On April 24, Beijing time, the first round of the 2024 World Snooker Championship continued.
"Chinese Dragon" made a grand debut in "A Laugh in the Sea", ushering in his 18th consecutive season of Crucible's journey, during which there were some twists and turns from the qualifying round several times but never missed, and even once advanced to the finals! If you see Grand Slam winner Neil Robertson participating in the qualifying round for the first time in 17 years of his career but stopping in the trial round, you know how difficult it is, which is why Ding Junhui has become the "hope of the whole village" at the World Championships for so many years, the most noteworthy player!
When it comes to Ding Junhui, I have to mention the "80 Five Tigers", Selby has the best results, a four-time World Championship champion, the only player who scored a single stroke of 147 in the World Championships finals, the longest time in the world, and the fifth in history! However, he has been troubled by his poor performance more than once and wants to close the pole and retire more than once! At present, there are still considerations! Realistically speaking, his season performance is second only to Trump and Ding Junhui in the "80 Five Tigers", Trump won five championships in the ranking tournament in the season, and Ding Junhui reached the final of the ranking tournament twice in the season. Ding Junhui is the only non-World Championship champion among the Five Tigers, a non-Grand Slam winner, and the other three have only one World Championship championship, Murphy as the fewest ranking champions among the Five Tigers, the only player who has not reached the top of the world, just "three major competitions" each have a crown, although Ding Junhui has 4 crowns, but lacks this important puzzle piece.
No. 7 seed Ding Junhui is chasing his dream again, facing the top seed Lisowski in the first round, the two sides have only met three times in the tour before, and the "Chinese Dragon" won all of them, and the last time they met was at the 2019 Snooker World Grand Prix, Ding Junhui won 4-1. Coincidentally, all of their matches were in the first round of the main draw, and this was the first time they had met in a two-stage long game.
In terms of season performance, Ding Junhui has stood out too much, in addition to the runner-up in two ranking tournaments, he has reached the semi-finals once and the quarterfinals four times (including the champion of champions and tour championships); "Little Driver" has only 1 semi-final, 2 quarter-finals, and even 2 months after the second round of the Welsh Open. "White Whirlwind" is the uncrowned king of the World Championships, and Lisowski is the uncrowned king of the ranking tournament, because the opponents in the six ranking finals of his career are all "80 Five Tigers", including two losses to Robertson, one Selby, and three times "good friend" Trump. At the 2018 Riga Masters in Latvia, Lisowski made his ranking final debut, but lost to Neil Robertson, who finished in the top 16 for the first time that year. The most recent was 0-4 Trump at the 2021 Gibraltar Open.
In this duel, in the first game, Ding Junhui fainted at the beginning and turned to snooker, Lisowski fouled the ball, the sticker pile touched the pink ball, and Ding Junhui hit a single shot with a red ball in the pocket to break 127 points. In the second game, Lisowski made a mistake on the long platform of the bag ball, Ding Junhui stopped 23 points with a single stroke, and there was an amazing scene in the black K ball pile, all the black balls entered the bag mouth but jumped out in the back and forth collision, however, Lisowski refused to accept the big gift and brushed 1 point angrily, and the color ball made a simple mistake, Ding Junhui started to play a single stroke 60 points again to win, 2-0! In the sixth game, Lisowski equalized again 66-39, and in the seventh game, Ding Junhui scored 90 points in a single stroke to win with a clean sheet, 4-3, and in the eighth game, Lisowski scored 69 points in a single stroke to achieve a single-game reversal and equalized 4-4 again. In the 9th game, Lisowski scored 67 points in a single stroke to win, leading 5-4 for the first time.
In the second stage, in the 10th game, the long platform of the two sides continued not to advance, and after three rounds, Ding Junhui scored 74 points in a single stroke, and Lisowski gave up after a slight struggle. In the next two games, Ding Junhui repeatedly failed to enter the long platform, and Lisowski hit a single stroke of 50+ in two consecutive games, leading 7-5. In the 13th game, Lisowski took the lead but made a mistake in judging the red ball line near the black ball at the "mystery operation" point, thinking that the black ball did not jam the next ball route, and the result was a direct mistake to give a big gift, Ding Junhui scored a single stroke of 84 points to win with one shot, and the score was close to 6-7!
Kyren Wilson vs. "Astros" Dominic Dyer, post-90s vs. post-70s, the latter is the oldest player in the main tournament and a two-time winner of the ranking tournament. In this showdown, the former "strongest post-90s" completely suppressed the old-timers, and played 9 single-stroke 50+ in the whole game, of which one or five games were won by one shot, including a single-stroke to break 100. Dale scored 120 points in the fourth game for the only time he broke 100 in a single stroke, losing 1-10.
Kyren Wilson became the 11th player to advance to the round of 16 after David Gilbert, Judd Trump, O'Connor, Murphy, Si Jiahui, Harry Maguire, Bingham, Jack Jones, Forde and Milkins.
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