The first round of the 2024 Snooker World Championship is coming to an end, and the 5 Chinese players who broke into the main tournament have all appeared and completed the game, but unfortunately only Si Jiahui advanced to the top 16, and the remaining 4 including Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda were eliminated. In addition, seven seeded players have been eliminated in the first round so far.
Ding's first-round opponent was the top qualifying seed and world No. 18 Lisowski. Although Ding Junhui fell behind twice to chase 9-9, in the deciding game, Lisowski twice completed the overscore through the long platform and won 10-9. In the 19 rounds of the game, Ding Junhui scored more than 50 points in a single stroke 9 times, and scored more than 100 points in a single stroke in the first and 18th games, while the opponent scored more than 50 points in a single stroke 7 times and 100 points in a single stroke 0 times.
It can only be said that Ding Junhui's luck is slightly worse, whether it is signing or competition. This is also the fourth consecutive year that Ding Junhui has stopped in the first round of the World Championships. Looking back at Ding Junhui's journey to the World Championships, he lost to Selby in the finals in 16, still lost to Selby in the semifinals in 17, and lost to Hawkins in the quarterfinals of the World Championships in 18. There were two second rounds in '19 and '20, and four first-round tours from '21 to '24.
In the first round of 21, Ding Junhui also played 19 rounds and lost to Bingham 9-10, in the first round of 22, Ding Junhui lost to Wilson 9-10 in 18 rounds, and lost to Wafei 6-10 in the first round of 23. Losing to Lisowski in this battle, Ding Junhui made many mistakes, the success rate of the long platform was low, only 1 of the 9 long platforms was scored, and the opponent scored 2 in the last game, and the mentality was obviously not stable, it can only be said that Ding Junhui is really honest and old, looking forward to fighting again next year.
Like Ding Junhui, 11th seed Zhang Anda lost 4-10 to Jack Jones in the first round, Lu Haotian lost 5-10 to Murphy, and Pang Junxu lost two games in a row after winning match point 9-8 to lose to Milkin 9-10. The only one who won was Si Jiahui. Facing Williams' comeback when he was down 5-8, Si Jiahui withstood the pressure and defeated the seeded Williams 10-9.
So far, there have been 7 seeded players out of the first round, namely No. 1 seed Brechelb was reversed by Gilbert 9-10, No. 5 seed Selby lost to rookie O'Connor 6-10, No. 6 seed Williams was "killed" by Si Jiahui, No. 7 seed Ding Junhui lost to Lisowski 9-10, No. 9 seed Carter was overturned by Maguire 7-10, No. 10 seed Gary Wilson lost to Bingham 5-10, and No. 11 seed Zhang Anda 4-10 in the first round. It is worth mentioning that the number of seeds eliminated in the first round of this World Championship is still one short of the 12-year record.