With Mark Williams and John Higgins out, 2022 is finally the final battle, with Six-Time Winner Ronnie O'Sullivan competing with Judd Trump for the World Championship trophy.
There is no doubt that the two are undoubtedly the top superstars in today's snooker sport, and the attention and influence generated are unmatched by other players, and the media calls this duel a "peak battle", which is enough to see the importance of this competition from the outside world.
In the previous meeting records between the two sides, Trump had a slight advantage of 15 wins and 14 losses, and Trump was one of the few players who could lead O'Sullivan in terms of record, but this did not mean that Trump was fully capable of winning the game easily, after all, O'Sullivan did not give the junior online lessons in the first place.
After a long introduction by the host, the two world champions officially entered the group photo, the game began O'Sullivan took the lead in kicking off and then Trump scored into the long stage but made a mistake in the red ball in the side library, O'Sullivan turned to defense and missed the opportunity again, Trump completed the 70+ for the second time to get the opening red.
In the second set, Trump tried a long-form attack without success and missed the opportunity, and O'Sullivan did not give Trump another chance to play directly to the first 100-1 equalizer of the game. And scored a difficult combination of balls in the third set to blast a single 60+ counter-score again.
In the dramatic fourth set, Trump made a precise defense against O'Sullivan due to the reset problem and some controversy with the referee, and finally after many adjustments by the three parties, he finally reset and successfully continued the game, and the two did not affect the rhythm of the game because of this episode, and Trump took the lead in completing the super point.
However, Trump just scored a super point to lose the key red ball, O'Sullivan next through the defense to get a free ball but then the white ball fell into the bag, and Trump actually in the bag when the overtime was about to exceed the score, O'Sullivan cleared the stage of the two sides delayed the score, the black ball stage O'Sullivan staged a super three library to turn the bag of the magical performance to take a 3-1 lead.
After the break, Trump's super reversal in the third set affected the mentality, and there were consecutive mistakes and missed opportunities in the case of the start, O'Sullivan certainly did not miss the opportunity to open the score, and once again blasted a 5-1 lead in two big scores in a hundred consecutive runs.
In the last two sets of the first stage, Trump first won the first round with a luck ball and blasted a single 70+ to recover a set, and then withstood the pressure to complete the first stage 3-5 after an error in the O'Sullivan color ball stage in the eighth set.
Looking at the entire first stage, O'Sullivan can be said to have staged a super reversal for everyone again, the three-library flip bag is simply a fiery state that suppresses the opponent, and Trump is also close to turning over in the face of the full fire O'Sullivan is also close to temporarily falling behind 3-5.
The second phase of the showdown between the two sides will continue at 2:00 a.m., and it remains to be seen who can break through!