Mark Williams vs David Gilbert Prediction: An entertaining match ahead

Mark Williams will play David Gilbert in the ⅛ round of The Masters. Mark Williams is the favorite of this match, while David Gilbert is the underdog. We look into the details of the match below.

Mark Williams is playing this match with the intention of advancing to the knockout stage. Since the Welsh athlete is the betting favorite, we anticipate that he will play at a high level. Williams began his professional career in 1992 and has already achieved three No. 1 rankings around the globe (1999–00, 2000–01, and 2002–03). In 2002–03, he had his most successful season ever, as he swept the UK Championship, the Masters, and the World Championship. That made him only the third player ever, along with Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry, to sweep the Triple Crown in a single year. He is the first and only player to win the World Snooker Championship, the Six-red World Championship, and the World Seniors Championship at the professional level.

David Gilbert will be looking to turn things around in this encounter. The Englishman enters this match having lost three consecutive matches. But we anticipate that he will enter this match with strength and determination. Gilbert, who had never been past the round of 16 in a ranking event before, lost 5-10 to John Higgins in the final of the 2015 International Championship. When he made a maximum score of 147 in the Championship League on January 22, 2019, he set a new record. On May 4, 2019, he was defeated by John Higgins 16–17 in the decisive last frame of the World Snooker Championship. After 22 years in the industry, Gilbert finally won a world championship when he defeated Mark Allen 3-1 in the 2021 Championship League final on August 13.

It is anticipated that Mark Williams will prevail in this match. The Welsh player has defeated David Gilbert in the most recent three matches they've played against one another. Because David Gilbert has never won any of his previous three matches, we do not anticipate him being in the best form for this match.