On April 17, Beijing time, the 23/24 World Championship Qualifying Tournament entered the final day of competition. Today, a total of 8 games, one of which was played by the Chinese genius teenager Jiang Jun against the Iranian king Vafi, as a result, Jiang Jun was beaten by the opponent 5 consecutive whips when he was leading 3-0, and temporarily fell behind 4-5 in the first stage.
Jiang Shun
Jiang Jun only qualified professionally last year, and this is his first trip to the World Championships. Jiang Jun, ranked 110th in the world, started from the first round, 10-6 Amir Sakhosh in the first round, 10-8 Fan Zhengyi in the second round, and 10-8 Sam Craigie in the third round to enter the decisive round. In this round, he faced Iranian king Wafi, ranked 19th in the world, and defeated O'Sullivan at the Yushan World Open, which was impressive. In the third round, he defeated Hong Kong, China's Fu Jiajun 10-4 to advance to the decisive round.
Wafi
This is the first professional meeting between the two sides. In the first game, Jiang Jun scored 51 points in a single stroke, and finally won 85-21.
In the second game, Jiang Jun scored 64 points, hit a super red ball and made a mistake and stopped at the side of the library. But Wafei only scored 8 points to interrupt, after which Jiang Jun scored another red ball, Wafei made an offensive mistake and the red ball stopped at the mouth of the bag and conceded defeat. Jiang Jun 2-0.
In the third game, Jiang Jun relied on multi-shot attacks to win another game 63-27 and expand the lead 3-0.
In the fourth game, Wafei pulled one back 68-36, and Jiang Jun led 3-1 into halftime.
After returning from the break, Wafei was out of control, hitting four consecutive 50+ shots (63, 74, 70, 65) to overtake the score 5-3. In the ninth game, Jiang Jun withstood the pressure and scored 118 points in a single stroke to recover a game, and temporarily fell behind Wafei 4-5 to enter the second stage.
The other highlight match was the Chinese derby, which was played by Si Jiahui, a semi-finalist at the last World Championships, against Wu Yize, with both sides playing a good half. In the opening game, Wu Yize played a single stroke 131, 67, 59, 58 and four consecutive games, in the fifth game, Wu Yize scored 50 points first, and then the two started a defensive battle, Si Jiahui scored the last black ball to achieve a reversal, and then Si Jiahui scored 112, 110, and 59 points in a row to win five games, and is currently 5-4 ahead of Wu Yize to end the first stage.
Si Jiahui
In the two games that the Chinese Army had not finished at the same time, Xiao Guodong temporarily fell behind Gilbert 2-6. The Chinese derby Cao Yupeng is 3-4 and temporarily trails Pang Junxu.
From 1999 to 2022, a total of 14 Chinese players have reached the main event of the World Championships. In a single competition, the Chinese team has had a maximum of 6 players enter the main competition (2019 and 2017 respectively). Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda in this World Championships relied on the seed ranking to directly enter the main event, Lu Haotian advanced to the main match yesterday, plus two Chinese derbys, in fact, he has entered 5 people, whether he can surpass 2019, it depends on the performance of Jiang Jun and Xiao Guodong in the second stage!
Go for it!