The 2022 Snooker European Masters has reached the semi-final stage, and at present, 2 Chinese players Liang Wenbo and Fan Zhengyi have reached the top 4, and O'Sullivan and Graeme Dort have occupied the remaining 2 final four seats. In the semi-finals, O'Sullivan and Liang Wenbo met, and Fan Zhengyi and Graembdot faced off.
In china, O'Sullivan is extremely popular, even more popular than most domestic players! This year's European Masters, O'Sullivan all the way to the final four, and, among the four, only O'Sullivan has a top 16 player, in recent years, O'Sullivan's main competitors have been out of the cold early, it can be said that O'Sullivan ushered in another excellent opportunity to win the championship. This season, O'Sullivan has won 1 title and the number of ranking titles has risen to 38. Moreover, O'Sullivan is currently ranked second in the world, less than £70,000 behind world number one Selby.
Therefore, this year's Snooker European Masters, if O'Sullivan can finally win the championship, then he will complete 2 miracles! First, the historical record of snooker ranking championships was refreshed to 39; second, it returned to the world number one at the age of 46 and nearly 47 years old.
However, to the ambivalence of us Chinese snooker fans, O'Sullivan's 2 miracles of impact met with the Chinese Legion! First, in the semi-finals, O'Sullivan will be sure to play Liang Wenbo. In the future, if O'Sullivan can successfully eliminate Liang Wenbo, the final may also encounter our China's post-00s young player Fan Zhengyi.
So, who should we support? Cheering for O'Sullivan or cheering for Chinese players is indeed contradictory. With 39 titles and 47 years old in the ranking tournament, we hope to see O'Sullivan make new history for world snooker.
However, this opportunity for Liang Wenbo and Fan Zhengyi is also very rare, Liang Wenbo has once again impacted the ranking championship after 5 years since 2016, and Fan Zhengyi also hopes to create another personal history.
In short, as a Chinese fan, I am very conflicted.