0-3 to 3-4! China's new star fell short, losing to the world champion, and the first top 4 players were produced
The 2023 Snooker Macau Masters ended the competition for the first quarterfinals, and the Chinese rising star Si Jiahui fell short, once chasing from 0-3 to 3-4, but then was taken away by Mark Williams with two consecutive wins, and finally lost to the world champion Mark Williams with a total score of 3-6 and missed the semifinals.
The Macau Masters is an invitational tournament, with a championship prize of 150,000 pounds, attracting O'Sullivan and Ding Junhui, two of the most popular players in Chinese, and also invited top players such as Trump, Mark Williams, Kyren Wilson, and Si Jiahui and Fu Jiajun, two local Chinese players, and the overall level of participation is very high.
In terms of competition system, the Macau Masters is divided into two groups of AB, which is actually the upper and lower halves, including Ding Junhui and Si Jiahui in Group A, two Chinese players, Ding Junhui and Trump in the first round staged a strong dialogue between the five tigers after the 80s, and Si Jiahui is to challenge the 48-year-old world champion Mark Williams.
Mark Williams has won 3 World Championships, is a snooker Grand Slam player who has collected the World Championships, the British Championships, and the Masters 3 championships, has very rich experience in the competition, and has excellent psychological quality, although he is 48 years old, but Mark Williams is still online, and currently maintains the top ten rankings in the world.
Si Jiahui's style of play is biased towards offense, in the Snooker World Championship last season, with the super accuracy of a single ball and the ability to continue scoring, Si Jiahui became the biggest dark horse, all the way to the top 4 of strong opponents, and even infinitely close to the final, but unfortunately Si Jiahui was the final champion Brecel's super reversal, and once lost 11 games in a row in the game was completely stunned, and passed by the World Championships finals.
Perhaps, Si Jiahui's offense can be comparable to Mark Williams, but in other technical aspects, Si Jiahui still needs to be strengthened. In this campaign, in the first quarter-finals of the Macau Masters, Mark Williams took the lead in entering the state, winning the first three games in a row to take a 3-0 lead. Si Jiahui then caught up and broke 100 with a single stroke, once chasing 3-4, only one game behind, which restarted the suspense of victory and defeat. However, in the key game, Mark Williams performed toughly, winning the eighth and ninth games in a row, and locked the victory with a total score of 6-3, and the first top 4 players in this tournament were produced: Mark Williams!
According to the draw, Mark Williams will wait for the winner between Ding Junhui and Trump, in the previous semifinals of the Snooker British Championship, Ding Junhui had defeated Trump, hoping that Ding Junhui can beat Trump again in this Macau Masters.