In the early morning of April 8, Beijing time, the 2024 Snooker Tour Championship came to a successful conclusion. In the final, the three-time world champion "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams shot two shots to break 100 and six strokes of 50+, and the total score was 10-5 to defeat the world's No. 1 "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan to win the championship. It was Williams' second title of the season and his 26th career ranking title.
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. After fierce competition, O'Sullivan and Williams will meet in the final.
O'Sullivan's performance this season has been very good, he has won 5 championship titles, and the single-season world ranking is No. 2, behind Judd Trump, who also won 5 titles.
And "Golden Left Hand" Williams also had a good performance this season, he won the Snooker British Open at the beginning of the season, and ranked 8th in the world in a single season.
In this final, Williams took the lead at the beginning, and O'Sullivan immediately equalized. Williams then won two games in a row to regain a 3-1 lead. O'Sullivan did not show weakness, and won four games in a row in the next game, leading the opponent 5-3 at the end of the first period.
In the first four games of the second stage, Williams hit a 4-0 counterattack. Regarding Williams' performance, the official Weibo of the World Taiwan Federation wrote: "...... Coming to the second stage. Mark Williams turned on the counterattack mode, hitting a single stroke of 104, 99, 54 to chase four games in a row, leading O'Sullivan 7-5 to end the first half".
In the second half of the second stage, Williams continued to suppress O'Sullivan with offense, and in the thirteenth game, he won with a single stroke of 112 and won 4 match points 9-5. In the fourteenth game, Williams locked up the win with 50-19, and after winning 6 games in a row, the total score was 10-5 to defeat O'Sullivan to win the championship, congratulations Williams!