Posted April 8, 20241 yr Will anyone be watching the 17-day marathon? Can Luca Brecel retain his world title? Who do you think will win the world title at the Crucible? Qualifiers start today Live coverage will be on BBC and Eurosport. The championship will take place from 20th April- 6th May
April 8, 20241 yr Author Qualifying First Round Matches Martin Gould v Jimmy White Ryan Thomerson v Liam Davies Ian Burns v Dean Young Andy Lee v Andrew Pagett Rory Thor v Hamza Ilyas Ross Muir v Cheung Ka Wai Alfie Burden v Rebecca Kenna Ishpreet Singh Chandra v Gao Yang Sean O'Sullivan v Bulcsu Revesz Andres Petrov v Ahmed Aly Elsayed Adam Duffy v Mink Nutcharut Andrew Higginson v Duane Jones Louis Heathcote v Oliver Sykes Stuart Carrington v Himanshu Jain Alexander Ursenbacker v Iulian Boiko Allan Taylor v Vladislav Gardinari Marco Fu v Baipat Siripaporn Jiang Jun v Amir Sarkhosh Hammad Miah v Haydon Pinhey Muhammad Asif v Daniel Womersley Ma Hailong v Victor Sarkis Oliver Brown v Reanne Evans Fergal O'Brien v Mostafa Dorgham Long Zehuang v Sydney Wilson Rod Lawler v Gong Chenzhi Stan Moody v Mohammed Shehab xing Zihao v Michael Holt Jenson Kendrick v Bai Yulu Liam Pullen v Anton Kazakov Peng Yisong v Manasawin Phetmalaikul Mohamed Ibrahim v Peter Lines Ashley Carty v Liam Graham
April 8, 20241 yr Author Jimmy White gets a bye into the 2nd round with a walkover over Martin Gould. This will be Jimmy White's 45th World Championship he has played in every one since 1980, I think this breaks the record of Fred Davis. If anyone finds any free links or websites to live streaming for the World Championship qualifiers please share and I will do the same.
April 8, 20241 yr Author Ian Burns is the first winner of the World Championships, beating Scotsman Dean Young 10-1 in the first round and will play Mark Joyce in Round 2.
April 8, 20241 yr The Qualifiers are on Discovery+ - a months pass is 6.99 - just cancel after the tournament. Edited April 8, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype
April 10, 20241 yr After getting a bye through the first qualifying Jimmy White will be starting his campaign to reach the world championship for the first time since 2006 at 14:30 this afternoon - against Liu Hungyo - a 19 year old on his first year on tour - he reached the Semi Final of English Open earlier this season.
April 10, 20241 yr Author Jimmy Robertson 6 - Liam Davies 2. Jimmy has played well, Liam has had some chances.
April 11, 20241 yr Jimmy White gets a bye into the 2nd round with a walkover over Martin Gould. This will be Jimmy White's 45th World Championship he has played in every one since 1980, I think this breaks the record of Fred Davis. If anyone finds any free links or websites to live streaming for the World Championship qualifiers please share and I will do the same. I don't know what the stats are including qualifiers. However for the 'main draw' (including the challenge era) Fred Davis appeared in 31 tournaments, as O'Sullivan has qualified for this years tournament via Top 16 seeding he'll break that record with a 32nd appearance. Jimmy White has 25 appearances. Including the 2024 tournament for the 16 seeds in this years tournament it stands at Ronnie O'Sullivan - 32 Fred Davis - 31 John Higgins - 30 Steve Davis - 30 John Pulman - 28 Stephen Hendry - 27 Mark Williams - 26 Jimmy White - 25 Peter Ebdon - 24 John Parrot - 23 Eddie Charlton - 22 Rex Williams - 22 Shaun Murphy - 22 Alan McManus - 21 Dennis Taylor - 21 Ali Carter - 20 Graeme Dott - 20 Mark Selby - 20 Stephen Maguire - 20 I'll update this once we know the 16 qualifiers as some of those on that list are in the qualifiers. Edited April 17, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype
April 12, 20241 yr Jimmy White was eventually beaten by Liu Hongyu in the second qualifying round. Lots more matches to go until we get our 16 qualifiers!
April 12, 20241 yr Jimmy White was eventually beaten by Liu Hongyu in the second qualifying round. Lots more matches to go until we get our 16 qualifiers! Indeed - the real fun starts tomorrow morning when the higher ranked seeds join in the race. Edited April 13, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype
April 13, 20241 yr On who do you think will when - I reckon it's Ronnie's year - after the season he had it would only be appropriate to cap it off with an 8th world championship win. But I went with Selby last year and he lost in the final so we'll see. Edited April 13, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype
April 14, 20241 yr I'm going for Mark Williams or Judd Trump this year. Interestingly a couple of the pundits on Dave Hendon's Snooker Scene plumped for Trump as well. When asked for their outside shot, one picked Brecel and the other two Gary Wilson. Elsewhere O'Sullivan's in the press bashing the crucible as a venue again.
April 16, 20241 yr Well done to him! Wonder if he can make an impact further on in the competition? He's got a winnable but tough match against Jackson Page to qualify - so he might not even make it. If he overcomes that he might have a shot at the second round depending on who he draws. He's first turned pro in 2010 and his best performance came this season where he lost to Gary Wilson in the Scottish Open final - to date Noppon's only final. I definitely wouldn't see him as one to go deep in the Worlds.
April 17, 20241 yr Author Qualifying for the Crucible are: Ricky Walden (England) [Appearances 10] (First Appearance: 2009) Robbie Williams (England) [Appearances 4] (First Appearance: 2014) Dominic Dale (Wales) [Appearances 10] (First Appearance: 1997) Lyu Haotian (China) [Appearances 4] (First Appearance: 2018) Stuart Bingham (England) [Appearances 18] (First Appearance: 2000) Jak Jones (Wales) [Appearances 2] (First Appearance: 2023) Stephen Maguire (Scotland) [Appearances 20) (First Appearance: 2004) Jack Lisowski (England) [Appearances 8] (First Appearance: 2013)
April 17, 20241 yr Author Neil Robertson misses out on the Crucible for the first time since 2004 by losing to Jamie Jones 10-9.
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