkins scored a 146 points, and in the game against Robbie Williams, Barry Hawkins won three consecutive games 5-2 after 2-2, and in the last game, Barry Hawkins scored 146 points in a single stroke, second only to Zak Shuldi's single stroke against Ding Junhui's postponement qualifying round of 147.
Ding Junhui won the derby again, following the victory over Liu Hongyu in the previous round, and easily eliminated Cao Yupeng 5-1 in this round, and the world champion Murphy defeated Joe Perry 5-3; It is worth mentioning that Ding Junhui broke 100 with three shots in the game, and Murphy scored two shots to break 100 in the game, and the next round of showdown between the two post-80s five tigers is exciting!