England’s Ali Carter won the English Open in style with a 9-6 victory over Mark Williams in front of his home support in Brentwood.<\/p>\n
Essex-born Carter, 47, won all-but one frame in a dominant evening session, sealing the last frame without reply to claim the winner’s prize of \u00a3100,000.<\/p>\n
Neither player had previously won the English Open, and it was Wales’ Williams who took control to lead 5-3 at the interval.<\/p>\n
However, Carter won the first two frames after the resumption to level and from there never trailed.<\/p>\n
“I thought, ‘I am going for this’. I didn’t care where the balls were today; I wasn’t going to lose this by turning down balls,” Carter told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n
“I kept potting the big shots and knocking all the difficult balls in. I am delighted.<\/p>\n
“This is very, very special.”<\/p>\n
Carter, who has Crohns disease and twice fought cancer \u2013 most recently being given the all-clear in 2014 having been diagnosed with a cancerous tumour on his lung \u2013 added: “I have been to hell and back. <\/p>\n
“I know I am not everyone’s cup of tea, but what you see is what you get.”<\/p>\n
The victory, a seventh ranking title of his career and first since 2024, also moves Carter back into the world’s top 16, moving up nine places from 25th.<\/p>\n
“It is a great achievement to pick up another trophy at 47, especially in front of my home fans,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Ali Carter won the English Open in style with a 9-6 victory over Mark Williams in front…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-623983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}