In the early morning of February 9, Beijing time, the fourth group of the 2024 ** Gram Invitational Edition Champions League round-robin continued. In the group semifinals, Kyren Wilson, the strongest post-90s "embarrassing brother", shot a shot to break 100 and 2 strokes of 50+, and defeated 4-time World Championship champion "Wizard" John Higgins with a total score of 3-1 to advance to the group finals.
With Si Jiahui's 5-10 defeat to Trump and missing the championship, the 2024** German Masters came to an end, and the third and fourth groups of the invitational version of the Champions League were seamlessly connected, and the 4-time world champion "Wizard" Higgins and the strongest post-90s "embarrassing brother" Kyren Wilson played in these two groups in a row.
Higgins topped the Group 3 round-robin with 4 wins and 2 losses, but lost 3-0 to Mark Selby in the group final to miss out on qualifying for the title match. "Embarrassing Brother" Kyren Wilson scored 147 points in a single stroke in the third group of round-robin matches with Tom Forde.
Higgins and Wilson have met three times in both groups, from the round-robin to the semi-finals. The first is the fifth round of the Group 3 round-robin, the second is the fifth round of the Group 4 round-robin, and the third is the semi-finals of the fourth group. The first two times, it was Higgins who won the game.
In the fifth round of the third group round-robin, Higgins was crushed all the way in the match with Wilson, in this game, he shot one shot to break 100 (101 points) and two shots of 50+ (85 points, 59 points), and the total score was 3-0 against Wilson, with a score of -0 in three games.
In the fifth round of the fourth group round-robin, Higgins and Wilson played very closely, both of them had a very good single-shot performance, "Brother Embarrassment" shot 1 shot to break 100 and 1 shot to 50+, Higgins shot out two shots to break 100, and the total score was 3-2 to reverse "Brother Awkward".
In the fourth semi-final battle, Wilson emerged as the winner. In this battle, Higgins only scored 54 points in a single stroke, and Wilson hit one shot to break 100 (102 points) and two shots of 50+ (76 points, 72 points), and the total score was 3-1 to defeat the opponent and advance to the fourth group final. In the other semi-final, Neil Robertson "The Melbourne Machine" defeated Barry Hawkins 3-0.