The 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters ended the semi-final contest. China's Si Jiahui missed the £500,000 prize money and lost 3-6 to Williams to stop the semifinals; No. 3 seed Trump wasted two match points and narrowly defeated Murphy 6-5 to advance to the final. With the promotion of Trump and Williams, snooker will give birth to the first "Four Grand Slam" players in history.
Si Jiahui started with a one-shot break hundred, and then Williams won 4 games in a row, and the two sides fought to 1-4. In the sixth game, Si Jiahui chased the score to 2-4 with a single stroke of 50+, but in the seventh game, Williams narrowly won the first match point with 5 points. In the eighth game, Si Jiahui broke 100 to save match points, but Williams scored 80 points in a single stroke in the ninth game and advanced to the final 6-3.
In this campaign, Si Jiahui scored a total of 2 strokes to break 100 and 1 stroke to 50+, especially in the eighth game, he scored 136 points in a single stroke. Although Si Jiahui is better than Williams in terms of single-stroke scores, Williams is more stable, although he has not broken 100 in a single stroke, he has 4 single-stroke 50+ data. Overall, Si Jiahui has occasional flashes, and Williams is always online.
The other semifinal is for No. 3 seed Judd Trump against No. 7 seed Murphy. At the beginning of the game, Trump played a wave of three whips with 2 shots of 60+, leading 3-0. Then Murphy returned with a single stroke of 65 points and pulled a game back. In the fifth game, Murphy completed the extreme reversal with 60-58 after being overscored, narrowing the score to 2-3.
In the sixth game, Trump scored 93 points in a single stroke to extend the lead, and Murphy scored 67 points in a single stroke to chase the extended score when he was 0-67 behind, and completed the reversal again in the process of competing for the black ball. When Trump won the match point at 5-3, Murphy saved the match point twice with 60+ and dragged the game into the deciding game. In the deciding game, Trump scored 50 points in a single stroke and won the defensive battle at the end of the game.
The tiebreaker was a twist and turn, with both men having a chance to win the match. After Trump scored 9 points, he made a tricky snooker for himself, and the cue ball unfortunately fell into the bag while solving the blue ball, and was penalized for 5 points. Murphy only needed one shot to turn the tables, but unfortunately he couldn't turn it around. The final will be between Trump and Williams, will Trump win the 29th crown, or Williams will win the 27th crown? The winner of this match will become the first "Four Grand Slam" players in snooker history.
In the world rankings, Si Jiahui has become the fastest rising player with 100,000 pounds in the semi-finals, and will rise to 13th place. If Trump wins, he will be ranked No. 1 in the world until the World Championships, and if Williams wins, he will become the new world No. 4, and has now risen to No. 6.