中华时报（王北方 赵雪湄）约克郡人格雷斯在2015年打进了英锦赛半决赛，刚结束不久的北爱尔兰公开赛也同样进入了四强。但今天的成绩堪称是他职业生涯中最好的成绩，因为他出色地终结了卫冕冠军丁俊辉第四次夺冠的希望。
格雷斯得到了单杆95分和69分后，双方前四局战平，然后第五局开局格雷斯59-0落后，但随后他打出单杆31分和33分拿下第五局。丁俊辉以两个单杆75分和77分以4-3领先，随后趁势拿下第八局，丁俊辉接连拿下两局后比赛还剩下最后3局。
格雷斯赢下第九局，并在第十局打出单杆61分，将比分改写为5-5。丁俊辉在决胜局初期有过两次机会，但没能把握住机会，只得到20分。格雷斯随后以单杆49分拿下决胜局。
35岁的格雷斯说:“在上一次锦标赛中我表现不错，我带着很大的信心来到这里。”他现在的对手肖国东之前以6-5战胜了卢卡·布雷切尔（Luca Brecel）。“就我击败的球员的水平而言，这是我最佳的一场胜利。”
“丁俊辉没有达到他的最佳状态，但你必须打得很好，才能让他觉得你可以打败他。”我在比赛一开始就这样做了，然后他在中场时控制了局面，但他仍然会觉得我不会就此放弃，我觉得如果我能找到一些状态，我就能战胜他。我喜欢这个场地，每次我们来到这里，球桌都很漂亮。”
在二轮比赛中，贾德·特鲁姆普（Judd Trump）以6-3击败多米尼克·戴尔（Dominic Dale），进入第三轮，并打出他职业生涯第750个单杆破百的里程碑。单杆破百总数达到751次。他是继罗尼·奥沙利文(Ronnie O’sullivan)、约翰·希金斯(John Higgins)和斯蒂芬·亨德利(Stephen Hendry)之后的历史上第四人。
Yorkshireman Grace reached the semi-finals of this event in 2015 and also got to the same stage of the recent Northern Ireland Open, but still ranks today’s result as the best of his career as he finished superbly to end Ding’s hopes of a fourth UK title.
Grace shared the first four frames today, making the better breaks with 95 and 69, then came from 59-0 down to pinch the fifth with runs of 31 and 33. Ding made 75 and 77 to go 4-3 ahead then cleared from green to black in the eighth to go two ahead with three to play.
A scrappy ninth went to Grace and he made a 61 in the tenth as he recovered to 5-5. Ding had two early chances in the decider but couldn’t keep position and made just 20 points. Grace later knocked in an excellent long red to set up a match-winning break of 49.
“I came here with a lot of confidence having had a good run in the last tournament,” said 35-year-old Grace, who now plays Xiao Guodong, a 6-5 winner over Luca Brecel. “It’s my best win in terms of the quality of the player I have beaten.
“Ding wasn’t at his best but you have to play well to even put a thought in his mind that you can beat him. I did that early in the match and then he took control in the middle, but he would still have had the feeling that I wasn’t going away, and I felt that if I could find a bit of form I could get over the line. I like this venue and the tables have played lovely every time we have been here.”
Judd Trump passed the landmark of 750 career centuries as he beat Dominic Dale 6-3 to reach the third round of the Betway UK Championship.
World number one Trump made two tons in a typically commanding performance to bring his career tally to 751. He is only the fourth player, after Ronnie O’Sullivan, John Higgins and Stephen Hendry, to reach that mark.