Macau Masters

D88 Sports Macau Masters 2018
Tournament type:	Team competition
Venue:	Marriott Hotel , Macau , China
Opening:	October 24, 2018
Endgame:	October 25, 2018
Winner:	Team B / Barry Hawkins
Finalist:	Team A / Mark Williams

The D88 Sports Macau Masters 2018 was an invitation tournament for two snooker teams that took place on October 24th and 25th, 2018 in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China . Last year, with the CVB International Challenge , a team duel was included in the season calendar of the Snooker Main Tour for the first time . A second professional tournament with a similar format was added this year. In contrast to the CVB national competition, two mixed teams played against each other.

The winner of the team event was Team B, who beat Team A 5-1. In the final Leapfrog Challenge, the winner was Barry Hawkins .

Tournament format

• The first part of the tournament (team competition) was played by two teams of 4 players each. Two British and two Chinese professional players played on each team. 6 such team games were played.
• In the second part of the tournament, a total of 7 games were played as individual games. The format was the so-called Leapfrog Challenge, in which the winning player meets the next best (according to the world rankings). These games were played in the special format 6 reds (with 6 instead of 15 red balls).

Teams

The most prominent participant was the reigning world champion Mark Williams , who, like Joe Perry, had already taken part in the CVB Challenge last year. It was also the second team duel for two Chinese players, Zhao and Zhou .

team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4
A.	Joe Perry	Zhang Anda	Mark Williams	Marco Fu
B.	Barry Hawkins	Ryan Day	Zhao Xintong	Zhou Yuelong

Results

Team competition

The matches of the team competition were decided on three winning frames (mode Best of 5 ). Frames 1, 3 and 5 were doubles, frames 2 and 4 were played singles. The following matches were drawn:

Joe Perry + Zhang Anda	1: 3	Zhao Xintong + Zhou Yuelong
Zhang Anda + Mark Williams	2: 3	Barry Hawkins + Zhao Xintong
Zhang Anda + Marco Fu	1: 3	Ryan Day + Zhao Xintong
Joe Perry + Mark Williams	3 : 2	Barry Hawkins + Zhou Yuelong
Joe Perry + Marco Fu	0: 3	Ryan Day + Zhou Yuelong
Mark Williams + Marco Fu	0: 3	Barry Hawkins + Ryan Day

Bottom line

Team A 1: 5 Team B

6 Reds Leapfrog Challenge

The following matches were played in the special format 6 Reds :

Zhao Xintong	1 : 0	Zhang Anda
Zhou Yuelong	1 : 0	Zhao Xintong
Joe Perry	0: 1	Zhou Yuelong
Marco Fu	1 : 0	Zhou Yuelong
Ryan Day	0: 1	Marco Fu
Barry Hawkins	1 : 0	Marco Fu
Mark Williams	2: 3	Barry Hawkins

Bottom line

Leapfrog Challenge Winner: Barry Hawkins

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1. ↑ Macau Masters. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , September 4, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 . 
2. ^ D88 Sports Macau Masters Team Stage (2018). Snooker.org, accessed October 25, 2018 . 
3. ^ D88 Sports Macau Masters (2018). Snooker.org, accessed October 25, 2018 .