On March 7, Beijing time, the Welsh Open ended the final championship competition. Joe Perry became the biggest dark horse, eliminating Judd Trump 9-5 to win the second ranking tournament of his career.
The two have played each other 20 times before, and Xiaote has the advantage with 14 wins and 6 losses. In this final, Joe Perry won four consecutive sets and eliminated Xiaote 9-5 after a 5-5 match with Little, winning the second crown of his career. In the first set, The Little scored 60 points, but Perry scored 70 points through multiple starts, winning the first set 70-67. In the second set, Little scored 64 points through multiple starts to tie the score at 64-0 to a 1-1 draw. In the third set, Perry scored 59 points to take another 73-0 lead. In the fourth set, The Little scored 69 points to pull the score to a 2-2 draw at 95-32.
In the fifth set, the two sides entered a tangled fight, and after several tugs, Xiaote had the advantage and won the fifth set 67-32. In the sixth set, the two sides went on a tug-of-war, with Joe Perry drawing the score 51-30 to a 3-3 draw. In the seventh inning, The Little One scored 73 points to lead again. In the eighth set, after several attacks and defenses, Perry had a slight advantage, and finally tied the score again 62-56, 4-4 on the field. In the ninth inning, Perry scored 108 points to once again overtake the score. In the tenth set, Little scored 75 points through multiple starts, and once again equalized the score, making it 5-5 on the field.
In the eleventh inning, Perry shot two 50+ in a single inning, first with a single 51 and then a single 66, leading again. In the twelfth inning, Perry scored 68 points to extend the advantage. In the thirteenth set, the two sides fought each other, and Joe Perry resisted the pressure to win the tug-of-war, winning 62-44 and coming to match point 8-5. In the fourteenth set, Joe Perry did not give Little another chance to turn over, playing on the sidelines to score 82 points, winning 82-39, and eliminating Little terrier 9-5 to win the second ranking game of his career.