The Masters 2016 - THE BIG FINAL

Sunday 17th (tomorrow) - Ronnie O`Sullivan (19) Barry Hawkins

1st Session at 1pm & 2nd Session at 7pm (UK Time)

Once again Ronnie O`Sullivan will meet Barry Hawkins in the Final of a Triple Crown event, having played the World Snooker Championship Final in 2013. O`Sullivan won by 18-12 and Hawkins will feel a bit unlucky because he was bound to play Ronnie in the two times he reached a Triple Crown Event Final.

But this is what you have at the biggest stage, and Hawkins - who shocked Trump in the semis winning 6-4 - will have to prevent Ronnie from winning his 6th Record-Equalizer Masters title if he is to win his first Triple Crown event.

O`Sullivan did not play his best, but nicked a couple of frames that surely hurt Bingham, the reigning World Champion, winning the match 6-3 to get his revenge from last year's World Championship Quarter Final defeat.

Barry Hawkins is a limited player, but he's very solid and always play his best or very near from it. When he lost to O`Sullivan in the World Final in 2013, I feel he could've beat any other player, even Hendry in that Final. But both players played the best Snooker of their lifes that day and to get Ronnie O`Sullivan in that sort of form is impossible. Hawkins made it close, but O`Sullivan ran away in the second day.

So, we know O`Sullivan will need to be at his best to win tomorrow, something like the Snooker he played against Selby in the Quarters or against Bingham after the interval could may be just enough.

But whatever the result is tomorrow we have to congratulate O`Sullivan. He's been writing history in this tournament this year, after nearly 9 months offside the TV cameras.

But it was not like 2012/2013 when he took a year off and won the World Championship, that time he stopped playing when he was winning everything, now he stopped playing after 4 heavy defeats, and on his comeback last month he lost in the German Masters Qualifiers to World Number 61 Stuart Carrington. 

But last week he played the Championship League in Crondon Park (no TV, no crowd) and won 8 out of 8 matches against the likes of Higgins, Williams and Hawkins.

Now, he goes deep into this Final having won his last 11 matches, and not just scrapping his way through it, he's been making history. He extended his records of most Centuries made, most matches won and most Finals played at The Masters, and broke Jimmy White's record playing his 62nd match at The Masters. In the 1st Round, he beat a 2 times World Champion, 2 times Masters Champion and 2 times UK Champion (Mark Williams), in the Quarter Finals he beat the 2014 World Champion, reigning World Number One, 2012 UK Champion and 3 times Masters Champion (Mark Selby) and in the Semi-Finals he beat the reigning World Champion and World No2 (Stuart Bingham). 

If he wins tomorrow, he will match level Stephen Hendry's record of 6 titles, and having reached more Finals, won more matches and scored more centuries, we would call him the new King of The Masters wouldn't we? However this would be his best Masters title to date.

Well, this is not gonna be a walkover anyway, Barry Hawkins will push it close at the very least if he keeps playing like he's been doing this week. Follow the Final and anything else about Snooker via Ronnie O`Sullivan Brasil's Facebook Page.