At 8 p.m. Beijing time on April 2, the second semi-final of the 2022 Snooker Tour Championship continued, with John Higgins, one of the famous Scottish players "75 Three Masters", playing against Belgian star Luka Brechel.
Higgins is now ranked sixth in the world and has won 31 ranking titles in his career. Luca finished fifteenth and won three ranking titles in his career. The two played each other to record Higgins 4 wins and 2 losses.
The two last met in the final of this year's Scottish Open, where Luca defeated Higgins to win the title.
The semi-finals were played in two stages, with eight innings in the first half.
In the first set, Higgins scored 26 points first, Luca scored 64 points, which was already overscored, but the offensive red ball was wrong in the bag, Higgins launched a defensive fight, Luca scored a red ball, and directly cleared the stage. Luca won the first set.
In the second set, Luca took the lead and scored 11 points to turn to defense, Higgins did not have a chance to attack, Luca once again played a single shot to break the hundred, 105 points, the big score 0-2.
In the third set, Luca scored a 37-pointer, hitting a red ball in the bag error, Higgins did not have an offensive opportunity, Luca once again played a single 80+ to win another set. The score was rewritten to 0-3.
In the fourth inning, Luca scored 46 points and lost the offensive opportunity to turn to defense, and Higgins seized the offensive opportunity and scored 32 points. Luca scored 70 from the bench, Higgins scored a red ball to hit again, 75-46, Higgins pulled back a set to make it 1-3. Enter the intermission.
Higgins scored 14 points in the fifth inning, missed a mistake, and Luca got an offensive opportunity to score 64 points. Higgins scored 76 points on multiple piecemeal hits, 76-64, and Higgins chased another set to make it 2-3.
In the sixth inning, Higgins scored a 54-pointer, played a red ball error, Luca scored a 26-point error, Higgins played again to the super point, and won another set, the score was 3-3.
Higgins took the lead in the seventh inning and scored 18 points. Luca scored 32 points, played the red ball and did not score, and the two began to compete defensively.
Higgins' bench attack was played again, and it was super-scored. Higgins scored 4-3.
Higgins hit a single shot over 100 in the eighth inning to rewrite the score to 5-3.
Higgins came in late in the first half of the game, winning five straight sets at 3-0. Luca started well, shooting a shot to break the hundred, but the last half of the first half felt average and did not play well.
