Ronnie O’Sullivan has received the 2024 Masters title after a 10-7 conquer Ali Carter in an entertaining ultimate on Sunday in London.
Success on the prestigious invitational for the Rocket brings his tally of Masters crowns to a record-extending eight.
It matches the eight UK Championship titles he has acquired and marks the primary time he has received consecutive Triple Crown titles in the identical marketing campaign.
O’Sullivan boasts 23 items of silverware from the majors total, and a focus will now flip to his quest for a record-breaking eighth World Championship on the Crucible Theatre.
There had been loads of pleasure main as much as the 2024 Masters showdown for glory between two gamers who’ve often did not see eye-to-eye.
A lightning-fast opening session took lower than two hours to finish, with each finalists in full assault mode.
As had been the case at varied factors earlier within the week, an at-times reckless O’Sullivan went for some outrageous photographs.
Whereas a number of spectacular pots had been landed, there have been different wild misses that gifted his opponent loads of openings.
Carter sustained his excessive stage of type from the event to capitalise at first, successful the primary session 5-3 with the assistance of a few century breaks.
There was then a raucous environment contained in the Ally Pally when the pair returned for the night session of play.
The Captain, who was bidding for a maiden Triple Crown title, prolonged his cushion to 6-3 and it appeared as if an upset was actually on the playing cards.
But O’Sullivan dug deep, and realising how nicely Carter was performing he lastly ditched the overly relaxed strategy in favour of tougher match snooker.
The 48 year-old strung collectively three frames on the spin to revive parity on the mid-session interval.
To Carter’s credit score, the underdog returned after the mini break to compile an amazing 127 and change into the primary participant in Masters historical past to compile 9 tons in a single version of the occasion.
However there have been key exchanges within the following two frames which swung the conflict again within the favorite’s favour.
Carter appeared to change into distracted by the gang’s more and more boisterous nature and missed a few essential pink balls, with O’Sullivan taking the entrance for the primary time for the reason that opening body.
When the world primary subsequently compiled a run of 89 to make it 9-7, the competition regarded all however over.
So it proved, with O’Sullivan needing a few contributions however getting over the successful line within the subsequent body to change into the oldest ever Masters champion.
That he was additionally the youngest champion all the best way again in 1995 underlines his unimaginable longevity on the very pinnacle of the game.
The Englishman collects a cool champion’s cheque value £250,000 whereas victory in one other prestigious event reaffirms him as the sport’s best of all time.
2024 Masters
– draw, stay scores, outcomes –
Final 16 (bo11)
Judd Trump 6-5 Kyren Wilson
Mark Williams 4-6 Ali Carter
Mark Selby 6-1 Robert Milkins
Mark Allen 6-5 John Higgins
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Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-3 Ding Junhui
Neil Robertson 3-6 Barry Hawkins
Shaun Murphy 6-2 Zhang Anda
Luca Brecel 2-6 Jack Lisowski
Quarter-Finals (bo11)
Judd Trump 5-6 Ali Carter
Mark Selby 5-6 Mark Allen
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Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-3 Barry Hawkins
Shaun Murphy 6-3 Jack Lisowski
Semi-Finals (bo11)
Ali Carter 6-3 Mark Allen
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Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-2 Shaun Murphy
Ultimate (bo19)
Ali Carter 7-10 Ronnie O’Sullivan
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