I believe that many fans have stayed up late to watch the 2022 World Snooker Championships, and the only four players left are Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Mark Williams and Judd Trump in the semi-finals.
So far, the third phase of Trump and Mark Williams has ended, Marvel's state has recovered 11-13 to narrow the point gap, and O'Sullivan's third-stage battle with Higgins is also highly anticipated.
In the first stage of the match between the two sides, Higgins made a fantastic 3-0 start, and then the slow and hot O'Sullivan gradually got into shape and blasted a hundred consecutive three sets to equalize, ending the first stage with the two fighting to a 4-4 draw.
In the second stage, the two 47-year-old veterans can be described as a succession of wonderful performances, the first seven sets O'Sullivan won five sets 9-6 to open the score, the key eighteenth set Higgins in the case of a delayed score was staged by O'Sullivan to complete the clearance, and finally in the black ball stage tragically killed The innings were enough to be included in the best game in Snooker's history, and finally O'Sullivan led 10-6.
In the third stage, both of them did not feel good in the first two sets, and in the seventeenth set, Higgins overtook the score and O'Sullivan came up to try the snooker two sides to fight for nearly an hour and finally Higgins won with difficulty. The eighteenth inning was a defensive battle for half an hour after O'Sullivan scored a difficult red ball and scored a textbook K-ball and a goal to complete the single-shot 80+ to continue to lead 11-7.
The two sides continued to engage in a lengthy struggle in the next two sets, with Higgins first making a precise snooker to force O'Sullivan to break the ball and miss a chance to recover a set, followed by O'Sullivan in the twentieth set with a difficult bench hand and blasting the first 12-8 of the third stage to maintain a four-set lead.
Back from the break, Higgins finally came up with his due ball score, not only refreshing his single-shot high in the entire semi-finals but also blasting his first shot over 100, but O'Sullivan was also not willing to show weakness in the twenty-second set to return a shot over 100 and successfully cleared the score to 13-9.
In the last two sets of the third stage, Higgins had a low-level mistake when he had the opportunity to take the lead, and what people did not expect was that Higgins smashed the club to the ground in anger due to this mistake, and this sudden move also frightened many spectators on the scene.
After the rare emotional loss of control, it undoubtedly announced the result of Higgins' score at this stage, O'Sullivan completed a single shot 50+ multiple times in the twenty-third inning, and in the twenty-fourth set Higgins leaked the opportunity O'Sullivan to come up and directly soared, and once again blasted a single shot over 100 to lead 15-9.
In the entire third stage, although Higgins exploded over a hundred, his luck and state were not very good, and it was rare to see a situation where emotions were out of control and smashed the club, and this kind of angry behavior was rare throughout Higgins's entire career.
The tiebreaker will continue at 2:00 a.m., but according to Higgins' state and mood, O'Sullivan's 15-9 score has basically locked in a place to advance to the final.