On the evening of April 17, Beijing time, the first round of the Snooker World Championships, the second stage of the match between O'Sullivan and Gilbert began. In the first stage, O'Sullivan lost the first three consecutive sets and then won six consecutive sets, leading 6-3, which was extremely hot. However, as soon as the second stage came, the situation suddenly changed, and Gilbert won two consecutive sets, playing a single 63 and 82 points, chasing the General Bureau to 5-6, just one set behind O'Sullivan.
The 12th set was crucial, and once O'Sullivan lost again, the General Manager would be equalised by his opponents, and the advantages he had built up would be lost. O'Sullivan did not let this happen, seized the opportunity to play, single shot 116 points to win, completed the clearance, refused to be equalized.
After questioning the referee, O'Sullivan went off the court for a short while, at which point the camera caught an expression on O'Sullivan's departure, which can be said to be a domineering side leak!
In the 13th set, O'Sullivan continued the fiery feel of the previous set, and continuously scored into the difficult bench, with amazing accuracy! However, in the handling of simple balls, O'Sullivan made a mistake. Gilbert seized the opportunity to come back 34-29. O'Sullivan scored another difficult red ball to complete the hand, winning the applause of the audience, but in the simple ball handling, O'Sullivan still had problems. O'Sullivan did a 1 snooker and Gilbert was awarded consecutive free throws, but eventually got it off and didn't miss the ball.
Gilbert scored a long red ball, but the mother ball returned to the top vault, the attacking opportunity was not good, and took the initiative to give O'Sullivan a snooker, and O'Sullivan was solved. Defensively, O'Sullivan was left with a chance, gilbert scored a red ball but at the same time accidentally scored a color ball and fouled! Very dramatic! Now O'Sullivan leads 49-39, with the last 6 colored balls left on the table. O'Sullivan was so lucky that he fainted into the yellow ball, the position of the mother ball was also called the green ball, and in the end, with this luck ball, O'Sullivan won a difficult set 69-39, and the General Bureau led 8-5, and the promotion in this ten-year-old match was in sight.
In the first four sets of the second stage, Gilbert chased a lonely one, and after 2 consecutive sets, he lost 2 consecutive sets, still 3 sets behind O'Sullivan.
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