10-9! 10 seats were born in the top 16 of the World Championships: China was killed after the snooker kill, and Ding Junhui fell behind
On April 24, Beijing time, on the fourth match day of the 2024 Snooker World Championships, three Chinese players appeared one after another, Ding Junhui fell behind Lisowski 4-5 in the first stage, Si Jiahui beat Mark Williams 10-9, and Pang Junxu was killed by Milkins 9-10. With Milkins advancing to the second round 10-9, 10 seats have been born in the top 16 of this World Championship: 6 games are qualifiers who eliminated the seeded star Xia Keshang, and China was killed after the snooker kill, and Ding Junhui was temporarily behind.
In the first three match days, Zhang Anda and Lv Haotian were out of the game one after another, and Chinese snooker suffered 2 consecutive defeats. On the fourth match day, it is still a three-period game, China's first brother Ding Junhui appeared in the first period, facing Lisowski in his debut, in the first nine rounds of the first stage, Ding Junhui took the lead in entering the state, and broke 127 points and 60 points in a single stroke, establishing a 2-0 lead in the total score, Lisowski then launched a counterattack and scored 71 points in a single stroke. 91 points and two games in a row, Ding Junhui won the fifth game with a single stroke of 98 points, Lisowski won the sixth game with difficulty, Ding Junhui continued to play a single stroke of 90 points to win, Lisowski scored 69 points and 67 points in a single stroke to win the eighth and ninth games in a row and surpassed Ding Junhui with a total score of 5-4. In another battle at the same time, Kyren Wilson finished the first stage with an 8-1 lead over Dominic Dell, Kyren Wilson scored 123 points and 6 strokes of 50+, and Dominic Dale scored 120 points in a single stroke in the fourth game.
In the second period of the game, the second stage of the decisive battle between the world championship triple crown champion Mark Williams and the Chinese rising star Si Jiahui started, and Si Jiahui, who was 4-5 behind in the total game, set off a climax as soon as he came up, hitting three consecutive shots of 50+ and winning 4 games in a row, and the total score was 8-5. Mark Williams stopped the bleeding in time and chased back two games in a row to chase down 7-8 and only one game behind. Si Jiahui won the crucial 16th game and took the lead to get the match point with a total score of 9-7. Mark Williams broke out in a desperate situation, scored all kinds of accurate long platforms, played very aggressively, and saved 2 match points in a row to chase a 9-9 draw. In the last game, Mark Williams did not score in the middle bag, Si Jiahui seized this opportunity to win with a single stroke of 77 points, won the tiebreaker and beat the world champion Mark Williams with a total score of 10-9 to advance to the round of 16. In the other game played at the same time, in the first stage of the match between Mark Allen and Robbie Williams, Mark Allen was 7-2 ahead.
In the third period, the second stage of the game between Pang Junxu and Milkins started, and the other was the first stage of the battle between Barry Hawkins and Ryan Day. Although Pang Junxu is not in good shape, but Milkins's state is even worse, in a not wonderful duel, it is rare to see a single stroke 50+, Pang Junxu 9-8 took the lead in getting the match point and was reversed, Milkins saved the match point and won the last two games with a total score of 10-9 thrilling kill, after Si Jiahui killed Mark Williams, Pang Junxu was killed by Milkins, and after the Chinese snooker was killed, ushered in a night of joy and sorrow! In the match between Barry Hawkins and Ryan Day at the same time, the two each shot 1 shot to break 100 and 2 strokes to 50+, and Ryan Day led Barry Hawkins 5-4 to end the first stage of the competition.
After the end of the fourth matchday, this Snooker World Championship has ended 10 first-round battles, and the 6 qualifiers eliminated the seeded players in the next matches are: Gilbert 10-9 Brechel, Jack Jones 10-4 Zhang Anda, Maguire 10-7 Ali Carter, O'Connor 10-6 Selby, Bingham 10-5 Gary Wilson, Si Jiahui 10-9 Mark Williams. The other four seeded players in the round of 16 are Trump, Tomford, Murphy and Milkins.