On May 2, 2024, Beijing time, the main event of the World Snooker Championship ended the 11th day of competition. With the end of this competition day, all the top four seats of this competition will be produced. In the first round of the main event, eight seeded players were out, including Selby, Brecel and Ding Junhui, and in the 1/8 match, four seeded players including Mark Allen and Shaun Murphy were out. In the 1/4 game, Trump, the biggest favorite to win the championship in this competition, was upset.
The performance of the Chinese Legion in this competition is difficult to describe, although the Chinese Legion has achieved a good result of one championship and six runners-up this season, and all professional players in this World Championship have participated, but unfortunately only 5 people appeared in Crucible. In the first round of the main competition, he achieved an embarrassing record of 1 win and 4 losses, and only Si Jiahui advanced to the finals, and then Si Jiahui was eliminated 9:11, and the Chinese army created the worst record in this competition.
All 1/4 matches were played on this match day, in which Trump and the biggest dark horse Jack Jones ended first, and finally Trump lost 9:13, missed the semifinals, and missed the opportunity to reach the top of the world this season. David Gilbert then defeated six-time ranking champion Harry Maguire 13-8 to advance to the semi-finals. Here are the results of the other two quarters.
Higgins 8:13 Kyren Wilson
Higgins has won 31 ranking tournaments in his career, including four at the World Championships. Higgins has a solid style of play, especially in the control of the cue ball and his ability to surround the ball at a world-class level, but as he gets older, his form has declined to the naked eye. Higgins has reached the semi-finals of the tournament six times in a row this season, but has failed to make a breakthrough. In the 1/8 match of this tournament, facing Mark Allen, the two sides dragged the game into a tiebreaker, and completed a super reversal after falling behind by 60 points, reflecting the level that a world champion should have.
Kyren Wilson has won 5 ranking tournaments in his career and is one of the best post-90s players. With Brecel winning the World Championships, Kyren Wilson was left behind. His form has been poor in the last two seasons, with several stoppages in the first two rounds of the competition. There are signs of recovery in this competition.
After the start of the game, Kyren Wilson quickly entered the state, scoring 70 points, 95 points, 93 points and 71 points in a row, and won four games in a row, leading 4:0. In the fifth game, Higgins scored 129 points in a single stroke to pull back a game. In the sixth game, Kyren Wilson scored 121 points in a single stroke to win the game. Subsequently, Higgins scored 73 points and 102 points in a single stroke, and won three games in a row, falling behind 4:5. In the 10th game, Kyren Wilson scored several times and finally won the game 60-9. In the 11th game, Kyren Wilson scored 94 points in a single stroke and won 128:1, leading 7:4.
In the 12th game, Kyren Wilson scored 53 points in a single stroke and won the game 68:26. In the 13th game, Kyren Wilson seized the opportunity to score and finally won the next game 71-8. Subsequently, Higgins fought back strongly, and in the 14th game, Higgins won with a single stroke of 73 points. In the 15th game, Higgins won the game 72-64. In the 16th game, Higgins scored many times, and finally won the game 61:13, falling behind 7:9. In the 17th game, Higgins won the next game 61-14. At the critical moment, Kyren Wilson scored 56 points, 101 points and 61 points in a row, won four games in a row, and won 13:8 to advance to the semifinals.
O'Sullivan 10:13 Bingham
O'Sullivan is temporarily ranked No. 1 in the world rankings, and at the end of this competition, 500,000 points will be deducted from his 2022 World Championship championship, and if he can't win this competition, the world No. 1 will be replaced by Mark Allen. O'Sullivan has won 5 championships this season, and he has only participated in 11 races, which shows how hot his form is. At present, the Rockets have achieved 7 laps of the Grand Slam, and they are only one World Championship champion away from the 8th lap of the Grand Slam, so the championship of this competition is bound to win.
Bingham has won a number of ranking tournaments in his career, including the World Championship and the Masters, just one away from a Grand Slam. Bingham was banned for betting in 2017 and has been tepid since his comeback, and since winning the 2020 Tour Championship, his form has continued to decline, and his world ranking has also dropped.
At the beginning of the game, in the first four games, Bingham took a 3:1 lead with four 50+ strokes. Subsequently, O'Sullivan won three games in a row with a single stroke to break 100 and 1 shot of 50+, leading 4:3. In the eighth game, Bingham scored many times and finally won the game 72-0. In the ninth game, Bingham won the game with a single shot of 108 points, leading 5:4. Subsequently, O'Sullivan won two games in a row with 105:18 and 67:61, leading 6:5. In the 12th game, Bingham seized the opportunity to score and finally won the game 60-29, and the score was tied 6-6.
O'Sullivan then scored 79 and 84 points in a single stroke, winning 2 games in a row. In the last two games of the second stage, Bingham scored 125 points and 92 points in a row, and the score was tied 8:8. In the 17th game, O'Sullivan scored 136 points with a single shot to win. In the dialogue, Bingham scored 63 and 67 points in a single stroke, and won two games in a row. In the 20th game, O'Sullivan scored 62 points in a single stroke to win the game. Subsequently, Bingham won three games in a row, and advanced to the semifinals with a big score of 13:10.
Semi-final match-up draw
- David Gilbert vs Kyren Wilson
- Jack Jones vs Bingham