sentences:  The victory earned Ding £70,000 in prize money; although he moved from 62nd to 31st in the provisional world rankings, it did not permit him to play in the Masters as Ian McCulloch was awarded a wild card and Shaun Murphy was seeded for all of the season's events.Ding was also not guaranteed automatic qualification to the World Snooker Championship.Nonetheless Jon Wilde of the "Evening Chronicle" wrote that Ding had during the match "produced some fantastic break-building and tactical awareness that was beyond his 18 years."