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Neil Robertson completed an unprecedented eighth 6-2 win in the first round of the Masters as he advanced past Chris Wakelin into the quarter-finals.<\/b><\/p>\n
Wu Yize started the sequence when he defeated defending champion Shaun Murphy on Sunday at Alexandra Palace.<\/p>\n
World number one Judd Trump progressed past Ding Junhui on Wednesday afternoon for the first round’s seventh consecutive 6-2 scoreline – at odds of 44,000-1.<\/p>\n
But there was more to come, with Robertson completing a 6-2 clean sweep in the evening – and the odds of all eight opening-round matches finishing that way were 220,000-1.<\/p>\n
Remarkably, the odds of predicting the scores and also correctly naming all eight winners amounted to 20,000,000-1.<\/p>\n
No more than four first-round contests had previously ended 6-2 at any Masters tournament, but when two-time winner Robertson made superb back-to-back century breaks after the interval to establish a 4-2 advantage, a clean sweep appeared inevitable.<\/p>\n