The second day of the World Grand Prix sees the first round of the opening Cazoo Series event continuing in Coventry and it does so with another eight matches over the course of the two sessions of play.
We saw some great snooker on the opening night of the tournament and with big event winners everywhere you look on Tuesday we should expect much more of the same in what is the last competition of 2021.
Afternoon Session
The world champion Mark Selby gets the honour of starting the action on the main table on Tuesday afternoon. He hasn’t had the best season so far and there is this weird statistic that he’s never won an event on ITV hanging over him. UK Championship semi-finalist Barry Hawkins will be looking to take advantage of that and send him packing here. When they are done the man who has been beaten in no fewer than four finals this season will be on show when John Higgins goes up against a Tom Ford who has done well to make it through to this event.
Over on the second table the action should be just as good as it begins with the former world champion Stuart Bingham on show. You could be forgiven for thinking he has had a poor season so far but he is in here as the 22 seed so he hasn’t been that bad. He meets Ricky Walden who started the season very well but has tailed off a little recently. After they are done the Championship League winner Dave Gilbert takes to this table. He faces Ali Carter who made the last 16 of the British Open earlier in the campaign but hasn’t done a great deal else.
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Evening Session
Two former winners headline the action on the main table in the evening session. The night begins with Judd Trump beginning his title defence when he goes up against Ben Woollaston who has had a good couple of weeks recently to get him into the field here. The English Open champion Neil Robertson will follow those onto the main table. He had to pull out of the Scottish Open last week as he was suffering from tinnitus so it will be interesting to see what shape he is in. He will need to be in decent enough touch to see off the challenge of the Thai ace Noppon Saengkham.
The schedule over on table two looks every bit as good as that on the main table if not better. It begins with a repeat of the Scottish Open quarter final from last week as Anthony McGill meets Stephen Maguire before the Northern Ireland Open winner Mark Allen graces the stage. Having won a tournament you’d have thought there would be room for him on the main table but that isn’t the case. He will take on Cao Yupeng on the second table.
Betting
This isn’t the easiest card to get stuck into but after two decent priced winners on Monday night I don’t need to go mad here. There is one bet which interests me though and that comes in the evening session in the all-Scottish clash between Anthony McGill and Stephen Maguire. McGill is the favourite here and I would imagine a lot of that is down to the wonderful record he has against his compatriot, something that he enhanced at the Scottish Open last week.
McGill fell over the line on that occasion having led 4-0 before winning 5-3. Maguire was terrible for the first four frames but when he started playing after the interval he looked to have the beating of his man only to miss a relatively straightforward chance for 4-4. I think this best of seven format suits Maguire more than McGill. McGill all too often plays not to lose rather than to win whereas Maguire attacks the balls. McGill has actually won their two meetings over this distance but one was in a PTC event and the other the Indian Open and I’m far from convinced Maguire would have given two hoots about those tournaments. He’ll care for this one though and at even money I think he’s worth a go here.
Tips
Back S.Maguire to beat A.McGill for a 3/10 stake at 2.00 with Coral
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