On April 7, 2024, Beijing time, the Snooker Tour Championship ushered in the last match day, and the final championship will be fought on this match day. The winner of this competition will receive a prize of £150,000 and the runner-up will receive a generous prize of £60,000. After several days of fierce competition, O'Sullivan and Mark Williams successfully met in the final to compete for the final championship.
The Snooker Tour Championship is a Red Envelope Benefit Ranking Tournament in which only the top 12 players in a single season participate. The competition lineup is strong, including three veterans "75 Three Heroes", three "80 Five Tigers", and rising star Mark Allen all participated. In terms of the Chinese Army, Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda performed well this season, successfully entered this competition, and directly advanced to the top 8 by virtue of their ranking advantage, winning the 30,000 pounds grand prize.
O'Sullivan 5:3 Mark Williams
O'Sullivan and Mark Williams have played each other 50 times in history, O'Sullivan has won 34 wins, 3 draws and 13 losses, and the last time the two sides met was last year's Masters 1/4 match, when Mark Williams beat O'Sullivan 6:5 to advance. In this competition, O'Sullivan swept Ali Carter 10:2 in the 1/4 match to advance, and in the semifinals, defeated Gary Wilson 10:7 to advance to the final. Lao Ma defeated Tang Forde 10:9 in the first round, and then easily defeated Trump 10:4 in the quarter-finals, and faced "Little Steel Cannon" Mark Allen in the semi-finals, playing a dream start of 9:0, and finally advanced to the final 10:5.
O'Sullivan has won five tournaments this season, including three major British Championships and Masters. He won 41 ranking tournaments in his career, the first person in history. He has won 23 major championships in three major competitions and completed seven Grand Slam laps, just one World Championship champion away from the eighth Grand Slam. The Rockets shot a perfect 15 and were the youngest record holders to shoot 147 and fastest 147. At present, O'Sullivan has shot 1257 strokes to break 100 in his career, ranking first in history.
Mark Williams has won 25 ranking tournaments in his career, which is significantly inferior to the Rockets in three major tournaments, including three World Championships, two Masters and two British Championships, achieving a double Grand Slam and ranking sixth all-time. A single stroke broke 626 strokes, ranking 9th all-time, and 3 perfect scores, ranking 22nd all-time. Lao Ma has performed well this season, winning the British Open Championship, and recently participated in a Chinese billiards competition.
In the first game of the game, O'Sullivan took the lead in turning defense with a single stroke of 29 points, and made a defensive mistake in the struggle, Mark Williams scored with a single stroke of 66 points to achieve a super score. O'Sullivan failed to reverse the game, and Mark Williams won the game and got off to a good start. In the second game, the two had a long defensive battle, and O'Sullivan seized the opportunity to score three times, and finally pulled back a game at 107:10. In the third game, O'Sullivan took the lead, but unfortunately the red ball in the bottom bag was handed over to the player, and the old horse smiled and accepted the gift, and scored 91 points in a single stroke to win the game, leading 2:1. In the fourth game, after several rounds of defensive struggle, Mark Williams got the opportunity to score, won the game with a single stroke of 70 points, and led 3:1 into halftime.
In the fifth game, O'Sullivan started from afar, moved accurately, controlled the ball delicately, and scored 102 points with a single shot to win the game. In the sixth game, O'Sullivan seized the opportunity to get started, and the momentum was like a rainbow, and once again blasted out a single stroke to break 127 points, playing the momentum that the world number one should have, and the score was tied 3:3. In the seventh game, O'Sullivan took the lead, with a single stroke of 19 points to defend, and in the struggle, the old horse blew up the ball pile and scored a red ball, but unfortunately there was no colored ball to go down to defend. In the entanglement, O'Sullivan started from afar, scored 59 points in a single stroke, and finally won the next game with 78:1, won three games in a row, and led 4:3. In the eighth game, Mark Williams made a mistake in the bottom pocket color ball, O'Sullivan seized the opportunity to get started, and won the game with a single stroke of 121 points, leading 5:3.