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The Canadian legend then kept ardent snooker fans awake until 2.12am when defeating Kirk Stevens by the same scoreline in the quarter-finals, and then came through another final-frame decider to beat Tony Knowles 16-15 in the semi-finals! Video, 00:00:26, 'Can I finish? So in your opinion what was the best snooker break of all time? Neil Robertson fired the 12th 147 break in World Snooker Championship history in the 19th frame of his second round match against Jack Lisowski. [59] Playing as an amateur again, he won the pro-am Canadian Amateur Championship in 2001; he had previously won the tournament in 1974, 1975, 1976, and 1977. Spencer built a 42 lead at the end of the first session, but Thorburn won four of the next six frames and they finished the second session level at 66. [73], In the 201112 season World Snooker introduced a roll-over system for the maximum break prize money, the "rolling 147 prize". Thorburn last qualified for the World Championship in 1994, where he faced Nigel Bond in the first round. To put that into perspective, that's over a minute quicker than the next fastest by O'Sullivan in 2003. Peter Ebdon compiled two maximum breaks during an 11-frame exhibition match at Eastbourne Police Club on 15 April 1996. Thank you. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, the governing body for professional snooker, first published official world rankings for players on the main tour for the 197677 season. [21][22] Jamie Cope compiled a break of 155 points, the highest possible free-ball break, during practice in 2005. Alex Higgins: The Man Who Changed Snooker, Sport Resolutions have appointed Ian Mill KC to chair the Independent Disciplinary Hearing for the ten snooker play, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement. What a moment it must be for Cliff Thorburn! In 2018 Liang Wenbo came close to becoming the first player to make two 147s in the same match. Two frames later, Liang agonisingly missed the final black on 140. Video, 00:02:44How 'listener' Howe has improved Newcastle. By this point, having never lost a World Championship match, Davis had stopped playing in snookers biggest event so not to risk damaging his reputation with any potential defeats. Video, 00:02:59. He retired from competitive snooker after the 2022 UK Seniors Championship. He averaged just 8.6 seconds a shot during the 147, which was the first of a record 15 maximums he has made so far in his career. It uses [54][55] He lost the semi-final 05 to Ronnie O'Sullivan. Video, 00:00:58'Massive performance' from Man Utd - Ten Hag, No regrets starting Kane on bench - Stellini. There was 44,000 on the line during Un-Noohs maximum attempt against Neil Robertson at the 2015 UK Championship. Thorburn, receiving 28 points start in each frame, claims to have beaten Higgins in every frame they played, and that Higgins refused to pay up. Video, 00:00:58'Massive performance' from Man Utd - Ten Hag, No regrets starting Kane on bench - Stellini. Watch more: Fighting Talk goes Snooker Loopy, Archive: The first Crucible 147. [42] There have been at least five non-tournament matches where more than one maximum was compiled. [59], O'Sullivan's first 147 break against Mick Price in their second round tie at the 1997 World Snooker Championship set the record for the fastest maximum in the history of the game. In the 1980s and 1990s, some players received 147,000 for making a maximum break, but as the frequency of maximums increased, the reward was changed to a rolling prize pot that began at 5,000, leading to discontent among players. [23] Writing in The Times, Sydney Friskin described the match to this point as a contrast of styles: "the shrewd cumulative processes of Thorburn against the explosive break-building of Higgins". Can Everton ever be great again? Painted by the artist Michael Myers, the work is on display at the Macdonald St. Paul's Hotel in Sheffield. Willie Thorne - 1987 UK Championship 5. Video, 00:07:26Can Everton ever be great again? 'That' maximum remains as unfathomable now as it was back then and arguably the most unbreakable record in sport. The break came during his second round match against Terry Griffiths in . [76] Individual prizes for a maximum break were phased out at the beginning of the 201920 snooker season, with a 1 million bonus on offer for the season if 20 or more were made during the season. The Captain achieved the feat just a day after Ronnie O'Sullivan's effort against Mark Williams while his opponent Peter Ebdon had incredibly come agonisingly close in the previous frame by missing the 15th black! Davis maximum break came during a series of exhibition matches with Willie Smith at the Leicester Square Hall. It came in the fourth frame of his second round clash with Terry Griffiths. Read about our approach to external linking. Spencer won three frames in a row to lead 2118, and Thorburn took the next two to trail by a single frame. Firstly, there were 147s made before this as I shall explain in a moment. '- press officer interrupts Guardiola. In fact the highest possible break is not 147, it is 155 if a free ball is available before a red is potted, effectively meaning there are 16 reds on the table. Thorburn fluked a pot on the green ball in the deciding frame, to leave White requiring penalty points from Thorburn to win. Archive: O'Sullivan's second 147. Thorburn built a 1311 lead during the fourth session, and extended it to 1511 before Spencer won four consecutive frames to make it 1515; the next session again saw them share the frames, finishing at 1818. - Ten Hag almost forgets EFL Cup. It had been on TV before this, however in 1977 the World Championships from Sheffield