In the 2024 Snooker World Championships, last season's top 4 dark horse Si Jiahui and world champion Mark Williams faced each other in the first round, with a score of 4-5 in the first stage, Si Jiahui won four games in a row in the second stage 8-5 overtake, Mark Williams chased 7-8, Si Jiahui 9-7 first to the match point, Uncle Ma saved 2 match points in a row to chase 9-9, Si Jiahui won the tiebreaker and eliminated Uncle Ma with a total score of 10-9 and broke out a big upset! The first Chinese player to advance to the top 16 of this World Championship was produced: Si Jiahui! Lu Haotian and the two Chinese players stopped in the first round.
Si Jiahui broke through from the qualifying round and entered the main round of the World Championships for the second consecutive year. Last season, Si Jiahui became a super dark horse, defeating strong opponents in a row as a qualifying player to reach the top 4, and even infinitely close to the final, creating a huge surprise. This season, Si Jiahui still broke through from the qualifying round, and after the draw, Mark Williams, who had just won the world's top three in a row to win the Tour Championship, became Si Jiahui's opponent in the first round of 32 into 16, which was a bit of bad luck for Si Jiahui. Mark Williams has won the World Championships 3 times, won 26 ranking tournament titles, is a snooker Grand Slam winner who has won the World Championships, the British Championship, and the Masters.
In the first stage, Mark Williams showed a hot hand, and he came up to win with 142 points in one shot! Immediately after, Mark Williams won the second game 77-30, and took a 2-0 lead in the first two games. Si Jiahui won the third game 75-24 with 52 points in a single stroke, and then won the fourth game 128-30, winning two games in a row to chase the total game score to a 2-2 draw. In the fifth game, Mark Williams won 55-44 and led again with a total score of 3-2. In the sixth game, Si Jiahui won 79-23. In the seventh game, Si Jiahui won 58-21 again, and the total score was 4-3 for the first time. However, Mark Williams quickly regained his touch on the offensive end, scoring 57 points and 63 points in a row, winning the eighth and ninth games 93-1 and 81-0, and ending the first stage of the competition with a 5-4 lead in the total game.
In the second stage, Si Jiahui had a strong momentum, winning the tenth game 77-34, and then scored 63 points, 61 points, and 67 points in a single stroke, winning three games in a row with 77-35, 89-0, and 88-25, and playing a wave of small climaxes of winning four games in a row, from a total score of 4-5 to 8-5. After a short break, Mark Williams chased two games in a row 69-0 and 73-28, during which Mark Williams continued to work hard when solving the ball, and staged a one-handed snooker trick many times, chasing the total score to 7-8. Si Jiahui withstood the pressure and won the sixteenth game 81-4, taking the lead in getting the match point with a total score of 9-7. In the seventeenth game, Si Jiahui started from afar, but there was a key mistake, and Uncle Ma reversed to save the match point. In the eighteenth game, Uncle Ma saved the match point again! In the decisive game, Si Jiahui won with a single stroke, and defeated the world champion Mark Williams 10-9 to advance to the round of 16, creating a super cold!