On the morning of August 21, Beijing time, the 2021 World Snooker British Open ended the fifth day of competition. China's Zhou Yuelong and Lu Ning each won two consecutive rounds and successively broke into the top 8 of this competition! World Number 1 Trump lost 2-3 and missed the round of 16.
A total of 24 members of the British Army of the Chinese Snooker Brigade signed up to compete in this British competition. After the first round, Yan Bingtao and 12 others were defeated and stopped; after the second round, Liang Wenbo and 7 others were eliminated; Zhou Yuelong, Lu Ning, Xu Si, Zhang Jiankang, and Pang Junxu ranked in the top 32. The fifth matchday of local time is arranged for a day of double matches, with the daytime round of 32 stage competition and the evening quarter-final.
After Yan Bingtao was eliminated, Zhou Yuelong became the world's highest-ranked (17th) Chinese player in the competition. In the third round, he shot a 60+, 3-1 to beat Matthew Serte; in the fourth round of the night, Zhou Yuelong attacked more fiercely, and he and Joe O'Connor, who took two 50+, played a big battle, flying out a single 109, 69 and 53 that were more powerful than his opponents, and finally knocked back the opponent 64-31 in the final decider, winning 3-2 with a big score to win the top 8 tickets for himself.
Ronin's performance was also remarkable, he first beat Han Kaun in three straight sets with 52, 91 and 69 points in a row, and advanced strongly to the round of 16. In the fourth round of the evening against Germany's Lucas, who defeated Yan Bingtao in the first round, Lu ning won the opening goal with a single shot of 54 in the first set, and then steadily played 77-5, 71-29 back-to-back and two more cities, 3-0 to advance to the quarter-finals.
Xu Si lost 0-3 to Gary Wilson in the third round and missed the round of 16. After Zhang Jiankang defeated Pang Junxu, he challenged Mark Williams in the fourth round - Zhang Jiankang scored a 75-point zero sheet in the first set, and then the big score once prevailed 2-1; but he lost the opportunity in the fourth and fifth sets, first by Williams' single 55 points and narrowly won 61-52 in the fourth set, and then lost 47-69 in the decider, and finally reversed by Williams 2-3, regrettably stopping in the round of 16.
The first round of the British Open to the Round of 16 adopts a short-term format of grabbing 3, and breaks the tradition of linking the draw to the ranking, using random draws to decide the two sides, these two innovative attempts have increased the suspense of the game sharply, and the masters have been out of the game prematurely. Murphy met Selby in the first round, resulting in a direct round trip; Selby also failed to go too far, and in the second round, he encountered a tough opponent and lost to the powerful Captain Carter.
In the third round of today's competition, Trump also became the object of the upset. Facing Elliott, who is only 49th in the world ranking, Trump did not adjust the firepower of continuous attack, and after being entangled by the opponent to the decider, swallowed the bitter fruit of the big score of 2-3 defeat. In the fourth round of the game, Elliott continued to play the dark horse, facing the "Captain" Carter, who blasted out a single 147 in the second set, Elliott responded with two 76 points and one 63 points, and defeated Carter 3-1.
Maguire was blasted by Jimmy Robertson, who scored 126 and 74 points, kept two clean sheets and lost 3-0 to his world-ranked opponent, who was only 60th in the world ranking.
On the next sixth matchday, there will be a semi-final and semi-final. The quarter-finals are played against Jimmy Robertson, Zhou Yuelong pk big dark horse Elliott, Mark Williams and Walton, and David Gilbert and Gary Wilson compete for a place in the final four. Looking forward to the Chinese players to pass on the good news again.