Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I wikitoria a Donaldson i nga tukinga e wha ki te whakatau i a Ding Junhui i te rauna whakatuwhera o te Shanghai Masters me te arahi 3<unk>1 me 4<unk>3, i mua i te kaha o Ding ki te whakatau. I whai wāhi a Donaldson ki te whakaeke i te wiri, engari i ngaro i te pango ngawari, a ka wikitoria a Ding. I tae atu a Donaldson ki te 16 whakamutunga o ngā whakataetae e rua
Ko te European Masters me Northern Ireland Open, ka ngaro i te 4<unk>3 ki a Anthony McGill me te 4<unk>2 ki a Hossein Vafaei. I te Welsh Open i patu ia i a Jack Lisowski 4<unk>1, Mark King 4<unk>2, Jimmy Robertson 4<unk>0 me Mark Davis 4<unk>3 kia eke ki te hauwhā-wa whakamutunga. I tutaki ia ki a Zhou Yuelong, i puta hoki i tenei waahanga o te huihuinga rangatira mo te wa tuatahi ka whiua ia e Donaldson 5 <unk> 0. I hoki mai a Donaldson mai i te 4<unk>1 ki raro i a Judd Trump i nga whiringa toa ki te 4<unk>3, engari i ngaro ia ki te 6<unk>3. I wini ia i te £ 20,000 mo te eke ki te wha whakamutunga ka tuu ia ki te 65th i te ao i te mutunga o te waa, ko te tuatoru o nga kaitakaro katoa i tiimata i te tau me te kore tohu tohu.