On January 11, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker Masters continued, and the top 16 players faced off in the first round, and finally the world's first, second, third, fifth, sixth, tenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth advanced to the quarterfinals! What's more, if the World Championships can play more than one more shot, he will lock in a huge prize fund of 147,000 pounds, and there is no upper limit! Xu Si, who won the China Tour at the end of last year, also has a chance, and he took the lead in the British Championship qualifying round to hit a single stroke 147.
2 Chinese players participated in this station, Ding Junhui lost to O'Sullivan 3-6, four encounters in the past month or so, Ding Junhui won one win and three losses, and the final loss of the British Championship made him unable to break the championship drought of more than four years! However, the runner-up prize of 100,000 pounds allowed him to return to the Masters, you must know that the former world No. 1 officially fell out of the top16 after the 2021 British Championship, to No. 27, and then all the way down to No. 38! This is called Ding Junhui's dormant period! Until the world ranking announced on December 4, 2023, Ding Junhui rose to No. 15 and returned to the top 16 after 595 days, because he advanced to the final from the qualifying round for two consecutive years. After the German Masters qualifying tournament on December 22, due to Neil Robertson's deduction of 129,000 pounds of bonus points, the ranking plummeted, Ding Junhui's ranking rose to 9th, and the Chinese players returned to the top 10 after Zhao Xintong. According to the latest world rankings, Ding Junhui's ranking dropped two places to No. 11!
Zhang Anda became the 95th rookie in the history of the Masters by virtue of the National Championship championship and the runner-up of the English Open, and he was also the sixth person in China in the Masters, among which Ding Junhui won the championship with one crown, Yan Bingtao with one crown, Fu Jiajun with one crown, Liang Wenbo and Zhao Xintong both of them were in one round! Zhang Anda was also in the first round of the 2-6 world No. 6 Murphy, and failed to replicate Yan Bingtao's debut to win the championship. He is currently ranked 13th in the world, down one place from his career-high ranking at the German Masters qualifiers.
The world No. 1 is still O'Sullivan, although Trump was once close to 21,000 pounds, and now it has expanded to 100,000 pounds! According to his latest developments, "8, 8, 8, let's come on!" It can be seen that his ambition is still the same, aiming for an eight-lap Grand Slam, and Jimmy White revealed that it is ten laps! In this way, O'Sullivan will dominate snooker for many years, after all, as long as he wants to, it is difficult for anyone to resist! In this way, he may surpass Hendra's world No. 1 world record of 471 weeks, although there are still about 100 weeks left! Ding Junhui said after the game, "A top player like him, he always knows how to play under pressure!"
Allen played a wave of four whips after falling behind 1-3, and won with a single stroke of 88 points, narrowly defeated Higgins 6-5, and advanced to the top eight masters, and the ranking remained unchanged and was still third in the world.
In this station, world No. 4 Luca 2-6 world No. 16 Lisowski. World No. 5 Selby defeated world No. 14 Milkins 6-1. World No. 7 Robertson 3-6 World No. 15 Hawkins. World No. 8 Mark Williams 4-6 World No. 10 Ali Carter, World No. 9 Kyren Wilson 5-6 World No. 2 Trump. Masters prize money does not count towards the world ranking, but the world ranking determines the qualification for the Masters!
Outside the top 16, new Scottish Open champion Gary Wilson is 17th, Tomford is 18th, Wafay is 19th, and Ryan Day is 20th.
Among the Chinese players, Zhou Yuelong is 21st, Si Jiahui is 28th, Lu Haotian is 30th, Pang Junxu is 31st, Fan Zhengyi is 33rd, and there are 6 Chinese players in the top 64! However, if Tian Pengfei and Xu Si are ranked close to 60th, there is also the possibility of losing their professional qualifications! And Peng Yisong, a sophomore ranked 92nd in the world, is still 43,000 bonus points away from 64th, and if he can't seize the opportunity of the German Masters, China Open, and World Championships, there is a high probability of relegation!
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