At the Masters, Fu made his third competitive maximum break in his first-round match against Stuart Bingham beating him 6–3 to advance to the sixth quarter-final of his season, where he lost to O'Sullivan him 6–1. His final quarter-final exit of the season came in the Welsh Open 5–1 at the hands of Mark Williams. For the ninth successive season, Fu could not progress past the second round of the World Championship as Judd Trump defeated him 13–8.