In the early morning of April 29, Beijing time, the Snooker World Championship ushered in a great matchup, the semi-final match, O'Sullivan vs Higgins, which was the 76th meeting in their careers.
On the World Championship stage, O'Sullivan is undoubtedly the most successful, winning the championship 6 times, compared to Higgins, who has reached the top 4 times. 6 world championships vs. 4 world champions, think about it and get excited! Previously, O'Sullivan had eliminated Gilbert, Mark Allen, and Maguire, and all three games were big wins with an advantage of more than 5 sets, and the state was quite hot. Higgins has defeated Tachaia, Sankam and Lisovsky successively, and in terms of the overall point advantage, Higgins is not as strong as O'Sullivan, especially in the last round of 1/4 finals against Lissovsky, Higgins 13-12 kills, winning quite thrilling.
In the previous 75 meetings, O'Sullivan had the upper hand slightly with 38 wins, 34 losses and 3 draws. However, the last 3 direct conversations have been higgins laughing to the end.
In the first set, Higgins took the lead in establishing a 21-0 advantage, O'Sullivan observed a red ball three pass opportunity, O'Sullivan played very resolutely and decisively, fire teacher accurate three passes scored, won the audience full of color, the stands resounded with warm applause, indeed four amazing!
Unfortunately, after scoring a red ball in three passes, both the black ball and the pink ball are very difficult to play, and O'Sullivan is faced with a choice, risk attack or take the initiative to move into defense? After thinking about it for more than a minute, O'Sullivan decided to give up trying the offensive of the adventure.
After that, O'Sullivan still got on the mobile phone and won the score 53-37, but after that, O'Sullivan lost a red ball! Taking advantage of this opportunity, Higgins scored the bag lipstick ball to play, and finally completed the clearance, 76-53 reverse.