At 21 o'clock on December 17, Beijing time, the decisive battle of the 2023 Snooker Scottish Open began, and at 5:12 a.m. the next day (18th), the smoke of the final dissipated, and Gary Wilson came to the final in danger, and he was in a hot state, and successfully reached the top with 9:5 Nick Nopong Sancam and defended his title.
The final will be between reigning champion Gary Wilson, ranked 20 in the world, and Thailand's Noppong Sangham, who is ranked 26th in the world and reaching the final of the ranking tournament for the first time. This is the 22nd time in the history of snooker ranking tournaments that there are no TOP16 players. In the last Scottish Open, where Garvey won his first ranking title, Joe O'Connor also reached the final of the ranking tournament for the first time, and both were non-top 16 players at the time.
Gary Wilson defeated Noppong Sancam 9-5 in the final, and successfully defended his title after four tiebreakers, and won his second ranking tournament title. The £80,000 prize money also moves Gary Wilson up to 17th in the world rankings and is expected to return to the top 16 for the third time.
In addition to his two-time Scottish Open titles, Garvey also finished runner-up at the 2015 China Open and the 2021 British Open. In the 2019 World Championships, Garvey also reached the semi-finals as a qualifier. In the Snooker Super Series on January 20, 2021, Garvey shot the third perfect score of 147 in his career, which was the 166th 147 points in history according to the official statistics of snooker.
In the first half of this season, Gary Wilson performed badly, but when he arrived at the Scottish Open, his form returned, the semifinals were miraculously reversed, and the final was hot to win the second crown of his career ranking tournament, and these two crowns were completed in the form of defending the title. After Robertson, Mark Allen, Mark Selby and Judd Trump, he is the 13th player to defend his ranking title, and these two titles are also the only ranking tournament titles of Garve. The most surprising thing is that Gary Wilson won the championship and defended his title twice, both as non-TOP16 players, and his two finals were also between non-TOP16 players, which is the only time in the history of the snooker professional tour.
2023 Snooker Scottish Open Final Results
The first period of the finals
Gary Wilson was in hot form, hitting 1 shot to break 100 and 5 strokes of 50+, and led Noppong Sancam by a huge 6-1 in the first seven games. In the 8th game, Sancam took the lead to hit a single stroke to 30 points, the offense was interrupted, Wilson hit a single stroke 61, and there was also a mistake, Sancam completed the reversal of the clearing for the second time, and Gary Wilson led Noppong Sancam 6-2 to end the first period of competition.
The second period of the finals
At 3 o'clock in the morning, the battle continued, and in the ninth game, Wilson scored 81 points in a single stroke to win, and the big score came to 7-2. Next, Sancam hit a hundred and 97 points in a single stroke in a row, chasing two or two games in a row, and the score came to 4-7;
In the 12th game, Gary Wilson completed a superscore of 50+ in a single stroke, got the match point 8-4, and the whole game was bursting, and the goal success rate reached 94%. In the 13th game, Gary's mentality fluctuated, and he missed the opportunity to end the game twice, and Sancam completed the clearance and recovered a match point; in the 14th game, Nopong Sancam fought hard to fight for his life, but then made a simple red ball error, Wilson got on again and scored 53 points in a single stroke, and sealed the victory 9-5.
Full Time Score
Session 1:
90-1 (90), 75-0 (62), 120-0 (66), 7-69
79-5 (79), 105-5 (105), 82-9 (78), 61-73 (Garvey 61)
Session 2:
81-0 (81), 0-132 (132), 0-97 (97), 110-15 (54)
55-78, 84-13 (53)
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