On 3 May 2022, the Snooker World Championship was all over, and finally Ronnie O'Sullivan lifted the 7th World Championship trophy and £500,000 in the final 18-13, lifting the 7th World Championship trophy and 500,000 pounds, equaling the world championship record held by Stephen Hendry, while raising the total number of his ranking champions to 39, completing seven laps of the "Grand Slam" to be the first in history, surpassing Lilton to become the oldest world champion at the age of 46 and 148 days, and reaching the world number one for the seventh time at the end of the year To tie Selby and Davis 9 times after Hendry, O'Sullivan shines on record Harvest Night!
Trump's state at this World Championship is actually average, the first three rounds of stumbling to win to reach the semifinals, in the semifinals to lead up to 7 sets in the case of almost being reversed by Williams, forced to the decider to win thrillingly, after reaching the final to impact his second world championship title. O'Sullivan showed a fairly good level of competition from the first round, sweeping Gilbert, Allen and Maguire three strong opponents in succession, defeating his old rival Higgins in the semi-finals, and is expected to impact Hendry's seven-time record at the World Championship after reaching the final.
The two sides were 5-3 in the first stage, with O'Sullivan leading. In the second stage, O'Sullivan unleashed a five-game winning streak and ended the second leg with a 7-2 lead over Trump 12-5 on aggregate. In the third stage, O'Sullivan made more low-level mistakes, and Trump took the opportunity to fight back 6-2, and the aggregate score was 11-14! The tiebreaker started with O'Sullivan hitting a two-shot 80+ to bring the aggregate score to 16-11! In the 28th inning, Trump scored 64 points and chased another set! In the 29th inning, O'Sullivan scored 75 points 17-12 to win 5 match points! In the 30th set, Trump scored a 109-point tie to save a match point! In the 31st inning, O'Sullivan won with a one-shot victory to end the game.
After O'Sullivan won the championship, the total number of world championship champions was the same as Hendry, and other major snooker data, including the total number of ranking championships, the total number of breaking 100, the total number of 147, and the total number of champions of the three major competitions, surpassed Hendry and became a veritable best in history. After losing this final, Trump lost his second world championship title of his career, and as a top player, he continued to weaken in the overall record of the "three major competitions". At this point, the season has come to a successful end, and the new season will kick off at the end of June, so stay tuned.