The 2024 World Snooker Championship will start the third round of competition, and after ten days of fierce competition, all the top eight of the World Championship will be produced, and four seeded players and four unseeded players will reach the quarterfinals. The next eight-in-four games are a life-and-death contest, the third round of eight-in-four games still uses a 25-game 13-win system, the game will be divided into three stages, in the first two third-round first-stage games, the world champion Trump faced Jack Jones, the favorite Trump entered the state slowly, the first stage started 1-3 behind when he caught up, tenaciously chased the score to a 4-4 draw, and in a dark horse battle game, Gilbert continued the previous hot hand, and the little pony Maguire was not in good shape, the first stage of the game unexpectedly showed a one-sided situation, Gilbert temporarily led 7-1 in the first eight games, advancing to the semi-finals seems to be a foregone conclusion.
The No. 3 seed and world champion Trump and Jack Jones competed for the quarterfinals of the World Championships, the first two rounds of the game Trump won relatively easily, he defeated Hussein Wafi and Tomford successively to advance to the quarterfinals, and Jack Jones knocked out the Chinese seed Zhang Anda in the first round, and the second round of the last World Championships semi-finalist Si Jiahui was knocked down, the state is quite good, is an out-and-out big dark horse. Trump is in great shape this season, he has repeatedly entered the ranking tournament and won the championship, at present, Trump is the player who has won the most ranking championships among the post-80s players, relatively speaking, Trump's record in the three major competitions is inferior, this World Championship is Trump's excellent opportunity to win the World Championship again, the first two rounds have been eliminated by a number of world-class celebrities, Trump's biggest obstacle to winning the championship is only the No. 2 seed O'Sullivan, but the performance of the unseeded players in this World Championship is really good, and Trump cannot be lightly defeated。
At the beginning of the first stage of the game, Jack Jones entered the state very quickly, and the world champion Trump was not slow to enter the state, but there were some ups and downs, in the first game, Trump scored 110 points in a single stroke, and then took the lead after scoring 110 points in a single game, and in the second game, Trump lost a good game, and was defeated by Jack Jones 75-62 in a single stroke with 58 points, and the two sides won one game each and tied 1-1. In the next two games, Jack Jones played steadily, scored 94 points with a single shot, and won two games in a row, leading Trump 3-1. After returning from halftime, Trump launched a counterattack, in the fifth game, he attacked many times and reversed Jack Jones 71-52 to pull back a game, and in the sixth game, Trump attacked again and again 77-27 and chased another game, and the first six games between the two sides were tied 3-3. In the seventh game, Jack Jones scored 74 points in a single stroke to win to ensure that he did not fall behind the opponent in the first stage, and in the eighth game, the two sides fought fiercely, Trump took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's key ball not to score many times, and won 65-63 two points to narrow the score, and the two sides won four games in the first stage of the game to draw 4-4.
Gilbert and Maguire are the two dark horses of this World Championships, Gilbert eliminated the defending champion Brecel in the first round, and eliminated the seeded player Milkins in the second round, which can be called the biggest dark horse of this World Championships. Maguire eliminated world runner-up Carter in the first round and world champion Shaun Murphy in the second round. The first two games were fiercely contested, and both had a chance to win the game, Gilbert seized the opportunity to win two games in a row 65-23, 67-63, and in the next two games, Gilbert was even more firepower, he scored 83 points and 110 points in a single stroke and won two more games, and the big score was 4-0 ahead of Maguire. In the fifth game, Maguire stopped the loss in time, and pulled back a game after hitting 50+ with a single stroke, and in the sixth game, Gilbert scored 130 points with a single stroke to win, and then Maguire had a chance to close the score in the next two games, but unfortunately he did not seize the opportunity, Gilbert narrowly defeated the opponent in two consecutive games, and the big score was 7-1 far ahead of Maguire to end the first stage of the game, and the situation was bright to advance to the semifinals.