Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Donaldson ya lashe wasanni hudu don saduwa da Ding Junhui a zagaye na farko na Shanghai Masters kuma yana da jagora na 3<unk>1 da 4<unk>3, kafin Ding ya tilasta yanke hukunci. Donaldson yana da damar da za ta fitar da abin mamaki, amma ya rasa wani baƙar fata mai sauƙi kuma Ding ya ci nasara. Donaldson ya kai wasan karshe na 16 na duka biyu
European Masters da Northern Ireland Open, sun rasa 4<unk>3 zuwa Anthony McGill da 4<unk>2 zuwa Hossein Vafaei bi da bi. A Wasannin Welsh Open ya doke Jack Lisowski 4<unk>1, Mark King 4<unk>2, Jimmy Robertson 4<unk>0 da Mark Davis 4<unk>3 don isa wasan kusa da na karshe. Ya fuskanci Zhou Yuelong, wanda kuma ya bayyana a wannan mataki na jerin abubuwan da suka faru a karo na farko kuma Donaldson ya doke shi 5<unk>0. Donaldson ya ja da baya daga 4 zuwa 1 a kan Judd Trump a wasan kusa da na karshe zuwa 4 zuwa 3, amma ya rasa 6 zuwa 3. Ya lashe £ 20,000 don isa zuwa hudu na karshe kuma ya kasance na 65 a duniya a ƙarshen kakar wasa, na uku mafi girma a cikin dukkan 'yan wasan da suka fara shekara a maki sifili.