🎱 Shanghai Masters Snooker Results and Betting Guide

Shanghai Masters 2024: Draw and results

Judd Trump claimed one of the few big titles that has alluded him so far in his career with an emphatic display when overpowering Shaun Murphy by eleven frames to five. 

Trump had ended the first session with a 7-3 lead and underlined his superiority by winning the first three frames of the evening session to set up a seven frame advantage. Murphy responded with back-to-back centuries but this was little more than adding some credibility to the score and Trump closed out the match in frame sixteen.

After Trump's disappointing exit at the quarter-final stage in the World Championship, this victory (and his demolition of O'Sullivan in the semi-final) suggests that the thirty-four-year-old means business in the 2024/25 season. Trump was recording his sixteenth title since 2020 and for such a dominant force it must rankle with him that he still has only one world title to his name. Bookmakers currently make Trump 9/2 second favourite to lift the World Title next May.

FInal - Best of 21 frames

Judd Trump v Shaun Murphy 11-5

Semi-Finals - Best of 19 frames

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Judd Trump - 3-10

• H2H matches over two sessions or more: O'Sullivan 7 Trump 6
• H2H matches in semi-finals in all competitions: O'Sullivan 7 Trump 1
• H2H matches in all competitions: O'Sullivan 14 Trump 18
• Previous meeting in Shanghai Masters: 2017 Final: O'Sullivan 10 Trump 3
• O'Sullivan has won the last five matches between the two players in all competitions
• After beating Ding Junhui in the QF, O'Sullivan has now won 20 consecutive matches in the Shanghai Masters
• O'Sullivan's record in last ten semi-finals he has played in all competitions: Won 9 Lost 1
• Trump's record in the last ten semi-finals he has played in all competitons: Won 8 Lost 2

Mark Selby v Shaun Murphy - 8-10

• H2H matches over two sessions or more: Selby 4 Murphy 2
• H2H matches in semi-finals in all competitions: Selby 5 Murphy 3
• H2H matches in all competitions: Selby 18 Murphy 18
• H2H last ten matches in all competitions: Selby 7 Murphy 3
• Previous meeting in Shanghai Masters: 2011 Quarter-Final: Selby 5 Murphy 4
• Selby's record in last ten semi-finals he has played in all competitions: Won 6 Lost 4
• Murphy's record in last ten semi-finals he has played in all competitions: Won 5 Lost 5

Quarter-Finals - Best of 11 frames 

Mark Selby v Pang Junxu - 6-3

Shaun Murphy v Zhou Yuelong - 6-2

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Ding Junhui

Judd Trump v Si Jiahui

Round 2 - Best of 11 frames (seed rankings in brackets, winner in bold)

Three of the higher rated seeds lost in Round Two with defeats for Luca Brecel, Mark Allen and a painful 6-0 drubbing for the World Champion, Kyren Wilson.

Ronnie O'Sullivan won his 20th consecutive match in the Shanghai Masters when easing through 6-1 against wildcard Zhou Jinhao. 

Recent Championship League champion Ali Carter came out worst in a final frame decider with former Shanghai Masters champion, Ding Junhui. Carter made two centuries to pull back from 4-1 down to get to 5-5 only for Ding to produce a break of 95. Ding now faces old foe Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarter-final on Thursday afternoon.

Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) v Zhou Jinhao - 6-1

Ding Junhui (8) v Ali Carter (10) - 6-5

Luca Brecel (5) v Si Jiahui (17) - 2-6

Judd Trump (4) v Mark Williams (9) - 6-2

Mark Allen (3) v Pang Junxu (19) - 5-6

Mark Selby (6) v Cao Jin - 6-1

Shaun Murphy (7) v John Higgins (16) - 6-3

Kyren Wilson (2) v Zhou Yuelong (18) - 0-6

Round 1 - Best of 11 frames (seed rankings in brackets, winners in bold)

Zhang Anda (12) v Zhou Jinhao - 3-6

Ali Carter (10) v Qiu Lei - 6-0

Tom Ford (13) v Si Jiahui (17) - 3-6

Mark Williams (9) v Wang Xinbo - 6-3

Gary Wilson (11) v Pang Junxu (19) - 5-6

Jak Jones (14) v Cao Jin - 2-6

John Higgins (16) v Lyu Haotian (20) - 6-1

Barry Hawkins (15) v Zhou Yuelong (18) - 4-6

Shanghai Masters Format

The Shanghai Masters has been an invitational event (currently for twenty-four players) since 2018. Prior to 2018 the Shanghai Masters was a ranking event. The event has a total prize fund of £825,000.

Between 2020 and 2022 the event was not played due to COVID-19.

