Mark Williams' staggering net worth and wife's public admission about their marriage
Mark Williams' staggering net worth and wife's public admission about their marriage
Mark Williams could hugely increase his net worth in the coming days.
Mark Williams has a supportive family behind him.
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Welshman Mark Williams will become the oldest semi-finalist at the Snooker World Championships since 1985.
The 50-year-old defeated John Higgins 13-12 at the Crucible in a tight contest which was tied at eight-all over night. Williams managed to nail a hugely important blue pot which he described as "probably one of my best shots in years". He is now two wins away from his first world title since 2018.
The man from Cwm has set himself up for a semi-final match with world number one Judd Trump. The latter booked his place in the final four with a victory over 2023's champion Luca Brecel. Elsewhere, Ronnie O'Sullivan faces Zhao Xintong.
Williams v Trump will be a rematch of the 2024 Saudi Arabia Masters final, where Trump took home a 10-9 victory and a £500,000 cash prize. This year's match up will take place at 7pm on Thursday, May 1.
Welshman Williams has been struggling with an eye issue lately, and will eventually require surgery. Despite his fine form at the Crucible, he has revealed to the BBC that his eyesight has deteriorated to the point where he sometimes sees "three of four balls at a time".
He has planned an operation to fix this issue, but he is now considering cancelling it to accommodate for his recent run of form in Sheffield. "I've got a big decision to make now, do I cancel my op? I don't know," he said. "I haven't played with glasses yet, that was my next step. I tried contacts, struggled with them. Looks like I'm still doing all right, half blind."
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Thanks to his success over the years, Williams has earned himself a staggering amount of money. Across his superb career in the sport, he has earned £7.1million, according to Casino.org. To put that figure into context, just for finishing second at the Saudi Arabia Masters last year, he earned £200,000. According to OLBG, he earned £438,500 in the 2023/2024 season. If he goes on to win the tournament on Monday, he will pick up £500,000 in prize money.
Williams' wife Joanne is a successful entrepreneur, and they have been married since 2011. She has a business called Maximum Travel, which she started in 2019. They have three sons together - Conor, Kian and Joel. Despite being the wife of a sporting star, she keeps a relatively low profile on social media.
She admitted that their marriage "shouldn't have worked" but they proved people wrong.
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Back in March, the couple celebrated 25 years together, with the Hartlepool-born businesswoman saying: "An English girl, a Welsh boy working on different sides of the world, it shouldn't have worked but we proved them wrong."
Joanne was outraged in 2019 after the video game Snooker 2019 left her husband off the cover, and he was the world champion at the time. She labelled World Snooker's decision to leave him out as "massive prejudice" and suggested it could be because he's Welsh. The video game account responded: "There are 128 players in the game and only space for four on the cover. We were never going to be able to please everyone so we worked with World Snooker to make the tough decision."
She wrote on X, formerly Twitter: "Snooker in general doesn't get the praise deserved and is constantly overlooked at the SPOTY awards. How do they expect others to respect the game when they don't even support their own World Champion #baffled."
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