The 2022 World Snooker Championship finally came to the final single-table battle moment after more than ten days of fierce confrontation, and the "75 Three Masters" trio met again after twenty-three years, and Judd Trump also stumbled all the way to get an admission ticket.
With the early exit of defending champions Mark Selby and Neil Robertson, O'Sullivan has once again become a favorite in the hearts of the British media, in fact, looking back at O'Sullivan's first three rounds of matches, even if several powerful players are not out of the game, O'Sullivan is definitely the number one contender for this World Championship.
World Championship first round: O'Sullivan 10-5 Gilbert
Before the start of the first round, "Brother Potato" said before the game that he did not want to meet O'Sullivan at all because he had no chance of winning, and the result of the game was as Gilbert said, and the whole game was only four shots of 50+, while O'Sullivan not only had five strokes of 50+ but also three of them over 100.
World Championship Round of Sixteen: O'Sullivan 13-4 Mark Allen
Logically, Mark Allen should have caused some trouble for O'Sullivan in this round, but Allen, who only had one hundred and one 50+ in the whole game, had no room to resist at all, and O'Sullivan's two-shot over-18 50+ saw his opponent out in the first set of the second stage.
World Championship Quarter-Finals: O'Sullivan 13-5 Maguire
Maguire deserves to be O'Sullivan's special background board, the whole matchup state is outrageously poor frequent delivery of god assists, O'Sullivan even if there are some problems with the club, still complete eight 50+ and two over 100 and finally win without pressure.
Looking at the first three rounds of the showdown, O'Sullivan was not at his best in addition to his match with Maguire, the other two rounds can be said to be very focused, the attitude is rarely serious, and the consideration of the ball and the selection of the ball are more careful than ever.
There is no doubt that O'Sullivan's signal to the outside world is to compete for the final championship trophy, which is why the media now calls O'Sullivan the biggest favorite to win the championship.
O'Sullivan's successful promotion also set a record for reaching the semi-finals of the World Championships for the thirteenth time in his career, but for O'Sullivan, the semi-finals may be an uphill battle, because his old rival John Higgins is not so easy to deal with.
O'Sullivan is slightly ahead of 38 wins and 35 losses in 77 "Higgins" matches, but Higgins has won six of their seven encounters in recent seasons, and the last four have been full of wins for O'Sullivan.
Although the British media predicted that O'Sullivan would win the final championship and achieve his feat of seven world championships, O'Sullivan did not think so much, and the more he reached the final stage of the game, the more the best player in history wanted to enjoy the game.
O'Sullivan was interviewed by the BBC: It doesn't matter to me in the semi-final or the final, I just want to play as aggressively as possible, I'm happy to be able to come to the stage of the single table, I will enjoy this duel.