In the early morning of April 3, Beijing time, the second semi-final of the Snooker Tour Championship ended, and Higgins beat Brechel 10-7. On the previous matchday, Neil Robertson beat O'Sullivan 10-9 to advance. As a result, the final match was born: Higgins vs Neil Robertson, which is the second time in 5 months that the two sides are fighting for the title!
In this battle, both sides had their own climaxes, and the first small climax belonged to Brechel. In the first three sets, Luca Brecher scored 64, 105 and 78 points in a row to achieve a 3-0 advantage.
From the fourth inning, Higgins blasted a 6-0 climax of the General Bureau, during which he blasted out a single shot of 54 points, 52 points and 108 points to win six consecutive sets and the General Bureau scored 6-3. In the tenth inning, Luca Brechel finally stopped falling, scoring 55 points at 80-0. Higgins also scored a single 50 in the eleventh inning, winning 93-6 to maintain a three-set lead.
Brechel won three more consecutive sets to tie the overall score to a 7-7 tie, a 69-pointer in the twelfth inning, a 68-pointer in the thirteenth inning, and a 10108-point score in the fourteenth inning.
The 10-win match in 19 innings has now become 5 innings with 3 wins. In the fifteenth set, after a long tug-of-war, Higgins won 71-35 to regain the lead. In the sixteenth set, Higgins established an advantage 48-0, Brechel sent a mid-bag opportunity, Higgins scored the red ball again, expanding to 62-0, and then, Brenchel gave Higgins a snooker, defensive matchup, Higgins laughed to the end, 107-8, won another set, the big score 9-7 to get the match point.
In the seventeenth set, Higgins took the lead but lost, Brechel got 30 points after the mother ball was not in a good position to take the initiative to move into the defense, Higgins did not score a shot, Brechel also lost, Higgins scored the left bottom pocket red ball to get started, a one-shot win killed the game, 10-7 elimination of Brechel to reach the final.
In the next title battle, Higgins will once again face his familiar opponent Neil Robertson. Five months ago, Higgins and Neil Robertson had played each other in the final of this season's English Open, when Higgins led the general assembly 8-6 in the final of the 17-game nine-win system, taking the lead in multiple match points, but in the end, Higgins suffered a big reversal, Neil Robertson saved the match points, won the last three consecutive sets to win the championship 9-8.