Hawkins Players Final twice clenched the score and still can't get back to the sky, and radish has won 3 crowns this season. Neil Robertson scored a 3-stroke breaker in the first stage of the Players' Championship final to take a 5-3 lead over Barry Hawkins. The showdown was a repeat of last month's Masters title battle, when Robertson won 10-4.
Robertson won his last five showdowns against Hawkins and took an 11-4 lead in the overall head-to-head record. However, three-time ranking champion Hawkins found his form in time for the final two sets of this stage, trailing the score to 3-5.
The Eagles' goal is to win another ranking title since beating Ryan Day in the 2017 World Grand Prix final. Robertson won 21 ranking titles, but he's still struggling to pick up the tournament's first title trophy.
In the first set, Hawkins first brushed a single shot 91 points to take the lead, but did not think about losing 5 cities in a row. From that innings, Robertson regained his grip and took control of the situation. Although Hawkins scored a single 55 inning to take a 55-0 lead, Robertson twice returned the 41+43 single-shot to take the lead 2-1.
Robertson then hit a string of breakers, shot a single 107 in the last set before the break, returned to the break, and then cut a single 105 and 130 consecutive clean sheets to extend the point difference to take a 5-1 lead. Subsequently, to keep the game in suspense, Hawkins showed off his top prowess. He scored a single 137 points in return for two clean sheets to trail 3-5 before halftime.
The second stage opened at 3 a.m., and Robertson scored a single 58 points to win the crucial ninth set to hold the lead of more than three sets again at 6-3, and twice in the 10th set to shoot a single 64+54 points to consolidate the lead. In a moment of crisis, Hawkins once again copied the scene of the first half, first winning the 11th set several times, and then adding a 61-point win to continue to close the score at 5-7.
In the 12th inning that determined the course of the game, Hawkins increased his offensive strength and scored only 15 points before making a fatal mistake, Robertson took over the table to play a single 116 points of the whole clearing, and beat Hawkins 10-5 to win the crown in three consecutive games with 51 + 69 points.
Hawkins lost to Robertson in the second consecutive final of the season. Although he failed to win the title, he created a big obstacle for Robertson and teamed up with the other side to play a wonderful final. Robertson is ranked 4th in the world with a championship prize of 125,000 pounds, and the gap between him and the world's 3rd Trump is only 60,000 pounds, considering that Xiaote needs to deduct more bonus points, he will soon replace Xiaote as the new world No. 3. (Code words are very troublesome, please click to pay attention to moisturizer AB thank you)