Luca Brecel makes it to the Closing in Riyadh
23 December 2024
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Luca Brecel hasn’t proven a lot of his greatest since profitable the World Championship in Might 2023, however reminded everybody how sensible a participant he’s on the 2024 Riyadh Season Championship in Saudi Arabia, the place he reached the ultimate. The occasion was gained by Mark Allen.
The occasion was performed from December,18 to December, 20. Solely the highest ten ranked gamers had been invited.Which means that, from Grove, solely Mark Selby, Ding Junhui and Luca Brecel took half.
All of the detailed outcomes can be found on snooker.org.
Ding needed to play an area qualifier in his first match. He beat him by 4-0. He then performed Shaun Murphy, and beat him by 4-0, earlier than shedding within the quater-finals, by 4-0, to Ronnie O’Sullivan, the defending champion.
Mark Selby performed Mark Allen within the Quarter-finals the place he was seeded; It was his first match within the occasion and misplaced 4-2 to the eventual champion.
Luca Brecel entered the occasion in spherical 2. In his first match he beat Zhang Anda by 4-0. His quarter-final match wasn’t really easy however he gained it: he beat Kyren Wilson, the reigning World Champion, by 4-3. Subsequent for Luca was an semi-final encounter with Mark Williams. He beat the Welsh legend by 4-2.
Within the closing, Luca confronted the in-form Mark Allen and was overwhelmed by 5-1. Regardless of the setback, Luca was optimistic after the match. He mentioned: “I made just a few errors however Mark is de facto robust to play in opposition to. General I really feel I’m getting higher and I’m actually trying ahead to subsequent 12 months.”
