On the evening of March 21, 2024, Beijing time, a key battle in the 1/8 finals of the Snooker World Open began, with Chinese player Ding Junhui and world No. 6 Shaun Murphy facing off.
Murphy and Ding Junhui
In the first game of the game, Murphy scored 26 points and lost the black ball, and Ding Junhui scored 95 points in a single stroke and won the clearance. In the second game, Murphy made two starts and scored 101 points, and the score came to a 1–1 draw. In the third game, Ding Junhui made a mistake after scoring 31 points, and Murphy scored 86 points in a single stroke and won another game. In the fourth game, Ding Junhui hit a shot to break 100, scoring 130 points in a single stroke, and the two players tied 2-2.
Ding
After the intermission, in the fifth game, Ding Junhui started by dribbling balloons and scored 83 points. In the sixth game, Murphy added another shot to break 100, scoring 121 points in a single stroke, and the two returned to the same running line again. In the seventh game, Ding Junhui scored 73 points in a single stroke and got the match point 4-3. In the eighth game, Murphy scored a long red ball, only scored 1 point and lost the pink ball in the middle bag, Ding Junhui got started twice and scored 65 points to end the game.
Shaun Murphy
The detailed scores are as follows (Ding Junhui vs Murphy):
101（95）–26；0–127（101）；31–86（86）；130（130）–0；83（83）–1；1–122（121）；74（73）–17；66（65）–1。
In the end, Ding Junhui defeated Shaun Murphy 5-3 and advanced to the top 8 of the Snooker World Open, where he will compete with Hussein Wafei for a place in the semifinals!
Ding