The 2021 Snooker England Open ended the fourth matchday competition, the Chinese legion's only remaining Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao ushered in a one-day double match, the result of Ding Junhui first won and then lost the quarterfinals, while Yan Bingtao won two consecutive games, strong promotion, becoming the only Chinese player in the english open quarterfinals. Ding Junhui first swept the "Glasses Man" Gould 4:0 in the second round, but in the third round of the match against the "wizard" Higgins did not play well, and finally lost 1:4 to the opponent, no chance to meet Yan Bingtao. ST Masters champion Yan Bingtao won four consecutive sets to advance to the round of 16 with a 4:2 victory over Gilbert in the second round, followed by a four-time World Championship winner and now the world's second-ranked Selby, Yan Bingtao played very well, he started with a 3:1 lead, although Selby relied on experience to equalize, but in the decider match Yan Bingtao withstood the pressure to reverse the opponent, thus eliminating world champion Selby 4:3. The world champion with the fourth match day out was "Magician" Sean Murphy, and world number seven world champion Sean Murphy was in poor shape in the second round, winning one set and then losing two consecutive sets against Patrick, who was 100 away from the world ranking, and finally lost 2:4 to Patrick.
China's Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao ushered in a one-day double match on the fourth matchday, Ding Junhui's second round opponent was "Glasses Man" Gould, and Ding Junhui played exceptionally well in this game, he won four consecutive sets to sweep Gould 4-0 to advance to the round of 16. Ding Junhui then faced four-time World Champion Higgins, who narrowly defeated China's Lu Ning 4-3 in the second round. In the first game, "Wizard" Higgins single-handedly shot 80 points and then won a game first, and in the second game Ding Junhui tried to attack several times without success, Higgins gradually occupied the initiative on the field after several attacks, and then scored 69 points in a single shot and then led Ding Junhui 2:0 in the next city. In the third game, both sides played very fiercely, both had mistakes and had a chance to win, and finally Ding Junhui seized the opportunity to win back a city, and in the fourth game Higgins made a comeback and scored 97 points with a single shot, and won the match point 3:1, and in the fifth game Ding Junhui still did not have any chance, Higgins played a single shot to break the hundred and win the game, and the total score was 4:1 to easily advance to the quarterfinals.
After Ding Junhui was out, all the hopes of the Chinese legion were pinned on Yan Bingtao, because the playing style was similar to Selby, and Yan Bingtao was also known as "China Selby". Yan Bingtao's opponent in the second round of the game is Gilbert, at the beginning of the game Gilbert gave Yan Bingtao a down horse, he took advantage of Yan Bingtao's weakness to enter the state slowly to win two consecutive sets to lead 2:0, the backward Yan Bingtao gradually found his form from the third set, he won four consecutive sets to defeat the opponent 4:2 after advancing to the round of 16. In the third round of the game Yan Bingtao faced Selby who had just retreated from the world's first to the world's second, the first set of the game Selby took the lead, but he quickly interrupted the attack, Yan Bingtao played a single shot of 52 points after the attack was interrupted, the two then entered the defensive competition, Yan Bingtao seized the opportunity to score another 29 points and won the first set, the second set of the game The two fell into a bitter battle again, Yan Bingtao won another round after several offensive scores, and yan Bingtao did not seize the opportunity when the score was ahead, and was reversed by Selby, In the fourth set, Selby did not concede defeat in the case of Yan Bingtao's overstatement, and after a defensive battle, Yan Bingtao won with difficulty to win and win the match point 3:1.
The trailing Selby has since played his "grinding skills" to the fullest, and Selby won two consecutive sets without taking advantage of the scene to tie the score to 3:3, and the game entered the decider. In the decider game, Yan Bingtao took the lead in attacking, but unfortunately there was a mistake after scoring 39 points, Selby seized the opportunity to play 57 points in a single shot into the defense, both played well in the defensive competition, Yan Bingtao seized the few opportunities to successfully clear the stage, and finally won 70:57, the total score was 4:3 upset to defeat Selby, advanced to the quarterfinals, the game both of them are quite able to "grind", only seven games played for nearly five hours. After reaching the quarterfinals, Yan Bingtao will fight the "wizard" Higgins again, the two have played each other a lot this year, the two sides have won and lost each other, and it is expected that Yan Bingtao can defeat Higgins to continue to move forward. In the other 16-8 matches, "Rockets" O'Sullivan swept Clark 4-0, world number one Trump defeated Muir 4-1, "Dark Horse" Mark King swept Deville 4-0, "囧哥" Karen Wilson eliminated Robbie Williams 4:1, "Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson beat Mark Davis 4-3, and Brechel beat Patrick 4-2.
Round of 8 matches:
Zone 1/4: Trump vs Mark King
Zone 2/4: Karen Wilson vs Neil Robertson
Zone 3/4: O'Sullivan vs Brechel
Zone 4/4: Higgins vs Yan Bingtao