In the early morning of April 17, Beijing time, the 2024 World Snooker Championship ended the ninth match day of the qualifying round, which is the first trial day, and a total of 4 Chinese players appeared on the court, all against foreign players. After two stages of hard fighting, the overall performance of Chinese snooker is not good, losing 3 games in a row, only Lu Haotian 1 person won and broke into the top 32 of the Crucible main competition, Zhou Yuelong, Yuan Sijun and Guoqiang were eliminated, among which the fist brother Zhou Yuelong lost 8 games in a row after leading 4-2 and collapsed again, and finally lost to Jack Jones 4-10! In addition, Yuan Sijun lost 6-10 to Maguire, the 6-crown champion of the ranking tournament, and Guoqiang saved 2 match points in a row and lost to Dominica Dale 8-10 and missed the reversal.
The final round of the qualifying round, also known as the trial day, a total of 16 games, to determine 16 non-seeded players who broke through from the qualifying round to enter the World Championships, divided into two match days, the first match day took the lead in eight 48 into 32 rounds of competition, Zhou Yuelong, Lu Haotian, Yuan Sijun, Guoqiang 4 Chinese players played, Zhou Yuelong's performance was the most disappointing, in the face of Jack Jones, who was ranked lower than himself, Zhou Yuelong lost two games in a row, and Jack Jones hit a single stroke of 72 points one after another, 98 points established a 2-0 lead in the total score, Zhou Yuelong then hit a single shot to break 100 and two strokes of 50+, won four consecutive games 4-2, and the collapse came without warning: Zhou Yuelong lost 8 games in a row, and Jack Jones scored 84 points, 93 points, 88 points, 52 points, 126 points, 81 points, and 51 points in a single stroke, and won from 2-4 to 10-4 in the total game!
Previously, in the semifinals of this season's Scottish Open, Zhou Yuelong shook his fist in advance to celebrate being overturned by Gary Wilson, and was ridiculed by the majority of netizens as a fist brother, Zhou Yuelong's career has reached many ranking finals, but they all ended in defeat, and basically they were all big collapses or fiascos, or they were all consecutive losses in the case of a lead and finally suffered a big reversal, so Zhou Yuelong's psychological quality was also widely criticized, and the final round of the World Championship qualifying match with Jack Jones once again confirmed this, when Zhou Yuelong can get rid of this psychological shadow in order to become a real snooker master。
On this match day, the other two Chinese players who stopped in the final round of the qualifying round were Yuan Sijun and Guoqiang. In the face of the ranking match 6 champion Maguire, Yuan Sijun's loss was expected by everyone, although he was able to bite the score 4-5 in the first nine rounds of the first stage, but after entering the decisive battle in the second stage, Yuan Sijun was gradually pulled away by the opponent, Maguire hit three consecutive shots to break 100 and one shot 50+, and beat Yuan Sijun in the second stage A wave of 5-2, and finally successfully entered the top 32 of the World Championships with a total score of 10-6.
Guoqiang is a pity to lose, in the case of a total score of 6-9 behind, the Chinese teenager who has just entered the professional snooker for half a year tenaciously saved 2 match points to chase 8-9, but unfortunately in the 18th game, Guoqiang paid tuition for his youth, and still risked attacking in the case of leading the score, and finally suffered a desperate reversal by Dominic Dell, 8-10 missed the World Championships.
A total of 10 Chinese players broke into the trial day of the qualifying round, but on the first day of the trial day, only Lu Haotian eliminated Jenson Kendrick with a total score of 10-7 to advance. Lv Haotian 3 people were shortlisted for the 2024 World Snooker Championships, even if you count the two derbies on the next match day (Cao Yupeng vs Pang Junxu, Si Jiahui vs Wu Yize) locked in advance of the 2 main match seats, the Chinese army has secured 5 seats in the main event of the World Championships, but in order to create the best 7 people in history to appear in Crucible, unless Xiao Guodong and Jiang Jun win, and Xiao Guodong and Jiang Jun's opponents are very strong, Xiao Guodong vs. Gilbert, Jiang Jun has to face Wafei who eliminated Fu Jiajun, and it is very difficult to win。