At 21:30 on April 23, Beijing time, in the second period, the 23/24 World Snooker Championship continued to compete in the first round of the main competition. In a game that Chinese fans are paying close attention to, teenager Si Jiahui played well, after falling behind 4-5 in the first stage yesterday, he seized the opportunity of Mark Williams' sluggish form in the second stage tonight, and completed the reversal 10-9 to narrow the opponent and advance to the round of 16. Si Jiahui also became the first Chinese player to advance to the second round since the start of the main event.
With a world ranking of 80 at last year's World Championships, the 20-year-old became the youngest World Championship semi-finalist since O'Sullivan in 1996, and he is also the first athlete since Andy Hicks in 1995 to reach the semi-finals on his first trip to Crucible. Si Jiahui is a typical offensive player, a bit like Trump when he first debuted. This season, Si Jiahui's defensive and ball-covering skills have improved to a certain extent, reaching the final of the ranking tournament for the first time in his career, winning the runner-up of the German Masters, and is now ranked 23rd in the world.
Three-time world champion Mark Williams "Golden Left Hand" has won the British Open and Tour Championships this season, ranking sixth in the world. In particular, the Tour Championship defeated Trump, Mark Allen, and O'Sullivan in a row to win the top three in the world, and won the championship at the age of 49. But to Mark Williams' downside, none of the players who won the Tour Championship won the World Championship that year was a curse.
In the first stage last night, Mark Williams won two games after the opening and scored 142 points in a single stroke in the first set, and then Si Jiahui pulled back two sets and scored 52 points in a single stroke in the third game, and Williams won the fifth game after the break, and then Si Jiahui won two more games to overtake the score, and then Williams scored 57 points and 63 points in a single stroke to win two games in a row, and at the end of the first stage, Mark Williams led Si Jiahui with a score of 5-4.
Tonight's game entered the second stage, and in the first half of the second stage, Si Jiahui scored 67, 63, and 61 points in a single stroke to win four consecutive games, leading Williams 8-5 into the break. In the first half of the game, the accuracy of the "golden left hand" was no longer good, and he made repeated mistakes to give big gifts, and Mark Williams was also angry at his performance, smashing the club with his fists, sitting in the player's tunnel, etc., which was also full of ugliness, and his psychology was unbalanced and collapsed.
After returning from the break, Mark Williams' offensive form picked up, scoring several difficult goals in a row, and relying on multiple shots to pull back a game. In the fifteenth game, the "Golden Left Hand" won another game. In the sixteenth game, Si Jiahui stopped the decline, won another game, and took the lead in getting the match point 9-7. Mark Williams won two games in a row to save match point. 9-9 entered the tiebreaker, and in the tiebreaker, Si Jiahui withstood the pressure and won the game with a single stroke of 77 and 10-9.
Congratulations, Si Jiahui advanced to the round of 16. Although the veteran Mark Williams smashed the club with his fists, sat in the players' tunnel and led the rhythm of the crowd when he was in a slump, he was able to save match points and play the tiebreaker.
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