Video, 00:01:00, No regrets starting Kane on bench - Stellini, Whoops! 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. 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. Video, 00:02:59. He started the 197475 snooker season with a victory in the 1974 Canadian Open, knocking out Willie Thorne and Graham Miles to reach the final, where he won 86 against Taylor. "[43], Thorburn enjoyed a resurgence in form during the 198485 season. It may have been the polar opposite to how Ronnie O'Sullivan managed it 15 years later - and started with a huge slice of luck as you'll see from the video below - but as Cliff Thorburn ground his way to perfection against Terry Griffiths, play on the other table was halted, allowing fellow Canadian Bill Werbeniuk to peep his head round the screen during the closing stages. TV O Norte | Araguana TO Thorburn led by 92 but eventually lost 910. Obvious answers come to mind: Ronnie's fastest 147, Cliff Thorburn's first WC 147, Steve Davis first televised 147. Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn CM (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. While few players would even have the audacity to attempt it on the practice table - let alone in the pressure cooker of the Crucible - he somehow potted those 36 balls with a prize fund of 147,000 on the line. [57] Trump made a maximum in the finals of the 2022 Turkish Masters[58] and the 2022 Champion of Champions. He was runner-up in two other world championships, losing 2125 to John Spencer in the 1977 final and 618 to Steve Davis in the 1983 final, and was ranked world number one during the 198182 season, becoming the first non-British player to top the world rankings. [14] He overcame Taylor 1816 in the semi-final, and twelve hours later was facing Spencer in the final. The event was also called the Goya Matchroom Trophy (1985/1986). Thailands Thepchaiya Un-Nooh holds the unwanted record of being the only player to miss on 140 twice. [34], More than one official maximum break has been compiled in the same event on more than twenty occasions. He then cleared up to make the 151. [74], At the 2016 Welsh Open, Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Barry Pinches 41 in the first round. The . Archive: Cliff Thorburn makes first Crucible 147 maximum break. So in your opinion what was the best snooker break of all time? Cliff Thorburn famously entered the record books by grinding his way to the iconic first World Championship 147 - and second ever in any tournament behind Steve Davis' frame of perfection at the 1982 Lada Classic - but it would be a nine-year wait before the next when Jimmy White thrilled the crowd en route to his third of six finals. [41] He played Steve Davis in the final. From 22 after the first four frames, Davis won four in a row to leave Thorburn behind 26, extending this to 29 at the start of the second session, and 512 at the end of the first day. The event was also called the Professional Players Tournament (1982/19831983/1984). [13] Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan has compiled 15 official competitive maximum breaks, the most achieved by any professional player. Two days later he'd be celebrating his fifth Crucible crown. [48] Thorburn experienced success in the Scottish Masters, an invitational event which opened the snooker season, in 1985 and 1986. Spencer, a three-time World Champion, had already made a maximum break three years earlier at the 1979 Holsten Lager International. To add insult to injury the feat was also missed by the TV cameramen, who were on a tea break at the time. Video, 00:01:24, Klopp uses driving analogy to explain confidence, 'Can I finish? With colours on their spots the job was all but done and Higgins held his nerve for a famous addition to his list of extraordinary World Championship achievements. Davis maximum break came during a series of exhibition matches with Willie Smith at the Leicester Square Hall. Over the 40-year history of official 147s, a small handful of players have missed the final black on 140. As Canadas Thorburn lined up the final black, commentator Jack Karnehm simply uttered the words Good luck mate. 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. In the 1980s, Thorburn experienced tremendous success. [15], Thorburn reached the final of the 1978 Masters with wins over Doug Mountjoy and Spencer, losing 57 to Higgins in the final. Neil Robertson fired the 12th 147 break in World Snooker Championship history in the 19th frame of his second round match against Jack Lisowski. Kirk Stevens - 1984 Masters 4. The break came during his second round match against Terry Griffiths. [63][64] This broke the record previously held by O'Sullivan, who made a maximum at the 1991 English Amateur Championship when he was 15 years and 98 days old. He also holds the record for the fastest competitive maximum break, at 5minutes and 8seconds, which he achieved at the 1997 World Championship. Video, 00:00:26, 'Can I finish? Video, 00:00:26, 'Can I finish? 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. Could the EFL Cup final change Karius' career? People didnt do it because the prize was so high, but I managed to do it. 