On May 2, the second day of the final of the 2022 World Snooker Championships will be played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, and this year's champion will be officially born. Whether it will be the six-time champion "Rockets" O'Sullivan to realize his dream of seven crowns, equal Hendry, or Trump to achieve his second World Championship title of his career, all the suspense will be generated today. In the two stages of the two-man competition before the first day, O'Sullivan opened firepower, blasted out 3 shots to break the hundred, with two waves of five consecutive wins, directly pulled the point difference apart, leading 12-5, only 6 sets away from winning the championship.
At 8:00 p.m. Beijing time on May 2:
Trump 5-12 O'Sullivan (Stage 3, 8 innings)
For Trump, the pressure of the first two innings was already on display in the first eight innings. Although he won the first set of the game with a good start, he was then dominated by O'Sullivan and won five consecutive sets to win, which put a lot of pressure. Fortunately, in the end, he won two consecutive sets to chase 3-5, only two sets behind. But after entering the second stage of the 9 innings, Trump obviously failed to enter his own rhythm, after chasing 4-5, it was another five consecutive sets, O'Sullivan directly pulled the point difference apart, although he won another set, but the last two sets were lost again, directly causing the point difference to open up to 7 sets, and he fell behind with a big score of 5-12.
The key third stage 8 sets, whether Trump can withstand the pressure, if still can not find a good way, to solve the lack of offensive strength, defense is not in place, he will still have a lot of trouble, even in the third stage of the early end, it is possible. I believe that Trump will not give up in advance, the gap of 7 innings is not large, if you can enter the offensive rhythm that you are good at, you can chase points in the third stage and leave the suspense to the last stage.
At 2:00 a.m. Beijing time on May 3:
Trump 5-12 O'Sullivan (Fourth Stage 10 Innings)
If he can enter the fourth stage of the showdown, it means that Trump has already chased the score, of course, O'Sullivan still has the initiative, after all, he has already achieved a huge advantage in the first two stages, only 6 sets away from winning the championship. For O'Sullivan, it may only be a matter of time before he is seven times away from his world championship, as long as he remains focused on the game, undisturbed by refereeing factors, disrupting his rhythm and mind, he still occupies the absolute initiative on the field.
In any case, the fourth stage is destined to witness the birth of the ultimate champion of this year's World Championships, and if O'Sullivan can win the title in one fell swoop and equal Hendry's record of seven crowns, he will be destined to become the nearly undisputed first man in snooker history. Of course, in the last two stages of the game, O'Sullivan can also hit a record of Hendry, that is, the total number of 16 strokes in a single World Championship, O'Sullivan has now shot 15, and then 1 can be equalized, and 2 strokes can be played to complete the overtaking, after the semi-finals, Williams has played 16 to equal Hendry.