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Mark Williams is one of the quickest players on the snooker tour, and he took a shortcut during his walk-on ahead of his match with Barry Hawkins. His average shot time of 18.78 thus far in the 2022/23 season is sixth quickest. Those ahead of him? Ronnie O'Sullivan, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, Zhao Xintong, Hossein Vafaei and Hammad Miah.
Barry Hawkins raced to a 6-2 victory at the European Masters as he defeated Mark Williams on Saturday night to set up a final with Kyren Wilson. Two visits to the table had seemed to be enough to set Williams up for a first-frame win but Hawkins, chasing his fourth ranking title, was able to withstand the pressure for an excellent break of 59 to go ahead. Ad The second frame went along a similar path as the Welshman put 50 on the board, but with an excellent brown, Hawkins moved to 27 to set up a snooker on the remaining red.
World number eight Kyren Wilson beat Ali Carter in a 6-5 thriller to reach the final of the European Masters in Furth.
Semi-final day! Ad It's going to be a great day as we watch the last four remaining players do battle for a spot in the final. As a reminder these games have moved to be best of eleven, with previous rounds being best of nine. European MastersHawkins dumps out Trump to set up Williams showdown12 HOURS AGO Kyren Wilson v Ali Carter leads us off before we get Barry Hawkins v Mark Williams.
Barry Hawkins produced a golden performance to beat Judd Trump 5-3 to set up a semi-final showdown with Mark Williams at the European Masters. The loss comes after Trump suffered an almighty scare against Farakh Ajaib in the third round at the Stadthalle Furth in Furth. The 2019 world champion required snookers in the final frame to avoid a huge shock and was the beneficiary of a fortunate in-off against Ajaib to avoid the ignominy of defeat against the amateur, but was still far from his best in the quarter-final.
Trump 2-0 Ajaib (0-27) Ad Certainly had chances this morning Ajaib, but has lost the cue ball at the wrong time several times. Very costly those errors at this level. Nice recovery with a plant to a middle bag dropping to keep break going.
Sometimes snooker players will feather the white when they’re taking practice shots before hitting the ball proper. It’s not a common occurrence and players will call themselves on it. But then sometimes you get situations like Dominic Dale, who, in the words of commentator Dave Hendon hit the white “more like a hammer.” Ad The incident came during his third round match of the European Masters against fellow Welshman Mark Williams.
Welcome Ad Hello and welcome to our coverage of the European Masters. We'll be kicking off our text commentary with the afternoon session with Judd Trump in action whilst providing a brief summary of what happened in the earlier sessions.