Xinhua News Agency, London, January 19 (Reporter Prince Jiang) in the semi-final of the snooker Masters held here on the 19th, Chinese player Ding Junhui caught up with O’Sullivan after 0:4, after three consecutive games, he almost scored a full score of 147, but in the end, he still failed to defeat the “rocket” with 3:6.
At the age of 43, the “rocket” still has no less fire power. At the beginning of the game, it took an absolute advantage and won four consecutive games to get the lead. Among them, Ding Junhui did not get a point in the three games. However, after half-time break, Ding Junhui, who fought back and forth, resisted the pressure, making the original one-sided game a real DOUBLE HEROES competition.
In the fifth game, both of them made many seemingly “low-level” mistakes. After three times of getting started, Ding Junhui led 54:10. After a struggle, ding Junhui scored the last red ball with a long ball attack and pulled back a game at 71:10.
The victory of this game made Ding Junhui regain his confidence. In the sixth game, he shot 107 points, and O’Sullivan didn’t get any chance to score, 2:4. The next game was thrilling. Ding Junhui could score 147 points as long as he scored the last five colorful ball. However, he made a mistake when he scored medium bag in the face of the green ball, but he still sealed O’Sullivan with 122 points, narrowing the gap to 3:4, the audience gave the warmest applause.
In the eighth game, O’Sullivan led by 56:0. Ding Junhui had three chances to get started, but he didn’t catch it. Finally, after nearly half an hour of defensive war, O’Sullivan won decisively. In the ninth game, O’Sullivan shot 93 points and easily locked the victory.
After the match, O’Sullivan hugged Ding Junhui, kissed his cheek, then walked with him and talked with him, and walked out of the court in the applause of the audience.
This is the 20th confrontation between the two, and O’Sullivan is in absolute advantage with 13 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses. However, Ding Junhui has achieved the best result in the Masters in 8 years. Since he won the championship in 2011, he lost for the first five consecutive years from 2012 to 2016, and advanced to the second round in 2017, last year, another round of tour.” The promotion to the semi-final also won him a prize of 50000 pounds (about 440000 yuan).
O’Sullivan has won the Masters championship seven times and is the player who has won the championship the most times in history. He is in a brave State this season and has won three championships. He will face trumpu, the world’s fifth-ranking player in the final. The latter won 6 in another semi-final that day: 4 beat Robertson, known as Melbourne machine.