On May 1, the 2022 World Snooker Championships competed in two stages on the first day of the final, with the No. 2 seed and six-time champion "Rocket" O'Sullivan and the 4th seed Trump in a strong dialogue. In the end, in the two stages of the 17-inning competition, O'Sullivan was full of firepower, with two waves of five consecutive wins, suddenly opened the score gap, 12-5 temporary lead. At the same time, O'Sullivan blasted out 3 shots to break the hundred, plus 7 shots of 50+ gorgeous stats. Trump only has a 5-stroke 50+.
The match was the 30th meeting of their careers, with a total of 29 meetings in the past two's record, with Trump slightly dominant with 15 wins and 14 losses, and the most recent meeting between the two was at this season's Players Championship, where O'Sullivan won 6-3 in the first round. But two years ago, Trump had won three consecutive games against O'Sullivan in three consecutive games. This year's World Championship final, for both of them, have important significance, O'Sullivan attacked seven crowns, plus the year-end world first achievement, and Trump is also the impact of his second world championship title, also has the goal of year-end world number one.
In the first eight innings, Trump scored a single shot 72 to take a 1-0 lead. In the second set, O'Sullivan staged a 100-shot break, winning a single 120, which was his 13th break of the 100 at the World Championships. In the third inning, O'Sullivan scored another 68 points to win 2-1. In the fourth inning, Trump scored 52 points, but O'Sullivan completed a single set reversal to lead 3-1 into the intermission. Beginning in the second half, O'Sullivan won two more straight sets, including a break in the sixth inning, a 105-point shot, and won five straight sets to lead 5-1. In the final two sets, Trump scored 97 points, plus a single inning, to finish the first stage at 3-5.
At the start of the second stage, Trump scored 73 points to make it 4-5. Then came O'Sullivan's personal acting moment, playing a single 66 and 50 points in the 10th inning, 11th inning 3 to break 100 singles for 118 points, 97 points in the 12th inning, 77-0 clean sheet in the 13th inning, 87 points in the 14th inning, and a second wave of five consecutive wins, directly widening the point difference to 6 innings to lead 10-4. In the 15th set, Trump scored 80 points to stop the losing streak and make it 5-10. In the final two sets, O'Sullivan scored 60 points and 88 points to end the first day of the two-stage competition with a huge advantage of 12-5.
At the same time as the intense competition, the referees on the court were also very eye-catching, and there were two controversial incidents in the first stage, both related to O'Sullivan. After Trump kicked off in the fourth set, the white ball formed snooker, O'Sullivan made a mistake, the referee was reset, and he failed to get O'Sullivan's approval, the scene was deadlocked for nearly 6 minutes, O'Sullivan was obviously a little impatient with the referee.
In the final eighth inning of the first stage, after playing the last set of red balls, O'Sullivan did not move the yellow ball in place, the yellow ball was not hooked, and the white ball also hit the black ball and was fined 7 points. The referee walked to O'Sullivan's seat and said a few words to him, O'Sullivan was obviously a little upset, and even pointed at the referee and read the words, the mood was a little excited, and the scene was slightly embarrassing. Even Trump was a little dissatisfied, accusing the referee and O'Sullivan's words and actions of interfering with his own shot, but Trump completed the game and chased it to 3-5. However, at the end of the first stage, O'Sullivan left the scene without even shaking hands with the referee, which was somewhat surprising.