Little does not seem to have come out of the fatigue of the hard hand of the gold, following the first stage 3-5, the second stage was hit by the Rockets a wave of 2-7 attack, the current big score 5-12 significantly behind. At present, it seems that the Rockets won their 7th crown seems to be a matter of time.
The semi-finals of the World Championships ushered in the "Special Olympics". Due to the close style of the two, Xiaote once said that the Rockets were his idol when he was young, so this game was also seen as a master-apprentice dialogue. However, despite the nominal master-apprentice meeting, the two men's past records are not good for "Master" O'Sullivan.
The two sides have played each other many times in the finals of various competitions in the past, and the Rockets have suffered a wave of four consecutive losses since winning 10-3 at the 2017 Shanghai Masters: 7-9 at the 2018 Northern Ireland Open, 4-10 at the 2019 Masters, 7-9 at the 2019 Northern Ireland Open, and 7-9 at the 2020 Northern Ireland Open. That is to say, if the Rockets lose again at this World Championship, they will suffer a 5-game losing streak against Xiaote in the finals of various competitions, which is very embarrassing for the Rockets, which has been enshrined. This gives the Rockets more motivation to play well and show unprecedented concentration in the game.
In the first stage, the Rockets won five straight innings while falling behind 0-1, including a magical tip-over. Little found his touch in the second half and won two consecutive sets with defense to make the score 3-5.
In the 9th inning of the second stage, the Rockets lost the red ball in the middle of the bag after 32 points. He scored 73 points to win another set at 100-36. Coupled with the last 2 innings of the first stage, Little has won 3 consecutive innings, a big score of 4-5, only 1 inning behind the Rockets.
At the crucial moment, the rocket broke out again. He has since won five straight sets. In the 10th inning, the Rockets scored twice with a single shot of 50+ to win 117-7. After that, he blasted out 118 and 97 points, and played two consecutive innings. In the 13th inning, the Rockets played multiple times, 77-0. In the 14th inning, the Rockets came in on top and fired another 87 points to win 94-26, completing a five-game lashing that quickly extended the score to 10-4.
In the 15th inning, The little Ted finally recovered his grip and pulled back a set with 80 points to chase the big score to 5-10. Losing an inning puts the Rockets on another pneumatic back. In the 15th inning, the Rockets seized the opportunity of the small special mother ball to fall into the bag, blasted a single shot 60 points, 79-0 to win. In the 16th inning, after 33 points, the K red ball pile led to a poor landing point of the mother ball, and the strong attack coffee ball was not hit, and the Rockets started again, directly single-shot 80 points to clear the table, pulling the big score to 12-5.
After the game, the Rockets' batting success rate in the second stage was as high as 94%, and the success rate of the long platform was 65%, far higher than the 84% and 55% of the small special, and even the safety ball success rate behind the first stage was reversed in the second stage, surpassing the small special by 1 percentage point at 79%. It can be seen that the rocket is really serious.
So the question is, why is the rocket so serious about this battle? In addition to the previous 4 consecutive defeats, there are definitely other factors. This is reminiscent of his dispute with the referee at the end of the first innings. It is understood that due to making uncivilized gestures during the game, the Rockets were warned by the referee, he was very angry and scared to go back, and refused to shake hands with the referee after the game. Apparently, the referee annoyed the Rockets. The end result was that the Rockets vented all their anger on their opponent Xiaote: the second stage of the 7-shot 50+, including 1 shot to break the hundred.