The Snooker World Masters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, concluded its quarterfinal round. In the final match, the world’s first O’Sullivan swept his old rival Higgins 4-0, easily advancing into the quarterfinals. In the match, O’Sullivan blasted out 3 breaks and 1 80+, allowing Higgins to score only 4 points in the whole match, which was a humiliating one. In addition, Shaun Murphy and World Champion Breacher also advanced to the last 4. Allen and Selby battled until the deciding black ball, eventually advancing with a miraculous pocket flip.
O’Sullivan and Higgins are part of the 75 Trio, both legendary snooker players. Higgins knocked out another 75-year star, Mark Williams, to advance to the last eight. However, this battle against O’Sullivan, can be called one of the worst losses of career matchups. At the start of the match, O’Sullivan was on fire, aiming for 167, but O’Sullivan made a slight mistake with his K-ball and lost the chance for 167. But he finished clearing the table, a single shot 135 points to take the first game. In the next two innings, O’Sullivan again blasted a single 129 points and 102 points. In the last game, O’Sullivan was again a single shot 82 points, 4-0 easy to kill into the final four.
In the whole game, Higgins only got 4 points and did not have any chance to get on the board in the game. Such a horrible O’Sullivan, but also refers to the 250,000 pounds of championship prize money. In addition to the championship bonus, from the game can be seen O’Sullivan for the impact of 167 points of the $500,000 bonus is also very interested in, but has not yet been able to reach. According to the rules, if you can hit a single 147, you will have the opportunity to hit the last gold ball (20 points), and the first person to take a single 167 will get a $500,000 bonus.
In addition to this match, there was a great duel between Selby and Mark Allen. The two were tied 3-3 in the first 6 games and went to a decider. In the deciding game, the two sides still did not let each other go, Selby once exceeded the score, but was magically turned over by Allen. Especially in the final stage, Allen solved the green ball directly into the dizzy, the last moment Selby hit the pink ball stopped at the mouth of the bag, Allen is again sitting on the gift. The most amazing thing is that Allen’s last ball is to turn the bag into the black ball, complete the kill!
In the semifinals, Allen will face Breacher and O’Sullivan will face Trump.
