The 2021-2022 world championship semi-finals of the snooker championship ended another matchday competition, the number one favorite O'Sullivan and the world champion Mark Williams both powered, the first stage of the game fell behind the "golden left hand" Mark Williams Although he did not fail to close the score in the second stage, but he suddenly broke out in the third stage of the game, after the 6:2 stage score, Mark Williams stubbornly chased the score to 11:13, vaguely seeing the hope of reversing the champion favorite Trump. In a "legendary" and "legendary" contest, the top seed and biggest champion O'Sullivan was in the second half of the second stage of the game, and he won five consecutive sets in the case of "Wizard" Higgins, who was 5:6 behind, and led Higgins 10:6 to end the first 16 innings of the two.
The contest between "Rocket" O'Sullivan and "Wizard" Higgins is particularly striking, both of whom are "legends" in snooker history, O'Sullivan has won the World Championship six times, and Higgins has also reached the top four times. Higgins was in stable form at the World Championships, with Higgins defeating Tachaia 10:7 in the first round, 13:7 against Sancham in the second round, and Defeating Lisovsky in the third round at 13:12 to advance to the final four. Top seed O'Sullivan is in full swing, with O'Sullivan beating David Gilbert 10:5 in the first round, Mark Allen 13:4 in the second round, and Maguire 13:5 in the third round to reach the final four. The two played in the first stage of the semi-finals, Higgins won three sets first, O'Sullivan then equalized in color, and then the two won one set each and then fought a 4-4 draw, and the first stage of the game was equally divided between the two sides.
At the beginning of the second stage of the game, O'Sullivan took the lead, scoring 73 points in a single shot and then winning the first set 122:1, the two sides competed fiercely in the tenth set, O'Sullivan missed the opportunity to expand the score, Higgins won 64:34 with more stable play, and the big score chased to 5:5. In the 11th inning, Higgins, who was in good shape, scored 53 points and then kept a 79:0 clean sheet against O'Sullivan, the big score was 6:5, and in the 12th game O'Sullivan was full of firepower, and after scoring 99 points, higgins was kept clean and won the set, the two sides drew 6:6, and the two sides returned to the same running line again.
In the 13th inning, O'Sullivan was still in hot shape, while the opponent Higgins was in a state of sudden drop, following the last game without a point, Higgins did not score again in the 13th inning, O'Sullivan played a single 91 points and then kept a clean sheet again Higgins, the 14th game was fiercely contested between the two sides, Higgins made a fatal mistake when scoring consecutively in the lead, O'Sullivan seized the opportunity to shoot 55 points and then won 73:43, and in the 15th game Higgins took the lead in attacking and got 6 points and stopped scoring, O'Sullivan scored a single 70-pointer to win 70-6.
In the 16th game, Higgins once again missed the opportunity to close the score, shooting a low-level error after a single shot of 53 points, O'Sullivan completed the clearance in the face of the situation and won 65:58, O'Sullivan won five consecutive sets and then led Higgins 10:6 to end the first two stages of the game. From the current situation, O'Sullivan gradually took the initiative in this game, Higgins wanted to achieve a reversal, the third stage of the game is the key, if he can recover one or two sets, then he still has a play in the final, if he can't narrow the point difference or even be pulled apart by the opponent, then Higgins is very passive.