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World Snooker Championship final LIVE: Mark Williams 12-17 Zhao Xintong
Zhao needs one frame to become first Chinese player to win title at the Crucible
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Final: Williams 10-17 Zhao
Shaun Murphy
2005 world champion on BBC Two
It's amazing, the grit and determination to keep going, no matter how bad the situation looks.
If the number 17 wasn't next to Zhao Xintong's name, he would start to get a little bit worried here.
The fact he needs just one frame to be champion of the world - you would think he will get a clear chance, but he hasn't had it yet, such has been the brilliance of Mark so far tonight.
Final: Williams 10-17 Zhao
Is this going to be another frame back for Mark Williams?
His break is up to 35 and he has plenty of loose reds, although the clearance is a little more complicated by the fact that the black is only available into one corner pocket.
Williams soon rectifies that - should win the frame from here.
Final: Williams 10-17 Zhao
John Virgo
1979 UK Championship winner on BBC Two
A couple of good positional shots at the start of this visit could stand him in good stead.
Final: Williams 10-17 Zhao
Zhao Xintong gets in first in frame 28 but his break ends on six when a cut-back red stays up.
Over to you again, Mark Williams.
Final: Williams 10-17 Zhao
Steve Davis
Six-time world champion on BBC Two
He's been frozen out of a lot of it and he hasn't performed but the pressure is off for Mark Williams.
Final: Williams 10-17 Zhao
After 17 days, the handshake that preceded the final session of the 2025 World Snooker Championship.
Image source, Getty ImagesFinal: Williams 10-17 Zhao
John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two
It's small steps [on the way to a comeback] and that's another small step.
Final: Williams 10-17 Zhao
Shaun Murphy
2005 world champion on BBC Two
Absolutely incredible. They're made of strong stuff, the Class of 92.
Mark Williams is making Zhao Xintong wait for the one frame he needs to be world champion.
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Dark Matter: Well Hendry won 10 on the trot to beat White in 1992! So it's not impossible, highly unlikely but possible.
Final: Williams 9-17 Zhao
Mark Williams didn't get the job done in one visit, but he may get it done in two.
He has a 54-point lead with five reds left, but four of them are along the top cushion.
Final: Williams 8-17 Zhao
Yes. This is the first time.
There have only been three left-handed world champions - Mark Williams, Neil Robertson and Judd Trump.
We're surely about to add a fourth name to that list.
Image source, PA Media
Image source, PA MediaFinal: Williams 9-17 Zhao
Mark Williams is so unlucky at the start of the next frame.
He plays a wonderful split of the reds off two cushions with loads of right-hand side and doesn't land on an easy next red.
It's a weird and wonderful position that he gets himself into, bridging over a number of other reds, to pot the next ball and keep the break going.
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Ese Agboaye: Is it too little, too late for Mark Williams, or can he somehow claw his way from the depths of despair?
Final: Williams 9-17 Zhao
John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two
I still think it's remarkable that Mark is playing as well as he is at his age.
He's doing all he can do, we said at the start to just play every frame as if it's the final frame and see where it takes you. There's a great start with the century.
It's obviously a massive long shot but if he keeps scoring in one visit, it might make a difference.
Final: Williams 9-17 Zhao
Well played Mark Williams!
A break of 101 and he starts the final session in the best way possible - with a century break.
A huge roar from the crowd as the last black drops.
One down, nine to go for the most magnificent comeback in sporting history.
Final: Williams 8-17 Zhao
Mark Williams hasn't made a century break in this match - he deserves at least one in the final, to give the Crucible crowd a real chance to celebrate his achievements at this tournament.
With the frame safe, he'll hope to clear the colours to get to three figures.
Final: Williams 8-17 Zhao
Mark Williams is at the table trying to erode Zhao Xintong's 30-point lead and extend this match a little bit further.
Having taken the lead in frame 26, all of the reds he needs to clinch it are in the open.
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Hi. Loving the snooker coverage as always. Do we need to stop saying the "first Chinese world champion" though, given that the current women's world champion, Bai Yulu, is Chinese?
Anon
Bai won the women's world title last year and will defend that crown in her native China later this month.
Final: Williams 8-17 Zhao
Steve Sutcliffe
BBC Sport at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Lei Yang (right) and his friends are very much looking forward to this evening's concluding session.
"I have been here every year since Covid and we have been waiting for a Chinese player to get close to become the world champion for such a long time," he says.
Final: Williams 8-17 Zhao
And Zhao Xintong is in almost immediately at the start of the first frame of the concluding session.
The reds are in a bunch with 23 points the lead - this could be the key shot to split them off the black...
It looks like he's on one, but the potting attempt drifts wide.
