On the morning of November 5, Beijing time, the 2021 World Snooker British Open ended the fourth day of competition. Asian champion and China's billiards leader Ding Junhui played a double day, the first game he swept Gould 4-0 to advance to the round of 16, but the second game was 1-4 against the excellent Higgins, missed the top 8; Yan Bingtao beat Gilbert and Selby in a row to reach the quarterfinals.
Ding Junhui, who returned to the UK in October, is still in the stage of recovering his touch. In this British Open, he first beat Padget 4-1, and then eliminated Tian Pengfei 4-1, playing 3 shots of 50+ in both matches, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in attack and defense as a whole.
Today's round of 32 against the "Glasses Man" Gould, Ding Junhui won the first set 79-1, and won the second set with a single shot of 68 points to expand the lead; in the third set, the two sides fell into a slow-paced tug-of-war, Ding Junhui won 60-54; in the fourth set, Gould took a single shot 62, Ding Junhui relied on a single shot 57 points to complete the kill at 64-62, and the total score was 4-0 to advance to the round of 16.
In the quarter-finals that followed, Ding Junhui met the old and strong Higgins, who defeated Ronin 4-3 in the previous round. Although the wizard is 46 years old, he still maintains a high competitiveness like O'Sullivan, ranking in the top 10 in the world, and recently won the runner-up at the Northern Ireland Open. In this game, Higgins has blasted a high score of 80, 69, 97 and 103, achieving a clean sheet three times; Ding Junhui only won the next set 88-37 in the third set, and finally lost 1-4 to the "Wizard", stopping in the round of 16.
Yan Bingtao also played a double match on the same day, and in the eleven-finals, he and David Gilbert fought fiercely for six sets, and in the case of the opponent's first two cities, Yan Bingtao played two shots of 60+ and passed the 4-2 reversal. In the round of 16, Yan Bingtao and Selby began to fight, due to the slow pace of the game, the two sides fought until 1:40 a.m. local time, Yan Bingtao was chased to 3-3 in the case of a 3-1 lead, and finally seized the Selby decider mid-set defensive error to win a blow, the specific innings are as follows (Yan Bingtao is in front): 81 (single par 52) than 12, 61 to 20, 48 to 72, 72 to 32, 22 to 68, 38 to 62, 70 to 57 (single shot 57).
Another Chinese player, Zhao Xintong, who reached the round of 32, lost a little depressed. In the course of the confrontation with wild card player Paul Deville, Zhao Xintong output the firepower of single par 138 and single par 51 on the offensive end, but the opponent won the tug-of-war 4-3 without a decent continuous score - except for the two sets in which Zhao Xintong played a high score, the other five innings were all in a tangled situation, each inning was relatively close, and Zhao Xintong fell behind in the slow battle quagmire.
In terms of other players, O'Sullivan continued the previous day's strong offensive, first of all, he blasted a single 119 + three-shot 60+, 4-3 to beat the veteran Hamilton Hamilton. Then in the quarter-finals, O'Sullivan soared two more 120+ and two 50+, swept Jamie Clark 4-0, and advanced to the quarter-finals – in the final set of the game, O'Sullivan hit 15 consecutive red and black ball combinations, and the score quickly accumulated to 120; but when switching to the color stage, O'Sullivan did not seem to want to carefully arrange the impact of the full score in the face of a very relaxed situation, he called the yellow ball snooker...
Fans familiar with the "Rockets" probably understand that on the surface, O'Sullivan and 147 passed by, in fact, I am afraid that similar to the situation he has deliberately given up the full score many times in the past, the most snooker-talented legend is playing personality in mavericks again!
Trump and Robertson had only one game today, with Teres Jr. beating Rose Muir 4-1 and Robertson narrowly beating Mark Davis 4-3. The situation in the quarter-finals was: in the first half, Trump faced Mark King, Karen Wilson pk Robertson; in the bottom half, O'Sullivan played against Brechel, Higgins and Yan Bingtao.