The 2021-2022 Snooker World Championships enters its 12th matchday of contention, on which all the places in the final four will be produced. In the first two matches, the top seed and six-time World Champion O'Sullivan finished the match after playing only two sets in the third stage of the match against Maguire, who led 11:5 in the first two stages of the match and finally relied on the third stage to win two consecutive sets, sweeping Maguire with a total score of 13:5, becoming the first player to advance to the final four of this World Championship. In a second-stage match, the No. 4 seed of the tournament, the second-placed favorite Trump started with a cold hand, he lost five consecutive sets to fall behind 5:8, and then he launched a crazy counterattack, winning three consecutive sets after a strong tie, the second stage of the game ended, Trump and Bingham fought 8:8.
The 4th seed Trump, who is the 12th seed bingham, has both won the World Championships and both hope to win a second World Championship title at Crucible for the second time. Trump's first two rounds were not in good shape, but he still won two consecutive games to advance to the quarterfinals, Bingham eliminated China's Lu Haotian in the first round, and in the third round of the game, he eliminated the champion Karen Wilson to advance to the quarterfinals. Both have played well in recent World Championships, With Trump reaching the Quarter-Finals of the World Championships for five consecutive years, and Bingham reaching the Final Four last year, with the two world champions drawing attention in this round. In the first stage of the third round, Trump was more stable, ending the first eight innings with a 5-3 lead, but for the long-inning format, the two-set lead was not much of an advantage.
At the beginning of the second stage of the game, Bingham took the lead, and Trump continued the previous slightly sluggish offensive state, in the ninth game Bingham attacked several times and won the first set 61:19 to win the first set, and in the tenth game Bingham was full of firepower, playing a single shot of 89 points and then winning another round, and the big score was chased to 5:5. In the 11th game, the two sides competed fiercely, Bingham attacked several times and played a single 54 points before winning another round at 73:16, the big score was 6:5, and in the 12th game Bingham played a single 53 points, 58 points and then won another game, and the big score continued to expand the score at 7:5. In the 13th set, both sides made low-level mistakes, and finally Bingham seized the opportunity to win 81:34, leading Trump 8-5 after winning five straight sets. The trailing Trump did not collapse because of this, in the 14th game, he resisted the pressure to win 70:16 in time to stop the loss, in the 15th game Trump single shot 89 points and then chased another set, in the 16th game Trump single shot 55 points and then won 94:24, winning three consecutive sets to chase the score to 8:8.
The top seed, six-time World Championship champion O'Sullivan's third-round opponent is the "post-80s" star Maguire, Maguire is not in good shape this season, the world ranking has fallen to 40th, but after coming to the World Championships, Maguire is in a bursting state, from the qualifiers to break through in the first round of the main tournament, he eliminated last year's World Championship runner-up Sean Murphy, in the second round of the game he defeated the No. 7 seed Zhao Xintong, the head of the quarterfinals, and O'Sullivan's match Maguire naturally longed to continue to be cold. O'Sullivan was in surprisingly good shape in the second round, the first round of the game won David Gilbert, the second round of the game and swept the seeded player Mark Allen, with Neil Robertson out of the cold, O'Sullivan became the biggest favorite to win the tournament, he naturally will not let go of such an opportunity, and Maguire's O'Sullivan can be said to be determined to win.
The two lost one innings in the first stage of the match and then won six consecutive sets to establish a 6-2 lead, and in the second stage of the game, Maguire won two consecutive sets to close the score, O'Sullivan locked in the win in five consecutive sets, and O'Sullivan led Maguire 11:5 at the end of the second stage. It is almost impossible for Maguire to complete a reversal in the third stage of the race, although there is also a second stage in the history of the Snooker Championships that completed the reversal in the third stage when he fell behind 5:11, but it is clear that such a situation cannot happen to O'Sullivan. At the beginning of the third stage of the game, Maguire took the lead in taking the offensive opportunity, but unfortunately there was a mistake in hitting the black ball, O'Sullivan seized the opportunity to score 8 points and also made a mistake, but Maguire did not seize the opportunity, and then O'Sullivan won after a single shot of 71 points in the stalemate stage and won the match point at 12:5, in the 18th game, O'Sullivan was full of firepower, played 126 points with a single shot to end the battle, and swept the "dark horse" Maguire at 13:5 on aggregate, advancing to the final four.