However, Mark Williams won all the first 9 games in the semifinals of the 2024 Snooker Tour Championship against Mark Allen, taking an absolute 9-0 lead into the match point!
Next, Williams only needs to win one more game to meet Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final. This will be their first time facing each other in a ranking tournament final since the 2000 China Open!
World No. 3 Mark Allen has won three ranking tournaments this season and has been very consistent over the past two years, but in today's semi-finals, he has been overpowered by the 49-year-old, with Welshman Williams beating Judd Trump 10-4 in the last round to claim victory again.
It was Williams' 41st ranking final, and he won 25 of his previous 40. After winning the British Open in September, he is looking to win multiple ranking titles in the same season for the first time since the 2017/2018 season.
Williams won the opening game with a score of 57 points in a single stroke, and then showed the best snooker player in recent seasons, hitting 99 points and 105 points in a single stroke to lead 4-0, and in the fifth game, Ma Guilian was chasing a perfect score of 147 points until he unfortunately failed to hit the 15th red ball on 112 points.
Northern Ireland's Allen had the best chance to pull back a game in the sixth game and save face, but unfortunately after scoring 51 points in a single stroke, he missed the blue ball and was beaten by Williams with a single stroke of 66 points to win the sixth game, and Williams then continued to control the game with a score of 8-0 to end the first half.
With an 8-0 score in the second half, Mark Williams continued his hot hand and scored 140 points in the ninth game to clear the table and achieve an epic 9-0 lead. Although Mark Allen scored 79, 65, 53, 56 and 69 in a row to score five consecutive strokes, Mark Williams did not give Allen another chance, and scored 75 points in the 15th game to defeat Allen 10-5 and advance to the final!
At 8:00 tonight and tomorrow at 2 a.m., Mark Williams will face Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final.