On January 17, 2022, the Snooker Masters came to an end, Robertson defeated Hawkins 10-4, and won the Masters championship after ten years, which was also the sixth third major championship and the second Masters championship in Robertson's career, and the post-80s players were second only to Selby, and continued to pull apart with Trump and Sean. The gap between Murphy and Ding Junhui, Hawkins is still the runner-up, he failed to make a breakthrough.
The Masters is one of the three major snooker competitions, the gold content is self-evident, the championship prize money is as high as 250,000 pounds, the invitational tournament is not counted in the world rankings, only Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao won the championship in this event, Robertson, a post-80s celebrity from Australia, is the highest achievement among non-British Isles players, just this season he won the English Open championship and the runner-up of the World Grand Prix.
Robertson is ranked 4th in the world against 10th-ranked Hawkins, who is a regular in the final four but has only three titles and has met 26 times in their careers, with Robertson having the advantage of 15 wins, with Robertson winning 4-2 at last year's England Open.
In the final, 19 innings were 10 wins, the first set was not in the state, Hawkins took the lead 60-30 first, in the second set Robertson played a single 50 points to equalize multiple times, in the third set Robertson found the feel, blasted out a single 105 points to win another set, in the fourth set Hawkins won the fight 65-20, Robertson single shot ability is stronger, but Hawkins with a stable defense, put a lot of pressure on him.
Back at halftime, Hawkins played a single 60 points to turn into defense, Robertson repeatedly played 77-67 to complete the reversal, in the sixth set Robertson played a single 54 points to interrupt the attack, Hawkins made a mistake, Robertson played a single 54 points to win another set, Hawkins won 67-33 in the seventh set, Robertson played a single shot 73 points in the eighth set also color, the first half ended, Robertson led 5-3.
At the beginning of the second half, Robertson played a single 50 points to win 76-4, Hawkins did not want to show weakness, played a single 69 points to chase, in the 11th game Robertson played a single 68 points, in the 12th set Robertson won the fight 62-16, the point difference widened to 8-4, the result lost suspense, Hawkins mentality problems, in the 13th game only 11 points to interrupt the attack, Robertson blasted a single shot 114 points, 9-4 to get the match point.
Hawkins had no intention of fighting, it turned out that he did not have three major championships or his personal ability was poor, hawkins defense was not in place in the 14th round and directly missed the ball, Robertson twice completed the super point to end the game, and finally swept Hawkins 10-4 to win the Masters championship.
Robertson's victory set four records: the second post-80s player to win three major tournaments six times, the second post-80s Masters double champion, after ten years to win the Masters championship, and finally became the only snooker player outside the British Isles to achieve the above.