On the stage of the 2021 Snooker Scottish Open Final, Belgian talent Luca Brechel played against veteran Wizard Higgins.
In the first half of the final, at the beginning, in the fight between the two sides, Higgins missed the ball, and Luca completed the super points and won the opening red. In the second set, Luca scored a 96-pointer to make it 2-0. In the 3rd set, Higgins made a mistake with a green ball, and Luca won three consecutive sets with accuracy. In the 4th set, Higgins took advantage of the multi-shot snooker to take the initiative and finally won the first set. After a short break, in the 5th inning, Higgins made a mistake on the red ball, Luca scored a single shot of 61 points to close the score, and then seized on Higgins' offensive error, 4-1. In the 6th set, Higgins scored a black ball at the same time but unfortunately fell into the bag, Luca seized the opportunity to score a yellow ball on the long platform, and cleared the stage to reverse. After losing points in this round, it felt that Lao Zhang was not far from the runner-up. In the 7th set, although there were still mistakes, Higgins struggled to win back a set. In the 8th set, Luca accurately played a long bench, broke the hundred with one shot, and led the fourth set 6-2 to end the first half.
In the second half, Luca scored a two-shot 60+ to get a match point 8-2. Under the crisis, Higgins began to chase the match points, after winning the 11th set, in the 12th set, Luca made a green ball mistake in a good situation, missed a chance to win, Higgins shot 70+, and saved another match point. In the 13th set, Higgins seized on Luca's pass error and scored a 53-pointer to set the win, trailing the score to 5-8. In the 14th set, Luca's high-quality defense, Higgins was forced to fight the ball, the result was missed, Luca broke the hundred clearance, the perfect end of the game. In this game, Luca maintained a high degree of accuracy in the goal, and the defense did not fall behind, and Higgins was in a big worse state than the previous game, with more mistakes, the key ball could not be scored, although three match points were saved in a row, but the pit in front was too big to save the game.
Congratulations to Luca for winning the Hendry Cup and winning the ranking tournament for the second time in his career. In 2017, after Lucca broke out to win the Chinese championship, it fell into a long-term slump, and the world ranking fell from the highest 11th to the lowest to 48th, and the once Belgian genius teenager was lost to everyone. This season, Luca's first few games were still unremarkable, but the British Championship suddenly made people shine and the talented teenager was back. Reaching the finals of the ranking tournament and winning the championship, Luca ushered in a new career. In addition, Lucca's world ranking will return to the top 16.
Unfortunately, Higgins, who reached the final four times this season (three times in the ranking round), all finished runners-up. Is Lao Zhang going to look up to Teacher Huo's single-season ranking game?