On April 13, Beijing time, the 2024 World Snooker Championship ended the competition for the fifth match day of the qualifying round, and a big upset was born.
At the beginning, Fan Zhengyi was known to fans for his determination not to break a hundred, and was a very individual Chinese player, and the 2022 Snooker European Masters was Fan Zhengyi's battle for fame, defeating Kyren Wilson, Yan Bingtao, Gilbert, Graeme Dott and other top experts all the way to the final, and finally defeated O'Sullivan 10-9 in the final to win the first ranking championship in his career, becoming the fifth Chinese mainland player to win the ranking championship after Ding Junhui, Liang Wenbo, Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong. After becoming the champion of the ranking tournament, Fan Zhengyi once fell into a losing streak, but after adjusting his mentality, Fan Zhengyi rose again and reached the semifinals of the 2022 Snooker Championship, but was avenged by O'Sullivan 2-6. In the last two seasons, Fan Zhengyi's results have been average and tepid. In last year's World Snooker Championships, Fan Zhengyi defeated Maguire, the six-time champion of the ranking round, in the final round of the qualifying round to advance, but in the first round of the main event, Fan Zhengyi lost to Mark Allen and stopped in the round of 32.
This season, Fan Zhengyi started from the second round of the World Championships qualifiers, and the 18-year-old compatriot Jiang Jun became Fan Zhengyi's first opponent, and in the first round of the previous qualifying round, Jiang Jun eliminated Sakhosh 10-6 to advance. In this campaign, Fan Zhengyi started very strongly, taking the lead in winning the first game, in the second game, he broke 115 points in a single stroke, 69 points in the third game, and 50 points in the fourth game, winning four games in a row, and established a 4-0 lead in the total score as soon as he came up. Jiang Jun finally ushered in the opportunity to perform in the fifth game, scoring 85 points in a single stroke to win and successfully recover a game. However, Fan Zhengyi continued his fiery hand, and scored 60 points in a single stroke to win the sixth game, and the total score was 5-1 to maintain a four-game lead. Jiang Jun won the seventh game with a single stroke of 53 points, Fan Zhengyi won the eighth game 80-8, and led 6-2 in the first eight games. Jiang Jun narrowly won 64-50 in the last game of the first stage, and then in the second stage, Jiang Jun continued to narrow the gap in the total game score, scoring 69 points and 57 points in a single stroke, playing a wave of consecutive wins of four games, from 2-6 to 6-6 to tie the total game score.
Although Fan Zhengyi stopped the decline in time, and in the thirteenth and fourteenth games, he scored 88 points in a single stroke, broke 106 points in a single stroke, and regained the lead with a total score of 8-6, but Jiang Jun has completely picked up, and broke 102 points and 93 points in a single stroke, and played a wave of winning four consecutive games, and finally reversed the elimination of the ranking champion Fan Zhengyi with a total score of 10-8 to advance to the third round of the qualifying round.
In another highlight of the day, Hong Kong's Fu Ka Chun and World Champion Doherty faced off in the second qualifying round. In the first stage, Doherty scored 71 and 50 points in a single stroke, and established a lead of 2-0 at the beginning, Fu Jiajun won three games in a row to complete the overtake with 3-2, Doherty then won two games in a row 4-3 to lead again, Fu Jiajun scored 61 points in a single stroke and tied the total score 4-4, and Doherty won the chaotic ninth game and ended the first stage with a 5-4 lead in the total game.
In the second stage of the competition, Fu Jiajun took the lead in scoring 71 points with a single stroke to win the tenth game and chase the total score to a 5-5 draw, and Doherty won the 11th game with a total score of 6-5 to continue to maintain the lead. Subsequently, Fu Jiajun began to harvest the game, hitting two shots to break 100 (136 points + 104 points in a single stroke) and two strokes of 50+ (97 points in a single stroke + 61 points in a single stroke), playing a wave of key winning 5-0 climax, and the world champion Doherty lost the last 5 games in a row and was finally eliminated with a total score of 6-10 and stopped in the second round of the qualifying round.