Ronnie O'Sullivan seeking 'the Mark Williams secret'
Ronnie O'Sullivan was on his best behaviour after beating Jackson Page to advance to the third round of the English Open in Brentwood.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan was on his best behaviour after beating Jackson Page to advance to the third round of the English Open in Brentwood.
Ben Woollaston booked his place in the last 32 of the Championship League by winning Group 16 in his home city of Leicester on Monday. A break of 96 helped the world No. 46 complete a 3-0 win over Liam Graham before he defeated Peter Lines by the same scoreline.
Mark Williams has no interest in tempting fate after cruising into the second round of the World Snooker Championship with a 10-5 win over Jimmy Robertson on Monday. The 48-year-old beat the same player by the same score in the same round before going on to lift his improbable third world crown in 2018. But despite continuing to show glimpses of the kind of form that factored into his dramatic career revival, Williams continues to play down the prospect of another title win.
Mark Williams romped his way to a 10-5 victory over Jimmy Robertson by winning every frame in the second part of their first-round match at the World Championship. Williams trailed Robertson 5-4 going into Monday afternoon’s session, but won six consecutive frames to book a place in round two. Ad In 2018, Williams also beat Robertson 10-5 in the opening round and went on to win his third Crucible crown.
The 2023 Snooker World Championship is in full swing and it is another bumper day of action from the Crucible. Ad Ding Junhui and Hossein Vafaei will play to a conclusion from 10:00 with Ding leading 5-4, while Mark Allen begins his Crucible quest with an encounter against Fan Zhengyi, also at 10:00.
Sunday 16 April (order of play) Ad 10:00 World Championship'What a way to win a frame!' — Vafaei wins 40 minute frame with 'mammoth fluke'2 HOURS AGO Ding Junhui (16) 5-4 Hossein Vafaei Stuart Bingham (14) 10-4 David Gilbert 14:30 Mark Williams (8) 0-0 Jimmy Robertson Neil Robertson (6) 6-3 Wu Yize 19:00 Luca Brecel (9) 0-0 Ricky Walden Ali Carter (11) 4-5 Jak Jones Ding 5-3 Vafaei (15-119) And a delightful double on a black to finish off with a break of 87. Crowd loving that. They play to a finish on Monday morning at 10am with Ding holding a slender 5-4 lead.
Seven-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan will take on Pang Junxu in the first round of the World Snooker Championship while Mark Selby will kick off his campaign with a meeting with Matthew Selt.
Ronnie O'Sullivan has been drawn to face old foe Ding Junhui in the last 16 of the Six Red World Championship in Thailand. The world champion will meet Ding at 7am (GMT) on Thursday LIVE on Eurosport and discovery+ with the winner facing Stuart Bingham or Ricky Walden in the quarter-finals later in the morning at the Thammasat University Convention Centre in Pathum Thani. Ad O'Sullivan is making his debut at the Bangkok invitational event, but Ding has pedigree in the shorter format having won the title in 2016 with an 8-7 win over Bingham, before losing 8-4 to Kyren Wilson in 2018.