The 2021 Snooker World Grand Prix ended all the first rounds and half of the second round in the early hours of this morning.
In the first round, rocket O'Sullivan appeared on the last day against Hicks, a veteran who reached the quarterfinals of the British Championship. The Rockets played the whole game, especially the first few innings, playing happily, making mistakes, and from time to time blindly hitting a few shots, but Hicks was completely devoid of the heroic state of the British Championship, basically a little distance of the ball can not score. After The Fire Teacher was 2-1, the third set was also sparse, but in the end, the Fire Teacher played a beautiful clearance, a single set reversal, 3-1 to the match point. In the 5th set, Fire Teacher finally hit the only 50+ in the game for the two to win 4-1. Luca, who played last, continued the good state of the previous two competitions, and eliminated the opponent by two hundred to advance.
The first round was over, and Higgins, Williams, Wilson and others were out. Higgins has been tired after consecutive battles, and coupled with the excellent performance of opponent Ford, the Wizards have lost 2-4 and can rest for a while. The Chinese couple, the top seed of the tournament, Zhao Xintong, although he played a hundred, but the overall offensive errors were more, losing to Gould 2-4. Although Zhao Xintong won the British Championship, Zhao Xintong still has a long way to go to achieve stable results. After Cao Yupeng started with an 80+, he lost four consecutive sets to Allen. Cao Yupeng's record against the top 16 must be improved. Yan Bingtao broke through the 100 with one shot, and eliminated Mark Jin 4-1 and successfully advanced.
In the second round of the game, Trump's decider was killed by Ford's black ball and broke out of the cold. The all-time kid only scored 50 points. Before the game, Xiaote said that I would rather start against the high-ranking players, and against the low-ranking players I would lose focus. This sentence, used in last night's fire teacher's game, is very appropriate, the fire teacher is casually playing. But when Xiao Te said this, it felt strange. The second round opponent Ford, ranked 23rd, is it a high-ranking player in the eyes of Xiaote, or a low-ranking player? Last season, Xiaote won all 6 finals in the ranking tournament, and 5 crowns in the 7 finals last season. But this season, where has the state of the mad demon gone? Except for the invitational tournament, which won the championship, the ranking tournament did not even reach the semi-finals. Although Yan Bingtao only had a 50+, he kept a clean sheet and advanced to the quarterfinals. Yan Bingtao now urgently needs to take the prize money in the ranking tournament, otherwise the top 16 position is also dangerous. Yan Bingtao played Robertson in the next round. Robertson had an ear disease a while ago, the first round of the British Championship was out, and the Scottish Open was withdrawn, this time Robertson said that his illness was much better.
Outside the arena, there was good news that Herne, the outgoing world snooker boss, had received the OBE Medal of the British Royal Family, but the news of the award was set early. For the big names who have been awarded in the snooker world, see Bembo: the snooker players who have received the British Empire Medal http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4a4a45bc0101dyil.html. Currently, those who have won the OBE include: Joe Davis, Fred Davis, Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths, O'Sullivan and Barry Hearn.