On February 14, 2022, the Snooker Players Championship came to an end, Robertson beat Hawkins 10-5 to win the 22nd ranking championship of his career, which was his third title of the season, and tied Trump, although the results in the three major competitions were not as good as Selby, but the person with the largest number of post-80s player ranking championships is still Trump and Robertson, and the competition continues.
Hawkins is a regular in the final four of the competition, the overall performance of this season is very stable, but the key moments are always worse, only three ranking champions in his many years of career, the world ranking is closer to Robertson, the overall performance is much worse, the outside fans call him the strongest background emperor, this season Robertson is the fourth time to reach the final, the world grand prix lost to O'Sullivan to get the runner-up.
In the first half, Robertson won five consecutive innings, blasted out a single shot 130 points, 107 points, 105 points to take a 5-1 lead, Hawkins stopped the loss in time, blasted out a single shot 137 points to chase back two innings, so that the suspense of the game remained in the second half, Hawkins's overall performance was better than the Masters, but the overall strength Robertson was stronger, in the eyes of many fans, Robertson won hawkins to win the championship There is basically no suspense.
In the 9th inning, Hawkins scored only one red ball, Robertson played steadily, winning 90-1 with 58 points, Robertson played a single 64 points in the 10th set to interrupt the attack, Hawkins made a mistake, Robertson played again, played a single 54 points to win another set, in the 11th game Hawkins repeatedly played 92-0 to chase back a set, in the 12th game Robertson only scored 26 points to make a major mistake, Hawkins played a single 61 points.
After returning from halftime, Robertson blasted out a single shot of 116 points to extend the lead to 8-5, in the 14th set Robertson played a single shot 51 points to turn into defense, Hawkins made a mistake, Robertson completed the super score, won 91-0, 9-5 to get the match point, in the 15th set Hawkins had no heart to fight, Robertson single-shot victory ended the game, and finally won 10-5 against Hawkins to win the 22nd crown of the ranking game, congratulations Robertson!
In the end, Hawkins still won the runner-up, in the second half of the game was fully suppressed by Robertson, although he performed well this time, eliminating two Chinese players Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, but in the final against Robertson's performance is still not ideal, of course, this result has long been expected, this season Robertson's overall performance is worthy of recognition, and then it is also optimistic that he will achieve good results.
Robertson's victory set four records: the first single season won the Players Championship, the English Open, and the Masters, the second single season won the championship twice in the final against Hawkins, the third became the second post-80s player to win 22 ranking championships, chasing Trump, and the fourth Was Robertson's first time in the Players Championship, becoming the second post-80s champion of the tournament.