On March 7, Beijing time, the 2024 Riyadh Carnival Season Masters continued, and the world's top 4 gathered in the semifinals.
Luca Brecel vs. Mark Allen.
Luca, the world's fourth-largest and new world champion, was the only post-90s in the quarterfinals, and he played two single-stroke 50+ shots against Carter, the world's eighth, post-70s, to advance to the semifinals 4-1.
World No. 3 Allen is the season second only to O'Sullivan and Trump Triple Crown, in the game against the world's fifth Selby once 0-2, 1-3 behind, the two sides dedicated a world-class competition, not only excellent ** gram to Biao, but also a single game of extreme reversal, in the end Allen laughed to the end, this is also the epitome of Selby's season, just like the Welsh Open semi-final tiebreaker lost to Zhang Anda, this tiebreaker was Allen's black ball bag flip kill!
The two sides have actually met 8 times in their careers on the tour, with the "Little Steel Cannon" having a slight advantage of 5-3, and in the best-of-3 games of 3 games, they also have a 2-1 advantage, and the last time the two met was at the 2023** Welsh Open, Allen advanced with a score of 4-2.
In this duel, in the first game, Allen took the lead and stopped by 6 points, and Luka scored 72 points in a single stroke to win. In the second game, Luka once again scored 71 points in a single stroke to achieve a single-game reversal. In the third game, Allen hit a single shot of 121 to get one back. In the fourth game, Luka hit a single stroke of 125 to get the match point 3-1 in one fell swoop. Allen scored 133 points in a single stroke to save a match point, and in the sixth game, Luca scored 81 points in a single stroke!
Luca's best result in the ranking tournament of the season was the quarterfinals, but he won a lot in the invitational tournament and reached the final for the second time!
Judd Trump vs. Ronnie O'Sullivan.
This is the 33rd "Special Olympics" game of the two companies' careers, and the "Rockets" have a slight advantage of 17-15 in the previous 32 games, and have won all the last four meetings. This game is also the second meeting between the two sides this season, and in the final of the 2024** World Grand Prix in January, O'Sullivan won his 41st ranking championship with a score of 10-7, continuing to refresh history.
World No. 1 Ronnie O'Sullivan scored 3 consecutive strokes to break 100 in the first three games against John Higgins, and his career single-stroke breakthrough reached 1247, continuing to refresh the all-time single-stroke breaking 100 record, and the single-stroke breaking 100 in the season also came to 45 strokes, and his single-stroke score of 135 in the first game was the highest single-stroke score of the day; The 78th "Rocket vs. Wizard" in history turned out to be one-sided, the world tenth Higgins did not take the initiative to score in the whole game, and the only 4 points came from O'Sullivan's foul, which is really surprising, after all, Higgins recently hit his 13th single shot 147! It can be seen that O'Sullivan's unique dominance is in the first place.
World No. 6 Shaun Murphy also scored 2 consecutive 120+ shots in the first 2 games against Judd Trump, and his career single stroke broke 100 strokes to 650 strokes, continuing to rank eighth in history, and he is also the 8th player in history to achieve this achievement, and narrowed the gap with Ding Junhui (652 strokes) to 2 strokes again. However, this did not help him to achieve the final victory, and the world No. 2 Trump reversed 4-3 from 0-2, 2-3 down to advance to the semifinals, including a 63-point reversal in the sixth game from 0-62 down, and finally sealed the victory with no solution.
In this matchup, in the first game, the rocket scored 64 points in a single stroke and narrowly won 72-58. In the second game, Trump won the grappling 75-37 to pull one back. In the third game, the Rocket played the only time in the game that a single stroke broke 123 points, and won with one shot, so he played a wave of three consecutive whips and advanced to the finals 4-1.
At present, the Golden Ball's single stroke 167 grand prize is 500,000 US dollars, equivalent to 3.6 million yuan, and it seems that the rocket has no choice, and there are still up to 9 chances left in the finals.
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