were first shown on the small screen. Video, 00:02:59Could the EFL Cup final change Karius' career? means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. [24], The first known maximum break in practice was made by Murt O'Donoghue at Griffith, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, on 26 September 1934. [5], John Spencer compiled a maximum break in the 1979 Holsten Lager International. It was five minutes and eight seconds of pure snooker majesty. Relive Thorburn's historic Crucible 147. His actual final score was 151. Steve Davis - 1982 Lada Classic 2. ), who passed away either last year or the year before. However this accreditation was later revokedas official,due tothe pockets on the table being wider than the regulation size. [3] Thorburn had been number two in the 1980/1981 world rankings, and reached number one in the 1981/1982 rankings. The 20 maximums were not achieved. One of snookers founding fathers, Davis was already a ground-breaking individual in the history of the sport. Thorburn won the match 1310. Or earliest, depending on how you look at it. In the evening, he played cards and drank alcohol with friends until 5:00am, resuming the match the next day by winning the first five frames in succession. Video, 00:01:24, Klopp uses driving analogy to explain confidence, 'Can I finish? Tournament games are won when one of the players manages to win more than half of the scheduled frames. The footage went viral and Un-Nooh was invited on to Chris Evans show TFI Friday on Channel 4 to recreate the shot, which he sportingly potted before being handed a pint of lager by Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe. Its 40 years to the day since Steve Davis compiled the first officially recognised maximum break. They were already open when I came to the table against Terry Griffiths and I felt pretty good about things. John Higgins ended an eight-year stretch without a Crucible maximum by making his first, against Norway's Kurt Maflin. Of the eight Crucible maximum-makers, White and Carter are the only players not to win a world title but they did both reach finals on numerous occasions, with the Whirlwind doing so in 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994 and Carter managing it in 2008 and 2012. There have been 12 maximum breaks in World Championship history, including three each from Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry. [8][27] Rex Williams made the first maximum break in a competitive match against Manuel Francisco, Professionals v. Amateurs, on 23 December 1965 in Cape Town. [18], Thorburn had defeated Virgo 61 in the round robin phase of the 1980 Bombay International, but lost 713 to him in the final. He won the invitational Masters in 1983, 1985, and 1986, making him the first player to win the Masters three times and the first to retain the title. [12] He became the first player ever to retain the Masters title, and the first to win it three times. [34], More than one official maximum break has been compiled in the same event on more than twenty occasions. '- press officer interrupts Guardiola. [3] In the quarter-final, he beat Jim Wych 136, having led 53, and 106. [69][70][71] Thorburn is the head coach for cue sports at the Canadian Billiards and Snooker Association,[72] director of coaching and an ambassador for the Pan American Billiards & Snooker Association,[73] and a member of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association International Expert Coaching Advisory Panel. [36], In 1983, Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum break at the World Championship,[37] during the fourth frame of his second-round match against Griffiths,[3] and only the second player to make an official maximum in professional competition (after Davis at the 1982 Classic). [18] He won 53 against Virgo in the first round of the 1980 Masters, then lost 35 to Griffiths in the quarter-final. Can Everton ever be great again? - Ten Hag almost forgets EFL Cup, '22m followers doesn't make it a 50-50 fight' Video, 00:00:57'22m followers doesn't make it a 50-50 fight', Burn hopes to end Newcastle trophy drought. Two days later he'd be celebrating his fifth Crucible crown. Cliff Thorburn 147 - First ever 147 at the Crucible - 1983 WSC - YouTube 0:00 / 18:50 Cliff Thorburn 147 - First ever 147 at the Crucible - 1983 WSC Johnny S 381 subscribers. Video, 00:00:26'Can I finish? Im a much more confident player now and take my time a bit more. [50][51] He compiled another maximum break in the 1989 Matchroom League, during a match against White. Video, 00:03:36, Burn hopes to end Newcastle trophy drought, Klopp uses driving analogy to explain confidence. Thorburn took the first two frames of the third session, and it finished with them level again, at 99. 1. In the 1974 World Snooker Championship he defeated Alex McDonald 83 in qualifying then lost 48 to Paddy Morgan in the first round. Video, 00:01:16, Up Next. Play briefly stopped on the other table as Anthony McGill and Judd Trump crossed the divide to congratulate Robertson, who pulled level with Lisowski at 10-10 at the mid-session interval. The youngest player to have made a televised 147 is Ding Junhui at the age of 19 years and 9 months in the 2007 Masters. In the 34th frame, leading 459 in points, he laid a snooker for Higgins, and made a 51 break after that to win the title. - Ten Hag almost forgets EFL Cup, '22m followers doesn't make it a 50-50 fight' Video, 00:00:57'22m followers doesn't make it a 50-50 fight', Burn hopes to end Newcastle trophy drought. Richard . Paddy Morgan in the 1979 Holsten Lager International as it was five minutes and eight seconds of pure majesty! 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