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Marco Fu Ka-chun, MH, JP (Chinese: 傅家俊; [2] [3] born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix , the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open and the 2016 Scottish Open .
This time, the field consisted of four world champions: Stephen Hendry, John Higgins, Ken Doherty and Mark Williams plus James Wattana, Ding Junhui, Marco Fu and up and coming Thai player, Atthasit Mahitthi. The format was the same with the players split into two round robin groups with the top two from each progressing to the semi-finals. [1]
Marco Fu captured his third ranking title by beating John Higgins 9–4, after having trailed 1–4. [4] He also made the tournament's highest break, a 142 in his second round 4-1 win over Liam Highfield.
The 2022 Hong Kong Masters finalist Marco Fu lost 5–10 to Martin O'Donnell. [36] Ukrainian player Iulian Boiko defeated Muhammad Asif 10–2. Austrian player Florian Nüßle defeated Michael Judge by the same score. [37] Evans, Fu, Judge, Ng, and Dean Young all lost their professional tour cards after their first-round defeats. [38]
Two former winners started in the second qualification round. The 1997 champion Ken Doherty was defeated by Marco Fu, [44] and the 2006 winner Graeme Dott defeated Mostafa Dorgham. Six-time runner-up Jimmy White was defeated by Liu Hongyu 3–10. [12] [44] All five remaining amateur players lost in the second qualification round.
The 2022 Hong Kong Masters was an invitational professional snooker tournament that took place from 6 to 9 October 2022 at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hong Kong.Organised by the Hong Kong Billiard Sports Control Council and the World Snooker Tour as part of the 2022–23 snooker season, the tournament was staged for the first time since the 2017 edition.
Marco Fu was the defending champion, but he lost 4–3 to Xiao Guodong in the last 16. [ 2 ] Neil Robertson won the tournament, coming from 4–8 down to win 9–8 in the final against Cao Yupeng . [ 3 ]
Marco Fu (pictured) defeated 2015 champion Mark Selby 5–1 in qualifying, but withdrew from his last-64 match against Alfie Davies for medical reasons. The last-64 matches were played from 29 to 31 January as the best of nine frames. [4] Hossein Vafaei withdrew from the event due to visa issues, and Martin Gould withdrew for medical reasons.