On the evening of January 16, 2022 and the early morning of the next day (17th), the Snooker Masters ended the championship competition. Robertson won the Hawkins 10-4 light, lifted the Masters championship trophy again after 10 years, and collected a prize of 250,000 pounds, congratulations to Robertson!
Only players in the world's top 16 are eligible to participate in the Snooker Masters, and this season China has two players participating, Namely Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong. Yan Bingtao was the champion of last season's Masters, and Zhao Xintong was the champion of this season's British Championship, and the two youngsters hurriedly withdrew, with a little regret. The Masters, British Championships and World Championships are the three major events of snooker, with a very high gold content, and the prize money for the winner of this year's Masters is 250,000 pounds.
Hawkins ranked tenth in the world, he eliminated the world's 7th, 1st, 2nd, and then launched a final championship competition with Robertson, the world's 4th, unfortunately Hawkins finally failed to "collect stamps" and won the runner-up. Robertson has lifted the Masters trophy once again since the 2012 Snooker Masters, winning three major titles for the sixth time in his career.
The snooker final was a 10-win 19-game format, with Robertson shooting a 6-50+ and a 2-shot 100 to win easily. The two sides were still tentatively trying to find the feel in the first set of the game, and Hawkins took the lead 60-30. In the second set, Robertson began to be serious, playing a single 50 point, Hawkins did not have a good effect after getting started, Robertson finally pulled the score 112-7 to a 1-1 draw. In the third set, Robertson gradually found the feel, single-shot 105 points to keep a clean sheet Hawkins in one set, leading 2-1. In the fourth set, the two sides began to fight, and after several attacks and defenses, Hawkins was slightly better, 65-20 to tie the score.
In the fifth inning, Hawkins went into defense after shooting a single 60 points, but still gave Robertson a chance to miss. Robertson won the game 77-67 with a few picks and piecemeals, making it 3-2 on the pitch. In the sixth inning, Robertson hit a single 54 points and then interrupted the offense, Hawkins scored just 16 points after getting on the game, Robertson once again played another single 54 points, two shots of 54 points in a single set, 108-16 to take a 4-2 lead. In the seventh set, the rhythm of the two sides slowed down again, and the game was very sticky. Robertson tried to attack but didn't work well, and hawkins ended up winning slightly to return the set 67-33, 4-3. In the eighth inning, Robertson scored 73 points to lead two sets again 5-3 and end the first half.
In the second half of the game, which began at 3:00 a.m., Robertson scored a single 50 points to win the second half of the game 76-4, while the score came to 6-3. In the tenth inning, Hawkins scored his second 50+ (69) to win the first set, 6-4. In the eleventh inning, Robertson scored 68 points to keep a 72-0 clean sheet against Hawkins, 7-4 once again extending the lead to three innings. In the twelfth set, the two sides were once again entangled in a fight, and Robertson won another set 62-16 to win another set, 8-4 on the field, further extending the advantage.
In the thirteenth set, Hawkins's feel has not been able to heat up, and the upper hand only got 11 points before making a mistake, while Robertson played more and more smoothly, blasting out a single shot of 114 points, 9-4 leading 5 innings strong to the match point. In the fourteenth inning, Hawkins still failed to open the situation, robertson did not hurry to piecemeal, 77-0 to win the game, while ending the game 10-4. Hawkins' journey of "philately" along the way ended in runners-up. Congratulations to Robertson on winning the title and winning £250,000 in prize money, his 22nd career title, second Masters title and second after the English Open this season!