For many domestic snooker fans, the week-long stay-up journey has finally come to an end, and the 2022 Tour Championship has come to a successful end with Neil Robertson's 10-9 victory over John Higgins.
Although the game is over, many fans who stay up late are not happy, especially higgins fans, who constantly question the whole process after witnessing the whole process, because the final stage of this showdown is obviously a bit confusing.
In the first stage of the showdown between the two sides, Higgins started with a fiery blast of more than 103-0 to take the lead, and then Robertson began to respond to the score after a hundred consecutive three sets, and the first stage ended with Higgins 5-3 temporarily leading into the final decisive moment.
In the final stage, Higgins was still in hot shape, winning three consecutive sets to continue to expand the score, although Robertson struggled to pull back a set but Higgins still took the lead to reach the match point, but then the sudden change on the field did not know whether it was a decline in physical strength or other reasons Higgins did not seem to be able to play, while Robertson became more and more courageous to drag the game into the decider.
The most critical tiebreaker is also the most questionable one for fans, Robertson mistakes to send a big gift, in the face of a relatively simple situation Higgins had the opportunity to win a shot but made an inexplicable mistake on a simple red ball, the audience also made a voice of disbelief, and Robertson directly blasted out 70+ to win the game to stage a big reversal.
Higgins lost this strange red ball also caused a huge controversy, after the game many fans commented on major social platforms questioning Higgins "playing fake balls and returning to the old business", and more fans bluntly said that Higgins and "Spinach Company" controlled the score.
Objectively speaking, this kind of low-level mistake really should not appear on Higgins, to know that Higgins has always reversed others, and this time facing such a big lead and being reversed by the opponent is rare throughout Higgins' entire career, which is simply unbelievable.
Losing this tour tournament Higgins has already won five runners-up this season, equaling O'Sullivan's previous embarrassing record of five Asians in a single season, and it is difficult to hide his disappointment in the interview with the media after the game.
Higgins: I was under extraordinary pressure in this final, I couldn't hold on in the last minute, I couldn't forgive myself, that red ball should never be lost at any time. Robertson deserved to win, he was amazing.
Through the interview, even Higgins himself felt that the red ball in the decider should not be wrong, and the reason why the fans questioned it was because the ball was simply too simple, so simple that the fans would not hesitate to think about playing a match-fixing.
Higgins' six-point lead in the final was reversed and set an embarrassing record in snooker history, although there are still many fans questioning this game, but it has to be said that Robertson has played really well this season, and while regretting Higgins, we must also congratulate Robertson.