On March 5, the 2022 World Snooker Tour Welsh Open reached the semi-finals, where Iran's Hussein Wafi challenged the world's third-ranked Trump in the first half. In the game, Trump once fell behind 1-3 and 3-5, but in the end he still stubbornly chased the score, winning three consecutive sets to complete a big reversal, 6-5 victory Wafi, the first time this season to qualify for the ranking finals, will launch a shock to the 23rd ranking champion, the final opponent will be between Joe Perry and Lisowski.
The two have played each other five times in professional competitions before, with Trump winning 5-3, but in the last three meetings, Wafi has maintained a three-game winning streak, including Last Year's Third Round of the Welsh Open, Wafi won 4-2 over Trump. In that match, Wafi also ended Trump's record, ending a record of 28 consecutive wins in a 4-of-7 game.
This season, the state of Wafi and Trump is almost in contrast, wafi achieved a breakthrough in the single-time limited time competition, winning the first ranking championship of his career. And Trump is basically in a downturn, until the Welsh Open, only the first time to reach the top 4 of the ranking tournament, becoming the best record of the season, in the single season ranking list, Trump also missed the top eight, the world ranking list, has been completed by Selby, O'Sullivan completed the surpass, fell to the third place.
In the Welsh Open, Trump did not encounter too many challenges in the first few rounds of the game, and they all advanced smoothly until the quarter-finals, he met with Australian robertson and launched a strong dialogue, but in the end Trump withstood the pressure and won 5-3 to advance to the top 4. Wafi's road to promotion is also relatively smooth, even before encountering Trump, did not meet the world's top 16 seeds, in the quarterfinals, facing China's Zhang Anda, it is in the case of 1-4 behind, winning four consecutive sets to complete a big reversal, 5-4 to advance to the top 4.
In the two-man game, the first three sets were all one-shot wins, the first set Waffy single shot 94 to open the goal red, the second set Trump single shot 70 points in color, the third set Wafi again single shot 85 points to lead 2-1; in the fourth set Wafi seized the opportunity to win again, with a 3-1 lead into the intermission. In the second half, Trump scored 51 points to fight back, winning two consecutive sets to tie 3-3. In the next two sets, Wafi was more efficient in attack, and went down two sets in a row to get a 5-3 match point opportunity.
In the ninth inning, Trump played twice, scored 66 points, and pulled back a set. After the start of the tenth set, there was a rescheduling, Trump played from the far post, blasted out a hundred, single shot 121 points to win two consecutive sets, 5-5 to tie, into the decider battle. The decider also had a reshoot, after the two-man defensive battle, Wafi made a mistake, Trump repeatedly completed the super points, won three consecutive sets, and successfully reversed it 6-5! For the first time in the season, he advanced to the final of the ranking tournament and launched a shock to the 23rd ranking champion.