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The first man in snooker history! O'Sullivan's seven World Championships have set several records, and the glory continues

The first man in snooker history! O'Sullivan's seven World Championships have set several records, and the glory continues

In the early morning of May 3, Beijing time, at the Crucible Theatre in Snooker, Sheffield, England, 46-year-old "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Judd Trump 18-13 in the final of the 2022 World Snooker Championships, winning the championship trophy representing the highest level of snooker in the world for the seventh time, becoming the oldest champion in the history of the World Championships. Seven wins, in this statistic to catch up with the "billiards emperor" Hendry, O'Sullivan in the most times to dominate the ranking game (39), as well as the number of single shots over 100 times are in the first place, at this point, the debate about "who is the first person in snooker history" can be dissipated, "Rockets" is the answer, he deserves it.

Although the four-stage final was full of twists and turns, O'Sullivan still laughed to the end. With a 12-5 advantage accumulated in the first two stages of the game, despite being played by the tenacious Trump in the third stage with a 6-2, O'Sullivan still held the lead in three sets and held steady in the final stage, 4-2 to save the victory, locking the winning score at 18-13. The "Rockets" won the championship, equaling the record of seven World Championships held by "Billiards Emperor" Stephen Hendry since 1999, and also raised the number of his "three majors" to 7 (World Championships, British Championships and Masters), completing seven Grand Slams, and the total of 21 once again broke the record for the total number of "three majors" won by himself.

The first man in snooker history! O'Sullivan's seven World Championships have set several records, and the glory continues

At this point, the number of ranking championships in O'Sullivan's career has also reached an unprecedented 39. At the age of 46 and 128 days, O'Sullivan also surpassed his mentor, 1978 World Champion Ray Lilton (45 years and 203 days) to become the oldest world champion in history. O'Sullivan returned to the world number one position, becoming the world number one at the end of the season for the seventh time and receiving a championship prize of £500,000. After the game, the "Fire Teacher" embraced the opponent Trump, the opponent's excellence, can more set off the greatness of his achievements, O'Sullivan also hugged and cried with a pair of children, at this moment, you can see his desire for victory, the satisfaction of winning the championship, his efforts are worth it.

In addition to these, O'Sullivan also holds many glorious records of snooker altars, which are unprecedented and rare. For example, he set a record for the fastest shot in an average of 14 seconds (11 innings) in the first round of the last World Championships against Thailand's Tachaia; the fastest 147 full score record of 5 minutes and 08 seconds at the 1997 World Championships; O'Sullivan beat John Higgins 5-3 in the 1999 League Cup, making it the fastest match in snooker history in eight games with only 46 minutes; O'Sullivan and Hendry were tied. He shot three times with 147 perfect scores on the highest stage in the World Championships; O'Sullivan was the snooker player with the most perfect scores (15); O'Sullivan was the only snooker athlete with a 1000 percentile, and as of the end of the World Championship, O'Sullivan had scored a total of 1169 percent...

The first man in snooker history! O'Sullivan's seven World Championships have set several records, and the glory continues

For Snooker, O'Sullivan has taken his achievements to the next level, almost insurmountable, he has set a record of half of the world's snooker history, and he is still fighting, he has not stopped. All fans saw and felt it, and O'Sullivan's goal was to be the greatest player Snooker has ever seen.

Before this World Championship, this topic was controversial, that is, in a hard indicator, that is, the number of times he won the World Championships, O'Sullivan was one time worse than Hendry, so even if O'Sullivan had surpassed the "Emperor of Billiards" in other results, he always seemed not tough enough to give some people who did not want to admit him as the best excuse. At this World Championship, O'Sullivan played very seriously, unusually cautiously, and seemed to have completely changed his "rocket" style of fast hitting, and his average single stroke time was delayed to 24 seconds.

And O'Sullivan, who is so serious, is even more terrifying, he does not make every blow spontaneously. In the past, there were always fans who joked that "O'Sullivan who is short of money is the most terrible", but now it is different, we see a "rocket" that not only pursues money, but actually cherishes honor, and perhaps he also carries some purposes of being angry with some people he does not like, to move forward step by step and win the championship. But in any case, O'Sullivan's goal was achieved, he has already tied Hendry in terms of the number of World Championships wins, and he will not retire from this, and in his subsequent career, as long as he is willing and in his current form, he still has the opportunity to continue these records.

Text/Beiqing reporter Liu Ailin

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