On April 29, Beijing time, the second round of the 2024 World Snooker Championship continued.
Ronnie O'Sullivan VS Ryan Day
The No. 2 seed, world No. 1 against qualifier and current world No. 15, the two sides have met nine times before, with the "Rocket" holding the upper hand 7-2, but the last time they met was at the 2020 Snooker England Open, when O'Sullivan won 4-1. This game is the second time that the two have met at the World Championships, and it is also the second round of the main competition, the 2006 Snooker World Championship "Rocket" won 13-10, and played a single stroke of 140 points The highest single score of the event.
This season, the "Rocket" has made 54 appearances, with a win rate of 78%, and has played 59 single-stroke breaks, and has only participated in 10 tournaments (Shanghai Masters, English Open, Wuhan Open, National Championship, British Championship, Masters, World Grand Prix, Players Championship, Riyadh Carnival Season Masters and Tour Championship), of which he has won five titles (2 ranking tournaments and 3 invitational tournaments) in six finals. Ryan Day played 49 times, with a winning rate of 56%, and hit 20 single-stroke breakthroughs, including 147 single-strokes.
In the first two stages of this showdown, O'Sullivan played ten single-stroke 50+, once took a 2-0, 4-2, 6-3, 10-4 lead, of which six games were won by one shot, including the first game of a single stroke to break 123 points, which is O'Sullivan's 30 consecutive single-stroke breaks 100 in Crucible, the first in history, and the second place belongs to Bingham for 22 consecutive games. It also played a wave of four consecutive whips under a 6-4 lead, and it was a single stroke of 50+ in four consecutive games. Ryan Day hit four single-stroke 70+ in these two stages, scored 117 points in a single stroke in the 7th game, and played 70 in two consecutive games under 4-10 behind, approaching the score of 6-10 to enter the third stage.
Mark Allen vs John Higgins
No. 4 seed and instant world No. 1 (world No. 3) Mark Allen will take on No. 13 seed and instant world No. 17 John Higgins. They can be described as "old rivals": since the 2005 Northern Ireland Cup, the two sides have played each other 29 times, and "Little Steel Cannon" has the upper hand 16-13; this is the sixth time they have met on tour this season, the first 5 times, Allen has a 3-2 advantage, and the last meeting between the two was in the 2024 Snooker Tour Championship at the beginning of the month, and "Little Steel Cannon" won 10-7. This game is the third time that the two sides have met in the World Championships: in the 2009 semi-finals, the "Wizard" won 17-13, plus last year's semi-final defeat to Selby, and the two stops in the semi-finals were also Allen's best results in the World Championships, and in the second round of the 2017 main competition, Higgins advanced with a score of 13-9.
This season, Allen has made 57 appearances, with a win rate of 72%, and has made 45 single-stroke breaks, including a single-stroke 147 at the Masters, and he is also the player who is currently closest to a prize of 147,000 pounds! Higgins has played 86 games this season, with a winning rate of 69%, hitting 51 single-stroke 100 times, and also hitting a single-stroke 147 in the Champions League.
In the first two stages of this matchup, Allen hit eight single-stroke 50+, including a single-stroke break 100 and a clean sheet in the first game, raising his career 100 strokes to 618 strokes and continuing to rank tenth all-time, 11 strokes away from the previous Mark Williams (629 strokes). At one point, Higgins took a 1-0, 3-2, 4-3 lead, Higgins won two games in a row to overtake, and Allen scored 54 points in a single stroke to 5-5. Then the two sides fell into a struggle, and they consumed a lot of Higgins, but fortunately, they had the last laugh in two consecutive games, and they overtook 7-5 again. Allen began to counterattack, hitting a single stroke of 70+ in four consecutive rounds, including two clean sheets, two games with one shot, and a wave of four consecutive whips to take a 9-7 lead.
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