10-5!10-6!The top 16 of the World Championships confirmed 8 people: the world champion is out, and Chinese snooker is good
Beijing time on April 23, the 2024 Snooker World Championship ended the third match day of competition, Murphy defeated Lu Haotian 10-5, O'Connor defeated Selby 10-6, Bingham eliminated Gary Wilson 10-5, and at the same time, in another first-stage competition, Chinese snooker finally came good news, Pang Junxu 5-4 ahead of the seeded star Milkins! Another Chinese teenager Si Jiahui is 4-5 behind Mark Williams. So far, the top 16 of this Snooker World Championship have been determined 8 people: Gilbert, Jack Jones, Trump, Maguire, Tom Ford, Murphy, O'Connor, Bingham.
World champion Selby is out, and the disheartened 4 World Championships champion may choose to retire? Before the start of this World Snooker Championship, Selby said that if he can't change his bad form in the next World Championships, he can't be 100% sure that he will continue his snooker career.
In the first round of the World Championships 32 into 16 games, in the face of O'Connor who broke through from the qualifying round, Selby still could not get rid of the sluggish state, in the first nine rounds of the first stage of the competition, Selby only played a shot of 50+, from the fifth game to the ninth game all the way to lose all the way, O'Connor hit a single shot 122 points, 67 points, 101 points, 74 points, 61 points in a row to win five consecutive games and played 5 consecutive whips, from the total score of 2-2 to 7-2 far ahead. After the start of the second stage, Selby, who was on the verge of being out, broke out once, and scored 112 points in a single stroke to chase a game first, chasing 3-7! But then, O'Connor immediately won the 11th game, 8-3 to continue to maintain a five-game lead. Selby scored 91 points in a single stroke and chased two more games, showing his tenacity. O'Connor scored 57 points in a single stroke to win the 14th game and get the match point with a total score of 9-5. Selby scored 67 points in a single stroke to save a match point. O'Connor won the winning 16th game 70-39 and eliminated world No. 5 Selby with a total score of 10-6 to advance to the round of 16.
The other two world champions, Murphy and Bingham, both made it past the first round. In the first stage, Murphy scored 111 points, 90 points, 71 points, and 53 points in a single stroke, and won three games in a row after scoring 3-3 in the total game, leading Chinese player Lu Haotian 6-3. In the second stage, Murphy continued to be strong, and completed a single-game reversal with 63-58 as soon as he came up, and then scored 60 points in a single stroke to win another game, extending the lead to 8-3! Lu Haotian won the 12th game 63-59 in a thrilling way, and Murphy won the 13th game with a total score of 9-4 with a single stroke of 50+. Lu Haotian finally scored 117 points in the 14th game, but Murphy then won with a single stroke of 81 points in the 15th game to cash in the match point 10-5.
Bingham and Gary Wilson completed the two stages of the game on the third match day, in the first nine rounds of the first stage, the world champion Bingham won four games in a row to take a 4-0 lead, and the world tenth Gary Wilson pulled one back in the fifth game, but Bingham maintained a hot hand and played a single stroke of 117 points, 76 points and still led Gary Wilson with a total score of 6-2 4 games, the dramatic ninth game, Bingham lost the last black ball, Gary Wilson smiled and accepted the black ball 67-63 limit reversal! In the first period, Bingham led 6-3. In the second stage of the game in the early hours of this morning, the seeded Gary Wilson scored 86 points and 57 points in a row to chase 5-6, and the suspense came back in an instant! However, Bingham quickly killed the suspense, scored 66 points and 55 points in a single stroke and won four games in a row, ending the game from 6-5 to 10-5 in a wave.
Two rising Chinese stars, Si Jiahui and Pang Junxu, both finished their first stage of competition. Facing the three-time World Championship champion Mark Williams, who had just won the world's top three championships in a row to win the Tour Championship, Si Jiahui felt the opponent's hot state as soon as he came up, and Mark Williams won the first game with a single stroke of 142 points! Subsequently, Mark Williams won the second game 77-30, and quickly established a 2-0 lead in the total game after the opening. Si Jiahui stabilized his mentality, scored 52 points in a single stroke, and won two games in a row to chase a 2-2 draw. Mark Williams won the 5th game, Si Jiahui won the 6th and 7th games in a row to overtake with a total score of 4-3, Mark Williams found his touch and hit two consecutive shots of 50+ to win the last two games of the first stage and lead 5-4 again. The second stage of the match between the two sides will be played on the next match day, and Si Jiahui still has a chance, and last season's Si Jiahui broke into the top 4 of the World Championships and became the biggest dark horse.
Pang Junxu met world No. 16 seeded Milkins in the first round. In the first stage, Pang Junxu took the lead in entering the state, scoring 57 points with a single stroke and winning three games in a row to establish an advantage of 3-0, Milkins played a single stroke of 83 points and chased two games in a row to chase 2-3, Pang Junxu maintained a 4-2 lead with a single stroke of 84 points, Milkins returned a shot of 91 points to chase the score again, Pang Junxu withstood the pressure 66-49 reversal to win the 8th game, Milkins won the ninth game, the first stage of the battle, Pang Junxu led Milkins 5-4, this is the first time that Chinese players in this Snooker World Championship ended the first stage of the game with a lead。