At 9:00 p.m. Beijing time on February 27, the final of the Snooker European Masters, China's post-00s young player Fan Zhengyi challenged the world's first man O'Sullivan! Amid the applause of the audience, O'Sullivan and Fan Zhengyi appeared, and before the opening, the two players were grouped on both sides of the championship trophy.
This is O'Sullivan's 60th career ranking final, having won 38 titles before, ranking first in history. In this tournament, O'Sullivan has scored 9 strokes to break the 100, and the number of career breaks has risen to 1143! Compared with O'Sullivan, Fan Zheng is very different from him in all aspects, and his age is even more so, Fan Zhengyi, born in 2001, is only 21 years old, 26 years younger than O'Sullivan! Fan Zhengyi is from Heilongjiang, China, obtained professional snooker qualification in 2018, broke out this season, and previously reached the quarterfinals of the German Masters, this European Masters, Fan Zhengyi is even more historic in the final, and has eliminated Karen Wilson, Yan Bingtao, Gilbert and Graeme Dort.
Compared to the previous 17-inning 9-win system, this year's UEFA Masters final adopted a 10-in-19 set, with the winner receiving £80,000 in prize money and the runner-up winning £35,000.
In the opening first set, O'Sullivan took the lead in kicking off, Fan Zhengyi was not attacked from the far platform, O'Sullivan scored a red ball in the middle of the far table and began to play, after scoring 12 points, O'Sullivan turned into the defense and played very steadily. Fan Zhengyi defended and missed the ball again, O'Sullivan started to extend the lead to 45-0, Fan Zhengyi scored 6 points, but the black ball did not score. O'Sullivan again went on to win the first set 66-6.
In the second set, O'Sullivan did not score from the far platform, and Fan Zhengyi scored the red ball from the far table to establish an advantage 35-0. O'Sullivan only scored a red ball, but the color ball failed. Fan Zhengyi once again won 68-1 to equalize the general score.
In the third set, O'Sullivan made a mistake, Andefan scored a single shot of 57 points, and won the defensive end of the game, the general bureau scored 2-1 to surpass O'Sullivan. From 0-1 to 2-1, Fan Zheng won two sets in a row and gradually entered a better situation!