[104][105] Thorburn's record in non-ranking tournament finals is shown below. Under this convention the break would have been timed at 5 minutes and 15 seconds. In 2003 he also compiled two consecutive maximum breaks against Steve Davis in an exhibition match. 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. After fluking the first ball, he meticulously picked off the remaining reds with blacks. Neil Robertson fired the 12th 147 break in World Snooker Championship history in the 19th frame of his second round match against Jack Lisowski. The Rocket, who was just 21 and four years away from his first of five Crucible crowns, compiled his break during a 10-6 first-round victory over Mick Price and it won him a whopping 147,000. 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! '- press officer interrupts Guardiola. 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. John Higgins Makes Maiden Crucible Maximum Break! [45] He also reached the final of the Classic in January 1985, where he met Thorne, the latter winning five frames in a row to win 138 after the pair had been tied at 88. Mark Selby made the 100th officially recognised maximum break in professional competition on 7December 2013 in the seventh frame of his semi-final match against Ricky Walden at the UK Championship. [34], More than one official maximum break has been compiled in the same event on more than twenty occasions. However, the first televised 147, in any ratified tournament, was by Steve Davis of England at the Lada Classic in Oldham, UK, on 11 January 1982. This effort also goes into the history books for being the first 147 to seal a victory at the Crucible and the second to win a match anywhere. O'Sullivan also holds the record for the fastest competitive maximum break at just over five minutes, which he set at the 1997 World Championship. Video, 00:01:08Why does who owns Manchester United matter? Originally Posted by 1lawyer View Post. He was knocked out of the 1978 World Snooker Championship by Charlton, 1213 in the quarter-finals. - Ten Hag almost forgets EFL Cup. Ironically it was actually John Spencer who had the first 147 in a televised tournament a few years earlier. Thorburns break lasted 16 minutes and four seconds. "[43], Thorburn enjoyed a resurgence in form during the 198485 season. Stephen Hendry's second Crucible maximum helped him surge into a 5-2 lead over Shaun Murphy during the first session of their quarter-finals but he was unable to go on and keep alive his quest for a first world title of the Millennium, losing 13-11. At the same venue 14 years later, Ronnie OSullivan completed a 147 in less than a third of that time. 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. [6][26] In 2009 Jimmy White and Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled consecutive maximum breaks at an exhibition match in Ireland. [75] If a maximum is not made then the prize rolls over to the next event until somebody wins it. 2023 BBC. He potted brown, brown, 13 blacks, pink and blue. Your email address will not be published. Can Everton ever be great again? You are using an out of date browser. He retired from competitive snooker after the 2022 UK Seniors Championship. Steve Davis - 1982 Lada Classic 2. But this tale has a happy ending as the charismatic Thai went on to make 147s at the 2016 Paul Hunter Classic and 2018 English Open, earning a total of 48,500. [74] A maximum break is worth 5,000 in the televised stages and 500 in qualifying stages of major ranking events. It came in the fourth frame of his second round clash with Terry Griffiths. Maximum breaks have become more frequent in professional snooker. [37] The match against Griffiths ended at 3:51am, Thorburn emerging as the winner, 1312. He then took 14 reds and blacks and a pink off the last red. means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. Joe Davis made the first officially recognised maximum break in a 1955 exhibition match in London. The event was also called the Matchroom League (1978/19791980/1981). - World Snooker", "Hot-shot Sam's top 151 frame is not just down to spot of pot luck", "Hong Kong's Marco Fu warms up for World Snooker Championships with rare 149 break in practice match", "Ken Doherty makes first tournament 147 break at the Arcaden Paul Hunter Classic", "UK Championship Auch Lisowski gelingt ein Maximum-Break", "John Higgins racks up maximum break at UK Championship", "Maximum Man Ding Beats Allen In Classic", "Murphy produces maximum magic at Championship League", "Ronnie O'Sullivan makes 147 maximum at UK Championship", "Marco Fu's 147: Watch Fu's maximum break at the Masters", "Davis Makes First 147 To Win CLS Group Three", "English Open: Thepchaiya Un-Nooh makes 147, wins for John Higgins & Jimmy White", "Higgins Fires in Magic Crucible Maximum", "Judd Trump hits 'unbelievable' maximum 147 break in opening frame of second-round match at Scottish Open", "2005 Embassy World Championship: The Crucible Match Notes Last 32", "Ronnie O'Sullivan hits cheeky 147 break in World Open", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maximum_break&oldid=1139801128, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing potentially dated statements from March 2022, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Why does who owns Manchester United matter? Video, 00:00:26'Can I finish? They were already open when I came to the table against Terry Griffiths and I felt pretty good about things. The event was also called the Dubai Masters (1988/1989) and Dubai Classic (1989/19901994/1995). "[57] He played for Canada in the 1996 World Cup, where his team reached the quarter-finals. Read about our approach to external linking. This, of course, was 12 months after that agonising 18-17 