On May 1, 2024, the World Snooker Championship continued, the champion was in trouble, although Higgins won three games in a row, but Kyren Wilson won 7-9 in two stages, and Trump lost to Jack Jones 9-13, O'Sullivan ushered in a new positive.
Higgins's achievements are second only to O'Sullivan, don't look at the world ranking 13th, but he holds 31 ranking championships, 9 championships in three major competitions, including 4 World Championships with the highest gold content, Higgins's comprehensive strength is undoubted, the previous reversal of Mark Allen, it is still fresh in people's memories, the biggest problem is that the long-term game is limited by physical fitness, which makes it difficult to maintain stable performance, so it is easy to suddenly drop off.
Kyren Wilson is a post-90s player, ranked 12th in the world, has won 5 ranking tournament championships, as well as the World Championships, Masters runner-up, although he is the post-90s player with the largest number of ranking tournament champions, but Kyren Wilson does not have three major championships, and he is always a little worse at critical moments, leaving many regrets.
After the start of the game, Kyren Wilson performed strongly, playing a single stroke of 95 points, 93 points, 71 points, 70 points to win four games in a row, and then Higgins blasted out a single stroke of 129 points and colored, Kyren Wilson returned a single stroke of 121 points, Higgins hit a single stroke of 102 points, 73 points and two games in a row, the first stage of the two sides at least a single stroke 70+, it can be seen that both of them are online, this game is of high quality.
In the 9th game, the two sides made mistakes with each other, Higgins played many times and won the grappling 61-37, in the 10th game Kyren Wilson was not to be outdone, and completed the overscore with 60-9, in the 11th game Kyren Wilson scored 94 points in a single stroke, and in the 12th game Kyren Wilson scored 53 points in a single stroke and won another game 68-26, and in the 13th game Kyren Wilson seized the opportunity to win the game 71-8, Higgins's energy was a little unable to keep up.
However, Kyren Wilson's defense is average, always leaking the ball to give the opponent a chance, in the 14th game Higgins scored 73 points in a single stroke, in the 15th game the two sides fought for black, Higgins withstood the pressure and won 72-64, in the 16th game Higgins won the battle 61-13, Kyren Wilson led Higgins 9-7, failed to keep the 9-4 advantage, and was won three games in a row by Higgins, so as to leave the suspense to the next stage.
Earlier, the number one dark horse was born, the qualifiers eliminated the favorite 13-9, Jack Jones can win the world's second Trump, it is indeed unexpected, this is also the second time that Jack Jones has reached the semi-finals of the ranking tournament, tying the best result of his career, Trump is out in the second half, Higgins is behind the opponent in the first half, O'Sullivan is more relaxed, but the premise is that he wants to win Bingham.