On April 24, Beijing time, in the first round of the 23/24 Snooker World Championships, the Chinese star Ding Junhui was not strong and unlucky, and lost to Lisowski with a total score of 9-10, stopping in the first round of the World Championships for four consecutive years.
In the first stage of the event yesterday, Ding Junhui hit one shot to break 100 (127) and three shots of 50+ (60, 98, 90), and Lisowski hit four shots of 50+ (71, 91, 69, 67). After the opening, Ding Junhui won two games first, and then Lisowski won two games in a row to tie the score, and the scores of the two sides rose alternately after resting, and Lisowski seized the opportunity to play a single stroke of 67 points to win in the ninth game. At the end of the first stage, Ding Junhui temporarily trailed Lisowski with a score of 4-5.
The second phase of the game between the two sides started at 17 o'clock today, and at the beginning of the second stage, Ding Junhui tied the score with a single stroke of 74 points, and then Lisowski scored 63 and 52 points in a single stroke and led again in two consecutive games 7-5, Ding Junhui scored 84 points in a single stroke in the 13th game and was still colored, and Lisowski was currently 7-6 temporarily ahead of Ding Junhui into the break.
After the break, Lisowski was overscored, Ding Junhui recovered the score by doing snooker, but failed to score the red ball, Lisowski scored the long red ball and scored the pink ball, 8-6 to open the gap again. Ding Junhui scored 59 points in a single stroke, and then the two contributed a wonderful snooker battle, and Ding Junhui recovered a game 7-8. Lisowski flipped into the key red ball and scored 72 points 9-7 in a single stroke to take the lead in getting the match point. Ding Junhui scored 56 points in a single stroke to save a match point. Ding Junhui scored 131 points to break 100 points and 9-9 double match points. Double match point, luck and strength in Lisowski, scored on the long platform, scored in a single stroke, and won the game.
Throughout the game, Ding Junhui also played his level more realistically, the accuracy of the long platform did drop too much, far from the peak, and there was no God's favor in luck, and it was inevitable to swallow defeat. With Ding Junhui's exit, only the young player Si Jiahui is left to advance to the top 16, and the era of the replacement of Chinese snooker kings has arrived.
So far, 12 of the top 16 of this World Championships have been produced, namely David Gilbert, Jack Jones, Judd Trump, Stephen Maguire, Tom Forde, Shaun Murphy, Joe O'Connor, Stuart Bingham, Si Jiahui, Robert Milkins, Jack Lisowski, and Kyren Wilson.
Among the 12 players who advanced, Luca Brecel, Zhang Anda, Ali Carter, Mark Selby, Mark Williams, Gary Wilson, Ding Junhui 7 seeded players were eliminated, and Crucible once again became the grave of the seeded players.
Attached is Ding Junhui's 2007-2024 results of 18 consecutive competitions
2007 First round 2-10 O'Sullivan
2008 Second round 07-13 Hendry
2009 Second round 10-13 Hendry
2010 Round 2 10-13 Murphy
2011 Semifinals 15-17 Trump
2012 Round 1 09-10 Ryan Day
2013 quarterfinals 7-13 Hawkins
2014 First Round 9-10 Wesley
2015 quarterfinals 4-13 Trump
2016 Final 14-18 Selby
2017 Semifinals 15-17 Selby
2018 quarterfinals 5-13 Hawkins
2019 Second round 9-13 Trump
2020 Second Round 10-13 O'Sullivan
2021 First Round 9-10 Bingham
2022 First Round 8-10 Kyren Wilson
2023 First Round 6-10 Hussein Vafi