The 2024 World Snooker Championship ended all the second round of the competition, and all the quarterfinals had their own, and the last two games of the second round broke out again, and the favorite to win the championship, Mark Allen, the No. 4 seed of the tournament, was reversed and killed by the world champion Higgins when he was leading 9-7, and finally lost 12-13 and was eliminated, so that only two of the top eight players are the top eight seeds in this World Championship. Lisowski, who eliminated Ding Junhui in the first round, failed to continue the first-round feeling, and played poorly in the match with Bingham, who is ranked only 29th in the world, and finally lost to Bingham 11-13, and was also eliminated from the quarterfinals. In the two matches that ended earlier in the day, the No. 2 seed O'Sullivan easily eliminated the veteran Ryan Day 13-7 and advanced to the quarterfinals, while Kyren Wilson, the strongest post-90s generation, defeated O'Connor 13-6 to lock a place in the quarterfinals. In addition to the above four strong advances to the third round, the tournament's No. 3 seed Trump and three unseeded players Maguire, Gilbert and Jack Jones have advanced first.
The final match of the second round of the World Championships was played by Mark Allen, the No. 4 seed of the tournament, against the four-time World Championship winner Higgins, although Higgins is the world champion, but he has not performed well this season, ranked only 13th in the world, is the No. 13 seed of this World Championships, and Mark Allen has been in great form in the last two seasons, after winning multiple ranking tournaments, he is ranked third in the world and is the No. 4 seed of this World Championships, and the second round meeting between the two is particularly eye-catching. In the first stage of the game, the two won four games and drew 4-4, and in the second stage, Mark Allen suddenly made a force when he fell behind 5-7, and the big score was 9-7 over Higgins. At the beginning of the third phase of the game, Mark Allen continued to expand the score, he repeatedly attacked and won 79-20 to expand the score to 10-7, the backward Higgins single-shot shot two 50+ after winning three games in a row to chase the score to 10-10 draw, and then the two sides fought back and forth to 12-12 draw, the deciding game Mark Allen lost a good game, he took the lead in scoring 62 points when Higgins single-stroke 71 points reversed to win, Mark Allen was eliminated from the quarterfinals.
Lisowski, who eliminated Ding Junhui in the first round, faced world champion Bingham in the second round, who slipped to 29th place due to off-court factors, and he eliminated Gary Wilson in the first round to advance. In the first stage of the game, Lisowski won two games at the beginning and then lost five games in a row, and finally fell behind 3-5 to end the first stage of the game, and in the second stage of the game, the two sides won four games each, and Bingham led Lisowski 9-7 after the end of the second period. At the beginning of the third stage of the game, Bingham repeatedly attacked and won the 17th game to open the score, Lisowski won two games in a row after 73 points and 51 points in a single stroke, and approached the score to 9-10, Bingham attacked many times and won the 20th game with 79-61 difficulty, and Lisowski scored 84 points and 123 points in a single stroke to win two games in a row, and stubbornly chased the score to 11-11 draw. In the last two games, Lisowski couldn't seize the opportunity, Bingham won two games in a row without hitting a single high score, and eliminated Lisowski, who is ranked higher than him in the world, with a total score of 13-11, and advanced to the quarterfinals.
Compared with the difficult promotion of Higgins and Bingham, the road to promotion for the championship favorites O'Sullivan and Kyren Wilson is much easier, and the two of them both scored 10-1 in the first round to advance. In the second round of the game, O'Sullivan faced Ryan Day, O'Sullivan led 10-6 in the first two stages, and won 13-7 after a 3-1 score in the third stage of the game, and advanced to the quarterfinals. Kyren Wilson, who led 10-6 in the first two stages, defeated O'Connor 13-6 in straight games in the third stage to secure a spot in the quarterfinals. In this way, the quarterfinals of this World Championships are all produced, and the seeded players and unseeded players are equally divided into four seats, of which the seeded players are the No. 2 seed O'Sullivan, the No. 3 seed Trump, the No. 12 seed Kyren Wilson and the No. 13 seed Higgins, the top eight seeds, only O'Sullivan and Trump, the two biggest favorites, advanced strongly, and the other six players were either out of the first round or eliminated in the second round. The four unseeded players in the quarterfinals are Gilbert, Jack Jones, Bingham and Maguire Jr.