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Topic: Mark Williams (snooker)


  
  BBC SPORT | Other Sport... | Snooker | Get Involved | Mark Williams' snooker tips
I was about 11-years old when I won my first junior competition - that's when I realised snooker was something I wanted to pursue.
You start thinking about the balls you might miss more than the ones you are going to pot.
Snooker is all about keeping the same action for every shot, regardless of what type of shot it is.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/get_involved/4225648.stm   (378 words)

  
 BBC - South East Wales Sport - Mark Williams - snooker champion from Ebbw Vale
Williams is one of Wales's most successful snooker stars, having twice won the world title.
Mark is a Welsh star that shines bright for all his countrymen.
I met Mark Williams while I was on holiday in Majorca.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/halloffame/sport/mark_williams.shtml   (1480 words)

  
 PeopleWatch - Mark Williams
Mark Williams, winner of the Embassy Snooker Championships has taken the world by storm with his pots.
Mark Williams was born on March 21, 1975.
In early 2000, Mark Williams was already assured the world number one spot for the whole of the next season, the first Welsh player to do so since Ray Reardon in 1982-83.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cue_sports/39462   (381 words)

  
 Video - World Snooker Championship 2007
Snooker unwritten rules of fair-play require the players to pay apologies for any shot that was unintentionally successful.
Mark Williams lost the 4-0 lead he had in the morning and the score is now 5-4.
Mark Williams is in the lead by 71 points but makes a mistake, Joe Swail needs only one snooker and does not concede, the game gets pretty tense now that it’s approaching its end.
www.snooker-champs.com /post/category/wsc07/video   (1196 words)

  
 Snooker Player Profile - Mark Williams
That completed an incredible hat-trick of snooker’s biggest titles as earlier that season he had won the UK Championship and the Masters.
Williams made the first competitive 147 of his career in a match against Rob Milkins at Sheffield in 2005 — and that was handy timing as it scooped him a £161,000 bonus.
In his teenage years, Williams was a keen boxer and won several fights before being on the wrong end of a thumping from an older, heavier boy which curtailed his brief career in the ring.
www.worldsnooker.com /players_head_to_head-8760.htm   (563 words)

  
 World Champion 2003 - signed by Mark Williams - Limited edition authentically signed sports memorabilia from Big Blue ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
This is a unique piece of snooker memorabilia, signed by arguably the best potter in the game today, featuring a shot from one of the most exciting Embassy finals in years.
Mark Williams was a promising amateur boxer before he realised he could inflict more damage with a cue in his hand.
Mark's first World Title came in a thriller at the Crucible in 2001 when he came from 13-7 down to beat fellow Welshman, Matthew Stevens, and became the first ever left-handed World Champion.
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 Mark Williams
Snooker player, Mark Williams was born in Cwm in South Wales on 21 March 1975.
It was not until March 2006 when Mark Williams beat John Higgins 9-8 in the China Open final that Williams gained his first ranking title since his phenomenally succesful 2003.
Mark Williams turned professional in 1992; and in the late nineties and early 2000s he was a permanent feature in the first three in the world snooker rankings.
www.biogs.com /famous/williamsmark.html   (272 words)

  
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Mark is a very good player, not a sore loser like Hendry.
Mark Williams has won 13 ranking events(excluding world championship) which is a quite good record for a player.
Mark Williams used to be number 1 till Ronnie O'Sullivan knocked him off the top spot.
homepage.ntlworld.com /qiongdong.gao/jimmy/snooker/williams.htm   (153 words)

  
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 RTÉ.ie Sport - Snooker: Computer ranks Mark Williams head of the rest
If Mark Williams holds aloft the famous Embassy World Championship trophy on May 1, it will prove conclusively that statistics do not lie.
When snooker's facts and figures are fed into a computer to try to identify the game's best player, the names of Stephen Hendry and John Higgins appear in second and third positions only.
Not that Williams, who has a massive 7,950 points to spare over Hendry at the top of his list, lacks faith in his own ability.
www.rte.ie /sport/2000/0414/snooker.html   (229 words)

  
 Snooker: Joe Perry dumps Mark Williams out | Snooker | Guardian Unlimited Sport
It was painful to watch as Williams, without approaching his best, won eight of the following nine frames to lead 11-10 and place Perry in danger of falling victim to one of the Crucible's worst collapses.
Mark didn't play to his full potential but I can still take plenty out of the match,' said Perry, who is now sure to take a minimum of £31,600 away from the championship, comfortably his most lucrative payday in 13 journeyman years as a professional.
Williams became a father for the first time eight days ago but insisted that the arrival of his son, Connor, had not influenced the result.
sport.guardian.co.uk /snooker/story/0,10158,1202689,00.html   (732 words)

