In the early morning of April 19, Beijing time, the 2021 World Snooker Championship ended the second day of competition. On this matchday, China's players have both joys and worries - the new star Yan Bingtao eliminated the glasses man Gould 10-6 with a tough second-half play, Tian Pengfei led Higgins 4-3 in the first stage, and Liang Wenbo lost 3-10 to Neil Robertson and did not qualify.
Yan Bingtao, who was tied 4-4 with the Glasses Man the day before, played very strongly in the second half of the game, not only back-to-back blasting out a single shot of more than 100, but also staged a good chase reversal in two consecutive sets, laying the foundation for a wave of 4 consecutive cuts, and finally defeated the tough Gould 10-6 to win the tournament for the Chinese legion.
Liang Wenbo's experience is exactly the opposite of Yan Bingtao, who fell behind 3-6 in the first 9 innings and directly lost four consecutive sets in the second stage, losing 3-10. Liang Wenbo is the first player in Chinese mainland to reach the top 8 of the World Championship in Crucible, but this time he met Robertson, who has been in good form in the last two seasons, although Liang Wenbo struggled to shoot a hundred and two 70+ in the first half yesterday, but the opponent played more fiercely, one hundred, four 50+, three sets of clean sheets occupied the total score advantage.
On the second matchday, Robertson, who was ranked No. 3 in the world, came up and kept a clean sheet with 100 points, bringing the total score of the game to 7-3. The eleventh set was a chaotic battle with a choppy rhythm, liang Wenbo failed to seize the opportunity, and Robertson won 61-44 to continue to extend the lead. In the twelfth inning, Robertson became more relaxed as he got bigger and bigger, and he kept a clean sheet again with a single shot of 110; in the thirteenth set, the Australian won another single-shot 73 points to make the score 10-3. In the second round, Robertson will compete with the winners between Lisowski and Carter for tickets to the Round of 8.
Another player in China, Tian Pengfei, also made his debut, playing a total of seven sets in the first half between him and Higgins, and Tian Pengfei temporarily led 4-3. In the first set, the Wizards scored 52 points to take a 1-0 lead. Tian Pengfei then scored 59 points and 111 points in a single shot, and the total score was 2-1; then he won three or four sets in a slow-paced tug-of-war 73-21, 65-44, and achieved a 4-1 overall score advantage. The Wizarders scored 71 points in the sixth inning to stop the decline in time, and won 67-17 in the seventh inning to end the first half after trailing 3-4. At 21:30 Beijing time on the 19th, the two sides will compete in the second half.
Jamie Jones, ranked 69th in the world, fought back, winning five consecutive sets in the second half and sending maguire, the 8th in the world, out 10-4. The day before, the two sides were 4-5; in the second stage, Jones suddenly launched a three-shot 60+, winning consecutive battles and firmly holding Maguire. Maguire ranked far ahead of his opponents, but only shot a single 51 points in the second set, and there was no decent continuous offense, which was a big surprise. Especially today's five consecutive cuts by the opponent, it is even more incredible - in this game, Maguire began to lead 3-0, Jones played a wave of 5-1, a wave of 5-0.
Gilbert, who scored a 3-shot 100 and a 3-50+ in the first stage to take a 7-2 lead, added two more 50+ in the second half to easily beat Vacklin 10-4 – not surprisingly, he will compete with the world's No. 1 Trump for the quarter-finals. O'Sullivan's potential opponents McGill and Ritchie Wharton finished the first half, McGill temporarily led 5-4, and the second stage of the match between the two sides will start at 2:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 20.
At 17:00 Beijing time today, Ding Junhui, the leader of the Chinese legion and the Asian champion, will make his debut, and his opponent is Bingham, who is known as the strongest qualifier of this World Championship. Ding Junhui is ranked 9th in the world, the latter ranked 18th, and we will pay close attention to how the two sides will progress.