Beijing time on December 12 news, snooker Scottish Open final match has been released, Higgins will compete with Brechel for the final championship. In the semi-finals, Higgins and Brechel both won by a large margin of 6-1, and in comparison, Higgins eliminated a stronger opponent, O'Sullivan! Brechel eliminated McGill.
Looking ahead to the final, Higgins has a clear advantage! In his career, Higgins has played brechel five times, and Higgins has only lost once. In the 2018 Champions League group round robin, Higgins lost 3-0 to Brechel. Higgins won all four meetings: EPTC1, the first leg of the 2013 European Players Tour, in which Higgins swept Brechel 4-0 in the fourth round; Higgins eliminated Brechel 6-4 in the semi-finals of the 2015 Welsh Open; Higgins defeated Brechel 4-3 in the 4th round of the 2020 Welsh Open; and in the second round of the Northern Ireland Open this season, Higgins eliminated Brechel 4-2 by the General Bureau. Judging from the past hand-to-hand records, in the final of this Scottish Open, met Brechel, Higgins won the championship more steadily!
Of course, Brechel has been in good shape recently, reaching the final back-to-back at the British Championships and the Scottish Open, and with this wave of strong momentum, Brechel's single-season ranking has risen to No. 2, second only to The Chinese snooker rising star Zhao Xintong, who won the British Championship. In the single-season real-time ranking list of the world professional snooker official website, Brechel is only 76,000 pounds behind Zhao Xintong, if he can win the Scottish Open 70,000 pounds of championship prize money, then Brechel will be infinitely close to Zhao Xintong, and Zhao Xintong's no. 1 ranking in a single season will be greatly threatened. However, Brechel met Higgins in the final of the Scottish Open, and the past record of 1-4 is at a big disadvantage, and Zhao Xintong can rest assured.
In the sport of snooker, the face-to-face record is very valuable, just concluded the semi-finals, McGill is an example, in the previous promotion process, McGill eliminated the world's No. 1 Selby, but against Brechel, McGill was in no state, 1-6 fiasco! So far, he has faced Brechel 6 times in his career, mcGill has lost 6 games, and has never won against an opponent. From this point of view, the Scottish Open final, facing Brechel, Higgins stabilized, before, Higgins only lost to Brechel once. It is worth mentioning that Higgins, who has 31 ranking champions in hand, has encountered 3 consecutive spells this season, if he can break the spell, 32 crowns will arrive, Higgins is full of motivation!