On April 22, 2022, the Snooker World Championship continued, with champion O'Sullivan playing in the second round against the post-80s star Mark. Allen, the first stage of the game ended with O'Sullivan leading Mark 6-2. Allen, he also had a chance to end the game early.
O'Sullivan is a legend in snooker history, having won 38 ranking championships in his career, including six World Championships, this season he reached the final twice, the World Grand Prix defeated Robertson to win the championship, the European Masters lost to Fan Zhengyi to finish runner-up, although as he grew older, his competitive status declined, but he was always the favorite to win the championship when he came to Crucible.
mark. Allen is the 15th seed, has won a Masters title once, and has a relatively stable record in three major competitions, winning the Northern Ireland Open last year with Higgins and O'Sullivan beating Gilbert, Mark 10-5 in the first round. Allen eliminated Scott 10-6. Donaldson, career record, O'Sullivan dominated, pre-match Mark. Allen said that he was not afraid of O'Sullivan and was confident of advancing.
The second round of 25 innings and 13 wins, divided into two stages, before the game everyone generally believed that the strength gap between the two is not very large, should play to the last stage, the first set O'Sullivan played a single shot 87 points to take the lead, the second set Mark. Allen scored a single 68 points to return to color, and then O'Sullivan blasted a single shot of 131 points and 69 points to win two consecutive sets to take a 3-1 lead and enter the halftime.
The World Federation of Taiwan statistics two people in four innings of the game only took 45 minutes, O'Sullivan goal success rate is close to perfect, this confrontation is very exciting, both sides are single-shot wins, bench and defense are more critical, in the fifth set O'Sullivan started again, played a single 96 points, continue to extend the lead, the sixth set O'Sullivan played a single 47 points into the defense, followed by a 75-23 win.
Seventh inning Mark. Allen missed a chance, O'Sullivan's hot hands also put a lot of pressure on him, O'Sullivan played a single 57 points, won the fight 82-53, won five consecutive sets to 6-1, and the eighth set Mark. Allen played multiple times to pull back the set 69-22, ending the first stage with O'Sullivan leading Mark 6-2. Allen, leading four innings was a big advantage and O'Sullivan was in good form.
At the same time the game was played by Gold Left Hand Mark. Williams became the first player to advance to the quarterfinals, finishing the game in just two stages, blasting a single shot of 127 points, 125 points, 121 points, 117 points, 110 points, 100 points, 75 points, 74 points, 65 points, 56 points, 53 points, 51 points, 50 points and 13-3 sweeping Jackson. Page, next he needs to wait for the winners of Selby and Yan Bingtao.