O’Sullivan defeated Brecher and was crowned the five-time snooker Shanghai Masters champion 2023-09-19 09:33:49.0 Source: Xinhuanet Author: Zheng Zhixu Dongyuan
Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, September 17th (Reporter Zheng Zhixu Dongyuan) Ronnie O’Sullivan once again proved that the city of Shanghai is his blessed place. In the final of the World Snooker Shanghai Masters held on the 17th, he scored 11: 9 defeated Luca Brecher and won the fourth consecutive Shanghai Masters championship and the fifth individual championship.
This is the focus of the showdown between the seven-time World Championship champion born in 1975 and the new 2023 World Championship champion born in 1995. On Brecher’s road to this year’s World Championship, he also won the quarter-finals In the end, he defeated O’Sullivan by winning 7 consecutive games.
The final adopts a 21-game 11-win system, with 10 games played in the afternoon. The four-time champion won the first game. Brecher scored 134 points to tie the match. O’Sullivan then won two consecutive games and entered the break with a 3:1 lead. After the break, Brecher hit another single shot to break her 100-game winning streak in three games, leading the score 4:3. The “Rockets” then won three consecutive games and ended the first stage with 6:4.
In the evening game, O’Sullivan started quickly, but when leading 63:1, he missed a key goal before overtaking. After Brecher cleared the table, he narrowly won 66:63. The gap between the two narrowed to one game, and after two more games, the gap was almost the same. Change. In the 14th game, both sides continued to hold high the offensive banner and made many mistakes. In the end, Brecher was slightly more accurate and won the game, tying the total score at 7:7. In the 15th game, O’Sullivan finally launched a hearty attack and regained the lead at 8:7.
The “Rocket”, whose touch has improved, “cut off the cow” in the red ball area in the 16th inning, scoring 143 points in a single shot to expand its advantage. This is the first time he has broken 100 points on a single stroke in a late game, and it is also the highest single stroke record in this Masters. The previous highest single stroke score was 141 points by “Wizard” Higgins on the first day of this tournament.
In the next game, luck seemed to be on O’Sullivan’s side. He could score even with an unintentional defensive shot, and his risky attack from the long platform was also firmly in the bag. He scored 120 points in one shot, and the “Rocket” won 10:7. To the match point.
In the 18th game, Brecher took the lead and O’Sullivan caught up to one goal difference. The two sides defended each other. Brecher surprised everyone with a wonderful long-table flip bag and recovered the game. In the 19th game, he scored 83 points on a single stroke, continuing the suspense of the game.
The 20th game was suffocating. The game was played at a broken rhythm. The two sides fought for the color ball from the beginning to the final stage. However, as O’Sullivan scored the pink ball and expanded the lead to 67:47, there was no suspense in the game. , “Rocket” was crowned the five-time snooker Shanghai Masters champion at 11:9.
2023-09-19 01:33:49
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