On May 1, Beijing time, the 1/4 finals of the 2024 World Snooker Championship continued.
Judd Trump vs. Jack Jones
World No. 2 against world No. 44, but the latter advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Championships, the instant world ranking soared to No. 29, Trump is still the world No. 2, he needs to reach the final to replace the immediate world No. 1 Allen, provided that he advances to the semifinals and knocks out the most likely opponent O'Sullivan, who is 4-4 Bingham in the first stage. Judging from the quarterfinals of this World Championships, there are 4 seeded players, 4 qualifying players, and the latter are all ranked around 40 before the start of the competition, which shows that this World Championships has been a big upset!
Jack Jones reached the quarter-finals on his debut at Crucible last year and now becomes the first player to reach the quarter-finals in the first two Crucible trips since Matthew Stevens (also a Welsh player) in 1998 and 1999. However, the performance outside of the World Championships was very average, and he never made it past the second round, which was also the foundation laid at last year's World Championships.
Trump is the first in the season and has won five championships in the ranking competition, and he has already said that "I want to compete with O'Sullivan in the semifinals, and see who is the best in the season as the five champions?" It may be a double harvest of career and love, Trump must have bold words every time he competes, and his results are beyond reproach, but every time he is widely announced, he will be "slapped in the face"! Just like the British Championship, Trump said, "I really feel that I am a player who does not often lose in the quarters and semifinals." I wouldn't say I'm in shaky form because I'm very stable. "I'm confident, but the opponent doesn't step up against me, and sometimes I really don't like that because you're too easy and you don't have pressure. ”
In the first 20 rounds, Trump only played 3 single-stroke 50+ shots, two of which came from the first and second rounds of the opening game. And in the 10th game of the snooker competition, it took a long time or Jack Jones 71-46 to have the last laugh. Judging from the data, in the first two stages, Trump had a success rate in the long platform, and the success rate of Security was leading, and the success rate of hitting the ball was almost the same, and the result was 8-8.
In the 17th game, Jack won the grappling 60-27, and Trump pulled one back 59-24, 9-9. Jack hit a single stroke of 60+ in two consecutive games, and scored 84 points in a single stroke in the 19th game to win with a clean sheet, leading 11-9. In the 20th game, the beginning of each had a chance to get started, Trump only scored 1 point for the second time, Jack led 18-7, and then stopped at 53, the table was up to 51 points, as the game progressed, Trump could win by 3 points if he cleared the table, but stopped at 21 points, the two started a long defensive competition around the last red ball, Jack took the lead again to beat off a red and a yellow to win, 12-9 to take the lead to get the match point! In the 21st game, Jack scored 106 points with a single shot under 5-25 behind.
In the whole game, Jack Jones played 9 single-stroke 50+, two of which broke 100 in a single stroke, and finally played a wave of four consecutive whips to lock the victory in one fell swoop, creating a career-best World Championship score of 13-9, tied for the best result in the ranking tournament, his previous best result in the ranking tournament was the 2022 Gibraltar Open all the way to defeat Luca Brecel, Neil Robertson and Stuart Bingham, and advanced to the semifinals and lost to Robert Milkins. But the prize money hit a record high, before last year's World Championships quarterfinals prize money of 50,000 pounds!
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