In the early morning of November 3, Beijing time, the first round of the 2021 Snooker English Open continued. In a focus game, world number one and defending champion Judd Trump blasted a 100 (111 points) and a 50+ (73 points) to eliminate Jimmy Robertson 4-2 and move towards defending his title.
Trump is ranked No. 1 in the world rankings, the No. 1 seed of this competition, and the defending champion of the tournament. This competition is to defend the title. Qualifiers against Matthew Serte, who easily won 4-1 to advance. In the first round, his opponent was Jimmy Robertson, who was ranked 42nd in the world and eliminated Yuan Sijun 4-0 in the qualifiers.
In the past, Trump and Jimmy Robertson have met 10 times, with a record of 9 wins and 1 loss. The most recent meeting between the two sides was in the third round of the 2021 Northern Ireland Open, with Trump winning 4-3.
In this game, Trump still has a clear advantage, and Jimmy Robertson basically does not create any pressure for the world number one. At the beginning of the game, Trump took the lead, and Robertson was slow to heat up.
In the first set, Trump won the first set 64-15 and opened the scoring 1-0 through several starts. In the second set, Trump won by 73 points, and won another set 73-8 to lead 2-0. In the third inning, after losing two straight sets in the opening game, Robertson found some offensive touch, and he scored a single 69 points to pull back a set at 69-21 to make it 1-2.
In the fourth set, Robertson continued to exert his strength, and he pulled back a set 67-37 through several starts, and the score came to 2-2, and the two sides went to the break with a draw. In the fifth inning, after returning from break, Trump's offensive feel improved significantly, and he blasted a single shot of 111 points to keep a 111-0 clean sheet again for Robertson, 3-2 to take another lead and win a match point.
In the sixth set, Robertson, who had no way back, was powerless to counterattack, and Trump locked up the victory 54-15, defeating the opponent 4-2 on aggregate to advance and moving towards defending the title!