Too Strong! 5-1, 5-4, 7-time World Champion + World No. 1 Invincible, Ding Junhui and the Driver Helpless
Beijing time December 27 news, the 2024 Macao Snooker Masters Invitational continued. On the second day of the competition, 7-time world champion "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan performed outstandingly, defeating veteran Marco Fu 5-3. On the first day of the competition, O'Sullivan narrowly defeated Jack Lisowski 5-4, while the world's number one "Accuracy King" Judd Trump swept Ding Junhui 5-1.
Recently, snooker events have been very intensive, and the performance of the Chinese snooker team has also been excellent. Ding Junhui, Xiao Guodong, and Lei Peifan have won consecutive championships at the National Championship, Wuhan Open, and Scottish Open.
After the end of the rich man's race Riyadh Carnival Season Championship, the World Snooker Federation's various events in 2024 came to a close, and the 2024 Macao Snooker Masters Invitational took over.
Compared with last year, this year's Macao Invitational has increased the number of invited participants from 8 to 9, with the newly added players being the 2015 World Championship winner "Shark" Shaun Murphy and this year's World Championship runner-up Jack Jones. Unfortunately, three-time world champion and last year's event champion "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams is absent.
On the first day of the competition, there were two games, one was Ding Junhui against the world's number one "Accuracy King" Trump, and the other was "Rocket" O'Sullivan against "Little Driver" Lisowski. The result of the first game was that Ding Junhui was in poor form and suffered a crushing defeat of 1-5.
In this game, the world's number one Trump unleashed a century break and three 50+, while Ding Junhui only managed one 50+. The scores for the six rounds were: 120 (77)-0, 85 (85)-47, 64-50, 136 (136)-0, 70 (70)-35.
In the other game on the first day of the competition, O'Sullivan faced off against Lisowski. In the first six rounds of this game, both sides played very closely, with a score of 3-3. In the seventh round, O'Sullivan blasted a single shot of 139 points, winning the match point 4-3. After Lisowski tied the score at 4-4, O'Sullivan held on under pressure in the decisive round, narrowly winning 5-4 overall. On the second day of the competition, O'Sullivan defeated Marco Fu 5-3 again.