In the early morning of February 10, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker Players Championship began to compete for the quarterfinals. In the first quarter-final, three-time World Champion "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams blasted a three-shot blast to break the 100 and 4-2 in the first six sets with Ritchie Walton.
Three-time World Champion "Golden Left Hand" Williams, the No. 4 seed of the tournament, has maintained a very good competitive state this season, winning the British Open at the beginning of the season and increasing the number of ranking titles to 24. In the Players' Championship, the 465-year-old Williams eliminated G-Wilson 6-3 in the first round, and started the game strongly.
In the quarter-finals, Williams' opponent was the tournament's No. 12 seed, Richie Wharton. The latter has also been in very good form recently, with the First Round of the German Masters before the Players' Championship giving a 5-3 "Round Trip" to the winning favourite "Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson. In the first round of the Players Championship, he won the Northern Ireland Open champion Mark Allen 6-2.
Williams and Walton have a record of 21 meetings, with a record of 12 wins and 9 losses, with the "Golden Left Hand" having a slight advantage. In the first set of the game, Williams won the first set 69-17 through several starts, and won the opening game 1-0. In the second set, Williams blasted out a single shot of 102 points to win another set 109-29 and lead 2-0.
In the third inning, after losing two straight sets in the opening, Walton scored a single 60 point to pull back a set at 79-34 to make it 1-2. In the fourth inning, Williams found the crosshairs again, and he blasted another 107 points, 107-0 clean sheet Walton, 3-1 to extend the advantage.
In the fifth set, Williams blasted another 102-pointer, 102-0 again to clean Wharton, and the score advantage extended to 4-1. In the sixth inning, Walton honored a one-shot 123-pointer to keep a 123-0 clean sheet against Williams to make it 2-4.