Masters Tournament Prize List: Ding Junhui 3.6 million, champion Murphy 31.2 million, runner-up Wilson 12.4 million
Beijing time January 20 news, the 2025 snooker Masters final has come to a successful conclusion. "Magician" Shaun Murphy defeated the world's second-ranked "Brother Nong" Kyren Wilson 10-7 to win the championship. On the event prize list, Murphy received 350,000 euros, Wilson received 140,000, and Ding Junhui, who reached the quarter-finals, received 40,000. In addition, he also made a single maximum of 147 points in the semi-finals.
The Snooker Masters is one of the three major events in snooker, an event that all players attach great importance to. This year's Masters featured three Chinese players: "China's No. 1" Ding Junhui, National Championship winner Zhang Anda, and world No. 13 Si Jiahui.
In the first round, Ding Junhui staged a comeback, winning two consecutive games after being down 4-5 and facing match point from his opponent, eventually reversing the three-time World Champion "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams with a total score of 6-5. While Ding Junhui was advancing, Zhang Anda and Si Jiahui did not perform as expected, both being eliminated in the first round.
In the second round, "China's No. 1" Ding Junhui took the stage again, facing the world's No. 1 "Accuracy King" Judd Trump. In recent years, Ding Junhui has basically been defeated by Trump every time they met, but this time he had a perfect start, leading 3-1 in the first four games.
Unfortunately, he did not seize the opportunity, and in the following games, she was stunned by a 5-0 counterattack from her opponent, eventually stopping in the second round with a score of 3-6, missing out on the top 8 of this Masters. On the event prize list, Ding, who reached the quarter-finals, received 40,000 euros (about 3.6 million RMB).
After defeating Ding Junhui, O'Sullivan was unable to go further, losing 3-6 to "Brother Nong" Kyren Wilson in the semi-finals. In the championship battle, Wilson faced "Magician" Shaun Murphy, who eliminated "Little Cannon" Mark Allen 6-3 in the semi-finals. In the championship battle, Murphy performed extremely aggressively, leading 6-2 in the first stage and winning the championship 10-7, while receiving a prize of 3.12 million RMB, and Wilson received a runner-up prize of 1.24 million RMB.