The 2024 World Snooker Championship ended the fifth day of competition, the Chinese army did not play well, and Ding Junhui, who was ranked seventh in the world with high expectations, tried his best to lose 9-10 in the match with qualifier Lisowski, and was eliminated in the first round, causing a big upset. Also seeded for the day's upset was Mr. Hawkins, who lost 8-10 to the first round of the World Championships after a lack of stamina against Ryan Day. In the other two matches, favourites Kyren Wilson and Mark Allen were strong, with Kyren Wilson knocking out veteran Dale 10-1 and Mark Allen beating Robbie Williams 10-6 to secure two last-16 spots. In this way, 14 places have been selected in the round of 16 of this World Championships, and eight seeds have lost a round of 14 first-round matches: top seed Brecel, world champions Mark Williams and Selby, world runner-up Carter, Barry Hawkins, Gary Wilson and China's two seeds, Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda.
Mark Allen, ranked third in the world, faced Robbie Williams, Mark Allen was not in good shape in the first stage of the game, but the opponent was in worse condition, at the beginning of the game, Mark Allen played a 70 points and won three games in a row, and after the opponent recovered a game, Mark Allen won three games in a row, and the score was 6-1 far ahead, although then Robbie Williams blasted out a single shot over 100, but Mark Allen still took a 7-2 lead after the end of the first stage of the game. At the beginning of the second stage of the game, Robbie Williams scored 77 points in a single stroke and won two games in a row to close the score, Mark Allen then withstood the pressure and won two games in a row without playing a single high score to reopen the score and get the match point 9-4, although Robbie Williams scored two 50+ shots and narrowed the score again, but Mark Allen won after scoring 114 points in a single stroke in the 16th game, and the total score was 10-6 to defeat the opponent to advance to the second round. In the other game, Kyren Wilson, who led 8-1 in the first stage, won two consecutive games in the second stage, and the overall score was 10-1.
The biggest feature of this World Championships is that the seeded players have been upset, and the seeded players who unfortunately went out of the fifth game are Ding Junhui and Hawkins, Ding Junhui's performance in the game with Lisowski was up and down, although he saved two match points in a row when he was 7-9 behind and dragged the game into the tiebreaker, but in the end he fell short and lost to the opponent 9-10 and suffered a round of tours. World Championships Mr. Hawkins faced the veteran Ryan Day, the two of them were on a roller coaster ride in this game, the first stage of the game Hawkins lost five games in a row when he was leading 2-1, and the big score was 2-5 behind, and then Hawkins was full of firepower, and won six games in a row to take an 8-5 lead after a single shot of 93 points, 92 points, 50 points, and 59 points, just when everyone thought that Hawkins would win easily, the situation on the court took a sharp turn, Ryan Day scored 78 points, 62 points, 68 points, After 61 points, he won five games in a row, and the total score was 10-8, and he came back to eliminate Hawkins and advanced to the second round.
In this way, there are 14 places in the round of 16 of this World Championship, they are Gilbert, Milkins, Maguire, Shaun Murphy, O'Connor, Kyren Wilson, Mark Allen, Trump, Tom Ford, Jack Jones, Si Jiahui, Lisowski, Bingham and Ryan Day, two legendary stars O'Sullivan and Higgins are also in the lead in the first stage of the first round, and the two are very hopeful of securing the last two places in the round of 16. The Chinese Legion as a whole played poorly, this World Championships China has a total of five people into the main competition, they have all completed the first round of the game, only the teenager Si Jiahui alone through the first round, the last World Championships he also reached the semi-finals, creating a personal career best results, this World Championships Si Jiahui once again became the only Chinese player to reach the top 16. Among the other players, Ding Junhui and Pang Junxu both lost in the deciding game, which was very regrettable. Zhang Anda and Lu Haotian had no chance in the game and finally lost miserably.