The 2023-2024 season of the snooker professional league continues, Beijing time on April 23, 2024, the Snooker World Championship competition has started in an all-round way, and the main match of the World Championship is already eight people locked in the top 16! In addition, in the first round of the World Championships, there have been two 8 seeded players falling in the first round, and this time it is likely to break the new high of the number of seeded players in the first round!
Selby was in a slump in this World Championships, 2-7 behind his Leicester fellow Joe O'Connor, O'Connor came to the World Championships for the first time in his career, and he was also the only new face in the World Championships, but the first World Championships was the first time to give his big brother Selby a head-on blow, and it was also to complete the revenge battle, the two met in the Champions League final before, and Selby defeated O'Connor, and now set off again, O'Connor held the victory in the second half, although Selby was in better shape in the second half, playing a 4-3, the total score, Selby was still 6-10 defeated, due to the whole season, Selby is concerned about his wife Vicky, his wife has cancer, so Selby is always running around the rehabilitation center and the arena, Selby's days are a few years older than himself, but Selby, who likes sister and brother love, loves his wife very much, and family factors make Selby also have little time to train!
Selby only won an invited version of the Champions League this season, the number of ranking tournament titles has stagnated, and there were two ranking tournament championships last season, Selby is still full of desire for the number of ranking tournament championships, looking forward to playing better next season, Selby missed the fifth World Championship championship in his career, and he still needs to wait to tie O'Sullivan's World Championship championships, O'Connor also won the first victory in the World Championships, and it is also a new record for World Championships! In the other competition, the seeded player, Gary Wilson also encountered a round of travel against Bingham, and the game was a mess!
Gary Wilson, who has always been sharp in attack, felt cold, 3-6 behind at halftime, in the second half, Gary Wilson's full firepower was just a flash in the pan, 5-10, and finally Gary Wilson said goodbye to this season with defeat in advance, as a World Championship seeded player, failed to break through the first round, so that it was already in the case of eight people advancing to the top 16 of the World Championships, five seeded players were out, they were Selby, Gary Wilson. Ali Carter, Zhang Anda and Brechel, the three seeded players who advanced are Trump, Murphy and Tom Ford, and if the seeded players continue to pull their hips, they may break the record of the first round of seeded players!