The 2023-2024 season of the Snooker Professional League continues, on April 18, 2024, Beijing time, the qualifying tournaments for the Snooker World Championship are all over, and finally 5 Chinese snooker players will advance to the main event, in addition, in terms of foreign players, Neil Robertson was upset, Scott Donaldson was killed, and Joe O'Connor became the only new face to advance to the main event of this World Championship!
Neil Robertson vs. Jamie Jones, Jamie Jones is very strong, this player has entered the World Championships many times, although his career is not as strong as Neil Robertson, but he still played a lot of wonderful counterattack battles, in the face of Neil Robertson and then played a dark horse, Neil Robertson has struggled very much throughout the season, the best result is only the top four of the ranking tournament, the Shanghai Masters has had a semi-final experience, and the other competitions except the German Masters, the best result is the round of 64, Neil Robertson has been a mess all season. The world ranking fell out of the top 20, and he missed the three major welfare events in a row, the World Grand Prix, the Players Championship and the Tour Championship, and the champion of champions did not qualify, it can be said that Neil Robertson ushered in the lowest moment of his career! After many years, he played the World Championship qualifying round again, and played very well in the third round of the qualifying round, but in the face of Jamie Jones, the gap between him and the opponent in the first half was not big, and then he struggled to take a 9-8 lead, but Jamie Jones still withstood the pressure and advanced 10-9! Neil Robertson is not surprised to be out of the game, and I hope he can make a comeback next season and return to normal!
In addition, Scott Donaldson saw the difference in the last moment of the contest with Ryan Day, the two of them once came to 9-9, the tiebreaker, Scott Donaldson was a little powerless, and there were many mistakes, 9-10, and the players who were killed were Scott Donaldson, Scott Donaldson regretfully fell, so that Neil Robertson and Scott Donaldson were both missing this season's World Championships and preparing for next season's showdown in advance!
In addition, the focus of the battle, in this World Championships ushered in a new face, O'Connor became the only new member of the World Championships, facing the 10-8 perfect kill of Selt, in the 18th game of the two sides, the two fell into a defensive battle, and the game was also quite anxious, but Joe O'Connor still withstood the pressure to advance, the last two seasons have the experience of finals, last season was the runner-up of the Scottish Open, this season won a Champions League runner-up, O'Connor can be said to have improved significantly, and also scored 147 points this season, the progress is obvious to all, O'Connor deserves to enter the World Championships for the first timeIn addition, Sancam also suffered a 9-10 defeat to Jackson Page after 00!