The 2021-2022 Snooker Tour Championship began the semi-finals, and in the first semi-final competition, six-time World Championship winners "Rocket" O'Sullivan and "Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson presented a wonderful and gripping match for the fans, both sides experienced a lead and were overtaken, and finally Neil Robertson won two consecutive sets in a 8:9 situation, defeated O'Sullivan in a 10:9 reversal, and advanced to the final first. Just one step away from successfully defending the Tour title. The defeated O'Sullivan had no chance of competing for his 39th ranking title, and this was O'Sullivan's third loss to Neil Robertson this season, it seems that O'Sullivan's claim that his opponent is the current snooker world number one is not an exaggeration, he is admiring Neil Robertson.
The Tour Championship is a season of the world's top eight players to qualify, the first round of O'Sullivan won 10:9 after a difficult victory over Mark Williams to advance to the semifinals, while Neil Robertson defeated "Little Steel Cannon" Mark Allen 10-6 to advance to the semifinals. O'Sullivan Five Robertson met in the final of the Tour Championship last season, when Neil Robertson won the championship after beating the opponent with a five-stroke break, and the two have played each other a lot this season, O'Sullivan defeated Robertson at the World Grand Prix to win the 38th ranking championship, and Neil Robertson defeated the opponent twice, and this game has attracted much attention. In the first game Neil Robertson took the lead, single shot 115 points after the opponent kept a clean sheet first, O'Sullivan was not overwhelmed by Neil Robertson's momentum, and the subsequent four innings "Rockets" completely controlled the game, he played a single 125 points, 90 points, 106 points, 128 points after winning four consecutive sets to win 4:1, these four games O'Sullivan blasted three shots to break the hundred, and Neil Robertson only scored eight points in four games.
Trailing Neil Robertson stabilized his position and launched a crazy counterattack, the next three sets Neil Robertson played a single 62 points, 54 points, 85 points, 95 points and then chased three consecutive sets to chase the score to 4:4, and then the two sides each fought a 5:5 draw. In the 11th set, Robertson scored 55 points and then won 66:13, and in the 12th set Neil Robertson scored 66 points and then won another set to beat O'Sullivan 7:5. In the 13th inning, O'Sullivan scored a single 63 points to close the score, and then Neil Robertson blasted a single 117 points to continue to hold the lead in the two sets 8-6.
O'Sullivan then returned to form, shooting 100, 70 and 112 points to win three consecutive sets to win 9:8 to win the match point, it is worth mentioning that O'Sullivan blasted five shots to break the hundred in this game. There was no way back neil Robertson then played very tenaciously, and O'Sullivan was a bit in a hurry, in the 18th set, both sides had offensive opportunities, but in the end Robertson seized the opportunity, he played several times and won 86:8 to equalize strongly. In the decider, O'Sullivan took the lead in attacking, but failed to score a high single score, Neil Robertson seized the opportunity to shoot 80 points in a single shot and then took away the victory, defeating O'Sullivan on aggregate 10:9 to advance to the final.
This is the second consecutive year that Robertson has reached the final of the Tour Championship, and he will launch a third Tour Championship title, in addition to his opportunity to equal Trump's record of 23 ranking tournament titles, tied for the most "post-80s" player ranking tournament champion record. Neil Robertson's final opponent will be the winner between "The Witcher" Higgins and Belgian star Brechel, and as it stands, Higgins is more likely to reach the final.
Higgins is in relatively stable form this season, and then only won one Champions League winner, but he has reached the finals of multiple ranking matches in a row, the stability is very good, and in the first round of the game, he also reversed the defeat of China's Zhao Xintong in the case of a big score behind to advance to the final four. Of course, Brechel is not without opportunities, the two have met in the final of the Scottish Open, when Brechel defeated Higgins to win the championship, although the overall strength is not as good as Higgins, but the first round of the game can eliminate the world champion Trump, Brechel has a fairly strong competitiveness, "Wizard" Higgins although there is an advantage, but there is no absolute certainty of victory.