On January 16, the 2022 Snooker Masters ended the final battle, with former champion Robertson, who reached the final for the fourth time, and Hawkins, who reached the final for the second time, in a final matchup. In the end, Robertson performed steadily, scoring 2 shots to break the hundred, 6 shots 50+, and easily defeated the opponent with an aggregate score of 10-4, following 2012, winning his second Masters title in a decade. At the same time, this is also Robertson's sixth personal "three majors" title, ranking 7th in history. While winning the "Paul Hunt" championship trophy, Robertson received a championship prize of up to 250,000 pounds, fame and fortune, and became a winner in life.
In the past week's Masters, Robertson has performed well, defeating McGill 6-3 in the first round and O'Sullivan in the second round, a hard-fought matchup, Robertson won 6-4 steadily, and advanced strongly to the top four. In the semi-final confrontation with Williams, he fell behind twice, and even in the case of two snooker defenses in the decider, he achieved a strong counterattack, won a gold-laden victory, and advanced to the final. And his final opponent is Hawkins, can be called one of the most stable players in the last ten years of the competition, this is hawkins for the second time to advance to the final of the Masters, but has not been able to achieve a breakthrough in the three major championships, becoming a major regret for Hawkins, so this duel, Hawkins is looking forward to achieving a career breakthrough.
In the final, Hawkins first made the opening, but then Robertson scored consecutive high scores to achieve a 2-1 comeback, and in the first half of the first stage, the two were tied 2-2. In the fifth set, Hawkins scored 60 points, but robertson completed a reversal, somewhat hurting morale; in the sixth set, Robertson completed a two-shot 50+ performance in a single set, again extending the lead. In the next two sets, both won the first set, and Robertson took a 5-3 lead in the first stage. In the second stage of the scramble, Robertson did not give Hawkins too many opportunities, coupled with Hawkins' own mistakes and accuracy dropped a lot, Robertson directly played a 5-1 result, and finally won easily 10-4 on aggregate.
For Robertson, ten years ago, in 2012, he won the Masters for the first time, and then in 2013 and 2015, he reached the final twice, but lost to Selby and Murphy respectively, this time, after ten years of grinding a sword, and finally won the second title in the fourth Masters final trip. Together with one World Championship and three British Championship titles, Robertson won a total of six major three-time titles in his career, becoming the seventh person behind O'Sullivan, Hendry, Davis, Higgins, Selby and Williams. Hawkins, on the other hand, continued to regret, and the chance to win another three-time final was slightly sad.