The final of the 2024 Snooker Tour Championship has begun, and the two 75 Sanjie O'Sullivan and Mark Williams compete for the championship, which is the first time the two have met in the final since 2005, and O'Sullivan has a clear advantage of 34-13 in the total head-to-head record. In the first eight rounds of the first stage, Mark Williams took the lead and led 3-1 in the first four games, but after returning from the break, O'Sullivan began to break out, hitting 3 consecutive single-stroke 100 and winning 4 games in a row, from 1-3 to 5-3 in the total game, overtaking Uncle Ma and occupying the opportunity to win the championship!
O'Sullivan's consecutive days of ranking No. 1 in the world have set a personal record, and it will soon reach 750 days, which should be a very difficult thing for a post-70s veteran, but for Rocket O'Sullivan, it all seems so easy, in the event with rich bonuses, O'Sullivan has won all the championships in his arms, and has won the British Championship this season. In addition, in the Shanghai Masters and Riyadh Masters 2 invitational tournaments with a championship prize of more than 200,000 pounds, O'Sullivan won all the championships, and in the final of the World Grand Prix, facing the first Trump in a single season, O'Sullivan also defeated the opponent 10-7 to win the championship and consolidated his world No. 1 throne. In this tour championship, O'Sullivan defeated Ali Carter and Gary Wilson in a row to advance to the finals.
Mark Williams is temporarily ranked 8th in the world, and the single-season ranking is also 8th, compared with O'Sullivan, Mark Williams is not so strong, and won 1 ranking championship of the Snooker British Open this season, but considering that Mark Williams is 49 years old, it is also admirable to be able to stabilize his world ranking in the top ten. Coming to this snooker tour championship, Mark Williams was not in a good state at the beginning, and in the first round of 12-8 competition, facing Tom Ford, Mark Williams only passed 10-9 with a reversal in the tiebreaker. However, after the desperate escape, Mark Williams's state ushered in a qualitative improvement, in the 8-4 round, Mark Williams 10-4 defeated the single-season NO.1 Trump!
The final still adopts a 19-game 10-win system, the first stage of the first eight rounds of competition, Mark Williams took the lead, took the lead in a single stroke of 66 points to win the first game, O'Sullivan made many mistakes in the second game, but Mark Williams also failed to seize the opportunity, O'Sullivan won 107-10 after many times. In the third and fourth games, Mark Williams scored 91 and 67 points in a row to take a 3-1 lead in the first four games. Taking advantage of the break, O'Sullivan adjusted his state, and in the fifth and sixth games, he broke 102 points and 127 points in a single stroke, and scored 59 points in a single stroke in the seventh game, and broke 121 points in a single stroke in the eighth game.