Neil Robertson coasted to the World Grand Prix title with a convincing 10-0 destruction of Stuart Bingham in Sunday’s remaining in Hong Kong.
It’s the Australian’s second piece of silverware from the 2024/25 marketing campaign following his glory on the English Open in September.
Success for the 43 year-old takes his profession tally of rating titles to a powerful 25 – alone in seventh on the all-time checklist forward of Mark Selby and one behind Mark Williams.
Selby and Williams had been two gamers who Bingham beat en path to reaching the ultimate showdown, whereas he additionally upset world primary Judd Trump within the final 4 on Saturday.
However the former world champion was utterly out of types towards Robertson and gave the impression to be affected by struggles together with his timing and method.
Robertson started the title-deciding contest strongly and shortly reached the interval with a 4-0 cushion because of breaks of 87, 104, 71, and 59.
The remaining 4 frames of the opening session might have gone both method, however the Melbourne man managed to take all of them.
Bingham had quite a few probabilities in every of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth frames however couldn’t accumulate sufficient factors to get a body on the board.
Robertson ruthlessly seized full benefit, capitalising on his opponent’s errors with clearances of 72, 78, and 66.
An enormous crowd assembled on the Kai Tak Enviornment for the night session, though there have been nonetheless a number of empty seats consistent with the lower-than-expected turnout all through the week’s play.
Those that did attend sadly didn’t have a lot of the ultimate left to savour.
The sample continued with Bingham getting in first within the ninth body earlier than losing quite a few alternatives and Robertson pinching it on the black to maneuver to inside one among lifting the trophy.
The previous world primary didn’t have to attend lengthy to finish the job, sealing a well-known whitewash win within the tenth body.
It marks the second time Robertson has triumphed with a bagel scoreline in a rating remaining, including to his 9-0 victory over Zhou Yuelong to seize the 2020 European Masters.
With the £180,000 champion’s cheque in his again pocket, Robertson will comprehensively rejoin the highest 16 on the earth rankings.
That may come as a selected reduction to the 2010 world champion given the actual fact he missed out on qualification for the Crucible Theatre a 12 months in the past.
Now again as much as quantity 11 within the official two-year standings – and third on the one-year checklist – Robertson may have no such worries for the foreseeable future.
After struggling a slide down the pecking order amid a dramatic dip in type between 2022 and 2024, he’s now firmly again the place he belongs at snooker’s prime desk.
Robertson joins a high-profile collection of champions in 2025 to this point that additionally consists of Shaun Murphy (Masters), Kyren Wilson (German Masters), Mark Selby (Welsh Open, Championship League), and John Higgins (World Open).
With so lots of the greater names seemingly in type – and never forgetting world primary Judd Trump – it guarantees to be an thrilling climax to the marketing campaign.
Subsequent up would be the Gamers Championship the place the very best 16 gamers from this season’s cash checklist will battle for an additional profitable prize.
Bingham can be immensely disenchanted by his efficiency within the World Grand Prix remaining however can take solace in the truth that he did sufficient this week to earn a spot in Telford.
Robertson, in the meantime, will head to the season’s third-last rating event brimming with confidence.
2025 World Grand Prix Draw
Spherical of 32
Judd Trump 4-2 Gary Wilson
Jack Lisowski 4-2 Zhang Anda
Hossein Vafaei 4-3 Si Jiahui
Xu Si 4-3 Ding Junhui
Stuart Bingham 4-2 Mark Williams
Wu Yize 4-0 Pang Junxu
Jimmy Robertson 4-2 Mark Allen
Mark Selby 4-3 Jackson Web page
Xiao Guodong 4-3 Jak Jones
Lei Peifan 4-2 Elliot Slessor
David Gilbert 4-3 Chris Wakelin
Neil Robertson 4-0 Yuan Sijun
Barry Hawkins 4-1 Tom Ford
Shaun Murphy 4-3 Ben Woollaston
John Higgins 4-3 Ali Carter
Kyren Wilson 4-3 Matthew Selt
Spherical of 16 (bo7)
Judd Trump w/o Jack Lisowski
Hossein Vafaei 4-3 Xu Si
Stuart Bingham 4-2 Wu Yize
Mark Selby 4-2 Jimmy Robertson
Xiao Guodong 4-3 Lei Peifan
Neil Robertson 4-1 David Gilbert
Shaun Murphy 4-1 Barry Hawkins
John Higgins 4-2 Kyren Wilson
Quarter-Finals
Judd Trump 5-0 Hossein Vafaei
Stuart Bingham 5-4 Mark Selby
Neil Robertson 5-3 Xiao Guodong
Shaun Murphy 5-3 John Higgins
Semi-Finals
Stuart Bingham 6-3 Judd Trump
Neil Robertson 6-5 Shaun Murphy
Last
Neil Robertson 10-0 Stuart Bingham
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