The 1/4 finals of the 2022 World Snooker Championships are in full swing! In the first session, Mark Williams led Yan Bingtao 6-2 and O'Sullivan led Maguire 6-2. In the second period, Higgins played against Lissovsky, Trump vs Bingham, of which Trump and Bingham were the loudest duels of the round, and both were world champions.
Bingham won the 2015 World Championships, while Trump won the 2019 World Championships. In the previous two seasons, Trump had won 11 crowns and was once considered the ruler of the next professional snooker. However, this season, Trump has fallen into a relative slump, once encountering a long-term ranking championship drought, until the recently concluded Turkish Masters finally won the first ranking championship of the season. Trump's accuracy has indeed declined compared to the previous two seasons, as demonstrated by the first two rounds of the World Championships.
In this match with Bingham, Trump is still pulling his crotch at the offensive end, missing opportunities in the first set, losing a lot of simple balls, still not accurate, Bingham went to the next city first. However, from the second set, Trump began to adjust his playing style, since there was no accuracy, then he won defensively, and Trump also did it, 2 consecutive sets were through a very good defense, to get an extremely simple mobile meeting, and finally won the victory, the big score 2-1 to complete the counterattack. Even, in the game, we clearly felt that Bingham's own rhythm had been completely deviated by Trump.
Obviously, at this stage, Trump is no longer the Trump who relied on unreasonable attack to win the game, and in the case of his own loss of accuracy, Trump found a way to win the game, which reminds us of Zhao Xintong, the offensive genius of China's snooker.
This season, Zhao Xintong really cashed in on the talent, won the British Championship and the German Masters 2 titles, of which, the German Masters final 9-0 clean sheet Yan Bingtao is a very representative game, the offensive end is crazy, Zhao Xintong is insoluble. However, Zhao Xintong's defensive end has not made much progress, and losing to Maguire in the second round of this World Championship is a typical game that Zhao Xintong has lost this season, and after the game, Zhao Xintong himself admitted that in the case of poor hand feeling, he still could not find a way to win the game.
Previously, Zhao Xintong visited O'Sullivan, and as we all know, O'Sullivan is an offensive genius and a snooker idol of Zhao Xintong. However, now it seems that trump at this stage is more worthy of Zhao Xintong's learning. Trump is also an offensive maniac, but now, in the case of the loss of accuracy, Trump has found a way to win the game, so at this stage, Zhao Xintong should pay more attention to Trump than O'Sullivan!