On April 17, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker World Championship Qualifying Tournament entered the "trial round", and 10 Chinese players will compete for the top 32 seats in the World Championships!
Jack Lisowski 10-3 Matthew Stevens
Lisowski, the top seed in the qualifying round, played a wave of seven consecutive whips, and hit 7 single-stroke 50+ strokes in the whole game, two of which broke 100 in single-stroke. Grand Slam draw winner Stevens has won only one ranking tournament in his career, beating Stephen Hendry 10-8 in the 2003 British Championship final. But there is also a Masters title, beating Ken Doherty 10-8 in the 2000 Masters final. He reached eight ranking finals in his career, including two World Championship finals, and in the 2000 World Championship final, he led Mark Williams 13-7 at one point, but eventually lost 16-18. In the 2005 final of Crucible, he was defeated by Shaun Murphy 16-18 after leading 10-6.
In this duel, Stevens scored three single-stroke 50+, of which in the first game he scored a single-stroke to break 100 and win 135 points, 3-10 and missed the World Championships for two consecutive years!
Rich Wharton 10-9 Mark Davis
Wharton fell behind almost all the time, kept catching up, and finally tied the game three times to 9-9, and won the tiebreaker with a single stroke of 50+.
Dominic Dyer 10-8 He Guoqiang
The 52-year-old is a two-time ranking tournament winner, having last won the 2007 Shanghai Masters, beating Ken Doherty and Mark Selby all the way before beating Ryan Day 10-6 after falling behind 2-6 in the final. He was the best "veteran" of the season, once in the World Grand Prix. He Guoqiang is the best rookie and the highest ranking among the rookies. In this duel, neither of them played a single shot to break 100, He Guoqiang failed to win two games in a row after falling behind 6-9, and lost 55-68 in the 18th game.
Lu Haotian 10-7 Jenson Kendrick
Kendrick advanced to the round of 48 from the first round of qualifying, 10-7 eliminated the new women's world champion Bai Yulu, this duel only played two single-stroke 50+, the highest 61 points, Lu Haotian played 6 single-stroke 50+, two of which broke 100 in a single stroke, and played a wave of four consecutive whip reversals under 6-7 behind.
This is the fourth time in Lu Haotian's career that he has advanced to Crucible, and the best result in the World Championships is the second round of the main event. The best result of the season was the Wuhan Open 5-1 Rockets, who advanced to the semifinals, and the best result of his career was the runner-up finish at the India Open.
Zhou Yuelong 4-10 Jack Jones
Zhou Yuelong won 10-0 in the last round, but this duel was beaten with a wave of eight consecutive whips under a 4-2 lead!
Stephen Maguire 10-6 Yuan Sijun
Maguire is a six-time ranking tournament winner, beating David Gray 10-1 in the 2004 British Championship final, and most recently won the title 10-6 in the 2020 Tour Championship final, breaking his seven-year ranking championship drought! Yuan Sijun advanced to the quarterfinals twice in the season, and his career best was 4-5 Xiao Guodong in the semifinals of the 2019 Gibraltar Open, and eliminated Bingham, Uncle Ma and Maguire on the way to qualification.
In this duel, Maguire played three consecutive whips twice after falling behind 1-3, taking an 8-5 lead, and played five single-stroke 60+ shots in the whole game, of which three single-stroke broke 100.
Louis Heathcote 8-10 Stuart Bingham
The firepower of both sides is comparable, both have two single-stroke 120+, the former scored 7 single-stroke 50+, and the world champion Bingham played eight single-stroke 50+, and played a wave of three whips under 7-8 behind.
Robbie Williams 10-9 Chris Wakelin
The two sides alternated leads, Wakelin took the lead 9-8, and Williams won two games in a row to take the game.
The last 8 seats in the Crucible round of 32 will be decided tomorrow, and 6 Chinese snooker players will play, including two derby?