In the 2024 Snooker World Championships, Si Jiahui and Jack Jones met in the 1/8 finals, the game took 25 rounds and 13 wins, the first eight rounds of the first stage, Si Jiahui was cleared and reversed in 4 games, the key ball was always wrong, the defense was full of holes, and finally ended the first stage of the competition with a total score of 2-6 behind Jack Jones.
Last season, Si Jiahui reached the top 4 and became the second person after Ding Junhui. In the first round, facing Mark Williams, who had just won the world's top three championships and won the Tour Championship, Si Jiahui beat 10-9 and became the only Chinese player in the round of 16. In other events, Si Jiahui's performance is very average, but as soon as he arrives at the World Championships, Si Jiahui can break out, and is praised by many fans as a big player, Si Jiahui's offensive ability is very outstanding, and his psychological quality is very strong, but defense is Si Jiahui's weakness. Jack Jones also broke through from the qualifying round to enter the main event, and in the first round of 32 into 16 rounds, Jack Jones knocked out the Chinese star Zhang Anda. In the 6/8 zone, the two major seeds Mark Williams + Zhang Anda both stopped in the first round, and the two qualifiers Si Jiahui and Jack Jones competed for a place in the top 8.
In the first game, Si Jiahui scored 50 points with a single stroke, but on the key ball, Si Jiahui made a mistake, Jack Jones started to chase the score, and after turning to defense, Si Jiahui made many leakage mistakes, and Jack Jones completed the clearance with many hands, and completed the limit reversal with 65-62.
In the second game, Si Jiahui was reversed again! In the first single stroke of 64 points to lead 64-0, Si Jiahui made a low-level mistake of misseeing the ball point, Jack Jones started to chase the score, Si Jiahui gave a big gift, Jack Jones cleared the table again, 66-64, and it was another game of black ball killing.
In the third game, Si Jiahui finally didn't give his opponent another chance, scoring 62 points in a single stroke and winning 82-24. In the fourth game, Si Jiahui scored 84 points in a single stroke, won 84-0 again, and chased the total score to a 2-2 draw. In the first four games, if Si Jiahui had not made mistakes on key balls, he should have led 4-0, but unfortunately he only drew 2-2 with his opponent in the end.
After a short break, Jack Jones began to bombard a single stroke of 50+ on the offensive end, with a single stroke of 66 points + 71 points, and Jack Jones won two games in a row, leading the total game again with a total score of 4-2 to two games.
In the seventh game, Si Jiahui was reversed again when he took the lead in playing a single stroke of 50+, and Si Jiahui, who took the lead in scoring 53 points in a single stroke, made another mistake on the key ball, and Jack Jones completed the clearance of the table 67-53 turnover!
In the eighth game, Si Jiahui was still reversed by the opponent in the case of a large lead, Jack Jones cleared the table 63-57 black ball to kill, and in the attack of the key ball, Si Jiahui made another mistake, which was like a curse!