Six Red Final Mark II
Mark Williams has beaten Barry Hawkins to reach the final of the 888sport.com 6 Red World Championship where he will face Mark Davis for the title.
Williams was in control from the first shot which left Hawkins snookered on all six reds, which Williams took clinically for a break of 46 to win the first frame.
He won the second and third without his opponent potting a ball, and extended his lead to four-nil in the next.
Hawkins, the world number 17 managed to avoid the dreaded whitewash in the fifth but in the sixth the Welshman booked his spot in the first world final.
Davis lost the opening two frames against Mark King in their semi-final, with the world number 16 making a seven-red (free ball) clearance of 75 in the second.
King squandered chances as Davis took three close frames to lead for the first time. Although he managed to level at three-all, it was Davis who took the last two without his opponent scoring a point and book his final place.
Williams, no stranger to world finals, having won two and lost one in the 15-red pure form of the game will start as the bookies favourite. But as we have seen all week, the shortened format has a habit of throwing up surprise results.
Earlier in the tournament, ladies world champion, Reanne Evans beat her more illustrious counterpart, John Higgins in the group stages and it was King who finally ended the Scots hopes of doing the ‘double’ in the quarter final stage.
Williams and King will move on from Ireland to Cardiff for the new one-day, ONEFORSEVEN tournament in Cardiff on Monday for the final event of the decade.
