In the early morning of April 28, Beijing time, the second round of the 2024 Snooker World Championship continued in Sheffield, England, and one of the key battles, China's 21-year-old Si Jiahui lost 9:13 and stopped in the round of 16. So far, all the Chinese players in this World Championships are out.
The match features current world No. 23 Si Jiahui against No. 44 Welsh player Jack Jones, both of whom have qualified for the main event. Si Jiahui's best result is the runner-up of the German Masters and the semifinals of the World Championships, and he lost to Brecel in the semifinals of the 2023 World Championships and failed to advance to the final. Jones, a post-90s player, was not well-known until he reached the quarterfinals of the World Championships last year.
After eight rounds in the first stage of the game, Si Jiahui fell behind his opponent 2:6. Si Jiahui struggled to chase the score to 7:9 in the second stage. In the first 4 games of the third stage, Si Jiahui completed the reversal after being overscored, chasing 9:10. After that, Jones won three games in a row to win 13-9.
After the game, Si Jiahui thanked everyone for their support on his personal social media account, and he said frankly: "I really played too badly this time, there are many problems, and the pressure on myself is a bit big, summarize the problems, and continue to work hard next season." ”
In this year's World Snooker Championships, a total of 24 Chinese players participated in the qualifying round, only Lu Haotian, Si Jiahui, and Pang Junxu advanced to the main event, plus Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda, two of the world's top 16 players, went straight to the main event, and a total of 5 Chinese players participated in the World Championships. In the first round of the match, China's "first brother" Ding Junhui played 19 rounds and lost to Lisowski 9:10, and suffered a round in the main event of the Snooker World Championships for 4 consecutive years, becoming the fourth Chinese player to be eliminated to participate in the main match after Zhang Anda, Lu Haotian and Pang Junxu were eliminated in the first round.