On January 9, 2022, Beijing time, the first round of the World Snooker Masters will officially start, and "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan will once again launch an impact on the eighth Masters championship trophy of his career. Since the birth of the Masters, O'Sullivan has been the true ruler of the tournament. Having reached the final 13 times and won 7 of them, he is the biggest winner of this tournament, and he will face Fuxing Lissovsky in the first round. From an objective point of view, O'Sullivan still has a great chance of defeating his opponent to advance, so this Masters is also very worth seeing, after all, the king has returned.
O'Sullivan remains the biggest winner of the Masters
The Masters was born in 1975 and has been held for 46 times, and O'Sullivan alone has reached 13 finals, which is a terrible statistic for individual performance. In 13 finals, O'Sullivan lost to six players in the final, Hendry, Davis, Higgins, Hunt, Selby and Trump, and also defeated Selby and Higgins twice in the Masters final, in addition to Joe Perry, Ding Junhui and Hawkins also became his background in the final. Objectively speaking, O'Sullivan is already the biggest winner of the Masters, and he is the greatest being in terms of both prize money and achievement. The gap between him and the other players has been widened so wide that even Selby is four times away from winning the title to tie him, and it has to be said that O'Sullivan's performance at the Masters is truly amazing.
O'Sullivan faces Lisovsky or advances
In the first round of the Masters, O'Sullivan will face Lisovsky for a place in the quarter-finals. In the past meetings between the two sides, the two men have a record of three encounters, and O'Sullivan still maintains a 100% winning percentage in all three games. Technically, O'Sullivan's abilities are more balanced, which gives him a better chance of winning the game. In addition, he is also clearly better than Lisovsky in terms of experience in the big games, after all, he has played too many big games. At present, Lissovsky's problem is not as simple as the technical shortcomings, and his mentality when facing the real top players is also a problem, which makes him often have power outages in the game. Objectively speaking, O'Sullivan's current advantage is very large, as long as he goes all out, he has a good chance of beating his opponent to advance. So O'Sulli still has a good chance of winning the tournament.
O'Sullivan's assault on the eighth crown ushered in good news
After winning his sixth World Championship title, O'Sullivan experienced the embarrassment of a single season in a single season, and even struggled to reach the final in the early part of the season. Fortunately, he finally defeated Robertson in the World Grand Prix and successfully won the honor of his 38th ranking championship, which allowed him to regain his confidence in stopping the loss in time on his way to the future championship. Since the beginning of the season, the big three's form has obviously declined, Selby has not yet broken the breakthrough of the season zero, robertson and Trump currently have only one championship in the account. In this situation, O'Sullivan undoubtedly has the good news of winning the championship, because he can beat the Big Three when they are not at their best. What's more, the Masters is O'Sullivan's favorite big game, and he will attack his eighth Masters title. O'Sullivan, who has finished his runner-up trip, is confident, he is desperate to win more titles, and if he can take the game as seriously as he did in the Masters, he definitely has a good chance of winning. Therefore, this Masters is bound to be very interesting, and I hope that O'Sullivan will return strongly.