'Massive performance' from Man Utd - Ten Hag. [6] He left school at the age of 16, and travelled across Canada playing pool and snooker money matches, taking jobs as a dishwasher and working on a garbage truck to help earn money for his stakes. April 25, second round v Jack Lisowski (10 mins 15 seconds). As maximums go, it was straightforward stuff, the balls apparently well-set from an early stage. Video, 00:07:07Archive: O'Sullivan's second 147, On this day: 'Rocket' Ronnie O'Sullivan's fastest 147. It had been on TV before this, however in 1977 the World Championships from Sheffield were first shown on the small screen. Legendary Joe Davis made his first 147 in 1955. [6] This was also the first televised 147. He then defeated Kirk Stevens 1312 (from 1012) in the quarter-final, and Tony Knowles 1615 (from 1315) in the semi-final. Video, 00:02:44, How 'listener' Howe has improved Newcastle, Why does who owns Manchester United matter? The Association's disciplinary committee had decided that Thorburn had brought the sport into disrepute, as a drug test that he took at the 1988 British Open showed that he had "minute traces of cocaine in his urine sample". [7] This was also the first televised maximum break. Video, 00:02:44, How 'listener' Howe has improved Newcastle, Why does who owns Manchester United matter? [62], At the age of 70, Thorburn won the 2018 Seniors Masters at the Crucible Theatre, defeating Jonathan Bagley 20 in the final. [63][64] Shortly before turning 74, he announced that the 2022 UK Seniors Championship would be his last competitive event. The 20 maximums were not achieved. The break came during his second round match against Terry Griffiths in 1983, and its construction brought play on the adjoining table to a halt. The Australian punched the air after pulling off the feat, which will net him a share of the 15,000 break prize with Graeme Dott, who scored a 147 in qualifying, as well as 40,000 for achieving it in the tournaments final stages. Davis opponent for that momentous break was John Spencer, who would have been forgiven for feeling it should have been him making snooker history. Even though it is officially recognised by the snooker governing body, it was an exhibition match and not a competitive one. So we've finally got a 147 on the 25th anniversary year of Ronnie O'Sullivan's record maximum. [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. Video, 00:16:43Archive: The first Crucible 147, Up Next. Thorburn won the match 1310. Steve Davis had played 14 hours less in reaching the final and his superior mental energy was clearly a difference with the title on the line, running out an 18-6 winner. He compiled the perfect break in the tenth frame of his 10-2 win over Rod Lawler at World Championship qualifying. [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. Video, 00:06:57On this day: 'Rocket' Ronnie O'Sullivan's fastest 147, Archive: O'Sullivan's 'best' maximum. Required fields are marked *. At the time, the professional game used a rule (now standard) whereby after a foul a player could compel the offender to play the next stroke. I understand that my consent will be asked again before any other use be made of my personal data. Video Unavailable. [46][47] O'Sullivan made one at the Northern Ireland Trophy and another at the UK Championship in 2007.[48][49]. Just a few months later Un-Nooh amazingly missed the final black again, this time in World Championship qualifying against Anthony McGill, costing him a further 9,500. In years gone by, when 147s happened rarely, there was a bonus of 147,000 on offer at the Crucible. Video, 00:01:24Klopp uses driving analogy to explain confidence, 'Can I finish? Video, 00:09:56Archive: O'Sullivan's 'best' maximum, Archive: White's wonderful 147. In 2005, Jamie Cope made snooker's first highest possible 155 break in a witnessed practice frame. 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. I'm also partial to Martin Gould's clearance against Ding 5 years ago. 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. The highest break recorded, of which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, was a score of 149 by Tony Drago in 1998. Your email address will not be published. Sign up to get exclusive content with players, features and news about tournaments. He was knocked out of the 1978 World Snooker Championship by Charlton, 1213 in the quarter-finals. Or earliest, depending on how you look at it. Firstly, there were 147s made before this as I shall explain in a moment. Video, 00:06:57, On this day: 'Rocket' Ronnie O'Sullivan's fastest 147, Archive: O'Sullivan's 'best' maximum. The first 147 to be made in a professional competitiveranking tournament came several decades later in 1979 by John Spencer. 