The competition in the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Snooker Championships is in full swing, with Robertson's exit from the "80 Five Tigers" leaving only Trump alone to fight, while the three "old monsters" of the "75 Three Masters" are working together to advance to the quarterfinals.
Mark Williams' serious decline in energy in the second stage of the quarter-finals was counter-attacked by Yan Bingtao, and the current score was 8-8 drawn, John Higgins played a stable role in the match against Lisowski to temporarily lead 5-3, and O'Sullivan was the first player of the three to score the winner.
O'Sullivan was challenged by Stephen Maguire in the quarterfinals, and in the previous confrontation records between the two sides, O'Sullivan took an absolute lead with a super high winning percentage of 83%, and the duel between the two was predicted by the British media before the game as a one-sided plot, and Maguire had almost no chance of promotion.
The reason why the outside world predicts this is not unreasonable, familiar fans are more clear, Stuart Tebingham, Ali Carter, Barry Hawkins and Maguire are known as O'Sullivan's special background board, the entire career can be said to be completely suppressed by O'Sullivan.
First stage O'Sullivan 6-2 Maguire
As soon as the game began, Maguire showed a strong offensive desire to take the lead in the first set, but then I don't know whether it was a psychological shadow or a poor state Maguire successively "god assisted" for O'Sullivan, although O'Sullivan was not in good shape, but Maguire has been sending a big gift, and finally O'Sullivan won six consecutive sets to take a big lead of 6-2.
Second stage O'Sullivan 11-5 Maguire
Later in the second phase of the showdown, Maguire came up and blew the horn of counterattack to win two consecutive sets 4-6 to close the score, and O'Sullivan obviously did not allow the situation to reverse, and the five consecutive 50+ consecutive wins dispelled Maguire's hopes of a reversal and entered the decisive stage 11-5.
Third stage O'Sullivan 13-5 Maguire
In the face of the previous big score lead in the third stage can also be said to be no suspense, Maguire started to score a red ball but lost a black ball, O'Sullivan came on the field to blast a single 70+ to quickly reach the match point. In the eighteenth set, O'Sullivan bench directly started and did not give Maguire another chance to play, and he blasted a single shot over 100 to advance to the 13-5 victory to continue to attack the seventh world championship title.
Looking at the performance of O'Sullivan throughout the match, it was actually not outstanding, but when he met Maguire, who was in worse form than himself, successive "god assists" made it difficult for O'Sullivan not to win, and finally reached the semi-finals of the World Championship again with a score of 13-5.
And this time the quarter-final O'Sullivan's club seems to have a problem again, many times in the game to clean up their clubs, O'Sullivan also said after the game that the club is not ideal at present has asked experts to repair, but the unruly O'Sullivan said bluntly that as long as the club does not burst, he can still win.
Interestingly, this time the quarterfinals O'Sullivan also opened his account's live debut on a short video platform like Ding Junhui before, and released videos before and after the game to thank the support of domestic fans, it seems that the "fire teacher" has been prepared for the next time he comes to China.