Shanghai Masters snooker: Ali Carter sets up Ronnie O'Sullivan clash, Ding Junhui overcomes Si Jiahui, Jack Lisowski win

ByEurosport

Updated 11/09/2023 at 16:40 GMT

Essex snooker icons Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ali Carter will lock cues in the last 16 of the Shanghai Masters. Carter eased to a 6-2 win over Dong Zi on Monday to secure his first meeting with O'Sullivan since 2020. He was joined in the last 16 by John Higgins, Hossein Vafaei, Ding Junhui and Jack Lisowski. Stream the 2023 Shanghai Masters and other top snooker action live on discovery+.

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Ali Carter and Ronnie O'Sullivan will renew acquaintances in the last 16 of the Shanghai Masters on Tuesday after 2010 winner Carter completed a 6-2 win over local wildcard Dong Zi in the first round of the elite invitational event.

The German Masters champion produced breaks of 76, 88 and 122 to establish a 4-0 lead at the mid-session interval on Monday before finalising his progress with a closing 86.

Carter and O'Sullivan have twice met in world finals in 2008 and 2012 with O'Sullivan winning both.

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They last met in the last 32 of the World Grand Prix three years ago with O'Sullivan emerging a 4-1 winner.

The pair infamously bumped into each at the table during a bad-natured contest at the 2018 World Championship.

Carter's 13-9 last-16 victory at the Crucible is his solitary success against O'Sullivan in 17 career meetings since 2001.

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Ding Junhui won his all-Chinese duel with World Championship semi-finalist Si Jiahui 6-2 to secure a last-16 match with Neil Robertson on Wednesday.

Two-time champion Ding led 3-0 boosted by a 70 and 51, and never looked back as he added a 58 in the seventh frame with Si coming up short despite a 60 and 71 of his own.

Elsewhere, John Higgins hit his 950th career century in a 6-0 win against Deng Haohui with an immaculate 141 in the fourth frame, while Iran's leading player Hossein Vafaei produced three centuries of 108, 120 and 117 plus a 56 in a 6-1 win against Gong Chenzhi, whose 62 in the fifth frame staved off the whitewash.

Scottish Open champion Gary Wilson lost 6-2 to former European Masters champion Fan Zhengyi.

before being informed it was a best-of-11 frame match. Which he lost two frames later.

Jack Lisowski recovered from trailing 4-1 to Zhou Yuelong to complete a 6-5 win that sets up a meeting with friend Judd Trump in the last 16 on Tuesday morning.

Lisowski produced 79, 67 and 51 after Zhou earlier made 61 and 51 to lead 5-4. Zhou forced the decider, but a closing break of 84 sealed Lisowski's progress.