In the third match of the first round of the World Snooker Tour Championship, which just ended in the early morning of March 31, 2022 Beijing time, world number three O'Sullivan and world number six Mark Williams staged a classic showdown. O'Sullivan was outstanding in this game, with mark Williams scoring 131, 128, 100, 106, 127, 56, 84, 89 and 76 points 10-9 to beat Mark Williams, who scored 103, 58, 52, 92, 89, 51 and 50, to reach the final four of the tournament. Next, he will compete with Robertson for a place in the final.
O'Sullivan is in good shape to lead Williams 5-3
In the first stage of the match between the two sides, O'Sullivan performed very well. In the first set, Mark Williams took a 1-0 lead by taking the set 79:51 on multiple mobile games. In the second set, O'Sullivan single-handedly scored 56 points to win a 1-1 draw with Williams at 76:23. Third inning. O'Sullivan scored 84 points at 91-14 to take a 2-1 lead. In the fourth inning, O'Sullivan scored a 131-point clean sheet for Williams to take a 3-1 lead. In the fifth inning, Williams blasted out 58 and 52 runs to win the set 115-0 to trail O'Sullivan 2-3. In the sixth set, O'Sullivan scored 128 points to take a 4-2 lead by taking the set 128-14. In the seventh inning, Williams scored 92 points and 92:50 to win the set to trail O'Sullivan 3-4. In the eighth inning, O'Sullivan scored 89 points to win the game 97-0 to give Williams a 5-3 lead.
Williams' form picked up 7-7 with O'Sullivan
As the game moved into the second phase, Mark Williams' form gradually picked up. The game went into the ninth inning when Williams single-handedly scored 103 points to keep a straight clean sheet against O'Sullivan and trailed behind 4-5. In the tenth inning, O'Sullivan single-handedly scored 100 points to win the game 104-1 to give Williams a 6-4 lead. In the eleventh set, Williams scored a straight-forward 89 points to win the game 102:40, thus trailing O'Sullivan 5-6. In the twelfth inning, O'Sullivan scored a 75-point clean sheet for Williams to take a 7-5 lead. In the thirteenth set, Williams scored 50 points and then won the game 76-41 to make it 6-7 behind O'Sullivan. In the fourteenth inning, Williams scored 51 points to win the set 65-1 and drew 7-7 with O'Sullivan to successfully pull both sides back to the same running line.
O'Sullivan beat Williams 10-9 to advance
After the game entered the fifteenth set, Williams scored the first red ball to score 24 points and was fined six points for a mistake, and then O'Sullivan scored a red ball and blasted 106 points to win the game 112:24 to continue to lead Williams 8-7. In the sixteenth inning, Mark Williams scored 102 points on multiple mobile phone games and won the game 102-1 to draw 8-8 with O'Sullivan. In the seventeenth inning, O'Sullivan took the lead in seizing Williams' mistake and scoring the red ball, and after multiple adjustments and possessions, O'Sullivan directly kept a clean sheet on Williams with a brilliant performance of 127 points in a single shot, and directly won the match point of the game while determining a 9-8 lead. In the eighteenth set, Williams kicked off to give O'Sullivan the opportunity to attack from the far stage, and O'Sullivan successfully called the pink ball to get a chance to get started. But he chose to defend after scoring 47 points because of poor k-balls, and williams won the game 67-57 in a 9-9 draw with O'Sullivan. In the nineteenth inning, O'Sullivan beat Williams 10-9 to reach the semifinals by winning the game 65-44 on several mobile phones.