2021 World Grand Prix

This article is about the snooker tournament. For the darts tournament, see 2021 World Grand Prix (darts).

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.^[1] The event was the first of three events to make up the Cazoo Cup in the 2021–22 snooker season.^[2][3]

2021 Cazoo World Grand Prix

Tournament information
Dates	13–19 December 2021 (2021-12-13 – 2021-12-19)
Venue	Coventry Building Society Arena
City	Coventry
Country	England
Organisation	World Snooker Tour
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£380,000
Winner's share	£100,000
Highest break	Stephen Maguire (SCO) (139)
Final
Champion	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)
Runner-up	Neil Robertson (AUS)
Score	10–8
← 2020 (Dec) 2023 →

The defending champion was Judd Trump, who overcame Jack Lisowski 10–7 in the previous year's final.^[4] However, he lost 3–4 in the round of 16 to Tom Ford.^[5]

Ronnie O'Sullivan won the tournament for a second time, defeating Neil Robertson 10–8 in the final.^[6][7]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below:^[8]

• 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.^[9]

Seed	Player	Total points
1	Zhao Xintong (CHN)	206,000
2	Luca Brecel (BEL)	170,000
3	Mark Williams (WAL)	116,000
4	John Higgins (SCO)	109,000
5	Mark Allen (NIR)	108,000
6	David Gilbert (ENG)	86,000
7	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)	75,000
8	Neil Robertson (AUS)	74,000
9	Kyren Wilson (ENG)	66,000
10	Gary Wilson (ENG)	63,500
11	Ricky Walden (ENG)	53,000
12	Barry Hawkins (ENG)	51,000
13	Judd Trump (ENG)	50,500
14	Anthony McGill (SCO)	48,500
15	Jimmy Robertson (ENG)	46,000
16	Yan Bingtao (CHN)	45,500
17	Mark King (ENG)	44,000
18	Matthew Selt (ENG)	37,000
19	Stephen Maguire (SCO)	36,500
20	Ben Woollaston (ENG)	33,500
21	Mark Selby (ENG)	32,000
22	Stuart Bingham (ENG)	31,500
23	Hossein Vafaei (IRN)	31,000
24	Anthony Hamilton (ENG)	31,000
25	Noppon Saengkham (THA)	31,000
26	Andy Hicks (ENG)	30,500
27	Ali Carter (ENG)	30,500
28	Cao Yupeng (CHN)	29,000
29	Tom Ford (ENG)	28,500
30	Jack Lisowski (ENG)	28,500
31	Jordan Brown (NIR)	27,000
32	Martin Gould (ENG)	25,000

Tournament draw

	Last 32 Best of 7 frames					Last 16 Best of 7 frames					Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames					Semi-finals Best of 11 frames					Final Best of 19 frames
	1	Zhao Xintong (CHN)	2
	32	Martin Gould (ENG)	4
						32	Martin Gould	0
						16	Yan Bingtao	4
	16	Yan Bingtao (CHN)	4
	17	Mark King (ENG)	1
											16	Yan Bingtao	4
											8	Neil Robertson	5
	9	Kyren Wilson (ENG)	3
	24	Anthony Hamilton (ENG)	4
						24	Anthony Hamilton	1
						8	Neil Robertson	4
	8	Neil Robertson (AUS)	4
	25	Noppon Saengkham (THA)	0
																8	Neil Robertson	6
																21	Mark Selby	3
	5	Mark Allen (NIR)	4
	28	Cao Yupeng (CHN)	1
						5	Mark Allen	2
						21	Mark Selby	4
	12	Barry Hawkins (ENG)	1
	21	Mark Selby (ENG)	4
											21	Mark Selby	5
											29	Tom Ford	2
	13	Judd Trump (ENG)	4
	20	Ben Woollaston (ENG)	2
						13	Judd Trump	3
						29	Tom Ford	4
	4	John Higgins (SCO)	2
	29	Tom Ford (ENG)	4
																					8	Neil Robertson	8
																					7	Ronnie O'Sullivan	10
	3	Mark Williams (WAL)	3
	30	Jack Lisowski (ENG)	4
						30	Jack Lisowski	3
						19	Stephen Maguire	4
	14	Anthony McGill (SCO)	0
	19	Stephen Maguire (SCO)	4
											19	Stephen Maguire	1
											22	Stuart Bingham	5
	11	Ricky Walden (ENG)	3
	22	Stuart Bingham (ENG)	4
						22	Stuart Bingham	4
						27	Ali Carter	3
	6	David Gilbert (ENG)	1
	27	Ali Carter (ENG)	4
																22	Stuart Bingham	2
																7	Ronnie O'Sullivan	6
	7	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)	4
	26	Andy Hicks (ENG)	1
						7	Ronnie O'Sullivan	4
						23	Hossein Vafaei	1
	10	Gary Wilson (ENG)	1
	23	Hossein Vafaei (IRN)	4
											7	Ronnie O'Sullivan	5
											15	Jimmy Robertson	2
	15	Jimmy Robertson (ENG)	4
	18	Matthew Selt (ENG)	2
						15	Jimmy Robertson	4
						2	Luca Brecel	3
	2	Luca Brecel (BEL)	4
	31	Jordan Brown (NIR)	1

Final

Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry, England, 19 December 2021
Neil Robertson (8)  Australia	8–10	Ronnie O'Sullivan (7)  England
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.^[10]

• 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