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Mark Williams
MBE
Williams at the 2015 German Masters
Born (1975-03-21) 21 Mairch 1975 (age 50)
Cwm, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
Sport kintra Wales
Nickname
  • Welsh Potting Machine
  • Sprog
  • The Welsh Wonder
Professional1992–
Heichest rankin1 (May 2000–May 2002, May 2003–May 2004, May–September 2011)
Current rankin8 (as o 2021-12-20[needs update])
Career winnins£6,112,883
Heichest break147: (2 times)[1]
Century braks484
Toornament wins
Rankin22
Minor-rankin2
Non-rankin6
Warld Champion

Mark James Williams, MBE (born 21 Mairch 1975) is a Welsh professional snooker player that is a three-time Warld Champion, winnin in 2000, 2003, an 2018. Aged 43 whan he triumphed in May 2018, he became the secont auldest winner o the Warld Championship at the Crucible (Ray Reardon wis the auldest winner in 1978, aged 45). Aft notit fur his single-bawl lang pottin ability, Williams haes earnt the byname "The Welsh Potting Machine".

Williams haes been ranked the warld number 1 for a tot o three saesons in his career (1999/2000, 2000/2001, an 2002/2003). His maist successfu saison tae date wis 2002/2003, whan he won the acclaimed treble of tournaments (kent as the Triple Crown): the UK Championship, the Masters, an the Warld Championship. In daein sae, he became anly the third player, efter Steve Davis an Stephen Hendry, tae win aw three Triple Crown events in ae 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

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

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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 Ingland John Parrott 9–3
Winner 2. 1996 Grand Prix Scotland Euan Henderson 9–5
Winner 3. 1997 British Open Scotland Stephen Hendry 9–2
Winner 4. 1998 Irish Open Scotland Alan McManus 9–4
Winner 5. 1999 Welsh Open (2) Scotland Stephen Hendry 9–8
Winner 6. 1999 Thailand Masters Scotland Alan McManus 9–7
Runner-up 1. 1999 Warld Snooker Championship Scotland Stephen Hendry 11–18
Runner-up 2. 1999 Grand Prix Scotland John Higgins 8–9
Winner 7. 1999 UK Championship Wales Matthew Stevens 10–8
Winner 8. 2000 Thailand Masters (2) Scotland Stephen Hendry 9–5
Winner 9. 2000 Warld Snooker Championship Wales Matthew Stevens 18–16
Runner-up 3. 2000 Malta Grand Prix Republic o Ireland Ken Doherty 3–9
Winner 10. 2000 Grand Prix (2) Ingland Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–5
Runner-up 4. 2000 Scottish Open Ingland Ronnie O'Sullivan 1–9
Runner-up 5. 2000 UK Championship Scotland John Higgins 4–10
Runner-up 6. 2000 Cheenae Open Ingland Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–9
Winner 11. 2002 Cheenae Open Ingland Hamilton, AnthonyAnthony Hamilton 9–8
Winner 12. 2002 Thailand Masters (3) Ingland Stephen Lee 9–4
Winner 13. 2002 UK Championship (2) Republic o Ireland Ken Doherty 10–9
Runner-up 7. 2003 Welsh Open Scotland Stephen Hendry 5–9
Winner 14. 2003 Warld Snooker Championship (2) Republic o Ireland Ken Doherty 18–16
Winner 15. 2003 LG Cup (3) Scotland John Higgins 9–5
Winner 16. 2006 Cheenae Open (2) Scotland John Higgins 9–8
Winner 17. 2010 Cheenae Open (3) Fowkrepublic o Cheenae Ding Junhui 10–6
Runner-up 8. 2010 UK Championship (2) Scotland John Higgins 9–10
Winner 18. 2011 German Masters Ingland Mark Selby 9–7
Runner-up 9. 2011 Australian Goldfields Open Ingland Stuart Bingham 8–9
Runner-up 10. 2011 Shanghai Masters Ingland Mark Selby 9–10
Runner-up 11. 2015 Players Tour Championship Finals Ingland Joe Perry 3–4
Runner-up 12. 2017 Cheenae Open Ingland Mark Selby 8–10
Winner 19. 2017 Northren Ireland Open Fowkrepublic o Cheenae Yan Bingtao 9–8
Winner 20. 2018 German Masters (2) Scotland Graeme Dott 9–1
Winner 21. 2018 Warld Snooker Championship (3) Scotland John Higgins 18–16
Winner 22. 2018 Warld Open Ingland David Gilbert 10–9
Runner-up 13. 2019 Cheenae Championship Ingland Shaun Murphy 9–10

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

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Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score Ref.
Winner 1. 2010 Players Tour Championship – Event 1 Scotland Stephen Maguire 4–0
Winner 2. 2013 Rotterdam Open Ingland Mark Selby 4–3
Runner-up 1. 2015 Gdynia Open Australie Neil Robertson 0–4

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

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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 Ingland Rod Lawler 9–5
Runner-up 1. 1995 WPBSA Minor Tour – Event 6 Scotland Drew Henry 5–6
Winner 2. 1998 The Masters Scotland Stephen Hendry 10–9
Runner-up 2. 1998 German Masters Ingland John Parrott 4–6
Winner 3. 1998 Pontins Professional Ingland Martin Clark 9–6
Runner-up 3. 1999 Champions Cup Scotland Stephen Hendry 5–7
Runner-up 4. 2000 Champions Cup (2) Ingland Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–7
Runner-up 5. 2000 Premier League Scotland Stephen Hendry 5–9
Runner-up 6. 2001 Malta Grand Prix Scotland Stephen Hendry 1–7
Runner-up 7. 2001 Champions Cup (3) Scotland John Higgins 4–7
Runner-up 8. 2002 The Masters Ingland Paul Hunter 9–10
Winner 4. 2003 The Masters (2) Scotland Stephen Hendry 10–4
Runner-up 9. 2003 Premier League (2) Hong Kong Marco Fu 5–9
Runner-up 10. 2005 (<b id="mwC7E">May</b>) Premier League (3) Ingland Ronnie O'Sullivan 0–6
Winner 5. 2006 Pot Black Scotland John Higgins 1–0
Winner 6. 2015 Warld Seniors Championship Republic o Ireland Fergal O'Brien 2–1
Runner-up 11. 2015 General Cup Hong Kong Marco Fu 3–7

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

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

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

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Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score Ref.
Winner 1. 1995 Pontins Spring Open Ingland Peter Ebdon 7–4
Winner 2. 2003 TCC Open Snooker Championship Wales Darren Morgan 6–1
Winner 3. 2004 TCC Open Snooker Championship (2) Wales Darren Morgan 7–6
Runner-up 1. 2006 TCC Open Snooker Championship Wales Paul Davies 4–7
Runner-up 2. 2008 TCC Open Snooker Championship (2) Wales Lee Walker 5–7
Runner-up 3. 2009 TCC Open Snooker Championship (3) Wales Darren Morgan 4–7
Winner 4. 2010 Finnish Snooker Challenge Finland Robin Hull 6–1
Winner 5. 2012 Austrian Open Ingland Matthew Couch 6–5

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

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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 Ingland Joe Perry

Hong Kong Marco Fu

Fowkrepublic o Cheenae Zhang Anda		 Ingland Barry Hawkins

Wales Ryan Day

Fowkrepublic o Cheenae Zhao Xintong

Fowkrepublic o Cheenae Zhou Yuelong		 1–5

References

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  1. ↑ "Official 147s – Warld Snooker". Retrieved 8 Mey 2018.

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