The 2024 World Snooker Championship has entered its fourth matchday, and eight players have advanced to the round of 16, including world champions Trump, Shaun Murphy, Tom Ford, unseeded Jack Jones, O'Connor, Bingham, Gilbert and Maguire. Chinese players Zhang Anda and Lu Haotian, who have ended, both suffered heavy defeats and missed the round of 16. In the first round of the game, Ding Junhui played against the uncrowned king Lisowski, Ding Junhui was in a state of ups and downs in the first stage of the game between the two sides, and he squandered a lot of opportunities and then temporarily fell behind the opponent 4-5, and the promotion situation was not optimistic. In another game played in the same time period, Kyren Wilson, known as an embarrassed brother, was in great form in the match against the oldest player in this World Championship, Dale, and after nine games, Kyren Wilson led Dale, who is already over half a hundred years old, 8-1, and there was almost no suspense in advancing to the round of 16.
In this World Championships, five Chinese players advanced to the main event, but the two famous players who have already played Zhang Anda and Lv Haotian have been defeated one after another, and everyone has high hopes for China's snooker brother Ding Junhui, Ding Junhui's opponent in the first round is the world's No. 17 Lisowski, who is known as the uncrowned king because he has not won the ranking championship for a long time. As can be seen from the world rankings, Lisowski is the strongest unseeded player, and Ding Junhui was not completely sure of winning the first round. In the past four World Championships, Ding Junhui was eliminated in the first round, and although Ding Junhui's form has rebounded this season, his World Championships prospects are still not optimistic about foreign media. Ding Junhui's best result in the World Championships is to win the runner-up, whether he can win the World Championships before retiring has always been a hot topic of discussion in the outside world, from the World Championships system and Ding Junhui's own personality characteristics, Ding Junhui wants to win the World Championships is indeed very difficult. But even so, as the most successful player in Chinese snooker, everyone still has high expectations for Ding Junhui.
Ding Junhui and Lisowski's game to be played in two match days, the first stage of the game two started a fierce battle, the beginning of the game Ding Junhui into the state quickly, the first game Ding Junhui came up with a single stroke of 127 points to take the lead, the second game Ding Junhui played a single stroke of 60 points and then 83 to 1 and then the next city, the big score 2-0 lead. After the score lead, Ding Junhui played a little aggressively in the third game, and the opponent seized the opportunity to pull back a game by making a mistake in the forced attack, and in the fourth game, Ding Junhui had a long platform offensive opportunity but chose to give up, Lisowski seized the opportunity to play a single shot 91 points and chased another game, and the big score was chased to a 2-2 draw. In the fifth game, Ding Junhui scored 98 points with a single stroke and exceeded the score again, but unfortunately Ding Junhui lost in the sixth game in the anxious situation, and the two sides fought 3-3, and in the seventh game, Ding Junhui used the opponent's defensive leakage to play a single shot of 90 points and exceeded the score again, but unfortunately Ding Junhui made an inexplicable mistake in the next two games and was seized by the opponent to win two games in a row, after the end of the first stage of the game, Ding Junhui fell behind 4-5, and the promotion situation was not optimistic.
In another match at the same time, Kyren Wilson faced Dale, who is over 50 years old, who is the oldest of all the players in the main draw of the World Championships. Kyren Wilson is the No. 12 seed in this World Championships, the overall strength is still stronger than Dominic Dyer, at the beginning of the game Kyren Wilson took the lead in attacking, in the first three games he played a single stroke of 52 points, 75 points after winning three games in a row 3-0 lead, the fourth game of the veteran Dale firepower, shot a shot of 120 points and then pulled back a game, the big score Kyren Wilson led 3-1. After a short break, Kyren Wilson was in a more fierce state, he successively played a single stroke of 123 points, 96 points, 50 points, 77 points, 73 points after winning five games in a row, it is worth mentioning that Dale only scored 70 points in the seventh game, and the other four games did not score, so that after the end of the first stage of the game, Kyren Wilson led Dale 8-1, creating the largest point difference in the first stage of this World Championship so far, and Kyren Wilson has no suspense to advance to the round of 16.