4 participant stay within the hunt for the Masters title, with the semi-finals set for Saturday on the Alexandra Palace in London.

The quartet is heading in the right direction to land the Paul Hunter Traditional and a prime prize in London value £250,000.

Ali Carter vs Mark Allen

Saturday, 7pm UTC

A dramatic Friday noticed each Mark Allen and Ali Carter emerge from their quarter-final fixtures in deciding frames.

Within the afternoon session, Carter got here from behind to disclaim reigning champion Judd Trump in a 6-5 thriller.

Later, Allen ousted Mark Selby by the identical slender margin – the Northern Irishman compiling an impressive 147 break within the course of.

Allen and Carter’s head-to-head is shut, with the previous having fun with solely a slender benefit from their prior battles collectively.

Their most up-to-date duel was additionally over the best-of-11 frames, with Allen prevailing 6-2 en path to capturing the Champion of Champions in November.

Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Shaun Murphy

Saturday, 1pm UTC

Earlier than that, the primary semi-final of the 2024 Masters will happen on Saturday afternoon between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Shaun Murphy.

The pair emerged from their last-eight ties on Thursday with respective 6-3 triumphs over Barry Hawkins and Jack Lisowski.

O’Sullivan and Murphy have typically clashed off the desk, which all the time makes their conferences on it all of the extra intriguing.

The Rocket has usually loved the higher of their head-to-head clashes, successful 15 to Murphy’s 4 in all competitions.

Each perceive what it takes to go all the way in which to Masters glory, with Murphy hoping to copy his success from 9 years in the past on the Ally Pally.

O’Sullivan, in fact, is appeared to triumph on this match for a record-extending eighth time.

2024 Masters
– draw, reside 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
—
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)

Matches to be performed on Jan 11 and Jan 12

Judd Trump 5-6 Ali Carter
Mark Selby 5-6 Mark Allen
—
Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-3 Barry Hawkins
Shaun Murphy 6-3 Jack Lisowski

Semi-Finals (bo11)

Matches to be performed on Jan 13

Ali Carter vs Mark Allen
(Sat, 7pm UTC)
—
Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Shaun Murphy
(Sat, 1pm UTC)

Remaining (bo19)

Match to be performed on Jan 14

TBC vs TBC
(Solar, 1pm and 7pm UTC)

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