The main event of the 2024 World Snooker Championship has fully started, and on April 23, 2024, Beijing time, Ding Junhui will also usher in his debut at this season's World Championships. In the main event of this World Championships, Ding Junhui will face his first opponent in this season's World Championships, Lisowski. Ding Junhui is also the strongest player who will usher in the third successful breakthrough from the World Championships qualifying tournament for the third time in the past four years.
In the first round of the 2021 World Championships, Ding Junhui encountered Bingham, the strongest opponent in the World Championships qualifying round. In the 2022 World Championships, Ding Junhui broke through as a qualifier, but he encountered seeded player Kyren Wilson in the main match. For four consecutive years, it can be said that Ding Junhui has been drawn. In the competition of the World Championships, Chinese snooker players have a total of 18 people who have entered the main match of the World Championships. Ding Junhui participated in the World Championships for the 18th time in this competition. Judging from the ranking of the number of times Chinese snooker players have praised the World Championships, Ding Junhui has equaled Fu Jiajun, who has previously participated in the World Championships 18 times. As early as 1999, Fu Jiajun entered the main match of the World Championships. In the past two seasons, Fu Jiajun has participated in the tournament with a wild card, and it is not optimistic to keep the top of the ranking of the highest number of times Chinese snooker has participated in the main event of the World Championships.
In recent seasons, the play-offs have started in the first round of qualifying, and have struggled through the difficult schedule of the World Championship qualifiers. In the qualifying round of this World Championship, he fell in the third round of the match, and he unfortunately lost to Iranian player Wafi in this qualifying round. In third place is Liang Wenbo, who has been banned for life, and has previously qualified for the main event of the World Championships eight times. Liang Wenbo's third ranking is likely to be unbreakable for a long time. With Lu Haotian and Zhang Anda jointly advancing to the main event of this season's World Championships, the number of times the two of them participated in the main event of the World Championships reached four, and they equaled Yan Bingtao's four times in the list. It's a pity that Yan Bingtao was banned, and Zhang Anda and Lu Haotian are also expected to hit the fifth World Championships next year.
Xiao Guodong has had the experience of breaking into the main match three times before, and among the other players, the veteran Tian Pengfei. And there's in. Zhao Xintong, who was banned last year, has twice participated in the main event of the World Championships, and in terms of the promotion situation this season, Si Jiahui and Pang Junxu have also advanced to the main event of the World Championships twice. In addition, there have been players who have advanced to the main round of the World Championships once. There are Cao Yupeng and Luo Honghao. And Li Xing. In addition, there is also Fan Zhengyi, a post-zero teenager. Wu Yize broke into the main event of the World Championships last year.