Beijing time on April 27 news, snooker World Championship 1/4 final, Maguire and O'Sullivan's second stage of the match ended, Maguire 5-11 behind. In order to fight back to reach the top 4, Maguire needs to fight back at least O'Sullivan 8-1 in the final stage, the probability is almost zero, in fact, Maguire is on the verge of being out!
Although he has won 6 ranking championships, maguire is now in a super long championship drought, since the 2020 tour championship for Patch Junhui to participate and all the way to the upset of the strong enemy to win the championship, Maguire has not won the championship in the past 2 years, therefore, Maguire world ranking has long fallen out of the top 16, this year's Snooker World Championships, Maguire from the qualifiers, after the qualifier breakout, Maguire advanced to the main tournament. Unexpectedly, in the main stage, Maguire even broke the cold, winning the last runner-up Murphy and the second Zhao Xintong in a single season, becoming the only qualifier in the quarterfinals, a veritable dark horse in the qualification tournament.
In this round of quarter-finals, Maguire welcomed O'Sullivan, the 6th World Champion of the World Championships. In his career, O'Sullivan is also Maguire's biggest bitter master, with a total of 23 encounters, and Maguire has lost 19 games! In the history of the World Championships, Maguire has never defeated O'Sullivan. Psychologically, this time against O'Sullivan, Maguire needs to break the heart demon. However, just like Ding Junhui, it is not easy for Maguire to break the demons of O'Sullivan. After winning the first set of the first stage, Maguire was brutally whipped by O'Sullivan for 6 consecutive years. Finally, in the final inning of the first stage, Maguire let go of his hands and feet, hit his first 50+ of the game, and pulled back a set.
Trailing 2-6 in the first stage, Maguire needed to quickly recover a few sets in the second stage to preserve his hopes of qualifying. At first, Maguire did, scoring 62 points + 73 points in a single shot, and chasing two more innings to chase the General Bureau to 4-6, only two sets behind O'Sullivan. However, O'Sullivan then shot 50+ in a row, winning 6 consecutive sets in the first stage and winning 5 consecutive sets in the second stage, and Maguire won the last set of this stage to barely stop the decline. However, the first two stages were 5-11 behind, 25 sets of 13 wins, facing the world championship 6 champion O'Sullivan, Maguire has been unable to reverse the final situation.
For Maguire, 5-11, is a familiar score, the last round eliminated Zhao Xintong, after the first two stages, Maguire is the leader, but this time against O'Sullivan, Maguire is behind. From facing Zhao Xintong to facing O'Sullivan, Maguire led from 11-5 to 5-11 behind.
From this point of view, the qualifying dark horse of this World Championship, Maguire, also measured the gap between Zhao Xintong and O'Sullivan, and for the understanding of professional snooker, Zhao Xintong is still far from his idol O'Sullivan!