The second round of the 2024 Snooker World Championship continued, and Si Jiahui, the lone seedling of the Chinese Army, gradually launched a crazy counterattack in the second stage of the second round. Gilbert, the biggest dark horse in this World Championships, made great progress, and after knocking out the top seed in the first round, he defeated the 16th seed Milkins with a huge score of 13-4 in the second stage of the competition, and was the first to advance to the quarterfinals of this World Championships. World champion Judd Trump temporarily led 11-5 in the first two stages of the match against Tom Ford and advanced to the quarterfinals, while Maguire Jr. temporarily led 5-3 against eighth seed Shaun Murphy, and the promotion situation is still uncertain.
Chinese teenager Si Jiahui and Jack Jones have attracted much attention from the outside world, and both of them played well in the first round to knock out the seeded players to advance, among which Jack Jones defeated China's No. 11 seed Zhang Anda, while Si Jiahui eliminated No. 6 seed Mark Williams 10-9, and the two will meet in the second round. In the first stage of the game, Si Jiahui's playing style was too aggressive when the offensive state was surprisingly good, and the defense was full of holes, Si Jiahui was incredibly 2-6 behind Jack Jones, who was not strong in offensive ability. At the beginning of the second stage of the game, Si Jiahui took the lead, scored 51 points in a single stroke and recovered a game, and in the 10th game, Si Jiahui gave up the victory again, he made a defensive error when he was leading 66-55, and Jack Jones cleared the table after two points narrowly won to stretch the score to 7-3, and then in the 11th game Jack • Jones scored 55 points with a single stroke and won it in one go, with a big score of 8-3 far ahead of Si Jiahui, and the backward Si Jiahui then launched a counterattack, although he did not play a single high score, but he played more steadily, he won three games in a row without dominance of the situation and approached the score to 6-8, and the last two games of the second stage won one game each to set the score at 7-9, although Si Jiahui was behind but kept the hope of promotion.
Milkins, the No. 16 seed in the tournament, and Gilbert, who eliminated defending champion Brechel in the first round, unexpectedly showed a one-sided situation in the quarterfinals, Milkins seemed to run out of good luck after knocking out Chinese teenager Pang Junxu in the first round, and he failed to play at his due level in the second round against the unseeded Gilbert, Milkins was passive everywhere in the first stage, relying on opponent errors in the last game of the first stage to win 65-64, barely chasing the score to 3-5. In the second stage of the game, after both sides won one game each, Gilbert won six games in a row to lead 12-4, so that the outcome of the game completely lost suspense, and the third stage of the game became just a formality. At the beginning of the third stage of the game, Gilbert won 67-0 cleanly, defeated the seeded player Milkins with a total score of 13-4, and was the first to enter the quarterfinals of this World Championship.
The biggest feature of this World Championships is that the seeded players have fallen, and the dark horse players have advanced, but not all the seeded players have played badly, the favorite to win the championship, the No. 3 seed Trump won very easily, although he has not yet advanced to the quarterfinals, but he has no problem continuing to move forward. Against No. 14 seed Tomford, Trump dominated the first stage of the game, leading his opponent 6-2.
At the beginning of the second phase of the game, Trump blasted out a single shot to break 100 to expand the score, Tomford pulled back a city after hitting 73 points with a single stroke in the 10th game, but then Trump won two games in a row to expand the score to 9-3, and Tomford, who had no way out in the 13th game, struggled to pull back a game 69-32 enough for Trump to go down two more cities, and the big score was 11-4 far ahead, and Tomford broke out in the last game of the second stage, and the score was fixed at 5-11 after a single shot of 83 points, and there was no suspense for Trump to advance. World champion, the No. 7 seed Shaun Murphy and Maguire started the quarterfinals, the first six games of the game both sides each scored two high scores after the tie to a 3-3 draw, the seventh game Murphy felt cold, Maguire repeatedly attacked to win 68-1 beyond the score, the eighth game Maguire became more and more courageous, a single shot of 72 points after winning another game, the big score 5-3 lead Murphy to end the first stage of the game.