Beijing time on January 12 news, last night and this morning, the snooker Masters ended 2 first rounds of competition, O'Sullivan 6-1 victory sowski, Selby 6-3 eliminated Maguire, so far, the eight finals of the Masters have been determined 6 people: Mark Williams, Higgins, Neil Robertson, Barry Hawkins, O'Sullivan, Selby.
In this Masters, China Snooker 2 people participated, there was no Ding Junhui, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, of which Yan Bingtao was still the defending champion, but unfortunately, Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong stopped in the first round in the previous two competition days. The Masters are all top masters, following Mark Williams and Higgins, another 75 three Je o Sullivan also won 6-1 in the general office late last night to Lisovsky into the quarterfinals, O'Sullivan won 5 consecutive sets after the general manager 1-1, and blasted 5 in a row, including 2 shots to break the hundred, which shows that O'Sullivan is in hot form.
In the early hours of this morning, Selby also eliminated Maguire to the quarterfinals with a general managerial score of 6-3. In this Masters, the defending champion Yan Bingtao occupied the status of the number one seed, the world's first Selby was listed as the No. 2 seed, the first round opponent Maguire was very tough, the past 31 meetings, the two won 15 games and drew 1 game each. In this campaign, Selby's state can actually only be regarded as very general, the technical statistics have no advantage, only played 1 shot 50+, even, the opponent Maguire's wonderful single shot more, single shot 50+ times is also more, however, Maguire is not stable enough, and stability is just one of Selby's labels, with a stable shot, Selby finally got a relatively easy victory.
With O'Sullivan and Selby advancing to the quarter-finals, the 1/4 finals of this Masters' 3 group were released: Among them, Higgins pk Mark Williams, O'Sullivan pk Neil Robertson, these 2 games are the pinnacle showdown between world champions, and Snooker NO.1 Selby is the luckiest against Barry Hawkins, the only non-world champion among the 6 top eight players who have been produced so far.