Williams wins Finnish Snooker Challenge

The revival of Mark J Williams continued this weekend as he defeated home favourite Robin Hull to win the Finnish Snooker Challenge yesterday…

Cheers to Teo for the information.

Finland might not be there first country that comes to mind when you hear the word snooker but do not let that fool you because as well as some of the top local players, the Finnish Challenge this weekend also attracted a number of professional players including Mark, Matthew Stevens, Ken Doherty and Ryan Day.

Unsurprisingly the most successful home player proved to be former professional Robin Hull who defeated Ken Doherty, Matthew Stevens and Welsh veteran Darren Morgan to progress to the final.

That was to prove one step too far however as Williams, fresh from victories overin one of the round-robin groups).
One of the reasons it was so well attended by the professionals I believe is that the prize money was quite good for a pro-am (I think it was 6500 pounds for the winner..also good match practice for the pros!). Actually this event was probably the strongest, playerwise, that has ever been arranged in the whole of scandinavia!
Apart from the century in the final, there were several other centuries, and I believe Matthew Stevens had the highest break with a 133.

Finland and snooker isn´t that odd a combination by the way: apart from Robin Hull being quite successful, snooker has always been quite popular in this country, as a tv-sport and since the late 80´s also as a competitive sport with its own