2024 Shanghai Masters Snooker Day One Report: Top 16 players through and out

Recent Championship League winner Ali Carter kept his positive run going as he dismissed recent Shanghai Masters Amateur Championship winner Lei Qiu 6-0 during the morning session in China.

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Carter - winner of this title in 2010 - hit breaks of 63, 76 and 51 to set up a meeting with Ding Junhui.

Over on the other table, Zhang Anda was stunned by 16-year-old wildcard Zhou Jinhao, 6-3.

Jinhao established a 5-1 lead, and although world number 12 Zhang began to rally by taking frames seven and eight, the teenager secured victory in frame nine with a fluke on the final black. The wildcard earns a glamour tie with defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan in the last 16.

In the afternoon session, Si Jiahui registered runs of 60, 131 and 59 during a 6-3 success against Tom Ford.

The invited Si initially led 2-0 before being pegged back to 2-2 at the mid-session interval. He then won three consecutive frames, and despite opponent Ford doubling the final pink the length of the table to reduce his arrears, the 22-year-old got the job done with frame 10.

Si will play Luca Brecel in round two; their only previous meeting on the pro circuit was their 2023 Crucible semi-final classic when Brecel recovered from 14-5 down to win 17-15.

In a match-up where there was an age difference of well over three decades, 49-year-old Mark Williams stopped 16-year-old Wang Xinbo 6-3 along with breaks of 98 and 53. Youngster Wang compiled efforts of 50 and 89. Williams now prepares for a clash with Judd Trump.

The evening session at the Shanghai Indoor Stadium produced a plethora of big breaks.

2012 champion John Higgins - who just squeezed into this event as the world number 16 - was in brilliant scoring nick as he registered efforts of 126, 73, 135, 58 and 92 in a comfortable 6-1 success over Lyu Haotian. Higgins plays Shaun Murphy next.

On the other side of the arena, Zhou Yuelong saw off world number 15 Barry Hawkins to arrange a date with World Champion Kyren Wilson on Wednesday.

Having lost the opening frame, Zhou crafted breaks of 116, 126 and 133 in consecutive frames to lead 3-1 before extending his advantage to three frames after the mid-session interval.

Hawkins responded, though, stringing together the next three frames to draw level at 4-4 - in the process making a 141, the highest break of the tournament, so far.

It then looked like Hawkins was going 5-4 up as he led by 53 points with just four reds remaining, but he missed a tricky black along the top cushion - which appeared to drift away from the pocket - to leave his opponent needing penalty points. After a passage of play, Zhou constructed a classy counter clearance of 54 to win the frame by just one point before a contribution of 57 early on aided him in taking a close frame 10 on the colours.

Monday’s 2024 Shanghai Masters Results:

(63, 63) Zhang Anda 3-6 Zhou Jinhao (76)

(63, 76, 51) Ali Carter 6-0 Lei Qiu

(57, 94) Tom Ford 3-6 Si Jiahui (60, 131, 59)

(98, 53) Mark Williams 6-3 Wang Xinbo (50, 89)

(126, 73, 135, 58, 92) John Higgins 6-1 Lyu Haotian (52)

(141) Barry Hawkins 4-6 Zhou Yuelong (116, 126, 133, 54, 57)

(Breaks of 50 and above in brackets)