Williams then pulled away once again, winning the final three frames to take a 10–7 lead overnight.
(meta data) TITLE: Williams 10-7 Up Overnight - World Snooker 16 captures 07 May 2018 - 02 Oct 2020 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer. View the web archive through the Wayback Machine. Collection: Live Web Proxy Crawls Content crawled via the Wayback Machine Live Proxy mostly by the Save Page Now feature on web.archive.org. Liveweb proxy is a component of Internet Archive's wayback machine project. The liveweb proxy captures the content of a web page in real time, archives it into a ARC or WARC file and returns the ARC/WARC record back to the wayback machine to process. The recorded ARC/WARC file becomes part of the wayback machine in due course of time. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20180508105055/http://www.worldsnooker.com/williams-10-7-up-overnight/ ## Williams Wins Betfred World Championship 6 May 2018 # Williams 10-7 Up Overnight Sunday 6 May 2018 10:35PM Mark Williams holds a 10-7 lead over John Higgins going into the second day of the Betfred World Championship final in Sheffield. First to 18 on Monday takes the famous trophy and a record top prize of £425,000. Welshman Williams took five of the nine frames in the second session and needs eight more to capture the Crucible crown for the third time, having won it in 2000 and 2003. Higgins is aiming to lift the trophy for the fifth time, which would bring him level with Ronnie O'Sullivan. Click here for all of the key final stats. Williams won the opening frame tonight with a break of 72 to lead 6-4, then Scotland's Higgins fought back to take the next two with runs of 51 and 127. World number seven Williams took frame 12 to made it 7-5 at the interval. Runs of 56 and 117 from fifth seed Higgins got him back to 7-7, leaving the scores level for the first time since the start of the match. Williams responded with a break of 118, the 82nd century of the tournament, to regain the lead. Higgins was first among the balls in frame 16 but only made 35 before missing the black off its spot, and his opponent punished him with a 64 clearance. In the last frame of the session, Higgins trailed 43-48 when he potted the penultimate red and attempted to move the last red away from the brown, which was close to a baulk corner. But he accidentally planted the brown into the corner pocket, letting Williams in to clear for a 10-7 lead. They return at 2pm on Monday for eight more frames, with the remainder to be played from 7pm. ### Related News View All Continue Reading 8 May 2018 Story Of The 2018 Betfred World Championship Continue Reading 7 May 2018 Williams Conquers Crucible Continue Reading 7 May 2018 Williams Leads 15-10 Ahead Of Crucible Finale
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2018 World Snooker Championship
Tournament summary.:Final.
The two finalists were John Higgins and Mark Williams; both former champions. The final was played as a best of 35 frames match (18 frames needed to win), spread over four sessions between 6 and 7 May 2018. Williams took an early lead in the first session of the match, winning all of the first four frames. Higgins won the second mini-session 3–1, so the first session ended with a 5–3 lead for Williams. In the second session, Williams took the next two frames to lead 7–3, before Higgins scored four consecutive frames to level the score at 7–7.