[Tilu News]The 2024 Table Tennis Masters (Masters) kicked off at the Alexander Palace in London on Sunday (7th). The newly-reigned world champion Belgian “Bullet” Luca Brecel met with Waterloo at the opening of the game. He lost to England’s Jack Lisowski 2:6 and was stopped in the top 16. Shaun Murphy, the world’s sixth-ranked “Magician”, defeated Chinese player Zhang Anda 6:2 and advanced to the top 16. Physically top 8. As for the seven-time league leader Ronnie O’Sullivan, he will appear on the stage at 9:00 Hong Kong time tonight to face China’s “big brother” Ding Junhui again.
Bissell (Photo: WST)
Although the Masters, which gathers the top 16 players in the world, is not a ranking tournament, it has a long history and is of great importance. It is also known as the three major table tennis events together with the World Championship and the All England Table Tennis Tournament. This year’s Masters will be held from January 7th to 14th, with the first prize being as high as £250,000. In the first match on the opening day, Luca Brecel, ranked No. 4 in the world, faced off against the aggressive Lisuwoski, who was in a tough battle. The latter was already on fire at the beginning, hitting 4 consecutive shots of 70 degrees and 100 degrees. , 96 degrees, 69 degrees, achieving a perfect start of 4:0 (92:21, 134:0, 100:28, 74:24). Bisseur regained his courage after a short break, hitting 80 and 72 degrees, regaining two points (95:4, 103:0), but it was still difficult to prevent Lisuheski from winning 86:1, 77:27. Locking in a 6:2 victory, he took the lead in reaching the top 8 and will compete with Mephi for semi-final qualification.
Lisa Woski (Photo: WST)
Mephi (Photo: WST)
In another round of 16, former world champion Mephi faced Zhang Anda, who was playing in the Masters for the first time, and was not greatly tested. After a 1:1 draw, he won three games in a row to establish an advantage. In the end, he also won 6:2 (112: 41, 8:121, 48:40, 65:61, 86:0, 7:116, 78:32, 89:0) passed.
Two first-round matches will be played today, among which O’Sullivan vs. Ding Junhui (9:00 pm, Hong Kong time) attracts the most attention. This is the 34th time the two have fought against each other, and the third time in 15 days that they have fought against each other. Although “Xiao Ding” just defeated “Rocket” 6:5 in the Lhasa exhibition match on New Year’s Day in 2024, he has defeated “Osu” in all five fights in the past. Let’s see if Neng can break the curse this time. As for the last game, there will be “golden left hand” Mark Williams who will fight “Captain” Ali Carter (3 am on the 9th, Hong Kong time).
Osu Liyun (left) fought fiercely with Ding Junhui (right) in the first round (Photo: WST)
Other first-round dramas include defending champion Judd Trump vs. Kyren Wilson, Melbourne “Machine” Neil Robertson vs. Barry Hawkins, and “Wizard” Higgins. (John Higgins) vs. Mark Allen, “Joker” Shabi (Mark Selby) vs. Robert Milkins.
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in”[Snooker Masters]World champion Bissell “tours in one round”, seven-time champion O’Sullivan will compete with Ding Junhui today」
2024-01-08 03:11:15
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