Mark Williams (snooker player)

Mark Williams
MBE

Williams at the 2015 German Masters
Born	(1975-03-21) 21 Mairch 1975 Cwm, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
Sport kintra	Wales
Nickname	Welsh Potting Machine Sprog The Welsh Wonder
Professional	1992–
Heichest rankin	1 (May 2000–May 2002, May 2003–May 2004, May–September 2011)
Current rankin	8 (as o 2021-12-20)
Career winnins	£6,112,883
Heichest break	147: (2 times)
Century braks	484
Toornament wins
Minor-rankin	2
Non-rankin	6
Warld Champion	2000 2003 2018

Mark James Williams, MBE (born 21 Mairch 1975) is a Welsh professional snooker player who is a three-time World Champion, winnin in 2000, 2003, an 2018. Aged 43 when he triumphed in May 2018, he became the seicont auldest winner of the Warld Championship at the Crucible (Ray Reardon wis the auldest winner in 1978, aged 45). Eften noted for his single-ball lang potting ability, Williams haes earned the nickname "The Welsh Potting Machine".

Williams haes been ranked the Warld number 1 for a tot of three seasons in his career (1999/2000, 2000/2001, an 2002/2003). His maist successfu saison tae date wis 2002/2003, when he won the acclaimed treble of toornaments (kent as the Triple Crown): the UK Championship, the Masters, an the World Championship. In daein sae, he became anly the third player, efter Steve Davis an Stephen Hendry, tae win aw three Triple Crown events in one saison. In addition, he is the first player (an tae date, the anly player) tae win aw three versions of the professional Warld Championship – the Warld Snooker Championship, the Sax-red Warld Championship an the Warld Seniors Championship.

Career finals

Rankin finals: 35 (22 titles, 13 runners-up)

Legend

Warld Championship (3–1)

UK Championship (2–2)

Ither (17–10)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score	Ref.
Winner	1.	1996	Welsh Open	Parrott, JohnJohn Parrott	9–3
Winner	2.	1996	Grand Prix	Henderson, EuanEuan Henderson	9–5
Winner	3.	1997	British Open	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	9–2
Winner	4.	1998	Irish Open	McManus, AlanAlan McManus	9–4
Winner	5.	1999	Welsh Open (2)	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	9–8
Winner	6.	1999	Thailand Masters	McManus, AlanAlan McManus	9–7
Runner-up	1.	1999	Warld Snooker Championship	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	11–18
Runner-up	2.	1999	Grand Prix	Higgins, JohnJohn Higgins	8–9
Winner	7.	1999	UK Championship	Stevens, MatthewMatthew Stevens	10–8
Winner	8.	2000	Thailand Masters (2)	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	9–5
Winner	9.	2000	Warld Snooker Championship	Stevens, MatthewMatthew Stevens	18–16
Runner-up	3.	2000	Malta Grand Prix	Doherty, KenKen Doherty	3–9
Winner	10.	2000	Grand Prix (2)	O'Sullivan, RonnieRonnie O'Sullivan	9–5
Runner-up	4.	2000	Scottish Open	O'Sullivan, RonnieRonnie O'Sullivan	1–9
Runner-up	5.	2000	UK Championship	Higgins, JohnJohn Higgins	4–10
Runner-up	6.	2000	Cheenae Open	O'Sullivan, RonnieRonnie O'Sullivan	3–9
Winner	11.	2002	Cheenae Open	Hamilton, AnthonyAnthony Hamilton	9–8
Winner	12.	2002	Thailand Masters (3)	Lee, StephenStephen Lee	9–4
Winner	13.	2002	UK Championship (2)	Doherty, KenKen Doherty	10–9
Runner-up	7.	2003	Welsh Open	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	5–9
Winner	14.	2003	Warld Snooker Championship (2)	Doherty, KenKen Doherty	18–16
Winner	15.	2003	Grand Prix (3) !LG Cup (3)	Higgins, JohnJohn Higgins	9–5
Winner	16.	2006	Cheenae Open (2)	Higgins, JohnJohn Higgins	9–8
Winner	17.	2010	Cheenae Open (3)	Ding Junhui	10–6
Runner-up	8.	2010	UK Championship (2)	Higgins, JohnJohn Higgins	9–10
Winner	18.	2011	German Masters	Selby, MarkMark Selby	9–7
Runner-up	9.	2011	Australian Goldfields Open	Bingham, StuartStuart Bingham	8–9
Runner-up	10.	2011	Shanghai Masters	Selby, MarkMark Selby	9–10
Runner-up	11.	2015	Players Tour Championship Finals	Perry, JoeJoe Perry	3–4
Runner-up	12.	2017	Cheenae Open	Selby, MarkMark Selby	8–10
Winner	19.	2017	Northren Ireland Open	Bingtao, YanYan Bingtao	9–8
Winner	20.	2018	German Masters (2)	Dott, GraemeGraeme Dott	9–1
Winner	21.	2018	Warld Snooker Championship (3)	Higgins, JohnJohn Higgins	18–16
Winner	22.	2018	Warld Open	Gilbert, DavidDavid Gilbert	10–9
Runner-up	13.	2019	Cheenae Championship	Murphy, ShaunShaun Murphy	9–10

