The 2021-2022 World Snooker Championship ended the quarter-finals, and China's Yan Bingtao played poorly in the last few sets of the third stage of the competition, losing three consecutive sets when he was leading by a large score, and finally lost 11:13 to world champion Mark Williams, missing the world championship final four, so that the journey of Chinese players in this world championship is all over. In other matches, the number one winner O'Sullivan swept Maguire 13:5 to reach the final four again after two years, and the four-time World Championship winner Higgins was quite tenacious in the match against the "post-90s" and "uncrowned king" Lisofsky at this World Championship, he won two consecutive sets after falling behind at 11:13, defeated Lisovsky on aggregate 13:12, and reached the final four again after three years, and he will compete with O'Sullivan for a final.
Four-time World Champion Higgins' third-round opponent is the "uncrowned king" Lisovsky, and both are quite strong. Although Lisovsky has never won a ranking tournament, he has reached the final five times, and he has been called the "uncrowned king" for this reason, and Lisovsky has been quite stable in recent World Championships. Higgins reached the quarter-finals after eliminating two Thai stars in a row, while Lisovsky eliminated the biggest champion Neil Robertson in the second round and was in a good state. The first stage of the two matches was uneventful, the experienced Higgins lost the first set and then won three consecutive sets to lead Lisowski 3:1, although Lisowski then launched a crazy counterattack, but Higgins still firmly took the initiative and ended the first stage with a 5:3 lead. Although they have a two-set lead, objectively speaking, in the long-term format, such a point difference is not large, and the two are almost on the same starting line. At the beginning of the second stage, Higgins continued the fiery feel of the first stage of the game, shooting 123 points and then winning the first set, leading Lisowski 6:3.
In the 10th game, Lisovsky won 68:49 after several attacks and chased back a set, in the 11th game Higgins attacked multiple times to 68:0 zero sheet Lisovsky again extended the score to 7:4, in the 12th game Higgins missed the opportunity to expand the score, Lisovsky attacked several times and played a single 66 points and then won 73:42, in the 13th game, Higgins, who was not willing to show weakness, immediately threw a single 56 points and won to lead 8:5, firmly maintaining the point difference in three sets. Lisovsky, who was behind by a large score, then suddenly burst into action, in the 14th game, Lisovsky single shot 63 points and then narrowly won 74:60, in the 15th game, Lisovsky single shot 53 points and then won 65:52, after winning two consecutive difficult sets, Lisovsky chased the score to 7:8, due to the long time of the last two sets, the second stage of the game only played seven sets to end early, Higgins led 8:7 to end the first two stages of the game.
At the beginning of the third stage of the game, Higgins stabilized in time, and won 57:20 on multiple offensive occasions, Lisovsky won 87:9 in the 17th game, and Higgins scored 70 points in the 18th game to win the game, leading 10:8. In the 19th set, Lisovsky won 61:23 in a difficult situation, and in the 20th set, Higgins scored a single 72 points and a 55-point clean sheet to lead Lissovsky by 11:9. In the next three innings, Lisovsky suddenly made a comeback, scoring a single 79 points, 72 points and then winning three consecutive sets in 92:51, 79:15, 72:52, and the big score was 12:11 and took the lead in the match point. There was no way back Higgins in the 24th set of full fire, a single shot of 105 points after winning the equalizer than you, the decider Game Lisovsky took the lead in the attack, unfortunately after scoring 18 points there was a mistake, Higgins seized the opportunity to single-shot 72 points after "killing" the opponent, strong to reach the world championship final four.
With the "91 three masters" Lisovsky out, this world championship "post-90s" players are all wiped out, in recent world championships, "post-90s" players are a force that can not be ignored, two consecutive world championships have "post-90s" players to reach the final four, the most famous of course is Lisovsky, Karen Wilson and Anthony McGill composed of "91 three masters". Karen Wilson and McGill, who reached the semi-finals two years ago, were both eliminated in the second round of this World Championship, and Brechel, Sankham and others who had high hopes were also out early, only Lisovsky "upset" defeated Neil Robertson, becoming the only "post-90s" player in the quarterfinals. In this World Championship, in the face of the "post-70s" players, whether it is the "post-80s" or "post-90s" players, the stars are dim, and snooker is far from the time when it is necessary to "change the dynasty".