With the end of the Snooker Tour Championship, the annual snooker World Championship officially kicked off in Crucible, and the two Chinese celebrities Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda are seeded and will play in the main event on the 20th, but with the release of the main draw table, Ding Junhui's dream of realizing the World Championships will be bye again.
The World Championships, the biggest event of snooker, will be held between April 8 and May 6, with the qualifying rounds held from April 8 to April 18 and the main tournament from April 20 to May 6.
The prize money for the champion of the event is up to 500,000 pounds, the runner-up is 200,000 pounds, the semi-finals are 100,000 pounds, the quarterfinals are 50,000 pounds, the top 16 is 30,000 pounds, the top 32 is 20,000 pounds, the 147 perfect score is 40,000 pounds, and the top prize is 15,000 pounds.
The top 16 players in the world rankings are seeded, while the players below 16 compete for the remaining 16 top 32 rosters, with the first seeded players competing with the winners of the qualifying rounds for the round of 16.
The seeding list for this year's World Championships is as follows:
Top half: Brecel, Milkins, Shaun Murphy, Carter, Selby, Kyren Wilson, Mark Allen, Higgins
Bottom half: ♥ , Tom Ford, Mark Williams, Zhang Anda, Ding Junhui, Gary Wilson, Barry Hawkins, O'Sullivan
The two famous generals of the Chinese Army, Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, both fell into the lower half, and the world's No. 1 Rocket O'Sullivan, the world's No. 2 Trump, and Mark Williams, one of the 75 triumphants, who just won the championship in the Tour Championship, and Gary Wilson, the double champion this season, are in the same half, and the lower half of the world's top masters has also become the death half.
As one of the 80 Five Tigers, Ding Junhui, although he won 14 ranking championships in his career, but only lacked a World Championship championship, although his form has recovered this season, winning the British Championships and the World Open two runners-up, but Ding Junhui, who is not good at the long game system, fell into the death half zone where the masters gathered. This time, the hope of breaking the drought of the World Championships has been shattered again!
1/8 finals against Gary Wilson
Ding Junhui and Rocket O'Sullivan, Gary Wilson, and Barry Hawkins are in the same 1/4 zone, if they can pass the first round, then they will face Gary Wilson in the 1/8 finals, the two have played 6 times in their careers, winning three games each, but since 2022, Gary Wilson has begun to break out and has won three ranking championships, including the Scottish Open and the Welsh Open this season, and Ding Junhui has fallen into a four-year championship drought. Judging from his recent form and career record, Ding Junhui is not superior.
1/4 finals against Rocket O'Sullivan
If Ding Junhui can narrowly win the test, then he will usher in the world's No. 1 Rocket O'Sullivan in the 1/4 finals!
Rocket O'Sullivan continued to maintain a hot state this season, winning 5 championships in 11 races, including the British Championship and the Masters, and the three major championships came to 23.
The two have played each other 34 times in their careers, and Rocket O'Sullivan has an absolute advantage of 24 wins, 7 losses and 3 draws, and the most recent meeting between the two was in the semifinals of the World Grand Prix, where Rocket O'Sullivan won 6-1 to advance.
Therefore, even if Ding Junhui can pass the Gary Wilson level, it will be difficult to pass the hot rocket O'Sullivan, and this World Championships is also destined to Ding Junhui's dream of a Grand Slam to come to naught again!