In the early morning of December 20, 2023, Beijing time, Chinese player Xiao Guodong defeated Ian Burns, ranked 93rd in the world, with a score of 5–1 in the qualifying round of the German Masters of Snooker and advanced to the round of 64.
Xiao Guodong
In the first game of the game, the two players had an average feel and made continuous mistakes, and Xiao Guodong won the game 63-50, leading Burns 1-0. In the second game, Xiao Guodong scored 107 points. In the third game, Burns only scored 52 points in three hands, and Xiao Guodong scored 65 points in a single stroke to achieve a single-game reversal. In the fourth game, Xiao Guodong made two starts and scored 119 points, and at the end of the first half, Xiao Guodong took a 4-0 lead.
Ian Burns
After halftime, in the fifth game, Burns twice got started through the long table red ball, scoring 30 points and 62 points respectively to recover a game. In the sixth game, both of them played many times, scored points piecemeal, and Xiao Guodong scored a black ball on the long platform, winning the game 62-60 and ending the game.
The detailed scores are as follows (Xiao Guodong vs Burns):
63–50；117（107）–7；66（65）–52；128（119）–0；12–92（62）；62–60。
Congratulations to Xiao Guodong for breaking into the main event of the 2023 German Snooker Masters, where he will face the winner between Tom Forde and Slipapong in the next round.
Tom Forde