How the large cashpot is split
We’re via to the quarter-final stage this morning.
Right here is how the pot is on the lookout for the match:
The entire pot is a whopping £850,000, together with a £5,000 bonus for the best break.
Winner: £177,000Runner-up: £76,000Semi-final: £34,500Quarter-final: £22,350
Tomorrow’s semi-final line-up
Three of the world’s top-five ranked stars are in motion tomorrow,
And amazingly it is all-time nice Ronnie Sullivan who’s the bottom at No5.
The Rocket faces world champ Kyran Wilson, rated No 3 on the planet.
The third and closing Englishman within the Xi’an semi-finals is World No2 Judd Trump.
He takes on Wales’ World No 60 Daniel Wells, 36, whose highest international rating of 52nd got here 4 years in the past.
Schedule:Kyren Wilson vs Ronnie O’SullivanJudd Trump vs Daniel Wells
Murphy dreads taking part in World Champ qualifiers
Shaun Murphy hopes improved kind in reaching the final 16 in Xi’an helps stave off considered one of his greatest fears in snooker.
The 2005 Crucible king hopes to be excessive sufficient up the rankings to keep away from needing to qualify for subsequent 12 months’s World Championship.
Murphy stated of his efforts in China this week: “I suppose that exhibits that there’s a little bit of life within the previous canine simply but.
“I celebrated my forty second birthday final week, so there’s nonetheless a little bit of life in there.
“The rankings don’t inform lies, and the end-of-season provisional checklist for me is fairly bleak studying in the intervening time.
“Though the Shanghai Masters is a large match, this occasion as a result of it carries the rating factors is equally as massive if no more vital for me.
“I have to make some inroads on what was a horrible season final 12 months and begin climbing that rating once more.
“The very last thing I need to do is go to the qualifiers for the World Championship or one thing, so I’ve bought my work to do.”
