On May 17, Beijing time, in the second game of the Luoyang Longmen Masters, the 7-time world champion "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan continued to show his strong strength, and he defeated his old opponent Ding Junhui 5-1 again. In this game, O'Sullivan hit three shots of 50+, and Ding Junhui scored one shot of 50+.
In the just-concluded 2023-24 season, "Rocket" O'Sullivan won 5 championships very magically. "China's first brother" Ding Junhui also performed well and reached the finals of two ranking tournaments. Among them, in the final of the British Championships, O'Sullivan and Ding Junhui staged a peak duel, and he won his 8th British Championship championship with a 10-7 victory.
After the season, O'Sullivan started his trip to China again. The first stop this time is the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang. In the first game of the Luoyang Longmen Masters, O'Sullivan defeated Ding Junhui 5-2.
After a night's rest, Ding Junhui and O'Sullivan started their second battle in the Longmen Grottoes. In this game, O'Sullivan continued his hot state, and in the first game of the game, O'Sullivan scored 70 points in a single stroke to take a 1-0 lead.
In the second and third games, O'Sullivan continued to make strong efforts, 137-0, 90-0 consecutive veteran clean sheets Ding Junhui, and the score became 2-0, 3-0.
In the fourth game, Ding Junhui finally scored after losing three games in a row in the opening game, and in this game, he scored 67 points in a single stroke, 69-1 to pull back a game, and the score was chased to 1-3, and the first half of the game ended.
In the fifth game, after returning from a short break, O'Sullivan's offensive touch continued to be very hot, and he scored another 83 points in a single stroke, 83-14 to win another game, and the score came to 4-1 and got 3 match points.
In the sixth game, Ding Junhui, who had no way out, launched a tenacious counterattack, but unfortunately the accuracy was not enough, and O'Sullivan locked the victory 59-37 through several starts, and easily won the game with a total score of 5-1. So far, O'Sullivan has won two consecutive victories in this competition.