China News Service, Beijing, May 1st. On the morning of May 1st, Beijing time, the 2022 World Snooker Championships ended the semi-final competition in Sheffield, England. "Rocket" O'Sullivan entered the final for the eighth time, and will compete with Special Rump's peak duel for his seventh World Championship title.
The semi-finals of the World Championships will take 33 rounds of 17, and the game will be divided into four stages.
O'Sullivan's opponent in the semifinals was his peer, "Wizard" Higgins, who was also the "Three Heroes of 75".
In the first stage of the game, the two old friends who knew each other and the opponent were evenly divided, with a big score of 4:4.
But in the next game, the "Wizard" and "Curse" failed, and the "Rocket" entered the "launch" stage, first winning 5 games in a row when it was 5:6 behind, ending the second stage with a big score of 10:6, and then again Hit 3 100s and 2 50+, ending the third stage with a 15:9 lead.
In the fourth stage of the game in the early morning of May 1st, Beijing time, Higgins, who went all out, pulled back 2 games, but in the end, because the gap in the first three stages was too large, he was unable to return to the sky. 17:11 to advance to the World Championships final again.
This is also the eighth time that the "Rocket" has reached the final of the World Championships. In the first seven peak matchups, in addition to losing to Mark Selby, who was in the limelight at the time in 2014, O'Sullivan won the 6 world championship titles.
The other semi-final was between another member of the "75 Three Heroes", "Golden Left Hand" Williams, and Trump, the 2019 world champion and one of the "80 Five Tigers", and the match was full of drama.
Trump won the first stage with a 7-1 disparity, which made the outside world think it would be a one-sided showdown.
However, the "Golden Left Hand" once again demonstrated its strong psychological quality and precise far-offense ability, narrowing the gap along the way, and entered the match point at 16:15 in the fourth stage.
Just when the audience thought that Williams would achieve a counterattack, the 47-year-old veteran was already at the end of the game. Trump took advantage of the situation to win two consecutive games and successfully lore his opponent with a big score of 17:16, and O'Sullivan. Join the finals.
O'Sullivan and Trump are the representatives of the "75 Three Heroes" and "80 Five Tigers" respectively. This peak matchup will also be a contest between two "eras" of snooker.
In the previous 29 encounters between the two sides, Trump had a slight advantage of 15 wins and 14 losses, but in the only previous World Championship (semi-final) confrontation between the two sides, O'Sullivan won.
After advancing to the semi-finals three days ago, O'Sullivan has set a new record: reaching the World Championship semi-finals for the 13th time, surpassing "Billiard Emperor" Hendry's 12 times, becoming the player with the most times among the World Championship semi-finals.
In this way, he won the championship again, which will tie Hendry's record of seven world championships since 1999, and will become the oldest at the world championship at the age of 46 (born on December 5, 1975). the champion.
The 2022 World Snooker Championships final will take 18 best of 35 rounds. The game will be played in four stages. The fourth stage will be played in the early morning of May 3rd, Beijing time.
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