On November 18, the World Snooker Tour Championship championship event decided the last four places, Scotland 'Wizard" Higgins successfully broke through from the 3rd group, the first round 4-3 reverse Ding Junhui, the second round against the old rival O'Sullivan, 6-1 victory, strong promotion, will be China's post-00s rising star Yan Bingtao, competing for a final spot. Especially in the face of China's snooker leader Ding Junhui, Higgins was once 1-3 behind, on the verge of two match points, but still able to win three consecutive sets, a strong turnaround, showing a big heart. In the "battle of fate" with O'Sullivan, Higgins shot 1 hundred and 4 60+, almost destroying the battle.
In the first three days of the competition, the top seed, the biggest favorite trump to win the championship, the first person after 90 Karen Wilson and the Chinese supernova Yan Bingtao completed the breakthrough and advanced to the top 4 first. The final four seats were played between Ding Junhui, O'Sullivan, Higgins and Bingham. This group of four people is a fateful duel between each other, and every meeting and dialogue is impressive. In the first round of the showdown, Ding Junhui PK Higgins, Bingham fought O'Sullivan again, the result of the two games laughed at the end of the "seven or five double males", Ding Junhui 3-1 led the match point but lost three consecutive sets, 3-4 lost a round of travel; Bingham was in a mediocre state, and finally lost to O'Sullivan 2-4. The second round of the "Battle of Osh" became the 74th classic showdown between the two.
After the game began, Higgins scored consecutive one-shot victories, with 86 points and 92 points to take a 2-0 lead. In the third set, O'Sullivan returned the set with a break of 101 points to return the set. The two scored the final black ball in the fourth set to score the winner, and Higgins remained a solid side, leading 3-1 into the halftime. When he returned, Higgins was in full swing, also scoring a hundred, as well as two high scores, 94 points and a single score of 63 points, winning three consecutive sets and finally winning O'Sullivan 6-1. Strong advance to the final four, the semi-final about Yan Bingtao, this will be the third encounter between the two of them this season.
Some fans mentioned that the duel between Ding Junhui and Higgins, a three-game reversal in a row behind 1-3, is somewhat accidental? From the statistics of the two-person game, Higgins averaged 25.6 seconds to play, which was slower than Ding Junhui's 23.3 seconds; in terms of single-shot scores, Higgins and Ding Junhui were almost the same, they were only two shots of 50+, and there were certain mistakes in the offensive and defensive links of the game. But combined with the actual situation of the game, Ding Junhui's play is indeed worse, and even the suspicion of negative games, in the first game, Higgins single shot 66 points offensive interruption, the innings score of 66-9 lead, but there are 3 red balls on the table, the highest 51 points, just over 6 points, Ding Junhui did not go up to try to do snooker defense, but directly conceded defeat. Such a game attitude made many fans sigh that he deserved to lose the game.