The 2023-2024 season of the Snooker Professional League continues, and on January 9, 2024, Beijing time, the quarterfinals of the Snooker Masters will be in full swing. Four players have already reached the quarterfinals. In terms of Chinese snooker players, although the double insurance combination composed of Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda tried their best, they still failed to compete for the championship of this Masters, so that Chinese snooker players were wiped out in this competition. In addition, the famous Mark Williams also failed to break into the quarterfinals of the Masters, which also left some regrets.
Ding Junhui's opponent in the first round of this Masters is the famous O'Sullivan, and the two sides have also made many moves this season. The official duel between the two in this season's Snooker Pro League is in the final of the British Championship. At that time, Ding Junhui had lost to his opponent, and in this season, the two of them had an exhibition match in the Macau Masters Invitational Tournament, and Ding Junhui was defeated on January 1 this year, Lhasa Star Challenge, Ding Junhui was 1:5 behind the unfavorable situation to complete, super, and finally 6:5, to the top of the final championship, and this competition The two of them made another move, Ding Junhui was in a backward situation as soon as he came up. In the case of losing four games first, Ding Junhui fought back, and finally rewrote the score to 3:4. In the seventh game, Ding Junhui hit the seventh perfect score of his career, and he was also in amazing shape. And if Ding Junhui can hit a perfect score again in the next World Championships, then Ding Junhui will share a huge reward of 147,000 pounds.
In the end, Ding Junhui defeated O'Sullivan with a score of 3:6 and missed the quarterfinals of the Masters, and also missed the second championship of the Masters. And Ding Junhui has suffered a round of tours in the last few Masters, and his state is very low, and in the next game, Ding Junhui still needs to overcome difficulties and set sail, which is also Ding Junhui's first round of travel in two consecutive games this season.
In addition, the game between Mark Williams and Ali Carter is also very competitive, the two of them played a score of 4:4 in the first eight games, and in the last two games, Mark Williams collapsed a little, and there were more mistakes in the game, and the accuracy declined In the end, Mark Williams lost to Ali Carter with a score of 4:6 and missed the championship of this Masters.