In the early morning of December 14, the World Snooker Tour Grand Prix ended the last game of the first day of the competition, the world's No. 5 England star Karen Wilson, facing the 50-year-old veteran Hamilton, completely fell into the opponent's grinding tactics, and was finally dragged into the decider, regrettably 3-4 defeat, following the last stop of the Scottish Open, Wilson two consecutive ranking matches dismal round trip. In another game in the same period, Lisovsky, who is also a post-90s player, faced the "golden left hand" Williams, and also experienced 7 sets of hard fighting, and finally completed the kill 4-3 and advanced to the round of 16.
I don't know if it is a coincidence, or the official intention, in the four matches on the first day of the Grand Prix, it is arranged for the new and old confrontations, three post-90s players, plus Yan Bingtao after 00, all of whom are veterans over 40 years old. Top seed Zhao Xintong, 24, played against Gould, 40, Yan Bingtao, 21, against Mark King, 47, Karen Wilson, 29, against Hamilton, 50, and Lisowski, 30, against Williams, 46. In recent times, the new generation of players has performed well, with Zhao Xintong and Brechel winning the British Championship and the Scottish Open respectively, which seems to announce that snooker has begun to show a trend of youthfulness.
In the two matches of the opening match, the top seed Zhao Xintong performed poorly, and in the case of a 2-1 lead, he was won by Gould for three consecutive sets, 4-2, and regrettably out. Yan Bingtao, on the other hand, performed steadily, defeating Mark King 4-1 and advancing smoothly. Karen Wilson meets Hamilton, a veritable "Grinder King" who has previously won the German Masters championship and achieved a career ranking championship breakthrough of zero, and against Wilson, he continues to play in ink until the decider, and the game ends at nearly 1 a.m. local time. Although Wilson also scored a breaker, he still lost two consecutive sets and regretted a 3-4 exit.
Lisovsky (17th), who had just fallen out of the top 16th seed in the world rankings, faced the comeback Williams, was riveted to show his powerful firepower output, although the game was twisted and turned, he was once 2-3 behind, but at the crucial moment he won in the last two sets, a single 74 points and a single 94 points, ending the suspense of the game, so that Williams played a shot to break the hundred, single shot 117 points and two 50+ eclipsed. After advancing to the round of 16, Lisovsky will continue to work hard to return to the top 16 in the world rankings, and it is Yan Bingtao who is in front of him, and the performance trend of the two in this Grand Prix will largely determine the ranking position of the two after the event, after all, there is only a gap of 4,000 pounds between the two.