In the early morning of March 31, Beijing time, the quarter-final of the snooker Tour Championship, Mark Williams lost 9-10 to O'Sullivan, missing the semi-finals. In this campaign, Uncle Ma's performance was indeed slightly inferior to O'Sullivan's, but Uncle Ma kept biting the general score, and even saved the match point to drag the game into the decider, and indeed he had tried his best.
Both are world champions, snooker slam winners, and one of the 75 masters, so the match is seen as a great showdown. However, judging from the past head-to-head record, O'Sullivan can be called the super big boss of Uncle Ma's 30-year career. In a total of 48 encounters, Uncle Ma has only won 12 games. The most exaggerated is to grab more than 4 games to win, the last 17 meetings, Mark Williams 1 win 16 losses, O'Sullivan occupies an overwhelming advantage! In this battle, encountering the bitter lord O'Sullivan, Mark Williams once again ushered in the test.
Uncle Ma started first and won 79-51 in a backward situation. O'Sullivan then went on to play with 56 points in the second set, 84 points in the third set, and 131 points in the fourth set, winning three consecutive sets and fully entering the state. Mark Williams scored a 2-50+ to win the fifth inning. Next, the wonderful performance of the two consecutive single-shot wins, you sing me on the stage, O'Sullivan single shot 128 points, Uncle Ma single shot 92 points, O'Sullivan single shot 89 points, Uncle Ma single shot 103 points, O'Sullivan single shot 100 points, Uncle Ma single shot 89 points, O'Sullivan single shot 75 points, at this time, the General Administration score came to 7-5, O'Sullivan led.
In the 13th set, Mark Williams scored 50 points to win 76-41. In the 14th set, Uncle Ma fired another 51 points, 65-1 again, and chased the general division into a 7-7 draw. O'Sullivan scored 106 points to win the 15th set, and Uncle Ma won the 16th set 102-1, drawing 8-8! O'Sullivan scored 127 points to win the match point 9-8. In the 18th inning, O'Sullivan established an advantage 47-0 and Uncle Ma reversed 67-57. In the decider, O'Sullivan reversed, 10-9, and advanced to the top 4.
At this point, O'Sullivan won 9 and lost 2 in more than 9 sets, and Mark Williams only won twice in 2000: once in the semi-finals of the 2000 British Championship, when Mark Williams defeated O'Sullivan 9-4, and the other was in the final of the 2000 Snooker Grand Prix, when Mark Williams defeated O'Sullivan 9-5.
In addition, grabbing more than 4 sets of clashes, the last 18 meetings, Mark Williams lost 17 games, 1 win and 17 losses, and was hoisted by O'Sullivan, which was too bitter!