In the early morning of May 3, Beijing time, the final of the 2022 Snooker World Championship ended at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, after the "Rocket" O'Sullivan, who had won the championship six times, withdrew from Trump's momentum of chasing points, and finally after four stages of 31-game competition, with a score of 18-13, achieved the final victory, won the World Championship for the seventh time, equaled the "Emperor of Billiards" Hendry, and became the first person in history. At the same time, this is also the 39th ranking championship of O'Sullivan's career, and while receiving a championship prize of 500,000 pounds, it also locked in the season-end world number one.
The final meeting between the No. 2 seed and six-time champion "Rocket" O'Sullivan and the No. 4 seed and 2019 tournament winner Trump is hailed as the strongest dialogue for snooker today, and the ultimate collision of the two eras. In the past 29 meetings, Trump has a slight advantage of 15 wins and 14 losses, and the two's most recent meeting 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.
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. After entering the third stage of the second day of the 8-set competition, Trump broke out, blasted out 2 shots to break the hundred at the same time, and played O'Sullivan 6-2, chasing the big score to 11-14, only 3 innings of the difference, while maintaining the championship suspense to the fourth stage.
In the decisive moment in the early hours of the morning, O'Sullivan hit two consecutive 80+ shots as soon as he came up, directly widening the point difference advantage again, leading 16-11. After Trump pulled back a set, O'Sullivan scored another 75 points to win the crucial set at 17-12. In the 30th set, Trump blasted out the third personal score of the game, chased a match point, 13-17 behind, but in the final 31st set, O'Sullivan started to shoot a single 85 points to end the suspense, 18-13 to complete the winning blow, won the game.
O'Sullivan finally got his wish, reaching the world championship final for the eighth time, winning the title for the seventh time, and the seven-time champion equaling Hendry's record, the 21st three-time champion, and completing the great achievement of seven grand slams. It was also O'Sullivan's 39th professional ranking title, continuing to extend his lead. With a £500,000 prize money for the World Championships, O'Sullivan went on to become the year-end world number one.