In the early morning of January 9, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker Masters continued. In a key game in the 1/8 finals, "China's first brother" Ding Junhui lost 3-6 to seven-time world champion "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan. He scored a perfect score of 147 points in a single stroke in the seventh game, which made O'Sullivan highly praised in the post-match interview.
The 2024 Snooker Masters is the second event of 2024. In the first round, Ding Junhui, the "first brother of China", once again ushered in the "Ding Olympics" with "Rocket" O'Sullivan. In this game, O'Sullivan was full of firepower and won the game 6-3. Ding Junhui did not have to be disappointed, the single stroke in the seventh game was 147 points, which was perfect enough.
In the earlier Champions League Invitational Edition, Ding Junhui did not sign up for the competition, and O'Sullivan confirmed his participation. In fact, Ding Junhui has a very good record in the Champions League, winning the tournament in 2012 after beating Judd Trump. One of the most important reasons why Director Ding did not participate in the Champions League was to prepare for the first round of the Masters and O'Sullivan.
According to the rules of the Champions League, the 25 players invited to participate are divided into 7 groups with a total of 7 players in each group. Among them, except for the first group, which has already confirmed 7 players, the other 6 groups have only 3 players in the initial stage.
The 4 players who did not arrive were rolled in from the runners-up of the previous group and the top five players in the group round-robin. The seven players from the first group were the first to start the single round-robin match.
The top four teams in the round-robin round robin will play in the semi-finals and then the group finals, with the group winners going to the winners' bracket and the runners-up and the other three of the top five in the round-robin rolling over to the smaller group. In the end, the winner of each group determines the overall winner. And Ding Junhui, who did not participate in this Champions League, also proved with 147 points that his rest during this period was worth it, no wonder O'Sullivan also praised Ding Junhui's 147 points.