In the early morning of December 14, Beijing time, the 2023 ** Scottish Open ended another round of 16 competition, four-time world champion Mark. Selby was lackluster in his match against former Indian champion Matthew, wasting match points on several occasions before being dragged into a tiebreaker before being beaten back to advance to the round of 16.
In a number of round of 16 matches that started in the early hours of this morning, 4 people from the Chinese ** group have appeared to compete for a place in the round of 16, including the first Chinese derby:
These two are in the same 8 8 district as Director Ding, and the winner of this game will face Ding Junhui and Tom in the next 1 8 finals. The winner between Fud, many speculated that Luka and Director Ding would meet in the round of 16, but Martin, who returned to the professional competition this season, stepped in this time.
The two sides have met twice before, and Luca has lost them all: 3-5 in the first round of the 2018 Gibraltar Open in the first round of the Mid-Year Championship.
In this battle, Luca played a single stroke of 50+ to win the first 1-0;But in the subsequent game, Martin beat a single stroke and scored three games in a row to grab the match point with a total score of 3-1.
Although Luca managed to save a match point in the fifth game, he was still out of reach in the end, and Martin picked up 80+ strokes to end the game with an overall score of 4-2.
In fact, Martin has also defeated Selby and Higgins in the second round of the English Open and Wuhan Open this season with -1, so in this short-game system, he fell under the "nerve knife" Martin rod, and the little monk did not lose at all.
With the No. 11 seed Carter losing 2-4 to Thailand's Sangkham, the No. 6 seed Mark is left in the entire 3 4. Selby.
However, even in the short game system, Master Sai played really stable enough, and beat Matthew 4-3 in the last round. After Stevens, he couldn't avoid another Matthew in this round:
Selby scored a single shot in the opening game to grab the match point with an aggregate score of 3-1, but was defeated by Matthew. Celt pulled two games in a row to the deciding game 3-3.
In the deciding game, the situation was chaotic, and the two sides fought to the color stage, and in the end, Selby lost a simple coffee ball and failed to have the last laugh, so Matthew advanced to the round of 16 with a thrilling overall score of 4-3.
As a result, Selby became the 10th seeded player to go out of the tournament after Murphy, Master Huo, Milkins, Little Guncang, Wafei, Kim Left Hand, Xiao Te and others.
It is worth mentioning that this long marathon caused Ding Junhui and Tom, who took over the stage, to fall into the local "helpless waiting" in the early morning.