Mark Williams woke up on his fiftieth birthday and examined the world rankings, and he was truly proud of the number adjacent to his name.
The Welsh reached half a century last week and sits fifth in the world, which is impressive because he was hardly able to see what he was doing recently.
In the last players championship, the world champion admitted three times that his eyesight may deteriorate to the point that his game is really suffering, so contact lenses are tried for the first time in the next round championship, where the defender champion is.
“Last week I was using contacts to try to play.” Metro. “We’ll see, not easy, it’s completely different. I can see everything clearly from a braid ball up.
It is very strange. The balls look larger than ever. All pockets are clear, I can see everything. The balls look larger but a braid ball is still blurry because the contacts are intended for distance.
Eyes seem to have worsened in the three months to the past four. I can read well before but now I need reading glasses as well.
“The best way to describe is blurry, but it is also three times the size, it is like having three balls there. With contacts in only one ball and clear as a bell, but it looks much larger than usual, so it is a different angle. I haven’t seen it clear for years of ass.
Williams is famous for allowing him almost something and was not allowed to fog and fog and distant pockets that prevent him from achieving wonderful things in the period before his fifty birthday.
The final match in the major Saudi funds was wondering about his classification, but he also won the champion of the heroes this season, which is an unacceptable event, but he considered the calendar.
He returns to Manchester for the tournament he won in a serious style a year ago and there is no doubt that he is still one of the best on this planet.
“Even if the eyes are perfect, I am still happy with what I do in the age of fifty, and I compete with the players and give them running,” he said.
“When I was fifteen years old, I woke up and looked at the classification and I think I was five years old. My goal was to be 16 years old when I was 50 years old. I don’t know how it’s possible but that’s what it is. I am very proud of that. Many people did not think that I would do this well.
“I didn’t think I am still playing now, especially at the highest levels of the game.”
Of course, Williams is not the only veteran warrior who is still among the best at work, as his classmate of 92 graduates still take the majority of opponents to school.
John Higgins won the last open world to climb to the sixth place in the world, while Rooney Osoulvan is fourth despite not playing in a classification event in 2025 until now.
The missile withdrew from a series of championships, and the last performance of the tournament league in January, and doubts remain about whether it will be in Crucible next month.
Williams, like us, does not know what Osoulivan has set, but he tends towards the world championship without champion seven times this time.
“Look, I don’t know what the situation is, but if I have a guess now, I may say that he will not play,” he said. “I don’t know, I am just giving.
“He withdrew from the last championships, so it is clear that he is not ready or does not want to play and will not play in the world for 500,000 pounds for the winner [Stephen] Hindari cloak.
I don’t really think it is worried about these things. I know you, children [the media] Put it on him that he wants to go beyond Hindi [on eight world titles] But frankly, I do not think it is concerned about things like this.
O’Sallivan has overcome many events in the past, but unprecedented in the World Championship, not since his first appearance in 1993, and Williams hopes that the missile in Sheffield reaches again.
“It will be huge and it will be disappointing for our game,” he said of the 49 -year -old who may withdraw from the world.
“All the championships that anyone wins, it’s great and did it well to win it, but when it is in a championship, this is a different category.
“You get more crowd. There is more ducts. The shepherds are happy. All other players are great but the crowd only wants to come and see it, no one else. He pacates it if the first or final round is the only one who can do this. For me and the like I look forward to when he returns, it will be great.
He is the person who wants everyone to see and includes myself. If you have to pay 20-30 Quid to go and watch any cinematic player, that will be, I don’t want to watch anyone else.
It is the lot. Everything about him. The shots he goes to, breaks, charisma, get out of the matches, knock in 147, then do not go to them because the prize money is not enough. Everything about him is the reason that everyone wants to watch him playing. No one in our game is about to pull the crowds like him. The money we play now reaches its likes.
Williams will return next week to one of his most enjoyable victories, when he beat O’Sallivan 10-5 in the final of the round championship in Manchester last year.
“I do not hit him often, he is one of those who really destroy me all the time,” he said. “But winning one in a final was clearly nice.”
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