“Belgian Snooker Player Luca Brecel Stuns with Comeback Victory to Reach World Cup Final”

Again it worked The Belgian Bullet, after already turning his quarter-final against snooker legend Ronnie O’Sullivan upside down a few days ago. Luca Brecel won seven consecutive frames to send home the seven-time world champion. ,,He’s probably the most talented snooker player I’ve ever seen”, O’Sullivan ran out of superlatives after that match.

Brecel needed all that talent for a comeback in his semi-final. His Chinese opponent Si Jiahui was unapproachable in the first half of the semi-final. He seemed unable to miss and ran out to 14-5. That was the moment Brecel threw off his shyness last night and got going. The Belgian won four frames in a row, after which Si missed an easy chance to stop the ‘remonte’ and saw it become 14-10. Brecel had fueled confidence and the decisive session couldn’t come soon enough.

This afternoon the two returned to the Crucible Theater in Sheffield, snooker’s most iconic stage. There Brecel continued where he left off. At the break after four frames he had leveled the score and moments later it even became 16-14. Eleven frames in a row, he needed one more. Si jumped up for a moment, but Brecel didn’t give it away anymore. He made the biggest comeback ever in the Crucible and is a World Cup finalist: 17-15.

In six participations, number 10 in the world Brecel never got further than the first round, now he is suddenly in the final. When The Belgian Bullet in the second round he won against Mark Williams, he drank and played FIFA, but that is not advisable for tonight. Tomorrow he will face Mark Allen or Mark Selby in the World Cup final. Ahead of tonight’s session, it is 11-10 in favor of four-time world champion Selby. The final winner may add half a million British pounds on Monday, converted about 565 thousand euros.