In the 2024 Snooker World Championships, Si Jiahui once again became the last hope of Chinese snooker. In last year's World Championships, Si Jiahui reached the semifinals with amazing accuracy, but in the second round of this year's World Championships, in the face of qualifier Jack Jones, Si Jiahui's strength has become a weakness, and the offensive accuracy is not online at all, especially in the far platform, basically no! What's more fatal is that Si Jiahui's offensive options are often reckless, and once he can't score, he will leave a chance for the opponent, in this case, it is difficult for Jack Jones to win, and the game with Jack Jones alone, China's rising star Si Jiahui really deserves to lose!
Strengths become weaknesses, weaknesses are still weaknesses, this is the state that Si Jiahui showed in the game.
As we all know, Si Jiahui's weakness is defense, and against Jack Jones in this game, Si Jiahui exposed his weakness. In the first stage, Si Jiahui was killed by Jack Jones's clearance in the case of a large lead in 4 games, resulting in himself falling behind 2-6 in four games, it is worth noting that Jack Jones did not use a chance to complete the reversal, but repeatedly started to complete the clearance piecemeal, that is to say, Si Jiahui gave the opponent a lot of opportunities in defense. In the second stage, although Si Jiahui recovered two games, in fact, Si Jiahui could have recovered three games, because one of them was overturned by Jack Jones. In the third stage, although Si Jiahui showed a strong fighting spirit at the beginning, 8-9 and 9-10 twice chased the gap in the total game to one game, but in the last three games, Si Jiahui made too many mistakes and was eliminated by Jack Jones in waves.
The three took the lead in advancing to the top 8, and the first group of 1/4 finals was determined: the favorite to win the championship vs. the dark horse!
Gilbert, Trump, and Jack Jones have won the second round and entered the top 8 of this World Championships, among them, Trump is of course the favorite to win the championship! This season, Trump has won 5 ranking tournament titles, including a wave of back-to-back 3 consecutive championships, ranking first in a single season, very close to the peak season of 2019-2020. In this Snooker World Championship, Trump's road to promotion is also very easy, defeating Wafei 10-5 and Tomford 13-7, becoming the strongest player so far. Jack Jones is a dark horse in the qualifying tournament, winning Zhang Anda and Si Jiahui in a row to advance to the quarterfinals, although the world ranking is not high, but Jack Jones' playing style is very stable, unless you have super accuracy, otherwise in the chaos, Jack Jones can always have the last laugh, and eliminating Si Jiahui is like this. In the next round of 1/4 finals, Jack Jones just played against Trump, who is known for his accuracy, which is also the first group of 1/4 finals determined by this World Championships.