5-2!The top 4 of the Snooker Open are born: the world champion wins a big victory, and Robertson faces Ding Junhui
On March 22, 2024, the semifinals of the Snooker World Open were released, the world champion won a big victory, Robertson eliminated Hawkins 5-2, and has already won the final four places, and then faces Ding Junhui, a brother from China and Australia, to compete for a place in the semi-finals.
Australian star Robertson is a top master of the post-80s, not only has the status of a Grand Slam player, but also won 23 ranking tournaments in his career, but his performance this season is extremely sluggish, and even this time he just entered the quarterfinals, the world ranking fell to 15th, and it will continue to decline, unless he wins the championship in this tournament, he must start from the qualifying round to lose the seeding seat of the World Championships.
Hawkins is not bad, ranked 18th in the world, don't look at only four ranking tournament champions, but he has always been in the ranks of first-class players, the results are very stable, and he is known as a frequent visitor to the top four, and last year he defeated Trump and won the European Masters, but always because of the problem of mentality, which led to a sudden drop at a critical moment, of course, in general, the level of the two sides is close, and it all depends on the on-the-spot performance.
After the start of the game, Robertson completed a high-quality clearance in the first game, blasted out a single stroke of 127 points to take the lead, in the second game Hawkins did not score, Robertson made persistent efforts and directly scored 87 points in a single stroke, and in the third game Hawkins only scored 43 points to interrupt the attack, Robertson scored 87 points in a single stroke and won another game, and in the fourth game Hawkins got started many times and won the grappling 73-39, Robertson's defense was still almost poor.
After halftime, Robertson was not to be outdone in the fifth game, and returned 115 points with a single stroke, and in the sixth game, Robertson scored 41 points to turn to defense, Hawkins seized the opportunity to complete the super score with 65-41, and in the seventh game, Robertson scored 79 points with a single stroke to end the game, and finally eliminated Hawkins 5-2, and finally advanced to the semifinals at the end of the season, but it is still very difficult to keep the seeded seat.
Just earlier in the game, the Chinese star lived up to expectations, Ding Junhui blasted out a single stroke of 135 points, 102 points, 74 points, 73 points 5-0 swept Hussein Wafei, before Ding Junhui lost Hussein Wafei, but also in the particularly important World Championships, now the easy win is commendable, I hope Ding Junhui will continue to work hard, strive to break through himself at home, to the 15th ranking championship to attack.
The defending champion played steadily, Trump scored 67 points, 63 points, and 59 points in a single stroke to defeat Kyren Wilson 5-2, as for the post-00 young player Jackson Page is a dark horse, the semi-finals are released: Trump vs Jackson Page, Ding Junhui vs Robertson, three of them are members of the 80 Five Tigers, Ding Junhui is still two rounds away from winning the championship, and whether the Chinese star can get his wish at that time, please look forward to it.