On April 8, 2024, Beijing time, the qualifying tournament for the World Snooker Championship will begin. The World Championship is the most important game in snooker, and only players who win the World Championship can be called world champions. The World Championships are worth £500,000 for the champion and £200,000 for the runner-up, with one World Championship winner worth six mid-tier ranking tournaments. The World Championship qualifying tournament format is all 19 rounds and 10 wins, with 9 rounds played in the first half and the winner decided in the second half. The top 16 players in the world will play directly from the main draw, with the rest of the players participating in 2-4 qualifying rounds.
With the end of the Snooker Tour Championship, the list of seeded players for the World Championship has been released. The Chinese team Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda started directly from the main draw, of which Ding Junhui played as the No. 7 seeded player, while Zhang Anda played as the No. 11 seeded player. The defending champion of this tournament is Brecel, who has been in poor form this season since winning the World Championships last season, and I don't know if he can break through in the World Championships again. Grand Slam player Neil Robertson has had to start from the qualifying rounds due to his sluggish form in the last two seasons, which has dropped to 24th in the world rankings.
The biggest difference between this World Championships and the past is the distribution of the prize money of 147 in the full score, first of all, two shots of 147 in the three major tournaments can get a high prize of 147,000 pounds, before the Chinese player Xu Si played 1 shot 147 in the British Championship qualifying round, Ding Junhui and Mark Allen also played 147 in the Masters, and the three of them only need to play 147 in the World Championships to get 147,000 pounds. Secondly, for the World Championships, you can get a reward of 10,000 pounds for a 147 in the qualifying round, 40,000 pounds for a 147 in the main round, and a top prize of 10,000 pounds for a single stroke.
On the first day of the game, four players from the Chinese Army played in the first round of qualifying, namely Bai Yulu, Xing Zihao, Li Junwei and Zhang Jiawei, and Bai Yulu and Xing Zihao were the first to play, and the specific results are as follows.
Xing Zihao 5:4 Mike Holt
Xing Zihao is ranked 90th in the world and is a young player born in the 00s, with no outstanding results in his career. Holt, a veteran born in the 70s, has won the single-game limited-time championship in his career, although his state has declined as he grows older, but he still has a great chance of winning against the teenager Xing Zihao.
At the beginning of the game, in the first game, the two sides scored piecemeal alternately, and finally Xing Zihao won the first game 56:27 and got off to a good start. In the second game, Xing Zihao seized the opportunity to get started twice, and scored 61 points in a single stroke, and won the next game with 87:0. In the third game, Xing Zihao Xing Zihao scored 58 points in a single stroke and won the game 109:0, leading 3:0. In the fourth game, Holt pulled back a game with a single stroke of 59 points. In the fifth game, Xing Zihao got started on the stage and won the game cleanly with a single stroke of 86 points.
In the sixth game, Holt scored two layups through defense, scored 61 points in a single stroke, and won the game 86-7. In the seventh game, Holt took advantage of the victory to chase and won the next game with 86:13, falling behind 3:4. In the eighth game, Xing Zihao won with a single stroke of 63 points, won the game, and established the lead in the first half. In the ninth game, Holt scored many times, and finally pulled back a game with 66:37, and Xing Zihao led with a big score of 5:4.
White Dew 2:6 Jenson Kendrick
Jenson Kendrick is ranked 104th in the world, while China's Bai Yulu has qualified professionally for two seasons with her Women's World Championship title. Although Jenson Kendri is ranked low in the world and most of his professional matches are in the first round, he still became more and more courageous in the face of the female player Bai Yulu, and led by a large score in the first half.
In the first game, Bai Yulu had a chance to win the game, but unfortunately the key ball was wrong, and finally Jenson Kendrick won the game 63-57 and got off to a good start. In the second game, Jenson Kendrick scored several times and finally won the game 84-16. In the third game, Jenson Kendrick scored 100 points in a single stroke to win, leading 3:0. In the fourth game, Bai Yulu played steadily and steadily, fought a defensive battle with the opponent, and finally won a game 83:7.
In the fifth game, Jenson Kendrick scored many times, and finally won 70:46, leading 4:1. In the sixth game, the two sides scored piecemeal, and finally Bai Yulu won the game 55:33. Subsequently, Jenson Kendrick went online again, scoring 62 and 91 points in a row, and won two games in a row, leading 6:2 into the second half of the game. Throughout the game, Bai Yulu was inferior to Jenson Kendrick on the offensive end, and hoped for a miracle in the second half when the score was behind.