On the evening of April 8, Beijing time, the world-renowned 2024 Snooker World Championship Qualifying Tournament ended with a number of opening matches, women's world champion Bai Yulu and Hong Kong fast gunner Zhang Jiawei both made their debuts at the World Championships, and they both fell behind their respective opponents by large scores, while the teenager Xing Zihao overwhelmed the "assassin" to end the first stage of the competition.
The annual World Championship officially kicked off, the first day of the qualifying tournament was ranked 144th into 122 rounds in the world, the Chinese army in the first match of the qualifying tournament opening session a total of 4 players appeared, namely Bai Yulu, Zhang Jiawei, Li Junwei and teenager Xing Zihao, among them, the women's snooker world champion Bai Yulu and Hong Kong fast gunner Zhang Jiawei The number of matches attracted the attention of fans:
Jenson Kendrick vs White Raindew
Xiaobai won the 2024 Women's Snooker World Championship and qualified to participate in the World Snooker Tour.
Due to his first participation in the Men's Snooker World Championships, Xiaobai was extremely nervous at the beginning, resulting in inability to play accurately, and was bombarded by his opponent Jensen with a single stroke of 57 and 102 points to win 3 games in a row, and fell behind with a total score of 0-3 as soon as he came up.
Onlookers wailed that Xiaobai's first trip to the World Championships would inevitably end in a fiasco.
Fortunately, Xiaobai made a timely shot and struggled to pull back a game in the chaos to turn the score into 1-3. After the break, Bai Yulu had a chance to bite the score to 2-3, but due to the successive wasted offensive opportunities and the last red ball, Jenson missed to expand the score to 4-1.
participated in the men's snooker event for the first time, and the opponent had a wonderful performance of breaking 100 high scores, which really poured cold water on Xiaobai, the world champion.
In the 6th game, Xiaobai almost repeated the mistake of the previous game, but fortunately, Jenson prevented the loss of blue and pink balls in the lottery stage, and was chased to 2-4 by Bai Yulu one after another into the far platform.
However, in the subsequent game, Xiaobai's offensive hand was still sluggish, and finally ended the first half of the duel with a total score of 2-6 behind the opponent.
Ross Muir vs Zhang Jiawei
Also hit by dimensionality reduction is the 25-year-old Hong Kong fast gunner Zhang Jiawei, who participated in the International Snooker Competition with Hong Kong brother Fu Jiajun in the early days, and when he is in good shape, he can play a pleasing single shot and score continuously, which can be called the reputation of "Hong Kong Tachaiya".
Zhang qualified for the next two years in the WSF Amateur Championship final by defeating former professional golfer Gao Yang 5-0 against mediocre Ross "The Glove" Muir, who has scored 147 in the professional tournament but has some quality in the top 48 to top 100 in the world rankings.
Zhang Jiawei was affected by the opponent's slow pace in the first 4 games and played poorly, the attack and defense were unbalanced, especially in the security area was very weak, in the second game there was a chance to pull the score to 1-1, but due to his own low-level mistakes and lost a lot of opportunities.
Rose then felt up, and hit two consecutive 80+ high scores to win the dream start with an overall score of 4-0.
After adjusting between games, Zhang Jiawei felt warmer, and scored 66 and 61 points in a single stroke to win three games in a row, and the province chased it to 3-4.
However, the good times did not last long, and Xiao Zhang lost two games in a row in the following games, and finally ended the first stage of the competition with a total score of 3-6.
Xing Zihao vs Michael Hoult
Professional newcomer Xing Zihao faced the famous "Assassin" Holt, the former scored 61 and 58 points in a single stroke in the opening game, and won three games in a row to win the 3-0 dream start, and the assassin also scored 59 points in a single stroke to change the score to 1-3.
After the inter-game adjustment, Xiao Xing made another single stroke of 80+ to expand the score to 4-1, but then was beaten by Holt 3:1 and ended the first stage of the game with a total score of 4-5.
The decisive stage of the above three finals will be decided at 2 a.m. Beijing time on April 9.
Come on, young man!