In the first round of the 2024 World Snooker Championships, Ding Junhui played against Jack Lisowski, and in the end, Ding Junhui was upset 9-10, and he was in the first round of the World Championships for 4 consecutive years.
Ding Junhui is the "No. 1 brother of China" and the No. 7 seed in the tournament, but the last time he won a ranking tournament was the 2019 British Championships. "Little Driver" Lisowski, ranked 17th in the world and the top seed in qualifying, advanced to the main draw after beating Liu Hongyu and Matthew Stevens in quick succession. According to statistics, the two have played each other a total of 3 times before, Ding Junhui has won all of them, occupying a certain psychological advantage, and his comprehensive strength is still above Lisowski, who is inferior to Ding Junhui in terms of positioning.
In the first and second games, Ding Junhui took the lead in entering the state, scoring 127 points and 60 points in a single stroke in a row, and easily won two games in a row 134-0 and 83-1, with a big score of 2-0. In the 3rd and 4th games, Lisowski scored 71 points and 91 points in a single stroke in a row, and the score was 2-2.
In the 5th game, Ding Junhui scored 98 points in a single stroke and won 102-2, 3-2. In the 6th game, Lisowski won 66-39 and won 3-3 on several occasions. In the 7th game, Ding Junhui won with a single stroke of 90 points, 4-3. In the 8th and 9th games, Lisowski won two games in a row with 69 points and 67 points in a single stroke, and after the first stage, Ding Junhui fell behind 4-5.
In the second stage, Ding Junhui scored 74 points in a single stroke and won 5-5. In the 11th and 12th games, Lisowski won two games in a row with 52 points and 63 points in a single stroke, 7-5. In the 13th game, Ding Junhui won with a single stroke of 84 points and chased 6-7. After the break, in the 14th game, Ding Junhui lost the key ball yellow ball, and although he also did snooker, he still lost the game, 6-8. In the 15th game, Ding Junhui won smoothly, 7-8, and then Lisowski got the match point 9-7. In the 17th game, Ding Junhui saved the match point 8-9. In the 18th game, Ding Junhui scored 131 points in a single stroke to chase 9-9. In the deciding game, Lisowski still won strongly, 10-9 to advance.