On April 30, local time, Ronnie O'Sullivan (Ronnie O'Sullivan) fought hard to catch up with Stuart Bingham (Stuart Bingham) in the first stage of the quarterfinals of the 2024 World Snooker Championship to a 4-4 draw. In the game, seven-time world champion O'Sullivan missed several chance balls and hit the table with a club in the seventh inning.
O'Sullivan won the first of his seven world titles in 2001
Bingham was the 2015 world champion, and in the first eight innings, he hit four times with a single stroke of 50 or more, while "Rocket" hit two times with 50+, and in the fifth game, he hit the only single stroke of the two in the first stage to break 100.
Four-time champion John Higgins also bounced back from a 0-4 deficit and temporarily trailed Kyren Wilson 3-5 after the first period. David Gilbert, meanwhile, leads Stephen Maguire 10-6 in a match that will end at 14:30 local time on Wednesday.
O'Sullivan is on his way to chasing a record-breaking eight-time World Championship title
Nine years ago, Bingham beat O'Sullivan in the same round on his way to the Crucible Theatre. This time against the "Rocket" again, Bingham started with a break speed of 55, 75 and 79 points in a single stroke to gain a firm foothold faster, which allowed him to win three of the first four games, and O'Sullivan was a little out of shape.
Stuart Bingham and Ronnie O'Sullivan are temporarily tied 4-4.
But Bingham said he would have to play close to "perfect" to defeat current world No. 1 and 41-time ranking champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. Before Bingham won the last game of the afternoon, a wonderful break of 116 points helped O'Sullivan win three games in a row.