On 25 March, the Snooker Gibraltar Open began its second matchday of competition, with the remaining 64 players going through the Devil's schedule of three matches in one day, deciding eight of the remaining round of 16. The opponent that Chinese fans are most concerned about, Ding Junhui, who scored 16 into 8 in the fourth round, is also out, not the old opponent Higgins predicted before the game, but Jimmy Robertson, who blocked Higgins 4-2 in the third round and successfully advanced to the round of 16. For Ding Junhui, Jimmy Robertson can be described as a lucky star, after the two have met 4 times, Ding Junhui has maintained a full victory, so for Ding Junhui, it is expected to easily enter the top 8.
Today will enter the third and final day of the Gibraltar Open, and the remaining top 16 players will undergo an even more brutal test of the day four matches until the final winner is decided. Fortunately, the entire format is a 7-game, 4-win format, which is fair for everyone, and the short-term format has contingencies, which increases the possibility of upsetting a lot. For Ding Junhui, he played with no desire and no demand at the Gibraltar Open, so he can basically accept any kind of results. On his way to promotion, Higgins, Karen Wilson and others are relatively strong opponents, and now that Higgins is out, Ding Junhui's promotion difficulty has decreased a lot.
At 5 p.m. Beijing time on March 26, the fourth round of the Gibraltar Open 8 seat battle began, Ding Junhui against Jimmy Robertson, the two have met four times before, Ding Junhui has won all the victories, so he has a psychological advantage. If you advance to the quarterfinals, the quarter-finals are likely to meet Karen Wilson again, and the last leg of the Turkish Masters, Ding Junhui won Wilson 5-3 in the second round, ending the embarrassing record of facing the world's top 16 seeds and 14 consecutive defeats. This time, he is looking forward to continuing to break through! In the semi-finals, it was largely necessary to meet the defending champion Trump.
The Gibraltar Open attracted many masters, including O'Sullivan, mainly because it involved the final prize of the European Series of 150,000 pounds. Before the match, as many as 11 people have the possibility of competing. But as the game progresses, after the round of 16, only 4 people are left to have a chance, higgins is currently in the first place, and Robertson needs to advance to the final, Trump and Walton, need to win the championship, it is possible to complete the overtaking and divide the ultimate giant prize.
For England's Wharton, if he can finally win the title, he will achieve three breakthroughs in one fell swoop, including winning the ranking tournament and receiving a tournament prize of 50,000 pounds, plus a huge prize of 150,000 pounds for the first place in the European series points total; ranking in the top eight in a single season to qualify for next week's Tour Championship; and returning to the top 16 in the world rankings with a seeding spot at the end of the season. Of course, in order to achieve a breakthrough, Walton still needs to win 4 games, but he will face the defending champion Trump in the fourth round of today's game, which is not small.