On April 26, 2024, Beijing time, the World Snooker Championship will continue, and 1/8 of the competition will be held on this match day. The World Championship is the highlight of every season of snooker, and it is also the highest-level event. Winning the World Championship will not only earn the title of world champion, but also a hefty prize of £500,000, which is the ultimate goal of all players' careers. Active player O'Sullivan has won 7 World Championships, proud of the crowd, and this competition is tempted by rankings and generous bonuses, and the eighth championship of the Rocket World Championship is bound to win.
The performance of the Chinese team in this competition was not good, all professional players participated in the competition, and only 5 people appeared in Crucible. In the first round of the main competition, he achieved a record of 1 win and 4 losses, and only Si Jiahui advanced to the top 16, and Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda were upset. In the first round of the main event, defending champion Brecel and Mark Williams and other 8 seeded players have been out, among which the four-time champion Selby mentioned his intention to retire again after the upset, and it seems that the first round of the tour hit him hard.
On this match day, Trump, Shaun Murphy and other top players have appeared one after another to compete for the top 8 seats, the Chinese army's lone seedling Si Jiahui is the first to go out, he will compete with Jack Jones for the top 8 seats, Shaun Murphy faces Maguire, Trump continues to compete with Tom Fud. The 1/8 match is divided into three stages, using a best-of-25 system.
Si Jiahui 2:6 Jack Jones
Si Jiahui is ranked 23rd in the world and Jack Jones is ranked 44th, both of which are unseeded players, and Si Jiahui has an advantage in terms of world ranking and historical results. In the 1/16 game, Si Jiahui defeated the "75 Three Heroes" Mark Williams in the deciding game to advance, and his performance was amazing. Jack Jones faced Chinese star Zhang Anda in the first round of the main match, Zhang Anda was in a sluggish state, and Jack Jones finally won 10:4 to advance.
Si Jiahui is one of the most promising players in the Chinese Legion, and last season in the World Championships as a professional rookie, he continued to pass the test, upsetting Shaun Murphy, Gilbert and other famous players to break into the semi-finals, facing Brecel, and was reversed 15:17 with a 14:5 lead. This season, Si Jiahui reached the final of the ranking tournament for the first time in his career and finally finished second. In this competition, Si Jiahui became the only seedling of the Chinese Legion, hoping to continue to create miracles.
In the first two games of the game, the two sides were relatively stale, Si Jiahui had a chance to win the game, but unfortunately the key ball was handled wrongly, in the first game, Si Jiahui scored 50 points with a single stroke, but unfortunately Jack Jones won 65:62. In the second game, Si Jiahui scored 64 points in a single stroke again, and the key overscore ball was wrong, and Jack Jones won again with 66:64. Subsequently, Si Jiahui scored 62 points and 84 points in a single stroke in a row, and won two games in a row, and the game was tied 2:2. Subsequently, Jack Jones scored 66 and 71 points in a single stroke in a row, and won two games in a row, leading 4:2. In the seventh game, Jack Jones won the next game 67-53. In the eighth game, Jack Jones won the game with a single game reversal of 63:57, leading 6:2.
Milkins 4:12 David Gilbert
Milkins is ranked 16th in the world and Gilbert is ranked 31st. In the 1/16 match, Milkins defeated Chinese player Pang Junxu in the tiebreaker, and David Gilbert upset the defending champion Brecel 10:9. Judging from the performance of the two, David Gilbert won with a single shot of 100 and 8 strokes of 50+, while Milkins only played 4 strokes of 50+, and David Gilbert had the advantage.
The veteran Milkins is a late bloomer, nearly half a hundred years old, and has won the Snooker Gibraltar Open and the Welsh Open in the last two seasons, making a qualitative leap in his career. This season, Milkins has been in poor form, with his best record in ranking matches coming in the round of 16. Gilbert has won the Snooker Champions League in his career and reached the quarterfinals of the Northern Ireland Open this season, and is clearly in better form than Milkins.
In the first game of the game, David Gilbert scored 50 points in a single stroke and got off to a good start with 80:35. In the second game, although Milkins scored 55 points in a single stroke, it was a pity that the key ball was wrong, and finally David Gilbert won the next game 74:61. In the third game, Milkins scored 73 points with a single stroke and pulled back a game with 92:31. In the fourth game, David Gilbert scored 51 points in a single stroke and finally won the game 93:0. In the fifth game, Milkins scored many times, scored 54 points in a single stroke, and won the game 95:10. In the sixth game, the two alternated scores, and finally David Gilbert won the game 75-51, leading 4-2. In the seventh game, David Gilbert scored 89 points in a single stroke to win the game. In the eighth game, David Gilbert scored 64 points in a single stroke, and then Milkins reversed the extreme single game with 65:64, and David Gilbert led with a big score of 5:3.
In the ninth game, Milkins scored 62 points in a single stroke, and then David Gilbert achieved a single-game reversal with 67:62. In the 10th game, the two scored piecemeal alternation, and finally Milkins won the game 64-46, falling behind 4-6. In the 11th game, David Gilbert scored many times and finally won 62:26, leading 7:4. Then, David Gilbert won five games in a row to take a 12-4 lead.