Masters 2019

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Dafabet Masters 2019

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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Attendees: 16
Venue: Alexandra Palace ,
London , England
Opening: January 13, 2019
Endgame: 20th January 2019

Winner: EnglandEngland Judd Trump
Finalist: EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
Highest Break: 140 ( Luca Brecel ) BelgiumBelgium
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Alexandra Palace in London, venue of the Masters 2019

The Dafabet Masters 2019 was an invitation tournament and part of the 2018/19 season of the Snooker Main Tour . It took place from 13 to 20 January 2019 for the 45th time in total and for the eighth time at Alexandra Palace in London . The winner was Judd Trump for the first time , who beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 10: 4. It was Trump's second final win of the season over O'Sullivan. Eight years after winning the UK Championship , he secured the second Triple Crown title .

Defending champion was the Northern Irishman Mark Allen , who was eliminated in the first round against Luca Brecel this year . Furthermore, last year's finalist Kyren Wilson as well as the reigning world champion Mark Williams and the runner-up world champion John Higgins were eliminated in the first round .

Prize money

The prize money remained unchanged compared to the previous year.

Prize money
winner £ 200,000
finalist £ 90,000
Semi-finalist £ 50,000
Quarter finalist £ 25,000
Round of 16 £ 12,500
Highest break £ 10,000
All in all £ 600,000

The "Rolling 147 Prize" for a maximum break is not awarded at the Masters because it is an invitation tournament. The prize money awarded was therefore not included in the world rankings .

Tournament schedule

The 16 top players in the world rankings played for the Masters title for eight days. The tournament was opened on Sunday, January 13th, by defending champion Mark Allen .
8 of the 16 players were seeded and therefore got fixed positions in the tournament tree.

Luca Brecel defeated the defending champion in the first game in the Decider, but then lost to Ding Junhui in the decision frame. In the semi-finals, Ding met Ronnie O'Sullivan and had almost lost the game before the break. Although he was able to reduce the 0: 4 deficit, O'Sullivan finally reached the final with 6: 3. In the second semifinals, Judd Trump met Neil Robertson . While Trump had clearly beaten world number one Mark Selby , Robertson had taken reigning world champion Mark Williams out of the tournament in round 1 . In a game that was broken up at times, Trump won 6: 4 and made it into the Masters final for the first time in his career.

  Round of 16 (Best of 11 Frames)
13. – 16. January 		  Quarterfinals (Best of 11 Frames)
17./18. January 		  Semi-finals (Best of 11 Frames)
January 19th 		  Final (Best of 19 Frames)
January 20th
                                     
1 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 5                  
15th BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 6th  
15th BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 5
  8th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 6th  
8th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 6th
 
16 EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 1  
8th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 3
  4th EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th  
5 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 5      
 
13 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 6th  
13 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 3
  4th EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th  
4th EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th
 
12 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 2  
4th EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 4th
  6th EnglandEngland Judd Trump 10
3 EnglandEngland Mark Selby 6th            
 
14th ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 2  
3 EnglandEngland Mark Selby 2
  6th EnglandEngland Judd Trump 6th  
6th EnglandEngland Judd Trump 6th
 
10 EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 2  
6th EnglandEngland Judd Trump 6th
  9 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 4th  
7th EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins 6th      
 
11 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 2  
7th EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins 3
  9 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 6th  
2 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 3
 
9 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 6th  

final

Ronnie O'Sullivan was in the final for the fifth time this season. He had only lost once: two months earlier at the Northern Ireland Open against Judd Trump . The 29-year-old also dominated the afternoon session, O'Sullivan only scored his first points in the third frame, and at break he was 4-0 down. He won the first frame after the break, then Trump took over again and extended the lead to 7-1. In the evening O'Sullivan tried to shorten and use Trump's mistakes consistently, but every frame gain was followed by a frame for Trump. In the 14th frame, O'Sullivan made a hole error and Trump finished with a 53 break to 10: 4 victory. In the 9th final match between the two players, it was Trump's 6th victory. For O'Sullivan it was the biggest defeat in the final since the 2005 Grand Prix , where he lost 9-2 to John Higgins .

Final: Best of 19 Frames
Referee: Jan Verhaas Alexandra Palace ,  London , England , January 20, 2019 NetherlandsNetherlands
Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland 4: 10 EnglandEngland Judd Trump
Afternoon games : 0: 89 (89), 0: 87 (87), 8: 58 , 37: 80 (56), 101 : 0 (69), 37: 90 (66), 0: 86 , 26: 74 (66 )

Evening games : 69 : 13, 0: 88 (88), 114 : 23 (114), 25: 69 (68), 113 : 4 (109), 16: 68 (53)

114 Highest break 89
2 Century breaks -
3 50+ breaks 8th

Century breaks

24 breaks of 100 or more points were scored by 9 players in the tournament week. Luca Brecel scored the highest tournament break with 140 points in Round 1 and received the extra bonus of £ 10,000. Also in round 1, Barry Hawkins made the 300th century break of his career. He reached this mark as the 20th player. Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ding Junhui each got 5 centurys.

BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 140
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 136
EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 134, 119, 114, 111, 109
EnglandEngland Mark Selby 133, 125, 115, 110
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 128, 111
EnglandEngland Judd Trump 128, 101
AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 127 (2 ×), 102
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 125, 123, 122, 107, 105
EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins 124

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  3. ↑ Dafabet Masters 2019 Schedule of Play. (PDF; 159 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed December 16, 2018 .
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  5. ↑ Masters Snooker 2019: Mark Williams loses to Neil Robertson. In: bbc.com. BBC , January 15, 2019, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Dafabet Masters 2019 - Centuries. (No longer available online.) In: worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , archived from the original on January 14, 2019 ; accessed on January 20, 2019 .