On April 29, Beijing time, the 2024 World Snooker Championship began the tenth match day of competition, in the first game period, the two seeds joined hands to advance, the world No. 1 O'Sullivan defeated Ryan Day 13-7, and the world No. 12 Kyren Wilson defeated O'Connor 13-6, and the top 8 of this World Championship determined 6 people: 3 seeded players Trump, O'Sullivan, Kyren Wilson, 3 qualifiers Gilbert, Jack Jones, Maguire.
The 48-year-old O'Sullivan is still at his peak, ranked No. 1 in the world, ranked second in a single season, and has won 5 championships this season, including the British Championship and the Masters 2 major championships, and is expected to become the fourth player to be crowned a single-season Grand Slam after Hendry, Davis and Mark Williams, while O'Sullivan has 8 British Championships + 8 Masters +7 World Championship champions, one World Championship away from the 8th set of Snooker Grand Slams, and this year's Snooker World Championships is an excellent opportunity, in the case of the seeded celebrities are out, O'Sullivan's performance is stable and outstanding, 10-1 bloodshed Jackson Page in the first round to advance strongly, in the same division, the other 3 seeded players Ding Junhui, Gary Wilson, and Barry Hawkins all stopped in the first round.
In the second round, O'Sullivan met the qualifier Ryan Day in the 16th and 8th rounds, and Ryan Day eliminated the seeded Barry Hawkins 10-8 in the first round, and won five games in a row after 5-8 to show a good state! Ryan Day has won 4 ranking tournament championships, and is also a champion-level player in the professional snooker arena, but in the face of O'Sullivan, Ryan Day fell into an absolute disadvantage, and in the past 9 times, Ryan Day had a significant disadvantage of 2 wins and 7 losses.
The 1/8 finals took 25 rounds and 13 wins, divided into three stages, in the first two stages of the competition, O'Sullivan hit a shot to break 100 and 9 strokes of 50+, establishing a total score of 10-6 lead.
In the third stage, O'Sullivan cleared the table in the 17th game and reversed Ryan Day 62-57, and the total game score was 11-6 to extend the lead. In the 18th game, O'Sullivan scored 85 points in a single stroke to win and took the lead in getting the match point. In the 19th game, Ryan Dai did not score on the long platform to leave a chance, O'Sullivan made a mistake in attacking the red ball bottom bag, Ryan Dai scored 16 points to attack the red ball bottom bag, O'Sullivan scored 5 points and made a mistake in the attack on the right bottom bag, Ryan Day pulled back a city 94-5 and saved a match point. In the 20th game, O'Sullivan successfully cashed in the match point and defeated Ryan Day with a total score of 13-7, reaching the quarterfinals of the World Championships for the ninth time in his career.
In the other game played at the same time, Kyren Wilson entered the third stage of the battle with O'Connor with a 10-6 lead, Kyren Wilson took the lead in the 17th game 83-41, and then won another game 75-27, leading the total game 12-6 to get the match point. In the 19th game, O'Connor made another mistake, and Kyren Wilson won three games in a row in the third stage to take away the game and win 13-6 to advance to the quarterfinals.