The 2021-2022 snooker Welsh Open final came to an end, 48-year-old veteran Joe Perry relied on the wonderful performance of the second half of the game, and finally he defeated the world's third-ranked Trump with 22 ranking champions 9:5, winning the ranking championship again after seven years, and this is also the second time in his career that the British veteran has won the ranking championship, and he can win the championship in the past half a hundred years, Joe Perry's performance this week is worth learning from all snooker players and makes fans look up to him. The Welsh Open is the most important title of Joe Perry's career, and seven years ago Joe Perry won the ranking tournament for the first time in his career by defeating Mark Williams in the Tour Finals.
Joe Perry's match with Trump has attracted much attention, and before this game, it was generally optimistic that The world's third-ranked Trump won the 23rd ranking championship. In fact, Trump's recent year's state is not better than the peak period, the first two seasons Trump won more than a dozen ranking championships, jumped to the top of the "post-80s" ranking championship of all players, but this season Trump is not in good shape, in addition to winning the championship of the championship, there is no ranking championship in the account, this game and many masters have been cold out of the situation, Trump ushered in the best time to win the championship. Veteran Joe Perry is in a brave state of this competition, defeating China's Cao Yupeng in the first round, defeating Mark Allen in the second round, pulling down the world's fifth Karen Wilson in the third round, and then defeating Rich Walton and Lisowski to advance to the final, following the 2018 European Open, after four years to advance to the final of the ranking tournament, but even so, not too many people before the game are optimistic about Joe Perry winning the championship, after all, his world ranking before the game is only 42 places lower, and the second Trump is ranked third in the world.
In the first game Joe Perry took the lead, although Trump scored 60 points with a single shot, but Joe Perry won with 70:67 three-pointers with a steady play, in the second game Trump did not want to show weakness after multiple attacks after a clean sheet Joe Perry, in the third game Joe Perry single shot 59 points and then won another set, the big score was 2:1, and then the two sets Trump prevailed, after scoring 69 points in one shot, the next two consecutive cities to win the score 3:2, and in the sixth game Joe Perry won 51:30 after multiple attacks. In the seventh inning, Trump shot 73 powders to outdo the score again, and in the eighth game, Joe Perry narrowly won 62:56 with multiple scoring opportunities, tenaciously chasing the score to a 4:4 draw, and the two sides were equally divided in the first half.
Veteran Joe Perry was on fire at the start of the second half, winning the ninth inning with a single shot of 108 points, 5:4, and Trump equalised 75:47 in the tenth inning. The next four games became Joe Perry's performance time, in the 11th set, Joe Perry single shot 51 points, 66 points after winning, in the 12th game Joe Perry single shot 68 points and then won another set, the big score was 7:5 lead, the 13th set Trump wasted the opportunity to chase the score, Joe Perry scored several times after 62:44 and 8:5 to get the match point, in the 14th game Joe Perry did not give Trump too many opportunities, single shot 70 points thick win, the total score of 9:5 victory over the world's third Trump, He won the ranking tournament for the second time in his career. The losing Trump missed the 23rd ranking championship while continuing the championship drought of this season's ranking competition, and if he wants to break the championship drought, Trump will have to work harder in the next game.
Veteran Joe Perry beat the mighty Trump without being favored, and won the most important ranking championship of his career, Joe Perry's persistence was rewarded, a few years ago Joe Perry fell sharply in the ranking due to poor results, he almost lost the qualification for professional competitions, joe Perry once said sadly: "I like snooker very much, if one day there is no professional competition, I will be very sad." "After winning the Welsh Open, Joe Perry's world rankings have soared 19 places, and there will be no need to worry about snooker professional qualifications for quite some time to come.