The Round of 16 of the Snooker Masters has come to an end, and the last two matchups in the first half of the region have begun, one by the wizard Higgins vs. the little steel cannon Mark Allen, which will start at 21 o'clock Beijing time on January 10, and the other by Selby vs. Milkins, which will start at 3 o'clock in the morning on January 11.
In the two matchups that ended in the first half, defending champion Trump thrillingly defeated his brother Wilson 6:5, and captain Carter eliminated Golden Left Mark Williams 6:4. In the second half, the Rockets defeated Ding Junhui again 6:3, and maintained a total victory against Director Ding 6 times in the Masters. National Championship champion Zhang Anda lost to Magician Murphy 2:6, and the young driver Lisowski also beat the Belgian bullet Brecel 6:2. Neil Robertson is out of form and his heart is in Rome, losing 3:6 to Hawkins Hawkins.
The duel between the wizard Higgins and Mark Allen is quite interesting, after all, the two have a strong dialogue, are evenly matched, and have similar styles and advocate offense. Judging from the historical confrontation between the two, Allen has a slight upper hand with 14 wins and 11 losses, and from the perspective of the two ranking champions, Allen currently has 10 titles, and the wizard has 31 titles, as for the world ranking, Allen is 3rd, and the wizard is 12th. The duel between the two tonight is destined not to be wide open and one-sided, wait and see.
The battle between Higgins and Allen in the top 8 began, with 11 rounds and 6 wins, and the referee was the familiar Pozlova:
In the first four games, the wizard scored stronger than Allen in a single stroke, leading two games with a total score of 3:1, while Allen did not score 50 plus with one shot, and the specific scores of the two were (Wizard in front) 72:26, 59:66, 119 (83): 0, 81 (80): 14. Judging from the performance of the two in the first four games, the scene was not hot enough, it seemed dull, and the passion was insufficient, unlike in the 33rd duel of Ding Ao, the rockets played vigorously, passionately, and full of firepower, which made people's blood boil.
In the fifth game, Higgins started first, and after scoring 43 points in one shot, it was crucial to lose the red ball, and the loss was biased, and Allen took over the game, and the attack was aborted without a few shots. After that, there were not a few shots of attack and defense, Allen made a snooker that was not too difficult to make a shot, the wizard was not full, there was no solution to one shot, the table was leaking, Allen was simple to get started, a shot was clear, one shot was hit to a super score of 63:43, the blue ball was lost, and the table still had three balls of blue, pink and black, leading the net table by 2 points, theoretically, the wizard still had the possibility of making a snooker reversal to win, but it was just a theory, at the end of the game, or Allen picked up the bag and received the blue ball to pull back a game with 68:43, with a total score of 2:3, one game behind.
In the sixth game, the two of them have each other's hands, the number of easy balls, the wizard in the middle played a defensive ball, a match made in heaven, red pass red and entered, but unfortunately failed to win by one shot, at the end of the game, although the wizard picked up the leak and started again, but after a shot of red, the right side of the library color coffee ball, vigorously did not make a miracle, jumped out, the score was 53:54, a point behind, and Allen won with a shot, the score was 69:53, the total score was 3 draws, and the two sides returned to the starting line.
In the seventh game, although the wizard hit the long platform and scored a horse, but after scoring 44 points in one shot, the white ball was not in good position, and there was no red ball to play, so he forced a shot, intended to defend, but the red ball went straight to the bottom pocket, and the black ball fell straight to the table. At the end of the game, Allen won with one shot, a single stroke of 58, the score was 79:45, the total score was 4:3, and the lead was reversed.
In the eighth game, Allen started with one shot, a burst of nudge and fine play, the rod was connected, there was a advance, one shot to win, no intention to clear the black, the intention to perform unsuccessfully, and finally with a single stroke of 123:7, the score of 5:3 came from behind, the strength reversed, a wave of four consecutive whip output, the first to get the match point.
In the ninth and tenth games, Higgins, who had no way to retreat, played a single stroke of 58 and 61 respectively, and won two games in a row with 79:4 and 88:6, successfully chasing the total score to 5 draws, and the two sides fought for life and death. In the game of life and death, Allen still started to seal his throat with a single stroke of 86:0, and he did it in one go, with a total score of 6:5 to advance, congratulations to Allen!