China News Agency, Beijing, May 3. The "Rocket" took off again, and O'Sullivan won the seventh world championship!
On the morning of May 3, Beijing time, the 2022 World Snooker Championship ended the final stage of the final in Sheffield, England. "Rocket" O'Sullivan defeated the 2019 World Championship Champion Trump with a big score of 18:13. Not only He tied the world championship record of "Billiard Emperor" Hendry with the seventh crown. Born on December 5, 1975, he also became the oldest champion in the history of the world championship at the age of 46+.
The previous record holder was Ray Reardon, who won the title in 1978 at the age of 45 years and 203 days.
The peak duel of this World Championship is considered to be a confrontation between two eras. O'Sullivan and Trump, the representatives of the "75 Three Heroes" and "80 Five Tigers", compete for the most valuable in the snooker field. champion.
The final will take 35 rounds of 18 wins and be divided into 4 stages.
At the beginning of the game, O'Sullivan won 5 games in a row, leading the first stage with a big score of 5:3, and extended the lead to 12:5 at the end of the second stage.
Then Trump launched a counterattack, leading 6:2 in the 8 innings in the third stage, and chasing the big score to 11:14.
In the fourth stage, which started in the early morning of the 3rd, Beijing time, O'Sullivan once again took the lead, winning two consecutive games and rewriting the big score to 16:11.
Although Trump pulled back two more games, he could not prevent the "rocket" from taking off. O'Sullivan finally won 18:13, tying the record of 7 world championships and the title of the oldest champion to shine in snooker World Championships History.
In an interview after the game, O'Sullivan gave a very "Versailles" speech. He said that it feels very good to share the record of 7 World Championships with Hendry, but for him, "This is just the end of the day. It’s just a number at the time, to be honest I don’t care too much”.
He said that he did not participate in the competition to chase championships or records, but to try to enjoy the game, to work hard to compete, and then let the snooker gods decide how to choose.
It's just that in this world championship, the god of snooker is on his side.
The annual World Championship is the highest level, largest and most watched competition in the field of snooker. It has been held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977.
No Chinese player has ever won the championship in this competition. The best result is that Ding Junhui, the leader of Chinese billiards, won the runner-up 6 years ago. In the 2016 World Championships, Ding Junhui, who started from the qualifying round, will pass all the way to the final, and finally Lost to Selby to win the championship.
In the first qualifying round of the World Championships, 24 Chinese players led by Ding Junhui participated in the competition. In the end, only Ding Junhui and Lv Haotian broke out and joined Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who ranked the top 16 in the world.
In the main game, Ding Junhui and Lv Haotian both stopped in the first round, Zhao Xintong was eliminated in the second round, Yan Bingtao, who advanced to the top 8, lost 11:13 to "Golden Left Hand" Williams in the quarter-finals and missed the semi-finals.
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