In the early hours of December 19, the World Snooker Tour Grand Prix ended the second semi-final battle, with championship favourite "Rocket" O'Sullivan playing against his old rival Bingham. In the end, O'Sullivan, who was in full form, scored 5 shots of 50+ and won easily 6-2 on aggregate, and qualified for the final of the competition for the first time this season, and will compete with Australian robertson for the final title, attacking the 38th crown of the individual ranking competition. Robertson, on the other hand, is working toward his second title this season and his 22nd career title.
As a "red packet" event, only the top 32 players in a single season have the opportunity to participate. O'Sullivan's performance in the first half of the season can only be said to be average, and he has not even reached the final of any of the tournaments, and the best result is only the semi-finals, the English Open and the Scottish Open, both of which have lost to their old rival Scottish "Wizard" Higgins. O'Sullivan, who played as the No. 7 seed in the Grand Prix, was stable and did not meet Thailand's strong opponents on the way to the final, 4-1 Hicks, 4-1 Waffi, 5-2 Jimmy Robertson, until he met Bingham and competed for the final place.
In the past hand-to-hand record, O'Sullivan has an absolute advantage over Bingham, so there are almost no people in this game who are optimistic about the possibility of Bingham's "upset" victory before the game. Bingham opened the game with the first set, but then he weakened in a tug-of-war and was taken straight to the 5-1 match point by O'Sullivan in a wave of five consecutive sets. In the seventh inning he barely managed to score a single 78 point to win back a match point, but in the final set, he faced a simple black ball in the last moment, but he lost it in a strange way, and finally completed O'Sullivan's hammer, 6-2, O'Sullivan achieved his first ranking final trip of the season.
In the final, O'Sullivan will face Robertson. In this season's English Open, Robertson defeated Higgins 9-8 to win the 21st ranking title of his career, surpassing Selby as the seventh man in history. After winning five consecutive single-season ranking matches last season, O'Sullivan is eager to break the championship drought as soon as possible and impact the 38th crown. In the past record of the two, O'Sullivan has prevailed, but in the most recent meeting, Robertson defeated O'Sullivan 10-4 in the tour final in March this year, so this time the showdown will be another encounter between the two.