In the early morning of December 15, Beijing time, the 2021 Snooker Grand Prix ended its second competition day in Coventry, England. Neil Robertson, who recently suffered from pulsatile tinnitus, withdrew from last week's Scottish Open due to illness and managed to return to victory track with a 4-0 victory over Thai player Noppen Sancham in the first round of Tuesday's Grand Prix.
Robertson did not miss a goal in the first round of the game, and his 54, 65 and 100 points single helped him to keep a "clean sheet" as he will play against England veteran Anthony Hamilton in the next round.
Robertson described his earlier symptoms after the game as walking on an inflatable castle, and his ears were uncomfortable with his heartbeat hitting his ears. "The last two weeks have been really sad," robertson, 39, explains, "I was preparing for the title-defense battle at the British Championships, and on the eve of the race, the disease came to the door." ”
"Even if I win the first race I would have been forced to retire. For the next few days I felt like I was walking on an inflatable castle, the balance lever was a terrible mess, they gave me steroids for a week and I was forced out of the Scottish Open. I still had some buzz in my ears this morning, but it was much better than before. That feeling of beating a million times a minute is gone, and I hope it will continue. ”
"I've been practicing for the past week, gradually trying to increase my training time, and it's been increasing little by little over the week. After returning to normalcy, I still feel a little dizzy for the past five or six days. ”
Defending champion Judd Trump's opening game was a bit of a slow heat, locking up a second-round spot by winning three straight sets while falling behind. Wollaston once took a 2-1 lead with a single shot of 90 points, and world No. 2 Trump then shot a single shot of 60 and 53 points to win 4-2.
Trump will face Tom Ford in the next round, who beat John Higgins 4-2. In the past two months, Higgins has reached four professional tournament finals but all ended as runners-up, most recently losing to Luka Bressell in the Scottish Open final last weekend.
At this week's Grand Prix, Higgins suffered a "round trip" after a high-quality confrontation. Forde from Leicester scored a 75 points ahead of City, and Higgins also scored 66 and 81 points to tie the two sides 2-2. In the 5th and 6th innings, Ford, who had reached the final four of the tournament in 2020, sealed the victory with a single score of 71 and 130 points, 4-2.
World champion Mark Selby beat Barry Hawkins 4-1. Selby has yet to reach the quarter-finals in any of the ranking tournaments this season, with Hawkins giving Selby his first run by losing the last pink ball in the 47-minute first inning, but he tied with a single shot of 76. The match then fell into Selby's control, scoring just 51 points in a single shot but still winning three straight sets to advance to the second round.
In a "Scottish derby", Maguire beat his compatriot and practice partner McGill 4-0, and the game was more trivial, only Maguire scored a 64 in the second set. In the next Round of 16, Maguire will face Jack Lissovsky.
Ali Carter beat David Gilbert 4-1 with a highest single-shot 77 points; Bingham scored 96, 65, 93 and 124 points to narrowly beat Richie Walton 4-3; Mark Allen blasted a 114-point break to beat China's Cao Yupeng 4-1.