In the early morning of May 2, Beijing time, the 23/24 Snooker World Championship ended all the 1/4 finals, and the top four competition was full of upsets. With "Rocket" O'Sullivan losing 10-13 to Bingham, Bingham became the last player to advance to the semifinals after Jack Jones, David Gilbert, and Kyren Wilson. Seven-time champion O'Sullivan dreamed of Crucible, and the three champions of O'Sullivan, Trump and Higgins were unfortunately out. There is only one Bingham left in the world championship.
Trump
Jack Jones
In the first period of the match at 17:00 yesterday, the first semi-final spot was decided between No. 3 seed Judd Trump and Welsh's Jack Jones. Trump, the five-time champion this season, faced Jack Jones, who had the best result in this year's ranking tournament and was only in the round of 16, played substandardly, lacked confidence to win, no longer had accuracy, and made many mistakes. In the first two stages, when the two sides fought to an 8-8 draw, at the beginning of the third period, Jones seized Trump's pink ball mistake and overscored by one shot. Then in the eighteenth game, Trump grabbed Jones' bag to equalize the score. Jones then went into the break with two straight wins and an 11-9 run. Jones came back from the break and took the lead in getting match point. In the match point game, after Trump made an offensive error, Jones seized the opportunity to score 106 points in a single stroke. In the end, Jack Jones defeated world champion Trump 13-9 and became the first player to advance to the semifinals.
David Gilbert:
Stephen Maguire
In the second period of the match, which started at 21:00 yesterday, David Gilbert became the second player to advance to the semifinals. England's David Gilbert was in great form against Scotland's Stephen Maguire, with Gilbert hitting three (110, 130, 130) and three 50+ (83, 73, 67) and Maguire hitting a 111 and six 50+ (63, 50, 60, 84, 74, 64). At the end of the first two periods, Gilbert led Maguire with a score of 10-6, and after the opening of the third period, Maguire won one game first, followed by Gilbert in the eighteenth game, Maguire scored 64 points in a single stroke in the nineteenth game to win, and Gilbert seized the opportunity to win and took the lead in getting the match point in the twentieth game. In the first half of the third stage, the two sides played to a 2-2 draw, and after the break, Gilbert seized the opportunity to seal the victory in the 21st game, and in the end, Gilbert defeated Maguire with a score of 13-8 to advance to the semifinals.
Kyren Wilson
John Higgins
No. 12 seed Kyren Wilson and four-time world champion and No. 13 seed John Higgins battled the second stage at 17:00, and Kyren Wilson took a 5-3 lead in the first period. The second period began in the ninth inning, and the attacks of the two sides changed hands several times, and Higgins seized the opportunity to win. Wilson then won three games in a row to extend the lead again, leading Higgins 8-4 into the break. After the break, Wilson kept his hand in the next game. Higgins then scored 73 points in a single stroke and reversed the game in a single game, winning three games in a row to narrow the difference. In the end, Kyren Wilson led Higgins 9-7 into the third period. The third stage of the competition between the two sides started at 02:00 this morning. After the start of the third period, Higgins pulled back a game to chase the score to 8-9, but then Wilson was unstoppable, hitting a single stroke of 101 and 56 points to win three games in a row, 12-8 to take the lead to get the match point into the intermission. After returning from the break, Wilson scored 61 points in a single stroke to achieve a single-game reversal, and finally defeated Higgins 13-8 and reached the semifinals of the World Championships for the fourth time in his career!
O'sullivan
Stuart Bingham
The final semi-final spot is between two world champions, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Bingham. The first stage of the battle between the two sides ended in a 4-4 draw, and the timing of the second and third phases of the game was carried out one after another, which was really not friendly enough for the 48-year-old rocket. In the second stage, Bingham hit two shots to break 100 (108, 125) and two shots of 50+ (60, 92), and O'Sullivan hit two shots of 50+ (79, 84), and the two sides fought again to a 4-4 draw in the second stage, and the two sides entered the third stage with a score of 8-8. At the beginning of the third stage, O'Sullivan overtook the score with 136 points in a single stroke, and Bingham overtook the score again with 67 and 63 points 10-9 in a single stroke. In the 20th game, O'Sullivan refused to reverse with a single stroke of 62 points, and the two tied again 10-10 and entered the intermission. After returning from the break, Bingham scored 104 points in a single stroke to win two games in a row, and took the lead to get the match point 12-10. In the 23rd game, Bingham made a mistake after playing a 50-point lead, but O'Sullivan failed to achieve a single-game reversal, and Bingham cleared the table to defeat O'Sullivan with a score of 13-10, and the 2015 world champion advanced to the semifinals of the World Championships again.
The semi-final matchups are as follows:
Jack Jones vs Stewart Bingham
Kyren Wilson vs David Gilbert