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Mark Williams
Mark Williams won the World Snooker Championship three times, in 2000, 2003, and a surprise return to the title in 2018 at 43, a 15-year gap between his second and third titles that made him, at the time, one of the oldest world champions in the sport's modern history. Williams's relaxed, unassuming personality and his willingness to publicly joke about his own weight and fitness level, in a sport that increasingly emphasizes players' physical conditioning, made him a fan favorite whose 2018 comeback title was celebrated as much for its improbability as for the quality of snooker he played to achieve it. His technical strength lies particularly in break-building under pressure, and Williams's ability to construct large breaks even in tense, high-stakes final-frame situations has been cited by fellow players as among the calmest under pressure of his generation. Williams's rivalry with fellow Welsh player Matthew Stevens, and his part in Wales's strong overall representation at the top of professional snooker during the 2000s, made him one of the sport's most significant non-English or Scottish champions, and his 18-year gap between first and third world titles remains one of the longest championship spans in snooker history.
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Ray Reardon
Ray Reardon won the World Snooker Championship six times during the 1970s, establishing himself as the dominant player of the sport's pre-television-boom era, before Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry's later dominance came during periods of far greater commercial exposure and prize money. Nicknamed "Dracula" for a widow's-peak hairstyle that gave him a passing resemblance to the vampire character, Reardon worked as a coal miner in Wales before turning to professional snooker, and he survived a serious mining accident that nearly killed him before finding sustained success in the sport later in life. Reardon's six world titles came at a time when the World Championship's television coverage was still developing, meaning his dominance, while statistically comparable to later champions, occurred with far less mainstream public visibility than the sport would eventually achieve during the 1980s snooker boom. Later in his career, Reardon became a mentor to a young Ronnie O'Sullivan, coaching him during a stretch of O'Sullivan's career in the mid-2000s, connecting the sport's pre-television-era dominant champion directly to the player who would go on to match his championship total decades later.
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