5-6! The world champion suffered three consecutive defeats, and Allen reversed Higgins to enter the quarterfinals

In the seventh match of the first round of the World Snooker Masters that just ended on January 11, 2024, Beijing time, the world's third-ranked Mark Allen and the world's twelfth-ranked John Higgins started a battle for a place in the quarterfinals.

In this game, Mark Allen's performance can be described as coming from behind. The world No. 3 player beat Higgins 6-5 to advance to the quarterfinals with a 123-3 down, 58, 86 and four-game winning streak.

After this match, Allen ushered in a three-game winning streak against Higgins. Next, he will face the winner between Mark Selby and Milkins for a ticket to the semifinals.

Higgins won the first game to draw 1-1 with Mark Allen

In the first game, Higgins was penalized 8 points for dropping two cue balls in a row as soon as he came up. Allen then seized the opportunity to hit the combo ball into the left bottom pocket to get the ball into the upper hand, but he only scored 18 points before he missed.

Higgins seized the opportunity to score a red ball and scored 46 points and also made a mistake, Allen made a defensive error, Higgins scored a red ball to get a chance to get a layup again, and was forced to switch to defense after scoring 22 points.

Due to the lack of super points, Allen chose to play and continue to play for a chance to reverse. But Higgins played an excellent defense at the critical moment, and Allen made a mistake in dissolving the ball and the cue ball fell into the bag and chose to concede defeat after being penalized for 4 points. Higgins won the game 72-26 to take a 1-0 lead over Allen.

In the second game, Allen scored 34 points and hit Jian Hei Ball and made a mistake, scoring 37 points and making mistakes. After many offensive and defensive duels, Allen won the game 66-59 and drew 1-1 with Higgins with the performance of the black ball three banks turning over the middle pocket.

Mark Allen lost two games in a row to trail Higgins 1-3

In the third game, Higgins seized the opportunity to score 36 points on the red ball and made a mistake, followed by a serious mistake in Allen's defense. Higgins scored a red ball to get back on the game and scored 83 points with a single shot to win the game with a 119-0 performance, thus continuing to lead Allen 2-1.

In the fourth game, Allen took the lead in the game and gave Higgins a chance to attack the red ball in the right bottom pocket. Higgins struggled into the right bottom pocket for a layup, but he then made a mistake when hitting the pink ball.

Allen scored 14 points in the right bottom pocket and then made a mistake in trying to pass three times, and Higgins hit the right middle pocket red ball to get back on the go. In the end, the strong Higgins won the game 81-14 with an excellent performance of 80 points with a single shot and took a 3-1 lead.

Judging from the overall performance throughout the first half, Higgins's competitive form is obviously much better than Allen's.

Higgins lost four games in a row to lose 5-6 to Mark Allen

In the fifth game, Allen scored 68 points with his excellent ability to seize opportunities, and won the game 68:43, thus trailing Higgins 2-3.

In the sixth game, Higgins made a serious mistake when hitting the key coffee ball, and then Allen scored the coffee ball to clear the table to the pink ball and won the game with a performance of 69:53 to draw 3-3 with Higgins and bring the two sides back to the same running line.

In the seventh game, Allen scored 58 points with a single shot and won the game 79:45, overtaking Higgins 4-3 to take the lead for the first time. In the eighth game, Allen seized the opportunity of Higgins' mistake to blast out a single-stroke performance of 123 points, won the game 123:7, and led Higgins 5-3 to get the match point first.

In the ninth game, Higgins scored 58 points with a single shot and won the game 79-4, 4-5 behind Allen. In the tenth game, Higgins scored 61 points with a single shot and won the game 88:8, thus drawing 5-5 with Allen and ushering in double match points.

In the eleventh game, Allen won the game with a single-stroke performance of 86 points, thus defeating Higgins 6-5 and successfully advancing to the quarterfinals.