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.
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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O’Sullivan lifts Shanghai title for third successive year
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.
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.
Shanghai Masters latest results
- Ding Junhui 6-2 Si Jiahui
- Ali Carter 6-2 Dong Zihao
- Hossein Vafaei 6-1 Gong Chenzhi
- Fan Zhengyi 6-2 Gary Wilson
- John Higgins 6-0 Deng Haohui
- Jack Lisowski 6-4 Zhou Yuelong
