In the early morning of December 15, Beijing time, after Selby defeated O'Sullivan 9-3 to win the Snooker Scottish Open, the 2020 Snooker World Championships were seamlessly connected. In the first round, a focus match was a big hit, and the defending champion "Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson lost 2-4 to Robert Milkins and suffered a "round trip".
Robertson, ranked second in the world, is the defending champion of the tournament, and last season's Grand Prix, he won the championship by beating the 2006 World Championship champion Dortmund 10-8. At the beginning of this month, in the final of the 2020 British Championship, Robertson narrowly defeated the world's first Judd Trump 10-9, and won the British Championship for the third time, and the number of ranking champions reached 19, equaling Trump's number of champions.
After winning the British Championship, Robertson, who was in a good mood, gave himself a holiday and withdrew from the Scottish Open. Unexpectedly, perhaps this week's break made him rest, and his state slipped, so that the "round trip" was out. Previously, Robertson and Milkins had a record of 10 meetings, with a record of 5 wins and 5 draws.
In this game, Milkins confronted Robertson from the beginning of the game, the defending champion scored a single shot of 67 points, and Milkins returned the single shot of 70 points, and won a 70-67 three-point victory, 1-0. In the second set, Milkins was hot in the hand, and he blasted a single shot to score 116 points and keep a 116-0 clean sheet robertson to take a 2-0 lead.
In the third set, Robertson scored 52 points to win and pull back a set 69-28 to make it 2-1. In the fourth set, Robertson scored another 84 points to win another set 84-44 and tie the score 2-2. In the fifth set, Robertson scored first in the opening and broke off 1-0. Milkins scored a single 84 points to take a 3-2 lead again and win match points.
In the sixth set, Robertson was unable to save the match point, and Milkins sealed the victory 73-23, giving the defending champion a round trip 4-2 on aggregate. Such a situation may really be a big break this week!