The 2024 World Snooker Championship ended with four eight-in-four competitions, and as a result, the world's No. 2 Trump and the world's No. 1 O'Sullivan were eliminated successively, causing a shocking upset, among which the No. 2 seed O'Sullivan lost to the veteran Bingham 10-13, and the No. 3 seed Trump lost to Jack Jones 9-13. Wilson, who defeated four-time world champion John Higgins 13-8 in the eight-in-four tournament to become the only seeded player in the top four. In addition to the three winners, the final spot in the semi-finals went to Potato brother Gilbert, who defeated former world top five Harry Maguire 13-8 in a dark horse battle.
This World Championships can be called the coldest in recent years, the seeded players have been upset and eliminated, there are eight seeded players in the first round, and only four seeded players are left after the second round, but the world's No. 1 O'Sullivan and the world's No. 2 Trump are strong, and their strength seems to make the outside world realize that the champion of this World Championship is either O'Sullivan's, or Trump's, the two teamed up to take away more than half of the ranking championships this season, but this World Championship seems to be going to carry out the upset to the end, the world's first, Second, in the eight-in-four game, he was eliminated one after another. O'Sullivan and Bingham compete for the semi-finals, although the latter is also the world champion, but the current world ranking is only 29th, far from O'Sullivan, and the outside world generally believes that there is no suspense for the Rockets to advance before the game.
In the first stage of the game, O'Sullivan won three games in a row when he fell behind 1-3, and finally the two were evenly divided into a 4-4 draw, and in the second stage of the game, O'Sullivan lost two games in a row when he was leading 8-6, and the two sides shook hands and fought to an 8-8 draw. At the beginning of the third stage of the game, O'Sullivan scored 136 points with a single stroke to win the 17th game, and Bingham, who was behind, scored 63 points and 67 points with a single stroke and won two games in a row to overtake the score, and in the 20th game, O'Sullivan scored 62 points with a single stroke to take away the victory, and the first 20 games between the two sides were tied 10-10. In the crucial 21st game, O'Sullivan's offense was a little aggressive, Bingham seized the opportunity of the opponent's mistake to attack many times and narrowly won 65-44, and then Bingham was unstoppable in the next two games, he won two games in a row after breaking 100 with a single stroke, and the total score was 13-10 to knock out the world's No. 1 O'Sullivan and advance to the semifinals.
World No. 2 Trump and Jack Jones competed for the semifinals, the first two stages of the two sides played difficult to solve the battle to a 8-8 draw, the first two games of the third stage of the game and the two sides each fought a 9-9 draw, and then Jack Jones suddenly broke out, he won four games in a row and the big score was 13-9 to knock Trump out. Four-time world champion Higgins and the strongest post-90s Kyren Wilson competed for the semifinals, this game Higgins played very tenacious, but Kyren Wilson always took the initiative on the court, the first stage of the game Kyren Wilson started 4-0 and then took a 5-3 lead, in the second stage of the game Kyren Wilson won four games in a row after losing one game and the big score was 9-4 ahead, Higgins won three games in a row to close the score to 7-9. In the third stage of the game, Higgins took the lead, he attacked many times and won 61-14 to close the score to 8-9, but then Kyren Wilson scored 56 points, 101 points, and 61 points in a single stroke and won four games in a row, and easily eliminated Higgins with a total score of 13-8 and advanced to the semifinals. With all the other seeded players being eliminated, Kyren Wilson, the strongest post-90s generation, ushered in the best chance to win the World Championships, and it depends on whether he can seize the opportunity this time.
Two dark horses Gilbert and Maguire competed for the semi-finals, the first stage of the game Gilbert on the firepower of the 7-1 disparity score to take the lead, although the second stage of the game Maguire caught up but still 6-10 behind, the third stage of the game between the two sides of the Gilbert always took the initiative, the final score of 13-8 defeated Maguire, head held high to the semi-finals of the World Championships. In the next semi-final competition, Bingham vs. Jack Jones, and the strongest Kyren Wilson after the 90s vs. Gilbert, the semi-final system is 33 rounds and 17 wins.