{"id":32,"date":"2022-03-10T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/snooker\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:27:24","slug":"mark-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/mark-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mark James Williams<\/strong>,&nbsp;MBE&nbsp; is a Welsh professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who is a three-time&nbsp;World Champion, winning in&nbsp;2000,&nbsp;2003, and&nbsp;2018.&nbsp;Often noted for his single-ball long potting ability, Williams has earned the nickname &#8220;The Welsh Potting Machine&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams has been ranked the&nbsp;world number one&nbsp;player for a total of three seasons in his career (1999\u201300,&nbsp;2000\u201301, and&nbsp;2002\u201303). His most successful season to date was 2002\u201303, when he won the acclaimed treble of tournaments (known as the&nbsp;Triple Crown): the&nbsp;UK Championship, the&nbsp;Masters, and the&nbsp;World Championship. In doing so, he became only the third player, after&nbsp;Steve Davis&nbsp;and&nbsp;Stephen Hendry, to win all three Triple Crown events in one season. In addition, he is the first player (and to date, the only player) to win all three versions of the professional World Championship \u2013 the World Snooker Championship, the&nbsp;Six-red World Championship&nbsp;and the&nbsp;World Seniors Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first&nbsp;left-handed&nbsp;player to win the World Championship,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Williams_(snooker_player)#cite_note-ws_profile-1\">[<\/a><\/sup>Williams has won 24 ranking tournaments overall, including two UK Championships (1999&nbsp;and&nbsp;2002), making him&nbsp;fifth on the all-time list. He has also won the Masters on two occasions (1998&nbsp;and&nbsp;2003). His form began to decline after his second World Championship title in 2003; he then dropped out of the top 16 following the&nbsp;2007\u201308 season, but he regained his place for&nbsp;2009\u201310. Williams has compiled over 500 century breaks during his career, as well as two&nbsp;maximum breaks&nbsp;in competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark James Williams,&nbsp;MBE&nbsp; is a Welsh professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who is a three-time&nbsp;World Champion, winning in&nbsp;2000,&nbsp;2003, and&nbsp;2018.&nbsp;Often noted for his single-ball long potting ability, Williams has earned the nickname &#8220;The Welsh Potting Machine&#8221;. Williams has been ranked the&nbsp;world number one&nbsp;player for a total of three seasons in his career (1999\u201300,&nbsp;2000\u201301, and&nbsp;2002\u201303). His most successful season to date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rankings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}