 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Dotts yekutanga quarter-fainari yemwaka yakauya kuShanghai Masters mushure mekunge akunda Yan Bingtao 52 naShaun Murphy 53, asi akarasikirwa ne25 kuna Ding Junhui. Akatambura kurasikirwa ne16 mumutambo wokutanga kuna Craig Steadman paInternational Championship, asati whitewashing Robert Milkins 60 kutarisana Neil Robertson ari wechina rwakapoteredza 2014 UK Championship. Akaenda 50 kumusoro, chete nokuda Robertson kuti mwero pa 55, asati Dott akahwina chisarudzo kusvika kota-fainari chiitiko kokutanga kubva 2006. Dott akati akanga adzokera kunzira yaakatamba nayo muna 2010, aine nzira isina hanya nemutambo iyo yaaifunga kuti yakabatsira chimiro chake chakanaka mumutambo. Mumakwikwi ekupedzisira, akaregazve kutungamira kwake kuchipera asi panguva ino haana kukwanisa kuzvidzorera sezvo Stuart Bingham akadzoka kubva pa14 pasi kuti amukunde 65. PaWorld Grand Prix yekutanga, Dott akapfuura nemumafirimu maviri akasarudzika achipesana naJohn Higgins naLiang Wenbo, vasati varasikirwa 14 naRonnie OSullivan mumakwikwi ekupedzisira. 