On April 26, 2024, the main event of the World Snooker Championship will continue, and the competition for the top 8 seats will be held on this match day. In the first round of the main event, a total of eight seeded players were eliminated, including four-time world champion Selby, China's first brother Ding Junhui, defending champion Brecel and "75" Mark Williams. Top players such as O'Sullivan and Trump successfully broke through and advanced, and they will play one after another to compete for the top 8 seats.
The overall performance of the Chinese army this season is remarkable, Zhang Anda won one championship and two runners-up, Ding Junhui won two runners-up, and Si Jiahui and Cao Yupeng also entered the finals of the ranking competition. However, the performance of this World Championships is not good, after four rounds of qualifying selection, only 3 players advanced to the main match with Zhang Anda and Ding Junhui, in the first round of the main competition, only Si Jiahui broke through, and the other four were all defeated. At present, Si Jiahui, as the only seedling of the Chinese Army, will have a 1/8 match on this match day, and it remains to be seen whether he can break through.
The 1/8 match adopts a best-of-25 system of 13 rounds and is played in three stages, with the first two stages playing 8 games each. Trump and Tom Forde competed for the top 8 seats, and Trump took a 6:2 lead in the first stage, and the "80 Tigers" Shaun Murphy will compete with Maguire for the top 8 seats, and the following are the specific results of the game.
Judd Trump 11:5 Tom Forde
Judd Trump is ranked No. 2 in the world and Tom Forde is ranked No. 14, and this is the first civil war between seeded players in this tournament. Tom Forde is the only seeded player who has not won a ranking tournament and has reached the final of the German Masters and the National Championship in his career, but unfortunately did not win either. Tom Forde has no shortcomings in terms of technical aspects, whether it is on the defensive end or on the offensive end, and the biggest problem of his career ceiling is the mentality, which is prone to problems when facing top players.
Trump is the "leader" of the post-80s generation, winning 28 ranking championships in his career. He has created the feat of winning 6 ranking tournaments in a single season in his career, and he is in hot form this season, winning five crowns in Sanya, and is the king of a single season. Trump is the runner-up in the 2022 World Championships, and 200,000 points will be deducted after this competition, and if he wins this competition, he will become the world's No. 1.
In the first game of the game, the two alternated scores piecemeal, and finally Tom Forde scored the last black ball to win the game 56-50 and get off to a good start. In the second game, Trump scored twice and won the game 75:1. In the third game, Trump scored 67 points with a single stroke and won the next game at 81:28, leading 3:0. In the fourth game, Tom Forde scored 50 points with a single stroke and pulled back a game with 73:16. In the fifth game, Tom Forde took the lead in scoring 56 points in a single stroke, and the key ball was wrong, and Trump achieved a single-game reversal at 70:63. Subsequently, Trump scored 52 and 69 points in a single stroke in a row, and won two games in a row, leading 5:2. In the eighth game, Trump scored many times, and finally won 70:14, leading 6:2.
In the 9th game, Trump played steadily and scored 107 points in a single stroke to win the game. In the 10th game, Tom Forde scored 73 points in a single stroke and pulled back a game with 86:31. In the 11th game, Trump scored 67 points in a single stroke to win the game. In the 12th game, the two alternately scored, and finally Trump won the game 55:24, leading 9:3. In the 13th game, Tom Forde scored three times, and finally pulled back a game at 69:32, falling behind 4:9. Subsequently, Trump scored 59 and 50 points in a single stroke in a row, and won two games in a row, leading 11:4. In the 16th game, Tom Forde seized the opportunity to score 83 points with a single stroke, won the game with a single stroke, and fell behind 5:11.
Shaun Murphy 2:3 Maguire
Shaun Murphy is ranked 8th in the world and Maguire is ranked 28th, and from the world rankings of both sides, Shaun Murphy has the advantage. Maguire won his first professional ranking title at the 2004 European Open and now has six career titles. Although Maguire has reached the top of the ranking tournament in his career, it is a pity that his form has been sluggish in recent seasons, and the world ranking has continued to decline, and the best result in the ranking tournament this season is the quarterfinals of the National Championships.
"80 Five Tigers" Shaun Murphy has won 12 ranking championships in his career, and the gap with Ding Junhui is getting smaller and smaller. Shaun Murphy has won the World Championship and has already achieved a Grand Slam. Shaun Murphy won the Champions League at the start of the season, but his form has since been in a slump, finishing 22nd in a single season, missing out on several red packets such as the Players Championship and Tour Championship.
In the first game of the game, Shaun Murphy scored 56 points in a single stroke, and finally won the game 80:29 and got off to a good start. In the second game, Maguire scored many times and finally pulled one back at 65:30. In the fourth game, Maguire scored 50 points with a single stroke and won the next game with 83:24. In the fourth game, the two alternated scores piecemeal, and finally Shaun Murphy won 73-52, and the game was tied 2-2. In the fifth game, Maguire scored 68 points in a single stroke to win the game.