On the evening of April 24, Beijing time, Chinese player Ding Junhui was defeated by England player Lisowski 9-10 in the first round of the 2024 Snooker World Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, and failed to break into the round of 16. This is also the fourth consecutive year that he has suffered a round of the World Championships, and the dream of a world championship is getting farther and farther away from him. So far, all 5 Chinese players who broke into the main tournament of the World Championships appeared and ended the first round of the game, except for Si Jiahui, who reached the semifinals last year, defeated Williams 10-9 to enter the second round, and the rest of the players were all eliminated.
In the first round of the World Championships, 19 rounds and 10 wins were adopted, and in the first stage of the game between the two a day ago, Ding Junhui fell behind 4-5, with little difference in scores, but most of the time was suppressed by the opponent. The same is true for the second stage of the game, it seems that Ding Junhui has the trend and possibility of tying the big score, but he is always breathing a sigh of relief. After Ding Junhui tied the score 5-5 in the 10th game, Lisowski won two games in a row and opened up the lead gap. After that, the two sides won two games each, and the game had reached the match point of the English. At this time, Ding Junhui suddenly exerted his strength, saved two match points in a row, and pulled the score to 9-9, making the 19th game a double match point game for the two, and Ding Junhui also saw the hope of reversing and advancing. Unfortunately, in the deciding game, Lisowski seized the opportunity to get started twice, 84-0 clean sheet Ding Junhui, and successfully reached the top 16, and Ding Junhui was eliminated.
Ding Junhui's draw for the World Championships this time was not good, as the world's TOP16 seeded player, he drew the highest ranked Lisowski in the qualifying round, and he did not have an advantage in technical strength, nor did he get the light of being a seeded player. Of course, this is not an excuse for him to miss the round of 16 of the World Championships for four consecutive times, or there is a problem with his mentality. In fact, at the British Championships at the end of last year and the Shangrao World Open in China last month, Ding Junhui reached the final, which is the main reason why he can still be in the top 16 this season, and these two runners-up have won him a lot of points. It's just that Ding Junhui, who turned 37 this month, seems to be getting farther and farther away from the goal and dream of becoming a world champion.
Ding Junhui is the fourth Chinese player to be eliminated from the main draw, and the seventh seeded player to leave Crucible in the first round. Zhang Anda, Lv Haotian, and Pang Junxu have all been out of the first round before, and only the young Si Jiahui defeated the veteran "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams 10-9 and became the only Chinese seed who advanced to the round of 16.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin