The 2021 World Grand Prix (officially the 2021 Cazoo World Grand Prix) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 13 to 19 December 2021 at the Coventry Building Society Arena in Coventry, England. The event was the first of three events to make up the Cazoo Cup in the 2021–22 snooker season.
The defending champion was Judd Trump, who overcame Jack Lisowski 10–7 in the previous year's final. However, he lost 3–4 in the round of 16 to Tom Ford.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the tournament for a second time, defeating Neil Robertson 10–8 in the final.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:
Winner: £100,000 Runner-up: £40,000 Semi-final: £20,000 Quarter-final: £12,500 Last 16: £7,500 Last 32: £5,000 Highest break: £10,000 Total: £380,000
Seeding list The top 32 players on the one-year ranking list, up to and including the 2021 Scottish Open, qualified for the tournament. Seedings were based on the order of the player in that list."Updated 2021-22 Calendar". World Snooker Tour. 18 August 2021
+ Seed Player Total points1206,0002170,0003116,0004109,0005108,000686,000775,000874,000966,000 1063,5001153,0001251,0001350,5001448,5001546,0001645,5001744,0001837,0001936,5002033,5002132,0002231,5002331,0002431,0002531,0002630,5002730,5002829,0002928,5003028,5003127,0003225,000
Tournament draw
Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry, England, 19 December 2021 Neil Robertson (8) 8–10 Ronnie O'Sullivan (7) Afternoon: 73–1, 75–33, 50–62, 49–81, 71–12, 87–0, 12–115, 66–72 Evening: 66–5, 37–91, 128–0 (128), 88–49, 0–90, 32–80, 0–77, 8–77, 83–0, 7–77 128 Highest break 90 1 Century breaks 0
Century breaks A total of 23 century breaks were made by 15 players during the tournament.
139 Stephen Maguire 133, 130 Tom Ford 128, 117, 108, 100 Neil Robertson 128 Jack Lisowski 124, 105 Stuart Bingham 119 Hossein Vafaei 117 Mark Williams 114 Mark Allen 114 Kyren Wilson 112, 107 Ronnie O'Sullivan 112, 104 Mark Selby 111 Yan Bingtao 106 Jimmy Robertson 105, 100 Luca Brecel 101 Zhao Xintong
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