On January 10, Beijing time, the first round of the 2024 Snooker Masters continued, and Trump, the defending champion of the event, ranked second in the world, faced Kyren Wilson, who was sixth in the world. In the end, the two fought for 11 rounds, and Trump reversed the opponent 6-5 after falling behind 0-3 and advanced to the quarterfinals!
Trump is one of the 80 Five Tigers, the latest world No. 2, has won 26 ranking tournaments so far in his career, three major tournaments, 1 World Championship, 1 British Championship, 2 Masters Championships, and is also the defending champion of the event. Beat Mark Williams 10-8 in an epic final at Alexandra Palace in 2023 to become one of only ten elite players to win the Masters multiple times. This is his fourth trivia title. In the final of the English Open, he won six games in a row after falling behind Zhang Anda 3-7 at one point, and finally won the championship 9-7. A week later, they defeated Ali Carter 10-7 in the final of the inaugural Wuhan Open to win back-to-back titles. In the next Northern Ireland Open, Teyu Mp defeated the dark horse Wakelin in the final to achieve three consecutive ranking titles.
Kyren Wilson is a post-90s snooker player, ranked ninth in the latest world rankings, won 5 ranking tournaments in his career, and reached the final of the World Championships for the first time in 2020, but lost to O'Sullivan and won the runner-up. Last year 2023, Kyren Wilson reached the final of the Tour Championship, losing 7-10 to Shaun Murphy and finishing runner-up. The two have met 29 times before, with Trump holding a slight advantage of 16-13.
The game adopts a best-of-11 system. In this game, Trump started slowly. In the first game, Kyren Wilson scored 65 points in a single stroke, taking the lead 70-27 and taking a 1-0 lead. In the second game, Kyren Wilson made persistent efforts and scored 76 points in a single stroke, winning 83-8 and expanding the lead with a big score of 2-0. In the third game, although Xiaote scored 58 points in a single stroke, but the key ball was wrong, Kyren Wilson started to complete the clearance, 66-58 single-game reversal, 3-0 lead to make a dream start. However, the subsequent game changed dramatically, in the fourth game, Trump scored 52 points in a single stroke, won 94-8, pulled back a game 1-3, and officially sounded the horn of counterattack.
Coming back in the second half, Kyren Wilson seemed to be a different person, with a cold hand and a very sluggish state. Trump began to fight back strongly, in the fifth and sixth games, Trump scored 101 points and 83 points in a single stroke respectively, won two games in a row, and the big score came to 3-4, and then in the seventh and eighth games, both of them were entangled, Kyren Wilson sent a big gift of mistakes many times, and his mentality was unbalanced, Trump went down two more cities, and the big score was 5-3 and took the lead in getting the match point. In the ninth game, the two were locked in a battle again, and Kyren Wilson won 64-44 with a multi-shot shot, saving a match point 4-5. In the tenth game, Kyren Wilson made persistent efforts and scored 58 points in a single stroke, winning 66-53 and winning the next game, and the big score was tied at 5-5. In the 11th game of the tiebreaker, Kyren Wilson took the lead and scored 55 points in a single stroke. The red ball in the large angle did not score a fatal mistake, and Trump cleared the table with one shot to lock up the win. In the final game, Trump reversed Kyren Wilson 6-5 and became the fifth player to advance to the top 8.