2020 Masters (snooker)
The 2020 Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament. It took place between 12 and 19 January 2020 at the Alexandra Palace in London. The defending champion was Judd Trump, who lost to Shaun Murphy in the first round. The winner received £250,000 from a total prize pool of £725,000. The tournament featured a total of 18 century breaks; the highest break was a 144 compiled by David Gilbert in the quarter-finals.
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The 2020 Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament. It took place between 12 and 19 January 2020 at the Alexandra Palace in London. It was the 46th staging of the Masters tournament, which was first held in 1975. The defending champion was Judd Trump, who lost to Shaun Murphy in the first round. The winner received £250,000 from a total prize pool of £725,000. The tournament featured a total of 18 century breaks; the highest break was a 144 compiled by David Gilbert in the quarter-finals. The event was the second of three Triple Crown events in the 2019–20 season, following the 2019 UK Championship and preceding the 2020 World Snooker Championship. The 16 highest-ranked players according to the world rankings after the UK Championship in December 2019 were invited to the event. Seven-time Masters champion and 2019 runner-up Ronnie O’Sullivan, ranked third, chose not to enter; his place was awarded to Ali Carter, who was ranked 17th prior to the tournament. All matches were played as best-of-11-frames matches, except for the final which was played over a maximum of 19 frames. The Masters began on 12 January 2020 with first-round matches played asbest of 11-frames. The 2019 UK champion and eighth seed Ding Junhui took on 15th seed Joe Perry in the opening match. Perry took the opening frame, the first century break of the tournament, and completed a break of 135 in the second frame to tie the match 2–2 at the interval.
Ding took the fourth frame to lead 3–2 before Perry equalised at 3–3, but Ding improved the second half of the match and won the match 5–3 in the next frame. Ding won the final 10–8 to become the oldest Masters champion at the age of 43 years and 243 days, beating the previous record set by Ray Reardon in 1976. David Gilbert made his Masters debut at the event, and won £15,000 for his quarter-final break of 144. The prize fund for the event was £25,000, an increase of £125,000 over the previous year’s total prize fund and an extra £50,00 for the top prize. In addition to this change, the Triple Crown was renamed the ‘Triple Crown Series’ and players who had won all three events wore a crown on their playing waistcoats. The2020 Masters was the first event to feature these changes in branding and was sponsored by sports betting company Dafabet. The draw for the tournament was held during the final of the2019 UK Championship. As in previous years, the top eight seeds were allocated fixed positions in the draw. The lowest seed and fourth seed Mark Selby played the lowest seed, Ali Carter. The highest seed and third seed was Ali Carter who reached the final and played Stuart Bingham, who won his first Masters title. O’Sullivan pulled out of the event for ‘personal reasons’ but later commented that the reason they had stated was a ‘mistake’
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