In the early morning of April 8, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker Tour Championship continued. In the championship match, the world's No. 1 "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan faced the three-time world champion "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams. At the end of the fourteenth inning, Williams won four match points at 9-5 and one more win would have won the championship.
In the 2024 Snooker Tour Championship, only the top 12 players in the world rankings in a single season will be eligible to participate. In this competition, the 7-time World Championship champion "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan, the 4-time World Championship champion "Wizard" John Higgins, and the 3-time World Championship champion "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams played together.
In addition, Ding Junhui, Judd Trump, and Mark Selby of the "80 Five Tigers" also played together. After fierce competition, "753 Heroes" O'Sullivan and Williams reached the final. Mark Selby of the "80 Five Tigers" was out in the first round, Ding Junhui and Judd Trump were out in the quarterfinals, and Higgins of the "Seven Five Three Heroes" was also out in the first round.
In the semifinals, O'Sullivan eliminated Gary Wilson, who had won 2 championships this season, 10-7, and Williams eliminated Mark Allen, who won 3 championships this season, 10-5.
In the final of this tour championship, Williams started with a single shot of 66, and O'Sullivan then equalized 1-1. After Williams took the lead again 3-1, O'Sullivan launched a wave of 4-0 counterattacks and ended the first stage of the competition with a 5-3 lead.
After a few hours of rest, the two champions competed for the second stage. O'Sullivan felt cold after coming up, and Williams found a hot offensive touch, he first chased the score to 4-5, and from the tenth game to the fourteenth game, he hit two shots to break 100 and three shots of 50+, and after winning 5 games in a row, he won 4 match points 9-5.