In the early morning of January 31, Beijing time, the 2024** German Masters continued. In a key match in the second round, Xu Si, who had a perfect score of 147 points in a single stroke not long ago, defeated Scott Don Nathan 5-2. In an earlier postponement to the qualifying round, Xu Si reversed world champion Shaun "The Magician" Murphy 5-3.
*The German Masters is a tournament that will produce the third champion after starting in 2024. Xu Si, ranked 58th in the world, has a good performance this season, and in the second round of the British Championship qualifying round against Ma Hailong, he scored a perfect score of 147 points in a single stroke.
Coming to the German Masters in a postponed qualifying match, Xu Si challenged world champion "Magician" Murphy. In this game with Murphy, Xu Si had a bad start and was 0-3 behind by Murphy three consecutive hits, but fortunately he did not panic, starting from the fourth game, he shot out one shot to break 100 and two shots of 50+, and won five consecutive rounds of 5-3 reversal to advance.
In the first game, the opponent took the lead 74-39 through several hands, leading 1-0. In the second game, Murphy scored 77 points in a single stroke, won another game 98-20, and led 2-0. In the third game, Murphy won 70-31 through piecemeal, and the score advantage was extended to 3-0.
In the fourth game, Xu Si turned on the counterattack mode, and his single-stroke 70 points won 71-30, 1-1 to pull back a game. In the fifth game, after returning from a short break, Xu Si scored 53 points in a single stroke, 77-43 and another game, and the score was 2-3.
In the sixth game, Xu Si won 69-45 and equalized 3-3 through several starts, and the two sides returned to the same running line. In the seventh game, Xu Si scored 131 points in a single stroke, 131-0 clean sheet Murphy, and after four consecutive games, he overtook the score 4-3 and won the match point.
In the eighth game, Murphy, who had no way out, launched a stubborn counterattack, and sealed the victory 73-39 through several starts in his debut, and eliminated the world champion with a total score of 5-3. In the second round, against Scott Donaldson, he scored 128 points in a single stroke and won 5-2 to advance, congratulations to Xu Si!