Can beat former rival Judd in Stage 2. Trump, which shows that the 47-year-old O'Sullivan is in extraordinary shape, has to at least fight back in Stage 3 with a wave of 7-1 or 6-2 to "survive hope", however, this is almost an impossible task, unless Little goes crazy.
The rest of the game is no longer suspenseful, the only thing worth paying attention to is how Little Ter loses to be more decent, how O'Sullivan broke, at what stage to break Hendry's single World Championship individual 16-stroke record.
Let's first count O'Sullivan's 100 breakthroughs in the second stage of this World Championship from the first round to the final:
First round: 3 shots to break the hundred and 5 pars 50+ to beat Tudou Brother 10-5.
1/8 Finals: 2 pars to break the hundred and 8 pars 50+ to sweep the small steel cannon 13-4.
Quarterfinals: 2-shot 50+ to sweep Maguire 13-5.
Semifinals: 5-shot 100 and 12-50+ to repel Higgins 17-11
Stages 1 and 2 of the final: 3 shots and 7 shots 50+ temporarily led the little one 12-5.
It has accumulated 15 shots of breaking 100 and 40 shots of 50+ firepower.
O'Sullivan had several opportunities to rewrite the score to 6-2 in the first stage, but in a hurry, he was chased to 3-5 by The Little, and he also caused a disturbance for himself, "entangled" with the referee.
In the second stage, Xiaote chased the score to 4-5 at the beginning of the game, but in the following game, the depressed Xiaote actually fell by a thousand miles, and O'Sullivan was accurate, taking advantage of the momentum to blast out the 15th shot of this World Championship, and fiercely dried a wave of 7-2, thus extending the score to 12-5.
At the beginning of Stage 3, O'Sullivan had at least three chances to extend the set, but was forced to move to defense due to poor positioning.
Twice in the ensuing defensive battle, Tse-Knooker forced O'Sullivan to make a defensive mistake and seized the opportunity to reverse the score to 6-12.
In the 19th set, the two sides fought fiercely, the situation changed hands several times, O'Sullivan made a serious mistake in the process of encircling the ball, lost the simple red ball, and the little one was like a treasure, directly playing a single 50+ to chase the score to 7-10.
In the subsequent defensive counterattack, Little once again had the upper hand, chasing the score to 8-12.
However, in the 21st set, Little grabbed 45 points and rushed to attack the combination without success, and O'Sullivan cut the score to extend the score to 13-8.
The original 9-12 score was rewritten to 8-13.
It is worth mentioning that the last phase of the two sides will continue at 2:00 a.m. Beijing time on May 3.