On the evening of March 30, Beijing time, the third quarter-final of the Snooker Tour Championship was played between O'Sullivan and Mark Williams. With the first four innings, Mark Williams took the first set. Subsequently, the fire teacher fired 3 strokes of 50+ in a row, including one shot to break the hundred, and pulled three consecutive sets 3-1 to surpass Uncle Ma, which felt hot!
It was a focus battle and a great set of duels, with the 49th direct encounter between the two legends, the 6th World Championship vs 3 World Championships, and the 1st person in the history of the ranking tournament PK 5th person in history. Also 75, O'Sullivan and Mark Williams are still in good shape, even though they are already 50 years old. This season, O'Sullivan won the World Grand Prix and Mark Williams won the British Open at the beginning of the season. In the single-season rankings, O'Sullivan was no. 3 and Mark Williams was No. 6, and in accordance with the rules of the tour championship single-season top eight, O'Sullivan, who was listed as the No. 3 seed, met with no. 6 seed Mark Williams in the quarter-finals of the first round.
In the first set, Mark Williams took the lead 79-51. In the second set, O'Sullivan scored a single 56 points, Mark Williams chased the score unsuccessfully, and O'Sullivan won 76-23 to equalize the general score. In the third set, O'Sullivan hit another 50+ and won by 84 points, 91-14, winning another set, and the General Bureau scored 2-1 to win. In the fourth set, O'Sullivan continued to feel hot, through a few accurate benches, completely adjusted the ball shape, and it was a one-shot win performance, but also a single shot to break 131 points, but also a single shot to break the hundred!
It was O'Sullivan's 1145th career breaker and his 38th this season, with O'Sullivan taking a 3-1 lead over Mark Williams in the first half of the first stage.