The 2021-2022 Snooker Players Tournament continued, with a big upset in the final quarter-finals, with four-time World Champion and world-number six defending champion "The Witcher" Higgins facing Jimmy Robertson, who was 16th outside the world ranking, with Higgins losing 4-6 to Jimmy Robertson in a 2-0 lead, stopping the Players Championship Quarterfinals, while Jimmy Robertson was a strong players tournament semi-finalist, who would play against "Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson competed for a place in the final, and "75 Three" Mark Williams, Higgins and O'Sullivan all lost in the second round. In the first semi-final competition, the first two rounds eliminated China's Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao's "Mr. Stability" Hawkins laughed to the end in the match with Rich Walton, Hawkins played steadily in the game, and Rich Wharton was not good, and finally Hawkins defeated Rich Wharton 6:2 and took the lead in advancing to the final of the Players Championship.
Defending champion and now the world's sixth-ranked four-time World Championship winner Higgins faced the "post-80s" veteran Jimmy Robertson, Higgins eliminated Hussein Waffy in the first round of the game, while Robertson was upset and easily defeated Brechel, the two were far apart in world rankings, Higgins was sixth, and Jimmy Robertson was ranked more than 30 miles away. Higgins was in relatively stable form in the first two innings, scoring a single 52 points in the first inning and then narrowly winning the next city at 72:42, hitting a 65-pointer in the second inning and then winning a 2:0 lead, in the third inning Higgins missed the opportunity to expand the score, Jimmy Robertson scored 58 points and then won back a city at 65:58, and then jimmy Robertson continued to perform well in the second set, scoring 57 points and then winning two big sets of 3:2 after a single shot, 59 points, and then won two big sets of 3:2. In the sixth inning, Higgins stopped the loss in time and shot a single shot of 68 points to win, pulling the score to a 3-3 draw. Jimmy Robertson did not panic after being tied, shooting 102 points, 57 points and then winning two sets to win two sets to get the match point 5:3, although Higgins played a single 80 points in the ninth set to chase back a set, but in the tenth game Jimmy Robertson did not give Higgins another chance, and finally won 84:43, the total score of 6:4 upset to defeat the defending champion Higgins.
"Mr. Stability" Hawkins and Richie Walton took the lead in the semi-final competition, this game Hawkins can be called the "terminator" of Chinese players, the first round of the game will be the number one seed Zhao Xintong eliminated out, the second round of the game and the big score behind the reverse defeat of Yan Bingtao, consecutive victories over two Chinese players to reach the final four, can be called a dark horse of this competition, after all, Hawkins this competition is the last player to advance to the championship in the season points ranking. Rich Wharton recently in a state of explosion, the German Masters he defeated a number of famous players after advancing to the final four, after coming to the players' tournament, Rich Walton swept the "little steel cannon" Mark Allen in the first round of the game to advance to the quarterfinals, and the second round of the game won four consecutive games when the score was 2:5 behind The world champion Mark Williams, strongly advanced to the final four, this game can be called "dark horse dispute". In the first game, Rich wharton took the lead, scoring 69 points in a single shot and then winning the first set 77:7, and in the second game, although Walton scored a single 60 points, Hawkins performed more steadily, winning back a city at 70:60 after scoring multiple times, and the two sides drew 1:1 in the first two sets.
In the third game, Hawkins still did not play a single high score, he scored several times and then won 84:24 to the next city, and in the fourth game Hawkins single shot 63 points to win, leading Walton 3:1. In the fifth inning, Rich Wharton played well, shooting 54 points and then winning 81-31 and closing the score to 2:3. In the sixth game, Hawkins scored 115 points to win the extended score, in the seventh game Hawkins single-handed 61 points and then won 5:2 to win the match point, and in the eighth game Hawkins single-shot 75 points to win and end the game, the total score of 6:2 swept Ridge Walton, the first players tournament final. Hawkins reached the Masters final last month, and finally lost to Neil Robertson did not win the championship, after reaching the final of the Players Championship, Hawkins will most likely compete with Neil Robertson for the championship, Neil Robertson will compete with Jimmy Robertson for the right to the final in the semifinals, although the continuous upset to advance, but in front of Neil Robertson, Jimmy Robertson may be difficult to go further.