On April 23, Beijing time, the first round of the 2024 Snooker World Championship ended with a focus battle, Selby lost to Joe O'Connor 6-10, causing a big upset, and before that, Luca Brecel also suffered a round of tours, that is to say: the last champion and runner-up all rounds, can you believe that the World Championships is really messy.
Selby has won 22 ranking tournament titles, including 4 World Championship titles, judging from the number of championships in the three major competitions, especially the World Championships, Selby is definitely the first person born in the 80s, even higher than Mark Williams of the 75 Three Masters. He is currently ranked No. 5 in the world and is the No. 5 seed at this year's World Championships, and although his overall form this season has not been good until then, he is still quite exciting when he comes to the World Championships.
You must know that in the last World Championships, Selby broke into the final, losing to Luca Brecel 15-18 and missing the fifth crown. O'Connor, on the other hand, is a qualifier who has not had particularly good results this season, and there is still a lot of hope for Selby to qualify.
However, in the first stage, Selby fell behind 2-7 and was extremely passive, and in the second stage, Selby's state once recovered, but because the previous pit was too big, O'Connor still eliminated Selby 10-6.
So far, 7 people, including Trump, have locked their seats in the round of 16. And such as Selby and others are out of the game, especially the defending champion and the defending runner-up all suffered a round of tours, this result is really unexpected, I don't know, after such a loss, Selby will have the idea of retiring?