  
 Codemasters - World Championship Snooker 2003
When Mark Williams won the 1996 Regal Welsh Open on home turf, TV pundit Willie Thorne said live on air that he thought the talented Welshman would be a one-hit wonder.
Mark also had the pleasure of returning to the No.1 spot, becoming only the second player after Ray Reardon, to regain his place at the top of the world rankings.
Mark stills plays in the same club, The Emporium, Bargoed, where he first picked up a cue.
www.codemasters.com /snooker2003/uk/pro-mw.php   (426 words)

  
 RTÉ.ie Sport - Judge rules against snooker break-up bid
Seven-times world champion Stephen Hendry, world number one Mark Williams and The Sportsmasters Network, now known as 110 Sport, today failed to secure a High Court order designed to break up World Snooker.
World Snooker would have been able to set the rules of the sport or sell the commercial rights but not both.
Paul Goulding QC, counsel for World Snooker, argued that if TSN wanted the trial judge Mr Justice Lloyd to order the break up of World Snooker, they would have to seek permission to amend their technical legal documents.
www.rte.ie /sport/2001/0627/snooker.html   (193 words)

  
 Mark Williams (snooker player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On March 27, 2006, Williams won his first ranking event in two and a half years, the China Open in Beijing, beating John Higgins 9-8 in a fantastic final.
It was revealed during the World Snooker Championships in April 2006 that Williams had split with coach Terry Griffiths.
On September 2, 2006, Williams lifted the Pot Black trophy after racking up a 119 century break in the final against John Higgins.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Williams_(snooker)   (571 words)

  
 Mark Williams News
John Higgins and Mark Williams were locked together at 4-4 after the opening session of the Star Group China Open final at the Beijing University Gymnasium today.
FORMER world snooker champion Mark Williams remained on course for a fifth ranking title on Asian soil by reaching the quarterfinals of the China Open in Beijing.
Longview businessman Mark Williams is looking to unseat state Rep. Tommy Merritt in the March Republican primary.
www.topix.net /who/mark-williams   (652 words)

  
 World Championship Snooker 2003
What all snooker enthusiasts are going to interested in though is the career mode.
Here you create your own snooker player, customise his appearance, and embark on a journey to become the number one player in the world.
The framerate is susceptible to dipping from time to time and although it doesn't affect the gameplay in any way, it is a little disappointing to see (this might not be the case with the Xbox and PC versions though).
www.deafgamers.com /wcsnooker2003.htm   (708 words)

  
 Wild Jack Mobile Casino Snooker Sponsorship
Snooker is one of the hottest sports in the UK and WJMC is excited to be a part of the action:
In the first round of the UK Championship, he was tied at 7-7 with Ricky Walden when he was docked a frame for swearing by referee Trish Murphy, having already been warned earlier in the match for premature concession of a frame.
Day had the Rocket on the ropes when he led 9-8 but a crucial miscue on the pink towards the end of the 18th frame proved to be the turning point as O’Sullivan bounced back to win 13-10.
mobile.wildjack.com /snooker.php   (718 words)

  
 Mark Williams Online Betting Guide - Snooker Betting
Mark Williams - a guide to Mark Williams including a brief introduction and a list of his tournament victories.
Mark Williams was born on March 21st, 1975 in Cwm, Wales.
Williams is one of the best potters in the game of snooker and is renowned for his break building.
www.bettingkingdom.co.uk /snooker/players/williams-mark.html   (217 words)

  
 Sportingbet.co.uk Premier Snooker League
With Mark Williams, Steve Davis and Jimmy White eliminated via the group stages, the scene is set for Higgins, O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and Marco Fu to decide the destination of the final title of the 2000/2001 snooker season.
It's one thing to be praised by your fellow professionals and talked about in the press as one of the game's great talents but when you become World Champion, then you have proved it to yourself and to the snooker public.
John Higgins is a fantastic player; he is so consistent at the top level and he is one of the nicest people you could meet in or out of snooker.
www.azbilliards.com /preleases/premiersnookerfinals.html   (526 words)

