On January 22, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker World Grand Prix came to an end, and O'Sullivan won the championship!
O'Sullivan played a wave of six consecutive whips from 0-4, 3-6 behind, and finally won the 41st crown of the ranking tournament 10-7, achieving the triple crown of the World Grand Prix and winning the championship bonus of 100,000 pounds!
Judd Trump opened four consecutive whips but suffered a big reversal, made many fatal mistakes and lost a good game, O'Sullivan's competitive state was much worse than when he faced Ding Junhui in the semifinals, but Trump left the coffee ball directly in the bag in the clear stage, so that he could not be defeated!
Trump 7-10 missed the fourth championship of the event after 2015, 2019 and 2020, and missed the chance to become the only quadruple champion in the history of the competition, and is now tied with O'Sullivan for the triple crown. After the English Open, Wuhan Open and Northern Ireland Open, he won his fourth ranking title of the season. The only consolation is the £40,000 prize money for the runner-up!
Ding Junhui 1-6 O'Sullivan in the semifinals, only scored 85 points in a single stroke in the second game to win a face-saving game, and the remaining O'Sullivan scored four single-stroke breaks 100, two single-stroke 60+, and the whole game only took 72 minutes.
Cao Yupeng, who is also a semi-finalist, suffered two waves of three consecutive whips, and there was no single stroke of 50+ in the whole game, 2-6 Trump, missed the second ranking final of the season, and the two each won 20,000 pounds, equivalent to about 180,000 yuan, tied for third.
Zhang Anda suffered four consecutive whips after winning the grappling in the first game, and played three single-stroke 50+ in the whole game, one of which broke 100 in a single stroke, and lost to Ding Junhui, who played four single-stroke 50+ and broke 100 in a single stroke, stopped in the quarterfinals 2-5 with a bonus of 12,500 pounds.
New Scottish Open champion Gary Wilson suffered five consecutive whip reversals under the first game 67-57 victory, O'Sullivan hit four single-stroke 50+, and Wilson stopped in the quarterfinals 1-5.
Selby 1-5 Trump, the latter opened four consecutive whips, Selby 0-23 fell behind and played a single shot to break 100 points and win with one shot to save a match point, and in the sixth game, Trump played a single stroke 60+ to make the final decision.
Mark Williams suffered a three-pronged comeback from a 3-0, 4-2 lead. Cao Yupeng finally won three consecutive rounds with a single stroke of 50+.
Sankam only played a single stroke of 80+ after falling behind 0-2 to pull back a city, 1-4 Ding Junhui, stopped in the round of 16, with a prize of 7,500 pounds, tied for 10th.
Mark Allen, the new single-game limited-time tournament and champion of China, suffered three consecutive whips in the opening game, and scored 137 points in a single stroke in the fourth game to win with 137 points, 2-4 Zhang Anda, and stopped in the second round.
Xinke Wuhan Open runner-up Fude suffered three consecutive whips in the opening game, and won the fifth game with a single stroke of 113 points, 2-4 Gary Wilson, and stopped in the round of 16.
Zhou Yuelong won two games in a row after falling behind 0-2 in the opening game, twice fell behind and equalized twice, and the first game to stop 8 points in the decisive game, O'Sullivan scored 90 points in a single stroke to win. Both sides each have four single-stroke 50+, one single-stroke to break 100, if Zhou Yuelong did not suffer a single-game reversal under the 55-1 lead in the first game, O'Sullivan would have stopped in the second round.
British Championship semi-finalist Wafei 1-4 Mark Williams, 63 points in the second game is still 1 point difference to Johnson.
Murphy 0-4 Cao Yupeng, but Murphy scored 145 points in a single stroke in the first round of 4-0 Higgins, and won the highest single score bonus of 10,000 pounds, and Murphy received a total of 17,500 pounds, second only to the top four players, ranking fifth.
Carter, the runner-up of the new Masters, won with a single stroke of 103 points and dragged it to the tiebreaker after falling behind 0-1, 2-3, and Selby scored 77 points and won with a single stroke, 4-3 to advance.
Lu Haotian 0-4 Trump stopped in the second round.
Pang Junxu, Wu Yize, Yuan Sijun, Xiao Guodong, Wakelin, Hawkins, Higgins, Tachaiya, Dominic Dyer, Lisowski, Gilbert, Maguire, Richie Wharton, Jamie Jones, Selt, Jordan Brown, these 16 people suffered a round of tours, with a prize of 5,000 pounds, equivalent to about 45,000 yuan, tied for 17th. #After Laba is the year#