Luca Brecel reaches the Closing on the 2023 Shanghai Masters
19 September 2023
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The 2023 Shanghai Masters was performed on the Grand Stage in Shanghai, from 11 to 17 September 2023. The distinguished invitational event featured solely 24 gamers and all 4 Grove gamers featured in that elite group. Ronnie O’Sullivan was the defending champion.
The primary spherical noticed twelve professionals and 4 Chinese language wildcards compete to achieve the “final 16″ spherical. Ding was concerned in that spherical and he beat Si Jishui by 6-2. This was Ding’s first match of the season.
Within the final 16, Ding and Neil Robertson confronted one another, Neil prevailing by 6-5. Mark Selby additionally wanted a deciding body to beat Hossein Vafaei. Luca Brecel, who was additionally enjoying his first skilled match of the season, received the higher of Mark Williams by 6-4.
The quarter-finals proved to be a neater spherical for the three remaining Grove gamers: Mark Selby beat Judd Trump by 6-1, Neil Robertson received the higher of Fan Zhengyi by the identical rating and Luca Brecel progressed with a 6-3 win over Robert Milkins.
Three of the 4 gamers concerned within the semi-finals have been Grove gamers. Not dangerous! The semi-finals have been performed over a best-of-19-frames format. Luca beat Neil by 10-7, and, the World number one, Ronnie O’Sullivan beat Mark by the identical rating.
The Closing between Luca and Ronnie was performed over a best-of-21-frames format. Luca had crushed Ronnie on the Crucible final April. This time it was Ronnie who prevailed by 11-9.
