In the early morning of April 3, Beijing time, in the first round of the 2024 Snooker Tour Championship 12-8 competition, world champion Mark Williams gave a tiebreaker that is enough to go down in history.
As an older generation of quasi-gods, Mark Williams has excellent offensive ability, has won three Snooker World Championships, won 7 three-major championships, and the total number of ranking tournament championships has reached 25 ranking 6th in history, and his career achievements are quite brilliant, Mark Williams is 49 years old, but his condition is still quite good, and he won the Snooker British Open championship this season, which can be said to be old and strong! In this Snooker Tour Championship, Mark Williams participated as the No. 8 seed, and faced Tom Ford, who ranked 9th in a single season, in the first round of 12 into 8 rounds. This season, Tomford reached the final of the Snooker National Championship, but Tom Ford failed to win the championship again, losing to Zhang Anda and being the runner-up.
In the first eight rounds of the first stage, Mark Williams won three consecutive games to establish a 3-0 advantage, but Tom Ford broke 114 points and 136 points in a row to narrow the gap to one game, Mark Williams withstood the pressure and scored 86 points in the eighth game to complete the reversal, maintaining a 5-3 lead in the total game.
In the second stage, Mark Williams took the lead in breaking 112 points to break 100 points, and Tom Ford immediately responded with a 70-point victory, Mark Williams won the 11th game with multiple chances, and then scored 88 points in the 12th game to win the game, extending the total game lead to 8-4. After returning from the break, Mark Williams made a mistake in the 13th inning, and Tom Ford used his accuracy to adjust and hit a wonderful single shot to break 138 points, it is worth mentioning that this is Tom Ford's third shot to break 100 in this game, and it is also the highest single score in this tournament so far. In the 14th game, both of them made mistakes, and Tom Ford chased another game to 6-8. Tom Ford became more and more courageous, and then won by 133 points in a single stroke, chasing 7-8 and only one game behind.
In the 16th game, Mark Williams won the black battle and won the match point 9-7. Tom Ford saved the match point with a single shot of 90 points and chased it to 8-9. Mark Williams, who was demoralized, made another mistake, and Tom Ford saved another match point to take the game to a tiebreaker at 9-9. In the last game, Tom Ford made a simple ball mistake when he was about to overscore, and Mark Williams completed a super difficult turnaround, all kinds of unreasonable K goals and quasi-goals, a big reversal in a single game + a lore! The next round of 1/4 finals, Mark Williams played against Trump.