On April 30, Beijing time, the second round of the 2024 World Snooker Championship ended the last two competitions, and the quarterfinals were officially released!
The first round of eight seeded players in one round:
Ding Junhui scored nine single-stroke 50+ in the whole game, two of which broke 100 in a single stroke, but 9-10 Lisowski, stopped in the first round for four consecutive years, ranking unchanged or No. 7; Zhang Anda 4-10 Jack Jones, the competitive state is very average, ranking unchanged or 11; four-time world champion Selby 6-10 Crucible "newcomer" O'Connor, ranking unchanged or No. 5, waiting for him to make the most suitable decision for his career. The defending champion, the strongest post-90s Luka was beaten with a wave of four consecutive whips under a 9-6 lead, 9-10 David Gilbert, rising one place to third.
The new European Masters champion Hawkins was beaten with a wave of five consecutive whips under an 8-5 lead, 8-10 Ryan Day, rising one place to 14th; three-time world champion, the new branch tour champion Ma Shu pulled two games in a row from a 7-9 deficit to the tiebreaker, and was won by the last World Championships semi-finalist Si Jiahui with a single stroke of 77 points, lost 9-10, and dropped two places to 8th; the new Scottish Open and Welsh Open champion Gary was beaten with a wave of four consecutive whips after falling behind 5-6, 5-10 World Championship champion Bingham, still 10thCarter, the runner-up of the Wuhan Open and Masters, was beaten with a wave of four whips to lead 7-6, 7-10 Maguire, still ninth.
Four seeded players in the second round are out: Murphy 9-13 Maguire, up two places to No. 6, Fudd 7-13 Trump, up one place to No. 13, Milkins 4-13 Gilbert, still No. 16, and Allen!
Before the World Championships, Higgins was ranked 13th in the world and was the No. 13 seed in the tournament, and due to the deduction of 100,000 pounds in the prize money of the 2022 World Championships semifinals, the instant world ranking fell to 17th, and as he defeated the world No. 3 (instant world No. 1) Allen 13-12, he advanced to the quarterfinals, which is the 18th time in his career that he has advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Championships, and is ranked third all-time after Hendry 19 times. With £50,000 in prize money, Higgins has risen two places to No. 15! Since 1994/95, Higgins has been in the top 16 for 28 consecutive seasons, the longest cumulative and consecutive top 16 ranking in history.
This duel can be called thrilling and exciting, Allen played a wave of five consecutive whips under the 5-7 lag, and then Higgins pulled three games in a row, back to the same running line 10-10! In the 22nd game, there are both boring and continuous repetition of the ball, and there is also a wonderful snooker competition around the last red ball, Allen faced the "three-star Lianzhu" snooker spherical shape that was slightly close to the edge of the library above the middle bag, and directly turned the bag and hit the bottom bag with a library, and even the sitting Higgins exclaimed! Then Allen made a "four-star bead" Snooker got the first hand, but the opportunity ball was lost and left in the bag, Higgins was in a desperate situation and dragged to the tiebreaker, Allen took the lead to hit a single stroke 62 points, Higgins once again hung by a thread, but Allen lost the combination ball, and the target ball remained in the bag! Higgins turned the bag to get started, this is his routine operation, but this situation is not easy, it belongs to the backwater battle! Higgins completed a Jedi reversal with a single stroke of 71 points!
Allen, who stopped in the round of 16, temporarily slowed down his pace of catching up with the "80 Five Tigers", after all, the best result of the World Championships was the two semi-finals. Although the instant world ranking is still No. 1, if Trump reaches the final or O'Sullivan wins, his final ranking will be No. 2 in the world!
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