Friday January 17th 2025
Judd Trump V Ding Junhui
This afternoon sees a rematch of this year’s World Open final between Judd Trump and Ding Junhui as they look to join Shaun Murphy & Mark Allen in tomorrow's semi-finals.
Trump came out on top 10-4 that day but will Ding be able to reverse the result when they take to a sold-out Alexandra Palace arena?
His deciding frame victory over Mark Williams in the last 16 will give him endless amounts of confidence ahead of his tie with the world number one. The Chinese superstar will need that boost as he takes on a player who has defeated him in their last 3 meetings.
However, It’s the first meeting of the pair at the Masters and although Trump leads in head-to-heads (11-9), Ding is more than capable of overturning the best on any given day.
The world number one cruised into the quarter-final with a commanding 6-1 defeat of Barry Hawkins, if he can replicate that form today, Ding faces an uphill battle.
A quick start is crucial for the 2011 winner of this event but I find it hard to look past Trump progressing to another semi-final.
Prediction 6-1 Trump
Luca Brecel V Kyren Wilson
The final
four will be confirmed after the clash of Luca Brecel and Kyren Wilson this evening. An intriguing clash between the last two winners of the World
Championship.
Brecel
holds a slim advantage in head-to-heads over Wilson (5-4) but the reigning
World Champion is keen to add the Masters to his ever-growing list of winners
titles especially after surviving a huge scare against China’s Zhang Anda in
the last 16.
If both
players play to the levels we know they’re capable of, we could be in for a
real treat to wrap up the quarter-finals.
Brecel was clinical in his last 16 defeat of Chris Wakelin and if showing that form tonight, he could run Wilson close.
For me though, Wilson is a different animal this season, the scare he got off Zhang Anda in the last 16 will be the catalyst for him to push on to a semi-final with the impressive Judd Trump.
Prediction: Wilson 6-2
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