China News Service, Beijing, February 5th. On the morning of the 5th, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker German Masters ended with the finals (best of 19 games). Trump, ranked second in the world, won his fourth championship this season, and 21-year-old Chinese teenager Si Jiahui won the first ranking runner-up in his career.
Although in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, Si Jiahui, ranked 29th in the world, "defeated the top" and eliminated the Welsh star Ryan Day and the world's tenth-ranked Kyren Wilson respectively, but in the final For Trump, the "accuracy king" who has reached the finals 7 times this season and has won 3 championships, the Chinese teenager's situation is still in danger.
The progress of the game confirmed the concerns of Chinese fans before the game. At the beginning of this campaign, Si Jiahui still had the ability to cope. The first four games were tied at 2-2. As the game progressed, Trump's advantages in experience and strength gradually became apparent, and at the end of the first stage, he took the lead 5-3.
In the second stage that started in the early morning of the 5th, Beijing time, Si Jiahui took the lead and rewritten the score to 4-5 with a single stroke of 123 points. However, this move provoked a more violent counterattack from his opponent. After winning 3 consecutive games, Trump expanded his lead to 8-4, and finally sealed the victory 10-5.
This is Trump’s fourth title this season and his third title in the German Masters. With this crowning, his number of ranking championships has increased to 27, and there is only one championship difference between him and Steve Davis, who ranks fourth in ranking championships. In addition, Trump scored a total of 9 hundred-breaks in this tournament, and also set a record for hundreds of breaks in a single session of the German Masters.
Si Jiahui, who reached the ranking finals for the first time, also achieved a breakthrough and won the first ranking runner-up in his career. In last season's World Championships, 20-year-old Si Jiahui advanced to the semi-finals and became the youngest semi-finalist in the World Snooker Championship this century. As one of the leaders of the new generation of Chinese snooker, Si Jiahui has a promising future.
The German Masters is a heavyweight snooker ranking event. The Chinese Legion has a good record in this event. Ding Junhui, Zhao Xintong, Fu Jiajun, and Yan Bingtao have all entered the finals of this event. Among them, Ding Junhui and Zhao Xintong were in 2014 and 2014 respectively. Win the championship in 2022.
22 Chinese players with professional qualifications all participated in this season's German Masters. 14 of them advanced to the main draw (top 64), 7 entered the top 32, and 4 advanced to the top 16. Si Jiahui and Fan Zhengyi broke into Quarterfinals. After Fan Zhengyi stopped in the quarterfinals, Si Jiahui took a step further and advanced to the finals.
Chinese billiards star Ding Junhui suffered an upset loss to Yuan Sijun, a young player born in 2000, in the "Chinese Derby" of the German Masters qualifying tournament and missed the main draw. World No. 1 "Rocket" O'Sullivan announced his withdrawal before the game "due to medical reasons." (over)