The 2023-2024 season of the Pro League continues. On March 6, 2024, Beijing time, the **Croatian Masters will start the competition for the top four. However, the battle for the semi-finals of the Saudi Masters is still ongoing. The first players to reach the semi-finals were Mark Allen and Luca Brecel. The two players will also face off in the semi-finals. The battle for the semi-finals in the bottom half of the zone has also come to an end.
In the competition for the semi-finals in the second half of the region. Higgins' opponent is O'Sullivan, and Sean Murphy and Trump have a post-80s battle, and Shaun Murphy and Trump are both the best of the post-80s players. Both have won the title this season. In particular, Trump has reached the finals seven times this season, and Shaun Murphy seems to be a bit anticlimactic this season, after winning a championship in the opening game of the season, the Champions League has been relatively sluggish in recent games, and the ranking of a single season has been declining. Although the world ranking is still firmly in the top eight in the world, Murphy's performance this season is obviously not as good as last season.
The competition between the two people in this game is also full of twists and turns, and in the first two games, Sean Murphy made a dream start, leading 2:0, and then was tenaciously equalized by Trump. In the fifth game, Murphy got the match point again, and Trump equalized the score in the sixth game and dragged it into the decisive game. Murphy also missed out on a second title of the season, while Trump also reached the final for the eighth time this season if he could win one more game. Like the fifth champion of the season to start a charge. In addition, Higgins and O'Sullivan staged a friend meeting, and the two are no strangers to each other, and in their spare time at the Saudi Masters, the two also play ball and train together. In addition, the two people also have a very tacit relationship in private, and the two came to the field of the ** Ke Professional League in the same year.
And in this game, O'Sullivan also showed his strong offensive firepower. Originally, it had an absolute advantage in the head-to-head record, and the current single-season ranking and world ranking are obviously stronger than their opponents. O'Sullivan took a 2:0 lead as soon as he came up, and Higgins did not perform very well in the opening stage, several key goals were not hard, and in the third game, O'Sullivan expanded the result and scored three match points. In the subsequent game, Higgins was also in a sluggish state, and finally was eliminated, and finally Higgins lost to O'Sullivan with a score of 0:4, ending the journey of the Saudi Masters.