In the fourth match of the first round of the World Snooker Masters that just ended on January 9, 2024, Beijing time, three-time world champion Mark Williams and world No. 10 Ali Carter staged a strong showdown.
In this game, both players played very good competitive form. After ten rounds of competition, Carter scored 133 points, 118 points, 72 points, 73 points, and 61 points with a single stroke, and successfully defeated Mark Williams 6-4 and successfully entered the quarterfinals.
After this bout, Carter ended a three-game losing streak against Mark Williams. In the next match, Carter will face the winner between Trump and Wilson for the final four spots, which is also worth looking forward to.
Williams came back to draw 2-2 with Ali Carter
In the match between Mark Williams and Ali Carter, both players played well, and such performances kept the two players evenly matched in the first half.
In the first game, Williams won the game with a 100:15 performance with a single shot of 66 points and multiple opportunities to get started, leading Carter 1-0 and ushering in a good start.
In the second game, Carter scored 79 points with his excellent ability to seize opportunities and won the game 79-20, drawing 1-1 with Williams.
In the third game, Williams scored 74 points and won the game 74-0 through multiple layups, thus continuing to lead Carter 2-1 and gaining a one-game advantage.
In the fourth game, Williams scored 1 point and made a mistake, and then Carter scored 72 points with a single shot to win the game 72:1 and draw 2-2 with Williams.
Ali Carter chased two games in a row to draw 4-4 with Williams
After the game entered the second half, the competitive state of the two players obviously improved, and Carter even staged a continuous performance of breaking 100.
The game came to the fifth game, Williams won the game 94:15 with a single-stroke performance of 93 points, and continued to lead Carter 3-2 to gain another game advantage.
In the sixth game, Carter scored 118 points with a single shot and won the game 133:1, thus drawing 3-3 with Williams.
In the seventh game, Williams took the lead to get 1 point and then made a mistake, Carter scored 133 points in a single stroke to win the game and lead Williams 4-3 to complete the overtake, which was also Carter's first lead in this game.
In the eighth game, Williams played a good form again, and he won the game with a single stroke of 86 points to win the game and draw 4-4 with Carter with a single stroke of 86 points.
Ali Carter won two games in a row and defeated Williams 6-4
After the game entered the key competition, Carter was clearly better than Williams. In the ninth game, Carter won the game 68:18 with an outstanding performance of 61 points with a single stroke, leading Williams 5-4 and taking the lead in getting the match point in the game.
In the tenth game, Mark Williams was penalized for a mistake in the thin ball first, and then Carter made a mistake to give Williams an offensive opportunity.
Williams scored 20 points in the red ball and made a serious mistake, Carter seized the opportunity to score the red ball and directly hit a single stroke of 73 points to win the game 77:20, thus defeating Mark Williams 6-4 and successfully entering the quarterfinals.
In the next match, Carter will face the winner between Trump and Kyren Wilson for the final four spots. Carter also ended a three-game losing streak against Williams.