With the end of the Snooker Tour Championship and the 2024 World Championship seeding has been decided, Chinese star Ding Junhui is very unfortunate to be in the same 1/4 zone as the world No. 1 O'Sullivan, in other words, the 1/4 finals will meet the nemesis who is in hot form this season. Ding Junhui has already won the British Championships and the Masters, and he is only one step away from the World Championships for his Grand Slam dream, but this time it seems to be more than lucky.
Ding Junhui's talent is undoubted, but due to the lack of concentration and persistence of Achilles' heel, it is difficult to make a difference in the long-game system of the World Championships. The former billiards prodigy is now 37 years old and still can't become a world champion, so Chinese fans are very much looking forward to his historic breakthrough at the 2024 World Championships.
It's a pity that the sky is not beautiful, Ding Junhui met the biggest nemesis O'Sullivan, who is in the same 1/4 area. China Ding played the qualifiers in the first round, and is likely to face Wilson in the second round (if Wilson is not defeated by the qualifiers, the same below, no longer marked one by one), the quarterfinals are likely to meet O'Sullivan, and if he miraculously defeats the Rockets, the semifinals will meet the world Open champion Trump or the new branch tour champion Kim Left Hand Williams.
In fact, according to the ranking before the Tour Championship, Ding Junhui will not be in the same 1/4 zone as O'Sullivan, and Murphy and O'Sullivan should meet. But Ding Junhui did not perform well in the Tour Championship, O'Sullivan won the runner-up, and the two of them met again by accident. O'Sullivan almost every time he hits Ding Junhui, he will burst into a state and kill, which may be related to Ding Junhui's rhythm making the rocket more comfortable.
For O'Sullivan, he attaches no less importance to this World Championships than Ding Junhui, because he hopes to win the world championship for the eighth time and become the unique GOAT of the sport, rather than being on a par with the billiards emperor Hendry. Now O'Sullivan has surpassed Hendry in many statistics, but the number of World Championships has not been surpassed.