In the first half of the first stage of the world snooker masters final, which just ended on January 16, 2022, Beijing time, Neil Robertson, who is ranked fourth in the world, and Barry Hawkins staged a left-handed showdown. At the beginning of the game, both players were not in good shape, but Hawkins still won the first set in a chaotic matchup and took a 1-0 lead. Robertson then gradually began to exert his strength, and he won two consecutive sets to complete the rebound 2-1 with a strong performance of 50 points and 105. Entering the fourth set, Hawkins won the game several times to draw 2-2 with Robertson.
Hawkins won the first set to take a 1-0 lead over Robertson
In the first set, Hawkins scored the red ball first, but the poor position allowed him to lightly stick to the green ball defense, and robertson easily defused it. Immediately after, Hawkins again chose to defend, and Robertson's defensive mistakes left an offensive opportunity. Hawkins scored 16 points on a single shot and then Robertson made a mistake with 8 points. Unexpectedly, Hawkins made another mistake in the shot, and Robertson made a mistake after scoring 21 points. Hawkins scored a red ball and made a hitting error after scoring 31 points. Robertson scored a point and chose the mother ball to stop behind the coffee ball and make a snooker due to poor positioning, and Hawkins successfully solved it. Robertson then chose to defend again, with Hawkins scoring a red ball and eventually taking a 1-0 lead with a 60-30 victory in the game.
Robertson won two straight sets to beat Hawkins 2-1
The game went into the second set, Robertson defended a mistake, hawkins scored a red ball to play, but made a mistake when hitting the black ball. Robertson then scored a red ball and scored 21 points with a mistake. Hawkins chose to make defensive mistakes, and Robertson scored the far red ball to complete the super point after scoring 41 points to lead Hawkins 62-1. Although Hawkins still had the opportunity to rewrite the score, in the end Robertson still won the game 112:7 with a strong performance of 50 points in a single shot, thus drawing Hawkins 1-1 to bring the two sides back to the same running line. The game entered the third set, Robertson attacked and defended with a high quality defense, Hawkins hit the ball wrong, Robertson scored a red ball and successfully shot a 105-point clean sheet Hawkins to win the first set of 2-1.
Robertson lost a set to draw 2-2 with Hawkins
The game went into the fourth inning and both players played very cautiously, so they started a defensive duel at the beginning. In defensive showdowns, Hawkins put pressure on Robertson several times, and Robertson made mistakes but didn't have much of a problem. It wasn't until Hawkins stopped the mother ball on the right side of the top vault by doing the ball that the game began to change somewhat. Robertson made a serious mistake in his attempt to attack, and Hawkins scored a red ball in the right center pocket to get a chance to play, but he was forced to choose defense due to a call error after scoring 35 points. Defensively, Robertson successfully tried to attack the red ball in the bottom pocket on the right, making a mistake after scoring 12 points and leaving a great opportunity for the opponent. Hawkins scored just five points to score a red ball and made a mistake, Robertson scored another red ball to get started, Robertson scored 8 points to hit the red ball and hit the blue ball and was given 5 points. Hawkins scored a red ball and eventually won the first half of the match after winning the game 2-2 with Robertson.