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Dafabet Masters 2021 – The ultimate presentation of snooker’s biggest invitational tournament is upon us as the Betfred Masters kicks off this Sunday.

Won by Stuart Bingham last season, this year’s tournament will of course look a little different with both a title sponsor and a change of venue – the tournament will return to the temporary home of our game in Milton Keynes. But the honor remains the same with the top 16 determined to fight for the title and add their names to an impressive list of past champions.

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With a top prize of $250,000 and the coveted Paul Hunter Trophy, record 2019 champion Judd Trump, seven-time winner Ronnie O’Sullivan and eight other former Masters winners are set to battle it out for the title.

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In this respect, there are three changes from 2020, with debutants Yan Bingtao, Thepchia An-Noh and former Masters finalists Joe Perry, Barry Hawkins and O’Sullivan returning in the draw in place of last year’s runner-up Ollie Carter.

Leading the Masters field for the first time is Stuart Bingham, who returns to the event 12 months after his memorable victory at Alexandra Palace last season and looks to kick off his 2020/21 campaign.

Despite his recent top breaks at the UK Championship and Championship League, ‘Ballrun’ has not reached the quarter-finals of a ranking event since the 2019 World Open and has some work to do if he is to qualify for the place stage. Once the world championship Again last year

With no ranking points on the line this week, she can focus on an opening round clash with Thepchaya Un-Noh, where the Thai player is making her competitive debut.

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The pair have met three times in ranking events, but in no match of this length, with Bingham winning seven-frame matches at the 2018 English Open and 2014 Welsh Open tournaments, while An-Noah came out on top in single-frame sets. Despite being out for 2019, Bingham pitched a 3-0 win in the Championship League on Wednesday, including his eighth career 147 shutout.

Given the London crowd, An-Noh will not have the full experience as a Masters debutant, with the match being a huge celebration and not without pressure for both players.

Awaiting the winner will be either Shaun Murphy or Mark Williams, both previous winners of the event but not enjoying the best run of form in recent months.

For Murphy, who lifted the iconic Waterford Crystal trophy in 2015, his best result of the campaign came at the season-opening European Masters when he reached the semi-finals, but a last-32 run at the Scottish Open represented his best performance. Since then

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This is the same tournament where Williams enjoyed her best run as she reached the last 16 before falling to Jude Trump in the first half of a quiet season so far.

Head-to-head, the pair cannot be separated by 14 wins in each competition, and their last meeting was in the 2019 China Championship final where Murphy was defeated 10-9.

Three-time Masters champion Mark Shelby is set to launch his latest bid for title number four against Tour Championship winner Stephen Maguire.

The pair have actually met three previous times at the tournament, with Shelby coming out on top each time, most notably at the semi-final stage in 2010.

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Shelby also comes into their latest bout in fine form, claiming both the European Masters and Scottish Open crowns to finish third in a new rankings list.

For Maguire, who knocked out Shelby in their most recent meeting at the 2020 Players Championship, it has been a difficult campaign so far that hasn’t produced much better than the last 32 as he struggles to repeat the exceptional form he showed to win. Tour Championship last summer

Shelby narrowly leads their overall head to head career 15-14, although it’s notable that she hasn’t made the semifinals of the tournament since making a run to the final in 2014, a surprising statistic given her outstanding performances. tournament record early in his career

Defending champion Stuart Bingham was one of the top-ranked players and world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan was seeded second, with the knock-in effect that the second and fourth seeded players were placed in the same quarter of the draw. .

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The result is that Britain’s Championship winner Neil Robertson is set to meet Shelby in the last eight, with Yan Bingtao standing in the way of the Australian.

For Robertson, the season has seen him maintain the consistent form he showed in 2020, not only in his memorable pink-ball victory over Jude Trump at the English Championship, but also at the English Open and the Champions of Champions. Second only to Trump on the one-year ranking list and the century chart, Robertson is targeting a fourth Masters final and a possible second title to add to his 2012 crown.

Meanwhile, rival Yan has had a solid season so far – including quarter-finals at the European Masters and the Northern Ireland Open – while not matching the heights of his 2019/20 campaign as he qualified for the Tour’s top eight championships.

Their head-to-head record is relatively short, with one win each, making this their first meeting at the Masters with Yann set to debut next week.

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World number one Jude Trump begins his quest for a second Masters title in three years with a match against 2019 semi-finalist David Gilbert on Sunday.

Trump’s success over the past two seasons has been well-documented and his victory at the World Grand Prix before Christmas confirmed that he went into the Masters with positive momentum after losing at the UK Championships a few weeks earlier.

In contrast, David Gilbert has struggled for consistency over the past 12 months, making eight first-round exits from ranking events in 2020. However he has won matches in invitational tournaments like Champions League, Champions of Champions and of course this tournament. A year ago when he beat Mark Allen and Stephen Maguire before losing to Stuart Bingham in the last four.

The head-to-head record favors Trump in all contests (9-5), though surprisingly they have met only four times in ranking events and only twice in the past decade, even with the prize.

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The winner of either Trump or Gilbert will meet Kieran Wilson or Jack Lisowski in the quarterfinals, a repeat matchup from last season’s Masters opener.

On that occasion it was 2018 finalist Wilson who prevailed (6-2), as he has done from their four meetings since the start of the 2019/20 season. The ‘Warrior’ has enjoyed a strong season to date, with five quarter-final appearances at the ranking event followed by success in the Championship League, and last eight appearances at the Champions League.

Lisowski, on the other hand, struggled for wins at the start of the season, with his Masters qualification ahead of the UK Championships, where he managed to qualify for the quarter-finals. He followed that up with a run to his fourth career ranking final at a world grand prix, eventually losing to Trump.

Despite Wilson’s success in head-to-head meetings, their overall record is solid, with Lisowski 7-6 winning four of their first five meetings.

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John Higgins and Mark Allen meet for the fifth time at the Masters next Wednesday and, perhaps surprisingly, two-time champion Higgins will be looking to break his docket against opponents with Allen winning each of their competitive meetings.

Most notably – and most recently – Allen ran out 6-3 winners from a semi-final clash in 2018 to claim the title for the first time and the pair have not met in the competition for three years. Their coming struggle Their overall heads are a little closer with Allen edging it 11-10 in all competitions.

In terms of their respective seasons, Higgins had a slightly stronger season with a semifinal run at the English Open, but Allen, of course, shone at the Champions of Champions, defeating the world’s top three players. To claim the campaign’s other major invitational tournaments

Last – but certainly not least – we have a meeting between record seven-time Masters champion Ronnie O’Sullivan and 2011 winner Ding Zhuhui, and for Higgins and Allen, this will be their fifth Masters show.

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Unlike Higgins and Allen, whose previous records have so far been one-way traffic, O’Sullivan has won the previous four events,