Ding Junhui v Ronnie O’Sullivan Winner Odds & Predictions

O'Sullivan to reach Masters Final

Snooker Betting

Ronnie O’Sullivan continued his March towards the Masters 2019 title with an easy quarter-final victory over Ryan Day. Next up for “The Rocket” is China’s Ding Junhui. Ding came through his quarter-final match despite having to forfeit a frame in remarkable circumstances.

Ding Junhui v Ronnie O’Sullivan Winner Odds*

Ronnie O’Sullivan 2/7
Ding Junhui 11/4
* (betting odds taken from bet365 on January 19th, 2019 at 6:00 pm)

After his opening round victory over Stuart Bingham, it was more comfortable progress for tournament favourite O’Sullivan, as he held off Welshman Ryan Day in the quarterfinals. O’Sullivan is the most successful player in the history of the Masters and is now just two wins from extending his tremendous record at the event.

O’Sullivan started the tournament as fourth seed and in his semi-final duel he will take on 8th seed Ding Junhui. Ding opened with an easy win over Masters debutant Jack Lisowski in the first round, dropping just the one frame. Then things got a little more stressful for the Chinese star as he needed a deciding frame to edge past Luca Brecel in the quarterfinals. During the match, Ding had forfeited a frame for missing a red three times in a row.

The head to head between the two players stands firmly in the favour of O’Sullivan who leads 12-4 from previous matches. Their most recent meeting was just back at the Players Championship with O’Sullivan taking a 6-3 victory in the match. That is back-to-back wins now that O’Sullivan has taken over Ding.

They have met three times before at the Masters the most famous one of them being the 2007 final where O’Sullivan took a 10-3 victory. O’Sullivan also took a victory in both of the other two previous Masters meetings.

Prediction

Ronnie has looked pretty comfortable and solid at the tournament so far and there really have been no cracks in his game wide enough to expect Ding to come through with an upset. We are going to settle on the Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-3 result in the correct score at 4/1 odds* (betting odds taken from bet365 on January 19th, 2019 at 6:00 pm)