On February 11, Beijing time, in the quarterfinals of the 2022 Snooker Players Championship, O'Sullivan lost 3-6 to Neil Robertson, and in this match, O'Sullivan lost in a technically inferior situation. Yan Bingtao held 2 match points in his hand, led 5-4 by Barry Hawkins, lost 5-6, and missed the top 4!
O'Sullivan vs Neil Robertson, absolute snooker peak duel, the two have met 31 times in the past, O'Sullivan won 19 games.
In this campaign, Neil Robertson took the lead in the game, winning the first set with 79 points, and O'Sullivan single-shot 98 points to win back a city. But then Robertson won two straight sets to give a 3-1 lead. In the fifth inning, Neil Robertson scored 80 points to give a 4-1 lead, and that advantage was already great. O'Sullivan did not give up, chasing two consecutive sets to make it 3-4. But since then, O'Sullivan's turnovers have increased, and Neil Robertson has won two straight sets to eliminate O'Sullivan 6-3.
In this game, Neil Robertson still had the upper hand, and O'Sullivan showed a very desperate look.
O'Sullivan's missed the top 4 also means that he did not get to the top of the world's No. 1, which is not a pity for the "Rockets".
Yan Bingtao is also full of regrets, he and Barry Hawkins have shown excellent form, compared to who has the ability to seize opportunities, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, the two sides are very tight, in the ninth set, Yan Bingtao single shot 132 points, 5-4 to get the match point. In the tenth set, Hawkins returned a 126 points, 5-5, the two sides entered the decider, Yan Bingtao did not advance, Hawkins started, single shot 73 points, Hawkins 6-5 killed Yan Bingtao!
However, there were no losers in this game, and after the game, the whole audience stood up and applauded, and the two wonderful performances were too good!
In this competition, Barry Hawkins became the nemesis of Chinese players, successively eliminating the top seed Zhao Xintong 6-3 and Yan Bingtao 6-5, in this regard, the two Chinese players were all out of this competition. And Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao are the champions and runners-up of the latest competition, the German Masters! There is no doubt that Barry Hawkins became the biggest dark horse of this event.