Saudi Arabia Masters Betting Preview, Draw and Results

Saudi Arabia Masters: Review

Judd Trump won his seventh event since the start of the 23/24 season and picked up a cool £500,000 winners cheque for doing so when taking the innaugural Saudi Arabia Masters.

It wasn't all plain sailing for the Ace in the Pack who had to come through three final frame deciders on the way to the title, including when coming back from 4-0 down to Wu Yize in his first match. Trump admitted that he had been checking flights home at the interval but somehow managed to win five frames in a row to make it through to the next round. Trump also survived final frame deciders against Shaun Murphy in the semi-final and in the nineteen frame final against Mark Williams. In the final the Welshman had a 62-0 lead in the final frame but missed a crucial red and allowed Trump back in to make a superb 72 clearance to take the title. 

Trump's start to the 24/25 season has been particularly impressive having won the Shanghai Masters, losing in the final of the Xian Grand Prix to Kyren Wilson and now winning in Saudi Arabia. Trump has returned to the summit of the world rankings and has now won twenty-nine ranking events, with just John Higgins, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan ahead of him in number of career titles won. 

Trump now heads into the English Open where he is also the defending champion and the thirty-five-year-old will be hoping his fast start to the season will continue on to the other big events of the season, particularly the World Championship, where he has suprisingly only won once.

Results from Round Six onwards

Final - Best of nineteen frames:

Judd Trump v Mark Williams 10-9

Semi-Finals - Best of eleven frames:

Mark Williams v Si Jiahui 6-3

Judd Trump v Shaun Murphy 6-5

Quarter-Finals - Best of eleven frames:

Mark Williams v Jimmy Robertson 6-0

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Si Jiahui 4-6

Judd Trump v Neil Robertson 6-3

Shaun Murphy v Xiao Guodong 6-2

Round Six - Best of eleven frames:

Kyren Wilson v Jimmy Robertson 4-6

Mark Williams v Stuart Bingham 6-2

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Zhang Anda 6-5

Si Jiahui v Pang Junxu 6-5

Judd Trump v Jack Lisowski 6-1

Gary Wilson v Neil Robertson 1-6

Shaun Murphy v Elliot Slessor 6-3

Scott Donaldson v Xiao Guodong 5-6

Saudi Arabia Masters - Round Five Draw

Plenty of shocks in Round Five with defeats for John Higgins, Ding Junhui, Luca Brecel, Mark Selby, Ali Carter, Barry Hawkins and Mark Allen.

The fifth round of the Saudi Arabia Masters is the stage when the top sixteen ranked players are introduced into the draw:

Round Five - Best of nine frames. (Player's ranking in brackets)

Kyren Wilson (1) v Liu Hongyu (64) - 5-3

John Higgins (16) v Jimmy Robertson (49) - 2-5

Mark WIlliams (9) v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (41) - 5-4

Ding Junhui (8) v Stuart Bingham (25) - 4-5

Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) v Lei Peifan (103) - 5-1

Zhang Anda (12) v Ben Woolaston (53) - 5-0

Tom Ford (13) v Si Jiahui (20) - 5-2

Luca Brecel (4) v Pang Junxu (29) - 2-5

Judd Trump (3) v Wu Yize (35) - 5-4

Jak Jones (14) v Jack Lisowski (19) - 3-5

Gary Wilson (11) v David Gilbert (22) - 5-2

Mark Selby (6) v Neil Robertson (27) - 3-5

Shaun Murphy (7) v Yuan Sijun (39) - 5-2

Ali Carter (10) v Elliot Slessor (42) 3-5

Barry Hawkins (15) v Scott Donaldson (47) - 1-5

Mark Allen (2) v Xiao Guodong (34) - 1-5

Saudi Arabia Masters 2024: Format and Prizemoney

The Saudi Arabia Masters will be the first ranking event to be played in the country and was introduced after the success of last year’s invitational event, The World Masters.The competition runs from 30th August to 7th September and has a total prize fund of £2,000,000 of which £500,000 goes to the winner. The winner's cheque is equal to that picked up by Kyren Wilson earlier this year for winning the World Championship.

The event will be played at the Green Rooms, Riyadh.

The format of the event differs from most events as the draw will be staggered with the higher ranked players being introduced after each completed round, as in the World Championship. For example, players such as Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump won’t start in the competition until Round five.

The number of frames played increases as the tournament progresses:

• Rounds 1, 2  and 3- best of seven frames

• Rounds 4 and 5 - best of nine frames

• Rounds 6, quarter-finals and semi-finals - best of eleven frames

• Final - best of nineteen frames

Live coverage is available on Eurosport and Matchroom Sport.

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Tournament Winners Since June 2023

Below is a table of all recent tournament winners and runners-up:

Tournament Winners' Record Since June 2023

As this is a new tournament we have no previous event form to consider when trying to find the winner of the tournament so it might be worth looking at the players who have won tournaments since the start of last season and see how their recent form stacks up.

The table below outlines how many tournaments these players played, how many event wins they recorded and how often they made it to Finals and Semi-Finals. The data goes back to the start of the 23/24 season.

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