Ding Junhui scored 147 points, still lost to O'Sullivan, and missed the top 8 of the Masters. In the first round of the 2024 Snooker Masters, China's first brother Ding Junhui played against the world's No. 1 O'Sullivan, Ding Junhui's state in this game was not bad, and he scored 147 points in a single stroke, but in the end he lost to O'Sullivan 3-6 and suffered a round of tours, and with Ding Junhui out, all Chinese players have been eliminated.
There are two Chinese players participating in this Masters, and in the previous game, Zhang Anda lost to Shaun Murphy and missed the top 8, so that only Ding Junhui still retains the hope of promotion, but Ding Junhui's signing luck is relatively poor, and he will face O'Sullivan in the first round. Ding Junhui and O'Sullivan have played each other 32 times before, Ding Junhui has only won 7 times, in last year's British Championships, O'Sullivan defeated Ding Junhui in the final and won the championship, and in the Masters, the two also had a record of fighting, but Ding Junhui was difficult to win. In the previous Lhasa Invitational Tournament, Ding Junhui defeated O'Sullivan 6-5, but the official did not recognize the event. In this game, in the first game, both of them had some mistakes at the beginning, but O'Sullivan took the lead in seizing the opportunity, blasted out a single stroke of 67 points, and won the first game 100-27. In the second game, Ding Junhui took the lead and made a mistake after only scoring 12 points, and then O'Sullivan got started and made a mistake quickly, but Ding Junhui's hand was even worse, and O'Sullivan won another game 74-37 with many starts.
In the third game, O'Sullivan made a mistake, Ding Junhui got started, but only scored 32 points to give up the opportunity, and then O'Sullivan got started and directly hit a single shot of 87 points to win, with a total score of 3-0 lead. In the fourth game, Ding Junhui made a mistake in defense, O'Sullivan got started, and directly hit a single stroke of 106 points to win again, and the total score was 4-0 leading into the break. In the fifth game, Ding Junhui made a mistake, but O'Sullivan only scored 6 points and also made a mistake, and then the two got into a fight, and there were some low-level mistakes, Ding Junhui relied on many starts, and won a game with difficulty 61-59. In the sixth game, Ding Junhui directly scored 92 points in a single stroke and won another game. In the seventh game, O'Sullivan made a mistake, Ding Junhui got started, and scored 147 points in a single stroke, chasing the total score to 3-4, and this was also the seventh time in Ding Junhui's career that he scored 147 points in a single stroke. In the eighth game, Ding Junhui took the lead, but only scored 8 points to give up the opportunity, and then O'Sullivan scored 127 points with a single stroke to win the game, with a total score of 5-3 to get the match point.
In the ninth game, Ding Junhui made a mistake, O'Sullivan got started twice, and scored 93 points in a single stroke to lock the win, thus winning with a total score of 6-3 and successfully advancing to the top 8. Throughout the game, the two sides still played fiercely, although Ding Junhui hit a single stroke of 147 points, but did not change the passive situation, still suppressed by O'Sullivan, and with Ding Junhui out, Chinese snooker has missed the top 8 of this Masters in advance. This article was originally written by Xiao Lizi, please do not plagiarize or carry it.