Beijing time on October 26 news, the 2021 Snooker German Masters qualifiers ended the eighth day of competition. In a focus match in the second round, this year's World Champion Mark Selby scored a one-shot breaker (112 points) and a two-shot 50+ (57 points, 66 points) to beat Ashley Carty 5-1 to advance to the main game.
Selby is the most world champion among post-80s players, and in this year's World Championship final, he won the world championship for the fourth time with an 18-15 victory over "magician" Sean Murphy, who is also the "805 Tigers". After winning the World Championships, Selby once surpassed Judd Trump in the world rankings to return to the first place, and after last week's Northern Ireland Open, Selby was overtaken by Trump.
In the first round of the German Masters qualifiers, Selby's opponent was Ross Muir, the world's number one wild card player. In the game, Selby blasted a hundred (134 points) and two 50+ (87 points, 72 points), winning 5-2 to advance. In the second round of qualifying, Selby's opponent was Ashley Carty, who defeated Sean Maddox 5-2 in the first round of qualifying.
Kati, 26, is ranked 70th in the world. In the past, Selby and Catty did not have a record of confrontation, and this game was an encounter. In the first set of the game, Selby won the first set 77-23 through several starts, making it 1-0. In the second set, Selby scored a single shot of 57 points to win another set 66-23 to give a 2-0 lead.
In the third set, Karty scored 67 points to win, 765-1 to win the first set, the score was chased to 1-2. In the fourth set, Selby blasted a single shot of 112 points, 113-7 to win another set, the score came to 3-1, leading two sets into the break. In the fifth set, after returning from a break, Selby won another set 94-32, extending the lead 4-1 and winning three match points.
In the sixth set, Kati, who had no way back, fought back tenaciously, Selby did not give him a chance to save the match point, he played a single 66 points, 73-39 to seal the win, the total score of 5-1 victory kati, after 2 consecutive wins to qualify for the German Masters main tournament!