On April 25, 2024, Beijing time, the main event of the World Snooker Championship ushered in the sixth day of competition. The World Championship is the highest level of snooker, and only by winning the World Championship can you achieve a Grand Slam. The Chinese Legion played all the professional players in this competition, and only 5 players advanced to the main competition, among which Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda participated as seeded players. After the first round of the main competition, only Si Jiahui advanced to the top 16, and the other players all suffered a round of tours. The best result in the World Championships in the history of the Chinese Legion is Ding Junhui's runner-up in 2016, and the best result in the last competition is Si Jiahui's semifinals.
The 1/16 match is coming to an end, and 14 places have been produced in the round of 16. As the game progressed, there were many upsets, and so far seven seeded players have been out, including Selby, Mark Williams, Brecel, Ding Junhui, Zhang Anda, Ali Carter and Barry Hawkins. The favorites Trump and Mark Allen successfully advanced to the round of 16.
The final two spots in the round of 16 will be decided on this matchday, including O'Sullivan's match against Jackson Page, Higgins and Jamie Jones. Both games have ended the first half of the competition, in which O'Sullivan leads Page 8:1 and is close to promotion, and Higgins leads Jamie Jones 5:4 and continues to work hard in the second half. At the same time, there will be two 1/8 matches on this match day, including David Gilbert vs. Milkins and Trump vs. Tom Forde.
David Gilbert 2:0 Milkins
David Gilbert is ranked 31st in the world and veteran Milkins is ranked 16th. In the 1/16 match, David Gilbert defeated the defending champion Brecel 10:9 to advance thrillingly, and the veteran Milkins played as a seeded player, facing the Chinese teenager Pang Junxu who was not in good shape, but finally advanced 10:9. Although Milkins has the advantage in the world rankings, David Gilbert has the advantage in terms of recent form.
Veteran Milkins is a late bloomer, winning his first career ranking title in 2022 at the age of nearly half a century, and then winning the Welsh Open in 2023 and entering the top 16 in the world rankings. Milkins has been in poor form this season, with a best ranking finish of just the round of 16. Gilbert has won the Champions League and other competitions in his career, and his style of play is solid, with his best result of the season being the quarter-finals of the Northern Ireland Open.
At the beginning of the 1/8 game, in the first game, both of them had the opportunity to score, and Gilbert scored twice, and won the game 80:35 with a single stroke of 50 points, making a good start. In the second game, Gilbert handed over the ball with a single stroke of 8 points, and Milkins scored 55 points with a single stroke. Subsequently, Gilbert scored twice and finally won the next game 74-61, leading 2-0.
O'Sullivan 10:1 Jackson Page
O'Sullivan is ranked No. 1 in the world and Jackson Page is ranked No. 43. O'Sullivan is the greatest player in snooker history, winning 41 ranking tournaments and 23 major championships in his career, just one World Championship away from the eighth Grand Slam. O'Sullivan has been in hot form this season, winning five tournament titles, including the British Championship and the Masters. At the end of this World Championships, O'Sullivan will deduct the 2022 World Championship championship points, if O'Sullivan can't win the championship in this competition, the world No. 1 will be replaced by other players, most likely Mark Allen.
Jackson Page is the apprentice of Mark Williams of the "Big 75" and has yet to achieve great results in his career. Jackson Page has improved rapidly this season, especially in the World Open, where he upset world champions such as Selby and Higgins in the semi-finals as a dark horse, and his performance is remarkable. At the beginning of the game, in the first game, O'Sullivan scored many times, scored 54 points in a single stroke, and won the game with 105:24. In the second game, O'Sullivan took advantage of the victory to chase and won the next game 71:10. Subsequently, O'Sullivan firmly controlled the game, scoring 56 points, 81 points and 122 points in a row, and won three games in a row, leading 5:0.
In the sixth game, O'Sullivan scored many times, and finally won the next game with 89:27, whipping Page six times in a row. In the seventh game, Jackson Page fought back strongly and scored 142 points in a single stroke to pull back a game. In the eighth game, O'Sullivan scored 66 points in a single stroke and won the game 97:43. In the ninth game, O'Sullivan scored twice and won the game 98:4 with 53 points in a single stroke. In the 10th game, Jackson Page scored 16 points to hand over the ball, and O'Sullivan scored 79 points with a single stroke to win the game, and the big score was 9:1 to take the lead in getting the match point. In the 11th game, after a long time of defensive entanglement, O'Sullivan finally won 66:32 and advanced to the round of 16 with a big score of 10:1.