On April 30, Beijing time, the World Snooker Championship continued at the Crucible Theater, and the quarterfinals were officially released!
There are 12 seeded players who have lost and gone out, including defending champion Brecel, "Mill King" Selby, world No. 3 Mark Allen, "Mr. Stable" Murphy and other famous players have been out, which can be described as a continuous upset, and the following brings detailed information.
The World Championships is the highest level of snooker, and only four non-British players have won the World Championships in history, namely Cliff Samburn (Canada), Ken Doherty (Ireland), Neil Robertson (Australia), and Brecel (Belgium).
Chinese snooker "first brother" Ding Junhui once reached the final of the World Championships in 2016, but finally lost to Selby 14-18 and lost to the championship. At present, Ding Junhui holds 14 ranking tournament championships, and he is the only one away from the World Championships in the Grand Slam, and I hope Ding Junhui can realize his dream of a Grand Slam in the future!
The first round of the main tournament (1/16 finals) adopts a 19-game 10-win system, which is divided into 2 periods (9 rounds/10 rounds); 1/8 finals and 1/4 finals, using a 25-game 13-win system, divided into 3 periods (8 rounds/8 rounds/9 rounds);
The semi-finals are played in 4 stages (8 games/8 games/8 games/9 games) and the finals are played in 4 stages (8 games/9 games/8 games/10 games) in a 35-18 system.
So far, the prize money of the World Championships is also quite generous, 20,000 pounds for entering the main round (top 32), 30,000 pounds for the top 16, 50,000 pounds for the top 8, 100,000 pounds for the top 4, 200,000 pounds for the runner-up, and up to 500,000 pounds for the champion! In addition, a perfect score of 147 points in the main match will be rewarded with an additional 40,000 pounds.
The defending champion is the top seed, and a total of 16 players with the world's highest ranking 15 players will directly advance to the main event, and the remaining 16 places in the main draw will go through the qualifying round, and join hands with the top 16 seeds to come to Crucible to compete for the final championship!
The top 16 seeds in this World Championship are defending champion Belgian Brecel (4), O'Sullivan (1), Trump (2), Mark Allen (3), Selby (5), Mark Williams (6), Ding Junhui (7), Murphy (8);
Ali Carter (9), Gary Wilson (10), Anda Chang (11), Kyren Wilson (12), Higgins (13), Tom Forde (14), Barry Hawkins (15), Milkins (16).
The 16 players who broke through from the qualifying round of this World Championship are, in order of world ranking, Lisowski (17), Ryan Day (18), Hussein Wafai (19), Si Jiahui (23), Lu Haotian (26), Pang Junxu (27), Maguire (28), Bingham (29);
O'Connor (30), Gilbert (31), Rich Wharton (32), Dominic Dyer (40), Jamie Jones (41), Jackson Page (43), Jack Jones (44), Robbie Williams (45).
So far, 12 seeded players have lost out, namely Brecel (4), Mark Allen (3), Selby (5), Mark Williams (6), Ding Junhui (7), Shaun Murphy (8);
Ali Carter (9), Gary Wilson (10), Anda Chang (11), Tom Forde (14), Barry Hawkins (15), Milkins (16).
Among them, 8 seeded players were eliminated in the first round of the main competition, and the specific results were: Brecel (4) 8-10 Gilbert (31), Selby (5) 6-10 O'Connor (30), Mark Williams (6) 9-10 Si Jiahui (23), Ding Junhui (7) 9-10 Lisowski (17);
Ali Carter (9) 7-10 Maguire (28), Gary Wilson (10) 5-10 Bingham (29), Anda Chang (11) 4-10 Jack Jones (44), Barry Hawkins (15) 8-10 Ryan Day (18).
In the next quarter-finals, four more seeded players lost, and the specific results were: Mark Allen (3) 12-13 Higgins (13), Shaun Murphy (8) 9-13 Maguire (28), Tom Forde (14) 7-13 Trump (2), Milkins (16) 4-13 Gilbert (31).
Looking at the games that have ended, China's 22-year-old snooker star Si Jiahui has created the best result of a Chinese player in this World Championships, which is the top 16. And Ding Junhui has suffered a round of tours for the fourth consecutive year, and it is really hard to say when he will be able to achieve the Grand Slam.
In a 1/8 final focus battle that ended in the early morning of April 30, world No. 3 Mark Allen was killed by "Wizard" Higgins, and the tiebreaker can be called a classic reversal.
Mark Allen took the lead in scoring 62 points with a single stroke, and then there was a mistake in the bottom bank of the red ball, and then Higgins, who came out, used a wonderful bag flip to score the red ball and won the applause of the house, so far Higgins scored 71 points in a single shot to complete the kill!
So far, the quarterfinals of this year's snooker have been officially released (the detailed details of the matchup are shown in the table below):
Top half: Gilbert (31) vs. Maguire (28), Wilson (12) vs. Higgins (13)
Second half: Trump (2) vs. Jack Jones (44), Bingham (29) vs. O'Sullivan (1)
From the current point of view, the "wizard" Higgins in the first half of the zone is very likely to break into the final, and the competition in the second half is very fierce!
"Rocket" O'Sullivan and Trump are very likely to compete for a ticket to the finals! You must know that O'Sullivan has won seven World Championships, and the number of championships is tied for first place with "Billiards Emperor" Hendry.
In this World Championships, will O'Sullivan make history, win his eighth World Championship title, and achieve the great feat of eight laps of the Grand Slam?