On March 12, 2022, Beijing time, the snooker Turkey Masters ended the fifth matchday competition, and the final four were officially released. Ding Junhui beat Scarlett and Graeme Dort to return to the final four of the ranking after two years, and he will play Matthew Celt in the semi-finals. Trump, despite his poor form, still eliminated Zhou Yuelong and Ali Carter, and met with world champion Sean Murphy in the semifinals.
This matchday took the lead in the quarter-finals, with 5 Chinese players playing, only Ding Junhui successfully passed the hurdle, and he eliminated Si Jiahui 5-4. In addition to Si Jiahui's defeat in the decider, Lu Ning, Yan Bingtao, and Zhou Yuelong were all killed by their opponents in the decider. Runin lost 4-5 to Martin Gould, Yan Bingtao lost 4-5 to Oliver Lanes, and Zhou Yuelong once led Trump 4-3, he had the opportunity to end the game early, but he missed opportunities in succession, and was finally overturned by Trump.
In several other games, Matthew Celt eliminated Tachaia 5-1, Graeme Dort eliminated Higgins 5-4, Sean Murphy eliminated Jack Jones 5-3 and Ali Carter swept Sam Craig 5-0.
After the quarterfinals were decided, the matchday was followed by a quarter-final, and since Trump and Zhou Yuelong's match took a particularly long time, the winning Trump had little rest time and went straight to the quarterfinals. Facing Ali Carter, Trump went on to power in the second half to win 5-3. However, Trump only shot two 50+, the ability to score consecutive points still has not recovered, Ali Carter shot a hundred, three shots 50+, a bit of a pity.
Trump and another world champion, Sean Murphy, managed to meet, who only hit a one-shot breaker but came across 3-4 to eliminate Oliver Lanes 5-4.
Ding Junhui gradually got better, shooting 72 points, 102 points and 64 points in a row, beating Graeme Dort 5-1 and returning to the final four of the ranking tournament after two years. Obviously, Ding Junhui is getting better and better, playing better and better, of course, his opponent Graeme Dort does not play well, perhaps the game against Higgins is too much.
The winning Ding Junhui will face Matthew Sert in the semi-finals, who shot a one-hundred-and-three 50+ to complete the comeback after falling behind 0-2 to eliminate Martin Gould 5-3. Matthew Sert is in a stable state, he is the terminator of Zhao Xintong, perhaps after defeating Zhao Xintong, Matthew Sert gained self-confidence, defeating Tachaia and Martin Gould in succession. For Ding Junhui, this is also a difficult bone to gnaw.
On the sixth matchday, the semi-finals were held one after another. The first was at 19:30 on March 12, 2022, Ding Junhui played against Matthew Celt, followed by 1:00 a.m. the next day, Trump against Sean Murphy. Ding Junhui should be the most outstanding player in the final four, and I hope he will seize the opportunity to break the championship drought!