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Mark Williams Becomes Oldest Winner of a Snooker Ranking Tournament at 50
At 50 years and 206 days, Mark Williams set a new record as the oldest winner of a World Snooker Tour ranking event, securing his 27th career title and ending Murphy's 13-match streak.
- On Monday, Mark Williams beat Shaun Murphy 10-3 in the Xi'an Grand Prix final at the Qujiang Athletic Center, ending Murphy's 13-match winning run.
- Aged 50 years and 206 days, Mark Williams became the oldest player to win a ranking event, surpassing Ray Reardon's 1982 mark from the Professional Players Tournament.
- Compiling key breaks, Williams raced into a 7-1 lead with breaks of 75, 73, 68, and 127, then added breaks of 65 and 61 while Murphy took only the 10th and 11th frames.
- Williams collected 177,000 pounds for the victory while Murphy earned 76,000 pounds, and the win lifts Mark Williams above Ronnie O'Sullivan into fourth in the world rankings.
- The triumph makes Mark Williams the first to lift ranking titles across a five-decade span of ranking wins, following last month's British Open and securing a Riyadh Season Snooker Championship, November invitation.
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Mark Williams becomes oldest winner of a snooker ranking tournament at 50
Fifty-year-old Mark Williams has broken a record dating back to 1982 as he becomes the oldest player to win a ranking tournament in snooker with victory at the Xi’an Grand Prix.
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