On the evening of April 6, Beijing time, the 23/24 World Snooker Tour Championship ushered in the second semi-final matchup. In the just-concluded first stage of the competition, the No. 8 seed "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams played a performance against the sky, both offensive and defensive and played 8 consecutive whips, relying on 2 strokes to break 100, 3 strokes of 50+, and clean sheets The No. 5 seed "Little Steel Cannon" Mark Allen of the tournament advanced to the final with only 2 rounds of victory.
Mark Allen is currently ranked 3rd in the world, and has won 3 championships this season, 1 invitational tournament and 2 ranking tournaments: the 2023 Champion of the Champions, the single-game limited-time tournament and the 2024 Players Championship, and is the player who has won the most championships in addition to O'Sullivan and Trump, ranking 5th in a single season. Mark Williams, one of the "Big 75", is still in high form. He won one British Open title this season and is currently ranked 8th in the world and 8th in a single season.
In the first half of the first stage, the "golden left hand" in the first game shot out a single stroke of 57 points to win, and the 12-level long platform was stunned by the "small steel cannon". In the second game, the "little steel cannon" lost the black ball and gave the opportunity, and the "golden left hand" fell behind by 27 points to complete the single-game reversal, and won another game, leading 2-0. In the third game, the "Golden Left Hand" soared 3 shots, and the strongest snooker panicked the "small steel cannon", and won with a single shot of 99 points. In the fourth game, the "golden left hand" blasted out a single stroke of 105 points to clear the table, and after a wave of four consecutive whips, the big score was 4-0 into the halftime break.
After the break, in the fifth game, the "golden left hand" failed to hit 147, and won another game with 112 points in a single stroke, leading 5-0. In the sixth game, the "Golden Left Hand" single-stroke 66-point attack was interrupted, and the "Little Steel Cannon" finally got started and scored 51 points, but the result was another mistake, and the "Golden Left Hand" won another game, 6-0. In the seventh game, the "Golden Left Hand" relied on two attacks to win another game, 7-0. In the eighth game, the "Golden Left Hand" was interrupted by 44 points in a single stroke, and after the two sides fought back and forth, the "Golden Left Hand" finally won 63-47. 8-0 clean sheet in the first period.
In the first stage of today's event, Mark Williams was in a state of divine help, both offensively and defensively. On the offensive end, he deserves the title of "Golden Left Hand", and he is still the man with the best accuracy in the world for a single ball. On the defensive end, the "new mill king" Allen suffered a lot, and the whole game was either in the ball or on the way to the ball, and he was pressed to the ground by the old horse and tortured without temper. However, Mark Allen's form is also surprisingly poor, and the long-stage offense is completely out of shape. In fact, in the 1/4 finals, Mark Allen and Ding Junhui were in average state during the duel, but unfortunately if Ding Junhui's rationality of playing was a little better, it should not be a problem to beat Allen.
The game was 8-0, and I didn't expect that the second phase of the game would continue at 02:00 tomorrow morning. For Mark Allen, there is definitely no hope of turning the tables, the key is to win a game, otherwise Mark Allen is really shameless. Looking forward to the ultimate showdown between O'Sullivan and Mark Williams in the final, the "75 Three Heroes"!