On April 18, Beijing time, the Snooker World Championship Qualifying Tournament ended all competitions, and all 16 tickets for the main event were released. The Chinese Legion's performance was relatively dismal, 10 people entered the decisive round, and in the end, only 3 people Lu Haotian, Si Jiahui and Pang Junxu completed the breakthrough, and only 1 Lu Haotian defeated foreign players to advance. With the addition of Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, a total of 5 members of the Chinese Legion entered the main competition. In addition, former world champion Neil Robertson broke a super upset, leading 8-5 and finally losing 9-10 to Jamie Jones and being eliminated.
A total of as many as 10 Chinese snookers advanced to the final round, which is 32 and 16 grabs. Theoretically, up to 8 Chinese players will pass the trial day test and advance to the main event of the World Championships. But in the first match day, the Chinese army only had 1 win and 3 losses, and only Lu Haotian completed the breakthrough. On the last match day, Jiang Jun of the Chinese Army played against Wafei, Xiao Guodong played against Gilbert, Pang Junxu played against Cao Yupeng, and Si Jiahui played against Wu Yize.
In the two civil wars, Si Jiahui played an incredible offensive of winning 10 consecutive games when he was 0-4 behind in the opening game, including 2 shots to break 100 and 3 strokes of 50+, and finally defeated Wu Yize 10-4 Autumn Wind Sweeping Leaves. And Pang Junxu also completed the reversal, and when he fell behind 6-8, he finally won 4 games in a row to complete the reversal and defeated Cao Yupeng 10-8. But the other two players were not so lucky. Jiang Jun led 3-0 in the opening game, and was beaten 0-2 after that, and finally went out 5-10. Xiao Guodong fell behind 0-5 in the opening game and finally lost to Gilbert 6-10.
In addition, the biggest upset in the qualifying tournament of this World Championship broke out. Neil Robertson, the 2010 world champion and perennial top 6 in the world, lost 9-10 to Jamie Jones and was eliminated. In this game, the Melbourne machine once hit 4 consecutive 50+ shots, and once led 8-5. But then he had an incredible crash, and was hit by a 5-1 run by Jamie Jones, and finally came back to kill 9-10.