Minor-rankin finals: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score	Ref.
Winner	1.	2010	Players Tour Championship – Event 1	Maguire, StephenStephen Maguire	4–0
Winner	2.	2013	Rotterdam Open	Selby, MarkMark Selby	4–3
Runner-up	1.	2015	Gdynia Open	Robertson, NeilNeil Robertson	0–4

Non-rankin finals: 17 (6 titles, 11 runners-up)

Legend

The Masters (2–1)

Premier League (0–3)

Ither (4–7)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score	Ref.
Winner	1.	1994	Benson & Hedges Championship	Lawler, RodRod Lawler	9–5
Runner-up	1.	1995	WPBSA Minor Tour – Event 6	Henry, DrewDrew Henry	5–6
Winner	2.	1998	The Masters	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	10–9
Runner-up	2.	1998	German Masters	Parrott, JohnJohn Parrott	4–6
Winner	3.	1998	Pontins Professional	Clark, MartinMartin Clark	9–6
Runner-up	3.	1999	Champions Cup	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	5–7
Runner-up	4.	2000	Champions Cup (2)	O'Sullivan, RonnieRonnie O'Sullivan	5–7
Runner-up	5.	2000	Premier League	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	5–9
Runner-up	6.	2001	Malta Grand Prix	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	1–7
Runner-up	7.	2001	Champions Cup (3)	Higgins, JohnJohn Higgins	4–7
Runner-up	8.	2002	The Masters	Hunter, PaulPaul Hunter	9–10
Winner	4.	2003	The Masters (2)	Hendry, StephenStephen Hendry	10–4
Runner-up	9.	2003	Premier League (2)	Fu, MarcoMarco Fu	5–9
Runner-up	10.	2005 (<b id="mwC7E">May</b>)	Premier League (3)	O'Sullivan, RonnieRonnie O'Sullivan	0–6
Winner	5.	2006	Pot Black	Higgins, JohnJohn Higgins	1–0
Winner	6.	2015	Warld Seniors Championship	O'Brien, FergalFergal O'Brien	2–1
Runner-up	11.	2015	General Cup	Fu, MarcoMarco Fu	3–7

Variant finals: 3 (1 titles, 2 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2009	Sax-red Warld Championship	Mark Davis	3–6
Winner	1.	2017	Sax-red Warld Championship	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	8–2
Runner-up	2.	2018	Sax-red Macau Masters	Barry Hawkins	2–3

Pro-am finals: 8 (5 titles, 3 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score	Ref.
Winner	1.	1995	Pontins Spring Open	Ebdon, PeterPeter Ebdon	7–4
Winner	2.	2003	TCC Open Snooker Championship	Morgan, DarrenDarren Morgan	6–1
Winner	3.	2004	TCC Open Snooker Championship (2)	Morgan, DarrenDarren Morgan	7–6
Runner-up	1.	2006	TCC Open Snooker Championship	Davies, PaulPaul Davies	4–7
Runner-up	2.	2008	TCC Open Snooker Championship (2)	Lee Walker	5–7
Runner-up	3.	2009	TCC Open Snooker Championship (3)	Morgan, DarrenDarren Morgan	4–7
Winner	4.	2010	Finnish Snooker Challenge	Hull, RobinRobin Hull	6–1
Winner	5.	2012	Austrian Open	Couch, MatthewMatthew Couch	6–5

Team finals: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Team	Opponent in the final	Score	Ref.
Winner	1.	1999	Nations Cup	Wales	Scotland	6–4
Runner-up	1.	2000	Nations Cup	Wales	Ingland	4–6
Winner	2.	2017	CVB Snooker Challenge	Great Breetain	Cheenae	26–9
Runner-up	2.	2018	Macau Masters	Joe Perry Marco Fu Zhang Anda	Barry Hawkins Ryan Day Zhao Xintong Zhou Yuelong	1–5

External links

• Mark Williams at warldsnooker.com
• Profile on Global Snooker
• Profile on WWW Snooker
• Profile on BBC Wales Archived 2011-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
• YouTube: Mark Williams 147 at the 2005 Warld Championship
• Profile on Yahoo! Sport