2024-01-10 05:54:18
January 10, 2024 13:54 Source: Chengdu Business Daily
Nearly 8 years later, Ding Junhui scored 147 again in a single stroke
Expected to hit an additional bonus of £147,000
On the evening of January 8, the 2024 Snooker Masters ushered in the second match day. Ding Junhui played against his old rival Ronnie O’Sullivan. After nine rounds of fierce battle, O’Sullivan was superior in skill and defeated Ding Junhui 6-3.
Although he lost the game, Ding Junhui shot his seventh career perfect score of 147 in the game, becoming the first player in the history of the Masters to score two 147s. If he can hit 147 again during this season’s World Championships, Ding Junhui is expected to hit an additional bonus of 147,000 pounds.
7th stroke of 147 in his career
On January 8, local time, the 2024 Snooker Wembley Masters will continue. This is the 35th “Ding Olympic Games” in history and the 6th meeting between Ding Junhui and O’Sullivan in the Masters.
After the game started, O’Sullivan scored 67, 87 and 106 points on a single stroke with a 94% goal success rate, getting off to a 4-0 start. After returning from the break, O’Sullivan made a mistake when he was about to get the match point. Ding Junhui then scored 56 points and 92 points in a single stroke, chasing the big score to 2-4. In the 7th game, Ding Junhui took advantage of half a billiard ball and then scored 147 points to catch up to 3-4. This is Ding Junhui’s 7th shot in his career, 195th in history, and 6th 147 this season. The last time Ding Junhui shot 147 was in the 2016 Welsh Open. The two shots of 147 were separated by nearly eight years.
O’Sullivan called Ding Junhui’s performance “incredible”: “I know he was trying to score a perfect score from the second or third red ball. He had a very good chance in that game and made one mistake. None.” Ding Junhui said after the game: “I had a lot of chances at the beginning of the game, but I messed up. After the halftime break, I didn’t think I would play that well. It’s great to hit 147. I I haven’t felt this way for a long time.”
Only three perfect scores have been achieved in the Masters
The Masters is one of the three major snooker tournaments in the world. It is also the only non-ranking event among the three majors. It is limited to the 16 highest-ranked players in the world and has a prize money of up to 725,000 pounds. Ding Junhui has won this event once, but that was still in 2009.
The 2024 Snooker Masters is the 50th Masters, held at Alexandria Palace in London, England from January 7th to 14th. From the first round to the semi-finals, the competition adopts a best-of-11 game system, and the final adopts a best-of-19 game system, which is divided into two stages. Only the top 16 players in the world are eligible to participate.
In the past 49 years, only three shots of 147 have been shot in this event – in 1984, Kirk Stevens shot the first 147 in the Masters against Jimmy White, which was also the third officially recorded shot. 147; in 2007, Ding Junhui shot his first career shot of 147 against Anthony Hamilton; in 2015, Fu Jiajun shot his third shot of 147 against Stuart Bingham. Now, Ding Junhui has become the only player in the history of the Masters to score 147 points multiple times.
According to the current rules, since there is no separate bonus of 147 in the Masters, the highest single score will receive a bonus of 15,000 pounds. In addition, the World Snooker Tour (WST) previously officially announced that in the three major competitions this season-namely, the 2023 British Snooker Championship, the 2024 Snooker Masters and the 2024 World Snooker Championship, if If a player can score 147 points twice, he will receive a huge bonus of 147,000 pounds. In other words, if Ding Junhui can shoot 147 again at the World Championships in April, he will receive this bonus.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Pei Han Zhou Yao
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