In the early morning of April 28, Beijing time, the third stage of the last two quarterfinals of the 2022 World Snooker Championship was over, and the last two seats of the top four were born. Trump beat Bingham 13-8, and Higgins beat Lisowski 13-12, and the two advanced. Together with O'Sullivan and Williams, who had previously been promoted, the same "753 Masters", who were born in 1975 and turned professional in 1992, achieved a gap of 23 years, and once again met the top 4 of the World Championships, the last time was in 1999. Trump became the other of the final four.
Trump's showdown with Bingham also went through ups and downs, with Trump leading 5-3 in the first stage, and after the start of the second stage, Bingham won five consecutive sets to achieve an 8-5 comeback, but then Trump won three consecutive sets to tie 8-8 to end the second stage. No one expected that the third stage actually became a one-sided situation, Trump won five consecutive sets again, plus the third consecutive win in the second stage, that is, Trump lost eight consecutive sets in the case of 5-8 behind, completing the reversal. Trump made it 13-8 to advance to the round of 4.
In another young and old showdown, Higgins and Lisovsky played the same difficult point. In the first eight sets, Higgins took a 5-3 lead, and in the second stage, Lisovsky began to fight back, but the two played a draw, so Lisovsky still trailed Higgins 7-9. In the final battle moment, Lisovsky, in the case of 9-11 behind, once won 3 consecutive sets, took the lead 12-11 to get the match point opportunity, but finally failed to withstand the pressure, higgins won two consecutive sets to achieve a counterattack, 13-12, Higgins became the last player to advance to the top 4.
With Yan Bingtao's exit, the Journey of the Chinese Legion to the 2022 Snooker World Championships also ended, a total of 27 people competed in the World Championships, of which 25 played in the qualifiers, only Ding Junhui and Lu Haotian broke through successfully into the main tournament, plus two seeds Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who played directly from the main tournament, the four of them achieved the meeting of Crucible. But after the first round, Lu Haotian and Ding Junhui were out successively, Zhao Xintong stopped in the second round, and Yan Bingtao stopped in the top 8. The new generation of Chinese snooker has been quietly rising, and the future will be the world of young people.
This year's World Championship semi-finals, the top half: Williams vs Trump, the bottom half: Higgins vs O'Sullivan. The three old guys, plus Trump, are all world champions, so it is doomed that no new champions will be born at this year's World Championships. After reaching the semi-finals, Crucible will only have one table left, and the format will be 33 innings and 17 wins, which will be played in four stages, which will be in the form of 8889 rounds.