• Matches played up to and including the Quarter Finals will be played over eleven frames
• The semi-finals will be played over nineteen frames
• The final will be played over twenty-one frames

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Shanghai Masters History

Dominic Dale won the second of his two ranking events when taking the very first Shanghai Masters in 2007. Dale beat fellow Welshman, Ryan Day 10-6 in the Final.

The following year, Ronnie O'Sullivan made the first of his six appearances in the Final, but this was the only occasion where he didn't lift the trophy. O'Sullivan was beaten 10-8 by Ricky Walden, who was winning his first ranking event.

O'Sullivan rectified matters the following year when defeating Liang Wenbo 10-5 in the 2009 Final. O'Sullivan would go on to four more Shanghai Masters' victories in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2023

Apart from O'Sullivan, Ding Junhui is only player to win the Shanghai Masters more than once with victories in 2013 and 2016.

Shanghai Masters: Details of all winners and runners-up

Ronnie O'Sullivan has won the last four renewals of the Shanghai Masters:

Shanghai Masters 2023: Draw, Results and round reviews

Final (21 frames)

Ronnie O'Sullivan 11 v Luca Brecel 9

Ronnie O'Sullivan won an amazing fourth consecutive Shanghai Masters and now has gone eighteen matches undefeated in this event.

There have been five previous matches between these two players with the head to head at 3-2 in favour of O'Sullivan. Brecel won the match that mattered most when the Belgium player won the last seven frames to win the 2023 World Championship Quarter-Final, 13-10. 

In terms of Finals, O'Sullivan has won four out of the last five finals he has played in. Brecel has won three of the last five finals he has played in, including the last World Championships. O'Sullivan has been the heavier scorer in the earlier rounds having six centuries compared to Brecel's two.

Semi Finals (21 frames)

Ronnie O'Sullivan 10 v Mark Selby 7 

The two great rivals clashed once again and Selby took a 5-4 lead after the first session. Frames were exchanged in the second session until the score hit 7-7 but then O'Sullivan went into overdrive with breaks of 69, 109 and 118. 

Luca Brecel 10 Neil Robertson 7 

A first victory for Brecel over Robertson, with the World Champion losing his four previous meetings with the Australian. Brecel raced into a 3-0 lead and maintained a lead throughout the rest of the match.

Quarter Finals

Ronnie O'Sullivan 6 John Higgins 5

O'Sullivan maintained his record of beating Higgins in all their meetings in the Shanghai Masters with a tense 6-5 victory after being 5-2 down. Four centuries in the match.

Mark Selby 6 Judd Trump 1

A surprisingly comfortable victory for Selby who has picked up where he left off with his form in China. Selby's five breaks over fifty were far too good for Trump who has to wait for another year for his first Shanghai Masters title.

Neil Robertson 6 Fan Zhengyi 1

Another conmfortable victory but this one was perhaps more expected than Selby's over Trump. Robertson didn't need to be at his best to overcome Fan and the Australian managed two 50+ breaks and a century break to clinch the match

Luca Brecel 6 Robert Milkins 3

Luca Brecel seems to be finding the mantle of being World Champion very much to his liking and he did well to come through 6-2 against Milkins after being 2-0 down. Three breaks over 50 for the Belgium player.

Round 2

Ronnie O'Sullivan 6 Ali Carter 3 (O'Sullivan hit brakes of 101, 74 and 81 from 3-3 to win the match 6-3)

John Higgins 6 Kyren Wilson 3 (Wilson recorded breaks of 120 and 129 but it wasn't enough as Higgins runs out a comfortable winner)

Mark Selby 6 Hossein Vafaei 5 (Selby was in typical grinding form, going through 6-5 against Vafaei after the Iranian player came back from 5-3 down)

Judd Trump 6 Jack Lisowski 5 (Lisowski faught back from 5-2 down to 5-5 but ultimately lost out to his great friend)

Fan Zhengyi 6 Mark Allen 3 (Perhaps the first real shock of the event but an impressive performance from Fan to beat the current UK Champion)

Neil Robertson 6 Ding Junhui (A topsy turvy match with Robertson taking a 3-1 lead before Ding fought back to go 5-3 in front but the Australian took the last three frames to snatch a 6-5 victory)

Robert Milkins 6 Shaun Murphy 5 (Another final frame decider after Murphy led 4-2. Both players made centuries but eventually Milkins goes through to the quarter-final)

Luca Brecel 6 v Mark Williams 4 (four breaks over fifty, including a century, for the new World Champion)

Round 1

Ali Carter 6 Dong Zihao 2

John Higgins 6 Deng Hauhui 0

Hossein Vafaei 6 Gong Chanzhi 1

Jack Lisowski 6 v Zhou Yeulong 5

Fan Zhengyi 6 Gary Wilson 2

Ding Junhui 6 Si Jiahui 2

Robert Milkins 6 v Bai Yulu 1

Mark Williams 6 v Pang Junxu 1