On April 25, Beijing time, it was reported that the 2024 World Snooker Championship continued. In a key match in the first round, Ding Junhui, the No. 7 seed in the tournament, was upset, and he was beaten 9-10 by Jack Lisowski. Before that, three world champions, Mark Williams, Mark Selby and Luca Brecel, had already been eliminated.
After a season of competition, the 2023-24 Snooker Tour has entered the final stage, and the Snooker World Championship was grandly staged at the Crucible Theater. In this World Championships, the Chinese Snooker Army has a total of 5 players including Ding Junhui and Si Jiahui.
In terms of world celebrities, defending champion Luca Brecel played as the top seed of the tournament, and "Seven Five Three Heroes" and "80 Five Tigers" all played except for Neil Robertson, who fell out of the top 16.
There is no doubt that O'Sullivan, Higgins, and Williams of the "Seven Five Three Heroes", Trump and Selby of the "80 Five Tigers" are the favorites to win the championship, and Ding Junhui is also ranked seventh in the odds of winning the championship. However, after the start of the World Championships, defending champion Brecel was upset by Gilbert 9-10 in the opening game.
The defending champion caused the first big upset of this year's World Championships in the opening match, followed by the next two upsets by four-time world champion Mark "The Mill King" and three-time world champion Mark "Golden Left Hand" Williams.
Mark Selby "The King of the Mills" was eliminated 6-10 against qualifier Joe O'Connor. And the "golden left-handed" Williams lost three games in a row and was reversed 9-10 in the match with the teenager Si Jiahui when he got the match point 9-7.
The fourth big upset was created by Ding Junhui, the 2016 World Championship champion and in very good form this season. He started the game 2-0, 4-3 against "Little Driver" Lisowski, and chased it to 9-9 after being tied at 7-9, but unfortunately there was no miracle in the tiebreaker, and he was eliminated with an aggregate score of 9-10. So far, there have been 4 favorites to win the championship and have been upset.