The 2024 Players Championship continued, and in a key game that ended in the early hours of this morning, Selby kept O'Sullivan 6-0 clean sheet to advance to the top 4. In the whole game, Selby played perfectly, and as soon as he came up, he hit 1 shot to break 100 and 4 shots of 50+, almost all of which were killed by one shot, and the rhythm was very fast, and he quickly established a perfect start of 5-0. In the sixth game, Mr. Huo scored 58 points in a single stroke and interrupted, and Selby fought into the long platform of the sticker, which amazed the audience, and finally reversed in a single game and won the game.
It is worth mentioning that there was a controversial penalty in the first game of this game. Not long after the start, Selby missed the offensive long platform, but the cue ball was well placed and almost formed a ** gram, but the red ball could still be seen piled up all over the world. Unexpectedly, the referee Bova made a mistake, thinking that he couldn't hit the world, so he didn't remind the fire teacher to lose if he couldn't hit it three times, and before the fire teacher untied the ball on the fourth shot, Bova apologized and began to remind, and Selby was also very embarrassed to smile at the gesture. But Mr. Fire didn't buy it, and directly hit the red ball pile, I don't know if such an action directly ignited Selby's anger. After all, this style of play is indeed a bit disrespectful to the opponent.
This is a rare defeat for Mr. Huo, following the 0-6 loss to Ding Junhui in the 2022 British Championships, this is the second time in his 31-year career that he has suffered a clean sheet in a tie-break match. Objectively speaking, Mr. Huo's state last night was really not good, the offense and defense fell to the downside, and Master Sai had the feeling of dreaming of returning to the top.
After making the cut, he will await the winner of Higgins and Anda Zhang in the semi-finals. The other semi-final match-up has already been decided, with Mark Allen taking on Ali Carter. Allen hit 5 shots of 50+ in last night's game to win a hard-fought 6-4 victory over Gary Wilson. Zhang Anda will play tonight (9 o'clock Beijing time) and looks forward to Da Tsai's continued good performance.