At 17:00 Beijing time on April 25, the 2021 World Snooker Championship began its ninth day of journey. Season five-time champion Trump appeared in the quarter-finals with Gilbert, with The Younger taking a 5-3 lead in the first eight innings, while Bingham played against Jamie Jones in another match, with the second brother taking no advantage and the two sides drew 4-4.
Trump's early technical style belonged to the offense is very windy but the defense is relatively weak, the offensive and defensive ends are obviously unbalanced, and there are often fluctuations. Constrained by this, Xiaote was once the weakest of the five tigers after snooker's 80s in terms of comprehensive ability and overall control ability - in the 2013-2014 season, when Ding Junhui, born in 1987, won 5 ranking championships in a single season, Trump, born in 1989, won a total of 3 ranking championships in his career.
However, with the accumulation of competition experience, Trump ushered in the peak of his 30 years old. In 2019, he successfully ascended to the World Championship throne all the way to Crucible, thus starting the crazy journey of killing all sides in the past two seasons. In the 2019-2020 season, he won the top 6 ranking championships, breaking the historical record held by Hendry and Ding Junhui together; this season he basically continued the previous year's form, and he was already holding 5 titles before the Start of the World Championships...
In just two seasons, Trump has doubled and increased the total number of his ranking championships to 22, jumping from the catch-up of the year to the most popular leader of the post-80s tigers. At this World Championship, Little had a good signing, and his second-round opponent was world No. 15 David Gilbert, who had never touched a major ranking champion. The two sides have met 15 times in the past, with Trump winning 9, losing 5 and drawing 1 to gain the upper hand. At the World Championships, the two played each other once in the qualifying stage in 2011, and Trump won 10-4.
In the first set, Trump scored 68 points to make the opening 71-1. In the second set, Gilbert returned the favor with a single shot of 55 to equalize the total score at 73-0. In the third set, Gilbert continued to take the initiative, 78-6 to the next city. In the fourth set, Gilbert soared another 94 points, and while giving the egg twice, he entered the half-time with a 3-1 lead.
In the fifth set, Gilbert played with a difficult far-sighted red ball, but interrupted the attack when he reached 38 points of the K ball; Xiaote rebounded with a shot and followed the defensive battle to take the lead and win the set 77-42. Trump's spirits were lifted, and in the sixth set, he scored 114 clean sheets to tie the score 3-3. In the seventh set, Little took advantage of the victory to chase, and another 65-point victory brought the total score to 4-3 to regain the lead. In the eighth set, Trump scored a high-precision red ball from the far table and launched a continuous attack, and the single shot 105 locked the first stage of the score at 5-3. The second stage of the match between the two sides will start at 2 a.m. Beijing time on the 26th.
Bingham and Jamie Jones also entered the first stage of the showdown at 17:00 this afternoon. The 2015 champion was hailed as the strongest qualifier at the World Championships, and he narrowly defeated China's famous Ding Junhui 10-9 in the first round of the main tournament. Jamie Jones is a dark horse, he is only 69th in the world ranking, but in the first race, he lost the gram, eliminating the world number 8 Maguire.
After the game began, the old and strong Bingham took the lead in the role, blasting a single 99 points in the first set to win, and the second set to collect another 58 points, and both sets were all clean sheets for Jones. In the third inning, Jones eased off with a single 57 points to win back a set 100-17. In the fourth set, Bingham failed to win with a single shot of 62, and Jones cleared the stage 67-62 to reverse the total score. In the fifth set, Jones became more ferocious, scoring 121 points straight with a single shot, winning three consecutive sets to surpass the total score. In the sixth set, Jones had a chance to continue to extend the results, but a mistake at a crucial moment allowed him to miss the opportunity, And Bingham won 65-60, and the two sides were 3-3. In the seventh inning, Jones was not discouraged by the failure of the previous inning, and he calmly played a single 81-point clean sheet for the second brother, leading again on aggregate 4-3. In the eighth set, Bingham won 76-29 and tied 4-4. The kick-off time of the second stage of the two sides was also at 2 a.m. on the 26th.