The 2024 Snooker Riyadh Season Masters came to a successful conclusion. In the final, the world No. 1 “Rocket” Ronnie O’Sullivan won the title with a 5-2 victory over Luca Brecher, which is also O’Sullivan’s fifth title of the season. On the season championship list, O’Sullivan 5 crowns first, Trump 4 crowns second, Allen 3 crowns third. For Chinese players, Zhang Anda 1 crown, Ding Junhui 1 second.
2024 Snooker Riyadh Carnival Season Masters, is a high-level invitational tournament just founded this season, its initial set of invitation list, is the world ranking of the top 8 players to qualify for the tournament, after the tournament organizing committee will be the world ranking of the top 8 players to participate in the rules, modified to the world’s top 9 can participate in the tournament, the world’s No. 9 Ding Junhui, the world’s No. 10 Higgins was able to whistle! The organizing committee of the tournament changed the rules from the top 8 players to the top 9 players.
Undoubtedly, the world’s No. 1 “Rocket” O’Sullivan, the world’s No. 2 “King of Accuracy” Trump, and the world’s No. 3 “Small Cannon” Allen are the three biggest favorites to win the tournament, with O’Sullivan, Trump and Ding Junhui as the top 9 players in the world. O’Sullivan and Trump both have 4 titles this season, and Allen has 3 titles this season, they are the most outstanding players this season.
On the list of champions this season, Gary Wilson has 2 crowns in his account, respectively, the Scottish Open champion and the Welsh Open champion, but his world ranking is not among the top 10, and he did not qualify for the competition. And Zhang Anda, who won the National Championship this season, was ranked 12th in the world and also did not qualify.
After a fierce battle, the three favorites lived up to expectations and all reached the quarterfinals. Another player who made it to the quarterfinals was last year’s World Champion, “Little Bald” Luca Brecher. In the semifinals, O’Sullivan beat Trump 4-1 to reach the final.
Breacher, who won the World Championships last season, had a very stable performance in this tournament, beating Allen 4-2 to advance to the final, despite the ups and downs of the season. Championship battle, O’Sullivan faced Breacher, the world’s first state of fire, blasted two breaks and two 50 +, total score 5-2 easily won the championship, which is also his season’s fifth crown, Breacher in the wrong season first crown.
