Gibraltar Open Snooker 2021 - Stuart Bingham cruises into second round with Gerard Greene win

ByRichard Newman

Updated 03/03/2021 at 17:09 GMT

The former world champion wasted little time in winning his opener at the Gibraltar Open, thrashing Gerard Greene 4-0. Bingham warmed up for tougher challenges later in the tournament with two breaks over 50, but Dominic Dale is out, losing by the same score to Tian Pengfei. You can watch the Gibraltar Open on Eurosport, eurosport.co.uk and the Eurosport app.

Stuart Bingham has eased through to the second round of the Gibraltar Open with a comfortable 4-0 win over Gerard Greene.

The former world champion is looking to win the tournament for the second time, having claimed the title in 2019.

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Bingham went into the event in sub-par form, on the back of losing four out of his last five matches, having failed to get past the second round at the Players Championship and Welsh Open, and after falling in the third round at the German Masters and The Masters.

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But he dominated his encounter with Greene, winning the opening frame by 62 points to 1, before taking a 2-0 lead in the best of seven frames encounter.

Bingham then started to show more of his class, making a 66 break in the third frame, before wrapping up victory with a 93 in what ended up being the final frame of the match.

Dominic Dale fell at the first hurdle, losing 4-0 to China’s Tian Pengfei, who was five short of a century break in the final frame.

Ali Carter’s long game was not at its sharpest, but he had enough class to claim a 4-2 win over John Astley.

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