The highly anticipated 2022 World Snooker Championships finally ushered in the final semi-final single-table stage, with Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Mark Williams and Judd Trump competing for two tickets to the final.
Among them, the three "75 three masters" appeared together in the semi-finals of the World Championships after 23 years, while Judd Trump stumbled and struggled to qualify for the World Championships, becoming the only player among the post-80s players who could continue to impact the championship of the tournament.
The first match of the semi-finals was played by Mark Williams and Trump, who had previously played each other in the lead, and the two were both offensive players, and the contest was also called "super accurate duel" by the media.
At the beginning of the game, both sides chose to restart the game because the situation could not be opened, and after the start of the game again, Ma Wei took the lead but fouled when the K ball, Trump completed 50+ offensive interruptions, and the two began to defend until the color ball stage As Trump scored a long table coffee ball, the game also lost suspense, and Trump made a 1-0 opening.
In the second set, Trump returned the ball defense leaked out of the middle bag, Marvel came up to score continuously but there was the same plot as the previous game when hitting the blue ball, Trump once again scored a series of difficult goals to make it 2-0.
In the next two sets, Trump once again played a single 70+ to continue to expand the score, in the fourth set, Trump's bench hand attack error, the two sides began to fight Ma Wei in the imminent super score is to lose the yellow ball, funny is that Trump came up and accidentally crashed into the side of the blue ball forced to score and then tried snooker fruitless Ma Wei 1-3 to win a set.
Coming back from the break, although Trump's hand felt a little declining, Ma Wei's sluggish state can only be described as bad, and the bench is even worse, even if he starts it, there is an immediate mistake, and Trump also gave the opportunity, but as Marvel lost the last red ball and the white ball fell, Trump had to laugh at the gift to open the score 4-1.
In the last three sets of the first stage, Marvel still could not find any game status, while Trump was gradually getting better and shot two consecutive 50+ to continue to expand the score 6-1, and in the eighth set, Trump scored a difficult red ball to get on again and continued to get Marvel's mistake after completing 50+ to complete the first stage with a 7-1 score.
Looking at the entire first stage of the showdown, Ma Wei's energy seems to have not been eased from the eight finals and Yan Bingtao's war of attrition is simply a sleepwalking, various long stage mistakes are also successfully opened by Trump to open the score, objectively speaking, Trump's play is not particularly good, but if Ma Wei still can't adjust back to the state then the opportunity to advance can be said to have completely given up to Trump.