On April 12, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker World Championship Qualifying Tournament ended the fourth match day of competition, in a key battle, the 6th World Championship runner-up Jimmy White finally lost to the Chinese teenager Liu Hongyu with a total score of 3-10, in addition, another Chinese player Guoqiang also eliminated Rosmuir 10-8 and successfully advanced, Xing Zihao lost to Daniel Wells 5-10. It is worth mentioning that during the qualifying round, the main event schedule has also been released: China's Zhang Anda will lead the opening match against a qualifier, which is currently to be determined.
Jimmy White is known as the "White Whirlwind", the peak style of play is very gorgeous, has won 10 ranking tournaments, and has contributed a lot of classic battles, but Jimmy White's biggest regret is that he has entered the finals of the Snooker World Championship 6 times but has been runner-up 6 times, and has never won the highest honor of the world champion. Today, Jimmy White is 62 years old, at the end of his career, and has long lost his competitiveness in the professional snooker arena. However, it is admirable that the 62-year-old Jimmy White is still holding on to his dream and appearing in the qualifying tournament of this Snooker World Championship.
In the second round of qualifying, Jimmy White met Chinese teenager Liu Hongyu to compete for a place in the top 80 of the qualifying round. In the first stage, Liu Hongyu scored 135 points, 74 points, and 60 points in a single stroke, and was far ahead with a total score of 7-2. In the second stage, Liu Hongyu won two games in a row, taking the lead in getting multiple match points with a total score of 9-2, Jimmy White won the twelfth game with 69-26 to recover a game, Liu Hongyu won the match point with a single stroke of 64 points to cash in the match point and won the match point with a total score of 10-3 to advance! On the fourth match day, the other two Chinese players also completed their second round of matches, and Guoqiang fell behind 4-5 in the first stage with 6 strokes 50+ in the second stage's excellent performance finally reversed Rosmuir 10-8, and although Xing Zihao scored 140 points in a single stroke, he finally lost 5-10 to Daniel Wells, who had a more stable performance.
During the qualifying round, the schedule of the main competition was announced, the first match day that started on April 20, the two seeded players Brecel and Zhang Anda led the opening match, the first round opponents of both will be produced from the qualifying round, and another Chinese star Ding Junhui who was directly entered into the main tournament as a seeded player will appear on April 23, this year's Snooker World Championships, Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda are in the same half zone, and the opponents in the same area are O'Sullivan, Trump, Mark Williams, O'Sullivan and Trump are the top two in the world, and Mark Williams has just won the top three in the world in a row in the Tour Championship.