defeat and the fourth time he'd lost to the Scotsman in his six Crucible finals. As of 2023, Ronnie O'Sullivan holds the record for the most maximum breaks in professional competition, with 15. Video, 00:07:26Can Everton ever be great again? In 2005, Jamie Cope made snooker's first highest possible 155 break in a witnessed practice frame. [61] Breaks are not officially timed in snooker and the official rules of snooker do not specify how they should be timed, instead leaving the timing to the discretion of the broadcaster. This was also the first televised 147. People didnt do it because the prize was so high, but I managed to do it. [74], At the 2016 Welsh Open, Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Barry Pinches 41 in the first round. [7][8] He made six century breaks in winning the North American championship in 1971, equalling the record, jointly held by Joe Davis and George Chenier, for most century breaks in a single tournament. I understand that my consent will be asked again before any other use be made of my personal data. - 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. [27] Thorburn is generally regarded as the first player from outside the United Kingdom to win the world championship, Horace Lindrum's victory in the 1952 World Snooker Championship usually being disregarded. Thorburn would later have fortune on his side to sneak through 13-12 during a final session that lasted more than seven hours and finished at 3.51am - still the latest finish in Crucible history. - Ten Hag almost forgets EFL Cup. Steve Davis made the first ever official 147 at the 1982 Lada Classic. In the fifth frame of the match, O'Sullivan declined the opportunity to make a maximum break, potting the pink off the penultimate red and completing a break of 146. He is generally recognised as the sport's first world champion from outside the United Kingdom (since the title won by Australian Horace Lindrum in 1952 is usually disregarded) and remains the only world champion from the Americas. Simon Thomson Cliff Thorburn's first ever Crucible maximum break Steve Davis v John Spencer, 1982 Lada Classic quarter-finals Steve Davis scores the first televised 147 in the Lada Classic Jimmy. [39] The 2012 FFB Snooker Open, 2017 German Masters and 2018 Paul Hunter Classic are the only WPBSA events where two maximums were made on the same day. So we've finally got a 147 on the 25th anniversary year of Ronnie O'Sullivan's record maximum. Un-Nooh is renowned as one of the fastest players on the circuit. [12] In the 197879 snooker season he defeated Tony Meo 1715 in the final to win the 1978 Canadian Open after having trailed 610 at the end of the first day of the final,[16] but lost his opening matches in both the Masters (45 to Perrie Mans) and the World Championship (1013 to John Virgo). Later that year, he had a 40 win over Pat Houlihan at the 1973 Norwich Union Open before losing 24 to Higgins in the quarter-final. You'd have thought Jimmy White had already suffered enough punishment at the hands of Stephen Hendry by the time they locked horns in the 1995 semi-finals. [20] He led David Taylor 53 after their first semi-final session, and 114 at the end of the second. [3] In July 1970, he reportedly made a maximum break of 147 in a non-competitive game against Fred Hardwick. Another milestone came at the 1983 World Championship when Cliff Thorburn compiled the first 147 break to be made at the Crucible. Canada's Cliff Thorburn makes snooker history by completing the first maximum 147 break at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. The first 147 to be made in a professional competitiveranking tournament came several decades later in 1979 by John Spencer. 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Video, 00:16:43, Up Next. It was clocked at five minutes 20 seconds at the time but in recent years it's been correctly altered to 5:08, which averages out at roughly 8.5 seconds per shot. The first was by Wally West, who was reported to have made a 151 break in the final of a club competition in Hounslow in 1976. [68][69], The youngest player to have made an officially recognised maximum break in professional competition is Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon, who compiled a 147 at the 2010 RheinMain Masters when he was aged 16 years and 312 days. He was told that his mother had died, but, aged twenty, learnt that she was still alive. So, due to the extensive BBC TV coverage it is widely thought that Cliff Thorburn made either the first ever 147 or indeed the first televised 147. Archive: O'Sullivan's second 147. Tony Meo - 1988 Matchroom League 6. [6] This was also the first televised 147. Richard . pic.twitter.com/PoE9RBEcNh. The break came during his second-round match against Terry Griffiths in 1983. What a moment it must be for Cliff Thorburn! Read about our approach to external linking. A Lada car. [26][29] The first official maximum break in professional competition was made by Steve Davis in the 1982 Lada Classic against Spencer. [3] Thorburn had been number two in the 1980/1981 world rankings, and reached number one in the 1981/1982 rankings. Unfortunately for the Scot, he missed out on the maximum break prize which is only awarded for a 147, or if a free ball is used, a 155. Could the EFL Cup final change Karius' career? [68], His instruction book, Cliff Thorburn's Snooker Skills, was published in 1987 by Hamlyn, and his autobiography, Playing for Keeps, co-written with Everton, was published by Partridge Press in the same year. The 1996 World Cup, where his team reached the quarter-finals the circuit 198485 season in. 12Th 147 break to be made at the 2016 Welsh open, Ronnie compiled... 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