On May 1, 2022, the snooker World Championship final will kick off, O'Sullivan and Trump will meet for the 30th time between the two sides, the 10th meeting of the major event final, Trump will attack the second World Championship title of his career, the 24th ranking championship title, and O'Sullivan will challenge Hendry's seven-time World Championship record, and will also impact the 39th ranking champion of his career, with a 12-stroke breaker to hit Hendry's 16-stroke single-time Crucible 100-breaking record. It was a record-breaking final.
As we all know, the historical best of the snooker world has been debated endlessly, and there has never been a conclusion, because of the existence of the hardcore record of the seven crowns of the Hendry World Championship, although O'Sullivan has broken the records of 147 totals, breaking the total number of hundreds, the total number of championships in the ranking tournament, the total number of champions in the three major competitions, etc., but to be called the best in history, it is still unconvincing for some fans, although a large part of the fans believe that in the face of so many data, the seven crowns and six crowns are irrelevant, in fact, the best in history has long been clear.
But as long as the record is not broken, then there will always be questions. Steve Davis, a veteran footballer in the BBC studio, joked to Stephen Hendry, who holds the seven-time World Championship record before the final began: "Do you have any record left that has not been broken?" Hendry replied awkwardly: "Well, Ronnie certainly can't be the youngest world champion." Davis quipped, "Whoever said that, he played like Benjamin Button." ”
Davis says that Benjamin Barton is the protagonist of Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, and Barton has been a strange man from birth, and his life is the opposite of the direction of clocks, from the moment he was born when he was about to die, until the newborn died on the ground. Davis used this metaphor to illustrate that O'Sullivan's current state is like rejuvenation, and that the wall of record that Hendry, which he used to build with time, will also be broken.
In fact, in addition to the record of seven crowns in the World Championship, Hendry also has some records that have not been broken, such as the 9-year year-end world first record, O'Sullivan currently reached 6 year-end world firsts, if this time O'Sullivan can win the championship, then he will be crowned the year-end world number one for the 7th time, equaling Selby and Davis second only to Hendry. In addition, Crucible's 16-shot single-time record is broken, and O'Sullivan is very promising this time.