  
 Online poker
Snooker player, Mark Williams was born in Cwm in South Wales on 21 March 1975.
Williams had gone ahead with a massive 10-2 lead before being pegged back to 11-11 and then 16-16.
Mark Williams turned professional in 1992; and in the last six years he has never been out of the first three in the world snooker rankings.
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 World Championship Snooker Sony Playstation Game Review
World Championship Snooker is the ground breaking new sports sim from top development team Codemasters offering you the chance to mix it with the world's biggest stars.
Carrying the endorsement of the World Snooker Association it also enables players to take to the table in The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, surely the world's most recognized snooker venue.
Then, for the first time on Playstation, take on 20 of the world's top snooker champions, including Stephen Hendry, Ken Doherty, Ronnie O'Sullivan, current World No. 1 ranked player Mark Williams, along with the veteran voice and potting skills of Dennis Taylor.
www.absolute-playstation.com /api_review/rworldchampsnooker.htm   (781 words)

  
 Snooker blog
Po Higginsovi, Dottovi či Dingovi, se stal Ronnie dalším hráčem pod křídly 888.com, jenž snooker výrazně podporuje a to vyzdvihl i O'Sullivan jako důvod nové spolupráce.
Snooker bohužel nebude zařazen na hry Commonwealth 2010, narozdíl od tenisu a lukostřelby.
Více v článku Snooker nebude na hrách Commonwealth 2010.
www.supersvet.cz /snooker/archiv_novinky.php   (2613 words)

  
 World Championship Snooker - from CDAccess.com
You've battle through qualifying heats, dispatched world class stars in the tournament proper and now you face the ultimate snooker challenge, the war of nerves, the final showdown at Sheffield.
Hone your snooker skills in the World Snooker endorsed Masterclass.
The most in depth and realistic snooker simulation you will ever have played.
www.cdaccess.com /html/pc/snooker.htm   (219 words)

  
 World Championship Snooker 2004 (xbx: 2004): Reviews
World Championship Snooker 2004 features 30+ of the current top professional snooker players including Stephen Hendry, plus Mark Williams, Steve Davis, Ken Doherty, John Higgins, Tony Drago, and many more.
A game like snooker, which at best is a niche sport, needs to work much harder to pull the punters in than say a football game.
Obviously if you have no interest in snooker don't buy it, but if, like me, you like snooker then this is a great computer game and is recommended for you.
www.metacritic.com /games/platforms/xbx/worldchampionshipsnooker2004   (566 words)

  
 Mark Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mark Williams (politician) - British Member of Parliament for Ceredigion
Mark M. Williams - Australian rules footballer known as "Choco" (coach of Port Adelaide, player with Brisbane and Collingwood)
Mark Williams (soccer player of NI) - Northern Ireland footballer
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Williams   (154 words)

  
 GameSpy: World Championship Snooker 2003
The chart-busting success of World Championship Snooker returns for a new year and a new snooker challenge.
Veteran snooker fans and championship newcomers step up to the table in opposition to Peter Ebden, Mark Williams, Ronnie O'Sullivan and more than twenty top players from the world of professional snooker.
With incredible enhancements in every area of the game, plus new game modes and a more compelling snooker experience than ever before, World Championship Snooker 2003 is set to make the big breaks frame after frame.
ps2.gamespy.com /playstation-2/world-championship-snooker-2003   (154 words)

  
 Celebrities currently playing online at Celebrity Poker the world's premier celebrity interactive online poker room.
In 1998 Lou starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in the big action/comedy movie The Big Hit as part of a gang of hired hitmen which was directed by Hong Kong Director Kirk Wong.
MARK Williams may have won the 2003 world title – but it was Dubliner Ken Doherty who won the hearts of millions.
Fu was inadvertently launched on his snooker career by relatives when he was just four years old, having been given a table as a gift.
download.theaceclub.com /celebrities.html   (6444 words)

  
 Deutsche Snooker Rangliste - German Open Snooker Ranking
(17.10.2005)Der Schotte deklassiert Ronnie O´Sullivan mit 9:2 und zeigt dabei Snooker in Perfektion.
Eltern von Mark Williams wollen kein neues Luxushaus
Mark Williams gewinnt die Benson & Hedges Masters.
www.gosr.de /ausallerwelt   (1107 words)

  
 BBC Sport Academy | Other Sport | Snooker | Mark Williams shares his snooker tips
I started playing when I was nine after watching my dad play.
Click here for Mark's tip top potting advice
Mark's hobbies include cars, motorbikes, Manchester United and poker.
news.bbc.co.uk /sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/snooker/newsid_2949000/2949041.stm   (196 words)

  
 Mark Williams 147   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Eurosport - Snooker - Williams 147: "Former champion Mark Williams compiled a maximum 147 break to seal a crushing 10-1 win over Robert Milkins in the world snooker championship today.
Williams, world champion in 2000 and 2003, will receive a cheque for 161,000 pounds for his feat.
"I surprised myself with how calm I felt," Williams told reporters.
www.gamblog.co.uk /2005/04/mark-williams-147.htm   (132 words)

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