Si Jiahui Williams is evenly divided! The four-time champion lost to the little fan brother in the first round, and Lu Haotian was defeated
Two Chinese players have been eliminated in the 2024 World Snooker Championships, namely Zhang Anda and Lu Haotian. The third Chinese player, Si Jiahui, surprised us by not being at all at a loss in the battle against No. 6 seed Mark Williams, who was temporarily behind 4-5 at the end of the first period.
Williams, known as the "Golden Left Hand", has had his ups and downs this season, winning one championship and one runner-up at the beginning of the season, winning the British Open after more than a month of silence, and only reaching the top eight of two tournaments for most of the following season, and almost all other tournaments stopped in the first two rounds until the Tour Championship won again.
Si Jiahui has been underwhelmed since reaching the semi-finals of last season's World Championships, only reaching the final and finishing runner-up at the German Masters this season, reaching the quarterfinals in a single game of reality, and the rest of the tournaments have also stopped in the first two rounds. So in this game, the two have to fight. The trend of the game is also the same as the analysis of the two before the game, Williams won two games at the beginning, then Si Jiahui pulled back two games, Williams won the fifth game, and then Si Jiahui won two games in a row to overtake, and then Williams won two more games to overtake again.
Judging from the first nine games of the two sides, Williams had three single-stroke over 50 points, the first game was a high score of 142 points in a single stroke, and the eighth and ninth games scored 57 and 63 points in a single stroke; Si Jiahui only had one single-stroke over 50 points, that is, 52 points in the third game. Williams felt cold after the failure to solve the ball, and Si Jiahui took the opportunity to score points, hoping that Si Jiahui could also maintain such a competitive state and bite the opponent in the second stage.
Four-time world champion Mark Selby failed to make a comeback in the second stage of the match, and was blocked by "Little Fans" O'Connor and suffered a round. In the first stage, Selby fell behind 2-7, and after the start of the second period, both sides won one game each, and then Selby won two games in a row to make people see the hope of a comeback. It's a pity that O'Connor scored 57 points in a single stroke in the 14th game to get the match point, although Selby saved a game with 67 points in a single stroke in the 15th game, but O'Connor seized the opportunity to seal the game in the 16th game.
In this game, Selby only scored 1 shot to break 100 and 3 strokes of 50+, which were 112 points in the tenth game, 91 points in the 13th game, 67 points in the 15th game and 60 points in the second game, respectively, and O'Connor scored 2 shots to break 100 and 4 strokes of 50+, which were 122 points in the fifth game, 101 points in the seventh game, 74 points in the eighth game, 67 points in the sixth game, 61 points in the ninth game and 57 points in the 14th game.
Selby and O'Connor are fellow villagers and practice buddies, and according to Selby, they have known O'Connor since he was 8 or 9 years old. O'Connor said that Selby is the person he respects the most, saying: "He has been the person I respect the most since I played snooker, and I may subconsciously imitate him." Of course I dream of playing him in the final of the World Championships, but the first round is not bad!"
Lu Haotian and Shaun Murphy In the match, Lu Haotian lost 5-10 and became the second Chinese player to be eliminated in the main match. In the first stage, Lu Haotian fell behind 3-6. At the beginning of the second stage, Murphy gave Lu Hao the best of the world and won the match point 9-4. Although in the 14th game, Lu Haotian scored 117 points on a single stroke on the long platform to save a match point, but Murphy scored 81 points on a single stroke to end the game.