On the evening of April 24, 2024, Beijing time, a key battle in the first round of the World Snooker Championship ended, and world No. 17 Jack Lisowski defeated No. 7 Ding Junhui 10-9 to advance to the round of 16.
Jack Lisowski
Yesterday afternoon, the two players played the first stage of the competition. Ding Junhui scored 127 points, 60 points, 98 points, and 90 points in a single stroke, 4-5 behind Lisowski, who scored 4 strokes of 50+.
Ding Junhui and Lisowski
Today's game:
In the tenth game, Ding Junhui scored 74 points, and the score came to a 5-5 draw. Next, Lisowski scored 52 points and 63 points in a single stroke, won two games in a row, and took a 7-5 lead. In the thirteenth game, Ding Junhui added another shot of 84 points, and the score difference remained in one game.
Ding
After the intermission, in the fourteenth game, Ding Junhui made enough points on the table by doing snooker when he was overscored, but unfortunately because the accuracy of the long platform was too poor, he missed the opportunity to reverse, and Lisowski won the game 73-35. In the fifteenth game, Ding Junhui scored 59 points in a single stroke and recovered one game. In the sixteenth game, Ding Junhui made a mistake in defending after scoring 19 points, and Lisowski scored 72 points in a single stroke and got the match point 9-7.
In the seventeenth game, Ding Junhui got started three times and scored 56 points with one shot, winning the game 70–29. In the eighteenth game, Ding Junhui scored 100 points with a single stroke and 131 points, dragging the game into a tiebreaker. In the nineteenth game, Lisowski scored 38 points and 46 points respectively through the long table red ball to end the game.
Jack Lisowski
Congratulations to Jack Lisowski for reaching the round of 16 of the World Championships, where he will face Stuart Bingham for a place in the last eight.