April 11, 2024, Beijing time. The 2024 Snooker Championship is in full swing, and our long-awaited second round of qualifying tournaments is also in full swing this match day. In the previous day's match, Liu Hongyu, He Guoqiang and Xing Zihao had already come to an end in the first half of the match, and they faced Jimmy White, Ross Muir and Daniel Wells 7-2, 4-5 and 3-6 respectively. Today, they will continue to fight for victory and a valuable spot in the main draw.
The World Snooker Championship is the top event in the field of snooker, and its championship prize money is as high as 500,000 pounds. The competition is divided into two stages: the qualifying round and the main event, with the top 16 players in the world ranking directly entering the main tournament and the rest of the players going through the qualifying round to qualify. Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, as seeded players, will directly participate in the main event, while the other players will need to go through two to four qualifying rounds to qualify. A total of 10 players from the Chinese Army participated in the first round of qualifying, of which 5 players, including Fu Jiajun, Xing Zihao, Ma Hailong, Long Zehuang and Peng Yisong, successfully advanced to the second round of qualification, and the other players unfortunately stopped here.
Liu Hongyu defeated Jimmy White with an aggregate score of 10:3. Liu Hongyu is currently ranked 80th in the world, while Jimmy White is ranked 121st. Liu Hongyu is a rookie who has advanced to professional competition for the first time this season, and he surprised fans by reaching the semi-finals of the English Open at the beginning of the season. He has been hailed as one of the best performing professional newcomers of the Chinese Army this season, and the future is full of infinite possibilities. Jimmy White has won 23 professional titles in his career, including 10 ranking events. He has won the British Championships in all three major tournaments, and although he has reached the final of the World Championships six times, it is undoubtedly regrettable that he has never been able to win the title.
In the first game, both sides made a lot of mistakes, but Liu Hongyu took the lead with a narrow advantage of 67:60 with his stable performance. However, Jimmy White quickly adjusted his form in the second game and scored 81 points in a single stroke to equalize the score at 85:16. In the next few games, Liu Hongyu gradually found his touch, and scored 74 points, 80 points and 60 points in a row, leading with a big score of 3:1. In the sixth game, Liu Hongyu was even more firepower, scoring 135 points with a single stroke to break 100, and took the lead with a huge advantage of 5:1.
However, Jimmy White did not give up, and he seized the opportunity in the seventh game to recover a city with a score of 57:17 and chase the big score to 5:2. In the eighth game, the two players launched a protracted defensive battle, and finally Liu Hongyu seized the critical moment and won the game with a narrow advantage of 56:48. In the ninth game, Jimmy White missed a good opportunity again, and Liu Hongyu took advantage of the situation to score 80:18 to go to the next city, and the big score came to 8:2. In the tenth game, both of them had a chance to play, but Jimmy White failed to grasp the opportunity, and Liu Hongyu sealed the victory with a score of 59:17, and the big score was 9:2 to get the match point. In the twelfth game, Jimmy White took the lead by 20 points, and then scored several times to save a match point with a score of 69:26. In the thirteenth inning, Jimmy White took the lead by 54 points.