‘Potting Welsh car’ Mark Williams Shocking Judd Trump to reach the World Championship final, where he will play Ronnie O’Sullivan Zhao Xintong invaders
Updated for the last time: 03/05/25 9:42 PM
Mark Williams is on the course to lower his fourth world championship at the age of 50
Veteran Mark Williams shocked Judd Trump to arrive at the Snooker World Championship Championship against Zhao Xintong based in Sheffield and remain in the course for a fourth title.
Williams, who won the title in 2000, 2003 and 2018, secured a famous 17-14 win over world No. 1 Trump to return to a fifth intersection final.
The Welshman will take over Zhao eight years after they faced each other in the round of one of the qualifying events.
Williams, who was 7-3 down earlier in the match, found himself 10-9 after Trump responded to the opening frame loss Saturday morning with back-to-back breaks of 71.
However, the 50-year-old Welshman then won four of the next five frames with the help of 73, 84 and 62 holidays, with only a brilliant 64 from Trump in Framework 23, preventing the damage from getting even worse to take a lead 13-11 going to the evening session.
The leftist defender continued where he left at the last session on 67 and 65 vacation to move 15-11 ahead, before Trump hit the 106th century of the season to close the gap.
This ensured that an interval of the middle session would be sought, but Williams went on rest with only a framework for victory after responding with a century.
When Play resumed Rinum Trump got the 29th frame to keep his hopes alive and also won the other with a cleaning 116 after Williams lost a red in the middle with his first chance to seal victory.
Trump had the opportunity to accumulate pressure after a brilliant red in the middle in Frame 31, but lost a hard thin black and Williams grabbed the opportunity in style with a 123 cleaning to seal the victory.
Williams won his first world title in 2000 – when Zhao was only three years old – and his latest in 2018, when he performed his famous naked naked press conference – except for a towel – to fulfill a promise made earlier in
tour.
“It’s’i is incredible. Twelve months ago I wasn’t here either. I saw it in a caravan,” Williams said at the time, as I was thinking of giving up sports a year ago after losing in the last round of qualification.
Fans refused refunds
Snooker fans refused refunds of what was thought to be the fourth session of the semifinal between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Zhao Xintong.
Xintong’s Winning 17-7 command was completed with a session to saveIt means that there will be no competitive action on Saturday afternoon at Crucible.
An exhibition featured by Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor, 40 years since the latter’s victory in the ‘Final Final Black-Ball’ took place instead, running from 2:30 pm to 4pm, including a short interval.
Tour World Snooker said its conditions and conditions in the cash register meant that it was unable to provide ticket or exchanges “, news that did not come down well with spectators waiting to see the sample seven times O’Sullivan.
Wst said in a statement: “We are uniting a fantastic exhibition this afternoon that presents the Snooker legends of all time.
“We understand that fans come from all over the world to enjoy the cross experience, so our goal is to offer the best entertainment possible in these circumstances.
“This is the first time in more than a decade that a semifinal has completed an early session, so it is a very rare phenomenon and unfortunately beyond our control.”
