On the third day of the 2021 Snooker Grand Prix, the most competitive top-8 list in the top half has been released, the defending champion Trump lost 3-4 to Tomford to miss the top 8, and the world's number one Mark Selby and Neil Robertson successfully advanced to the top 8. China's strongest player after 00, Yan Bingtao, swept Martin Gould 4-0 to advance to the quarterfinals and will play against Australian artillery Neil Robertson.
In this Grand Prix, most of the top players in Snooker are gathered in the upper half, they are the 80 Big Three Trump, Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, the best master of the post-70s season Higgins, the two strongest players after the 90s Zhao Xintong and Karen Wilson, and the post-00s leader Yan Bingtao, who won the Masters Championship. The top half is the death half of the Grand Prix.
The competition can be described as fierce, the first round of No. 1 seed Zhao Xintong, together with Karen Wilson and John Higgins, have been out of the cold. Trump beat Wollaston, Robertson swept Sankam 4-0, Selby beat Hawkins, and Yan Bingtao beat Markkin 4-1 to advance to the round of 16. Last night in a 16-8 match, defending champion Trump played against Tomford, and Trump made a 50-point start to the game.
After a difficult second set, Trump led 2-0, then Tomford scored 133 points and 65 consecutive points to tie, and in the fifth set Trump played a bumpy 84-20 to get the match point, and then Tomford stubbornly resisted and finally won two consecutive sets to reverse the victory, Trump stopped the round of 16 and did not qualify. In contrast, Robertson won easily, with a 1-100 3-0 opening, Hamilton single shot 83 points to win a set, the fifth set Robertson single shot 74 points said to win the game smoothly.
World No. 1 Mark Selby and Mark Allen are in a bitter battle, and the other matches have ended and the two are still fighting fiercely, and finally Selby beat Mark Allen 4-2 to advance to the quarterfinals. Yan Bingtao, the only one who was still insisting on the Grand Prix, won very easily against Martin Gould, sweeping 4-0 to advance to the top 8, which was also a revenge for Zhao Xintong, who lost to Gould in the first round and was tragically eliminated.
According to the schedule, in the 8-4 match in the first half, Maxell will play against Tomford, and Yan Bingtao will play against The Australian Artillery Robertson. There is no doubt that the fans are most concerned about Yan Bingtao, in the previous encounter with Robertson, Yan Bingtao has a 3-1 loss to take the lead, since Yan Bingtao lost to Robertson in 2015, so far in the 3 encounters, Yan Bingtao has won 3 consecutive wins.
Tonight at 3:00 a.m., I am not far away, looking forward to Yan Bingtao's promotion again and striving to win the Grand Prix championship.