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The 2024 World Snooker Championship continues. The first round of the main competition adopts a 19-game 10-win system, and the 1/8 finals and 1/4 finals adopt a 25-game 13-win system, which is divided into 3 periods, each period is 8 rounds, 8 rounds, and 9 rounds. The semi-finals will be a best-of-33 system, and the finals will be a best-of-35 system.
In the 1/8 finals, O'Sullivan defeated Ryan Day 13-7, Higgins reversed Mark Allen 13-12, Trump won Tomford 13-7, Kyren Wilson defeated Joe O'Connor 13-6, Maguire narrowly defeated Shaun Murphy 13-9, Jack Jones defeated Si Jiahui 13-9, David Gilbert swept Milkins 13-4, and Bingham defeated Lisowski 13-11.
At present, the 1/4 finals have been fully launched. Qualifier Gilbert and six-time ranking champion Harry Maguire have completed two stages, O'Sullivan has completed the first stage of the match with Bingham, Trump has also completed two stages of the match with Jack Jones, and the first stage of the match between four-time world champion Higgins and Kyren Wilson has been completed. See below for details of the competition.
Trump is battling out with qualifying dark horse Jack Jones. Trump ranks second in the world and is known as a quasi-god and president. He has won 28 ranking tournaments in his career, and has created an excellent record of winning 6 ranking tournaments in a single season. He won the championship for three consecutive weeks this season, and won the German Masters and the World Open, winning five crowns and ranking first in the single-season rankings. The first two rounds of this tournament were won 10-5 and 13-7 to advance.
Jack Jones is the biggest dark horse of this tournament, beating China's Zhang Anda and Si Jiahui in succession to advance. He has played 39 tournaments this season, with a 57% win rate, including 15 shots to break 100 and 66 strokes to 50+.
After the start of the game, Trump felt full of feelings, and scored 110 points in a single stroke, but Jack Jones scored 69 points and 94 points in a single stroke, and won three games in a row with a score of 75-62, 77-33, and 119-0, and Trump chased the score to 4-4 to end the first stage of the game. In the second stage, Jack Jones won two games with 54-43 and 71-46, leading 6-4, Trump tied six games 6-6 in two consecutive games, Jack Jones scored 55 points in a single stroke 7-6 to lead again, Trump won two games in a row 66-0 and 80-28, 8-7 overtake, Jack Jones scored 117 points in a single stroke, 125-0 clean sheet Trump, and the two drew 8-8 in the first two stages.
World No. 28 Maguire takes on No. 31 David Gilbert.
Maguire was born in 1993 and has won the ranking tournament 6 times, and the last time he won the championship was in the 2020 Tour Championship, replacing the retired Ding Junhui to compete, and passed all the way, creating a miracle of winning the championship with a substitute player. This year's World Championships started from the qualifying round, defeating Hugill and Yuan Sijun to enter the main event, defeating the No. 9 seed and two-time World Championship runner-up Ali Carter 10-7 in the first round, and eliminating the world champion Murphy 13-9 in the second round.
David Gilbert has won the Champions League in his career and has been runner-up in ranking tournaments several times. In this tournament, Gilbert upset two seeded players in a row - defending champion Brecel and veteran Milking to advance to the quarterfinals.
The two sides have played each other 7 times in history, and Maguire has an absolute advantage of 5 wins and 2 losses.
At the beginning of the game, David Gilbert won the first game 65-23, completed the reversal of the second game 67-63, and then scored 110 and 83 points in a row, and sealed the opponent in two games with 110-0 and 83-0, and led Maguire 4-0 in a wave of four consecutive whips. Coming back from the break, Maguire scored 50 points in a single stroke and pulled one back 72-42. Gilbert then scored 130 points in a single stroke and kept another clean sheet at 130-0. In the seventh game, Maguire scored 60 points in a single stroke, and Gilbert made many moves to score 65-64 and clear the limit of 1 point. In the eighth game, Gilbert seized the opportunity to capture the black ball and won 65-58, and Maguire was stunned after falling behind 1-7.
In the second period of the game, Gilbert scored 130 points, 73 and 67 points in a single stroke to win three games, and Maguire scored 111 points, 84 points and 74 points to win five games, and at the end of the second period, Gilbert led 10-6.
World No. 1 Ronnie O'Sullivan drew 4-4 with Bingham in the first stage, and four-time world champion Higgins trailed Kyren Wilson 3-5 in the first stage.
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