Selby advances to the quarterfinals of the Players Championship and will face O'Sullivan!
In the first game of the 2024 Players League, Selby and Hawkins played 2:2 in the first four sets, Hawkins won in the fifth set, and Selby then won four more sets to win 6-3.
Selby will face O'Sullivan in the match of 1 4.
Selby faced Hawkins, who won the first set 64-30. In the second set, Hawkins scored a huge 78-point advantage. In the third game, Selby won 69-38, while in the fourth game, Selby won the game with a score of 73 points, 95-2, and tied the game 2-2.
At halftime, Hawkins won the fifth game with a shot of 91. In the sixth round, Selby won the match with a score of 86-6. In round 7, Selby won 81-31 with a score of 66. Selby won the match 5-3 with a score of 75 in the eighth leg. In the ninth set, Selby won the match with a score of 67.
Selby was 7th in the 16-16 match.
Selby will face his old rival O'Sullivan at 3 am on the 23rd and enter the quarterfinals.
It will be their 34th matchup. In the last 33 matches, O'Sullivan has won 21 of them, while Selby has won 11 of them and only one draw. The last time the two met was back in the semifinals of the 2023 Shanghai Masters, when O'Sullivan defeated Selby 10-7.