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. Since then Stephen Hendry (1995, 2009, 2012) and Ronnie O'Sullivan (1997, 2003, 2008) have bagged three apiece, including the Rocket's mesmerising clearance in just five minute and eight seconds in 1997 which is not only the quickest of all time, by some distance, but almost unanimously regarded as the greatest. [10], Before the 199495 season, the maximum break remained a rare feat, with only 15 official maximums compiled altogether. [61] Thorburn competed on the inaugural Snooker Legends Tour in 2010. Archive: O'Sullivan's second 147. [12] He became the first player ever to retain the Masters title, and the first to win it three times. It came during the first session of his first-round match to Marco Fu, when trailing 4-2, but it couldn't prevent him suffering a 10-4 defeat the following day. '- press officer interrupts Guardiola, How 'listener' Howe has improved Newcastle. Strangely, when considering using balls, quicker was better. [60] An investigation undertaken by Deadspin in 2017, however, revealed that the time recorded by Guinness is incorrect because the timer was started too early on the BBC footage. It was the first time he had reached this stage of a major event since the 1991 European Open. Regarding the first ever 147 maximum break; Playing an exhibition match against Willie Smith in 1955 at Leicester Hall in London, Joe Davis was the first person to achieve an accredited 147 break. Tony Meo - 1988 Matchroom League 6. 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. On the final black I was feeling so good that all I was focussing on was making sure it didnt touch the edges of the pocket. 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. First 147 at the Crucible - Cliff Thorburn - YouTube World Snooker Official brings you interviews, highlights, exclusive footage and much more from the World of Snooker!Subscribe here to. Video, 00:03:36Burn hopes to end Newcastle trophy drought, Klopp uses driving analogy to explain confidence. '- press officer interrupts Guardiola. He won the 1983 Masters, recovering from 25 against Charlton to win 65 in the semi-final, and defeating Ray Reardon 97 in the final. [36] Three official maximums at the same WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association) event have been achieved twice. 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. 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. [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. For example, if a match is scheduled to have a maximum of seven frames, a player wins the game when winning a fourth frame, regardless of how many frames the other player has. Can Everton ever be great again? However, it wasnt officially ratified as the pockets were not templated. In the quarter-final, he won in the deciding frame, 1312, against Charlton. [49] He was then runner-up in the corresponding event the following two seasons, 912 to Neal Foulds in 1986, and 512 to Davis in 1987. The event was also called the British Gold Cup (1979/1980), Yamaha Organs Trophy (1980/1981) and International Masters (1981/19821983/1984). It was five minutes and eight seconds of pure snooker majesty. Video, 00:00:19Whoops! Video, 00:01:16, Up Next. Incidentally Spencer was playing Davis when he got . Only one previous televised 147 break had been made in the sport's history before Thorburn - helped by a fluked opening red . Canada's Cliff Thorburn makes snooker history by completing the first maximum 147 break at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. Hendry (seven titles), O'Sullivan (five titles), Higgins (four titles) and Williams (three titles) are the only four who have won multiple world titles and managed a Crucible maximum. That all changed in 1934 when New Zealander Murt O'Donoghue made a 147 in New South Wales in Australia. To put that into perspective, that's over a minute quicker than the next fastest by O'Sullivan in 2003. Video, 00:03:36Burn hopes to end Newcastle trophy drought, Klopp uses driving analogy to explain confidence. 'Massive performance' from Man Utd - Ten Hag. The player can nominate one of the other colours as a red, known as a free ball, which carries the same value as a red for just that shot. It uses He'd later bow out in the quarter-finals and subsequently announce his retirement with immediate but there's only one thing his last appearance here will be remembered for. 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. 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. [44] He reached the final of the Grand Prix, where he lost to Dennis Taylor 210. Spencer took the last frame of the session, leading 2220. [15], At least seven players have missed the final black on a score of 140: Robin Hull, Ken Doherty, Barry Pinches, Mark Selby,[16] Michael White,[17] Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (twice in the 201516 season),[18][19] and Liang Wenbo in a qualifying match at the 2018 World Championship, after he had already made a maximum earlier in the same match. As the Grinder leant over for the final black, commentator Jack Karnehm whispered: "Oh good luck, mate!". 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. Video, 00:01:08Why does who owns Manchester United matter? Six years later, David Gilbert made the 147th maximum at the 2019 Championship League. Video, 00:00:19, '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. Cliff Thorburn - 1983 World Championship 3. While he was completing the break, play stopped on the tournament's second table because his friend and fellow Canadian Bill Werbeniuk wanted to watch. The following are maximum breaks played in frames that won the match. [74], Thorburn's record in ranking tournament finals is shown below.[12]. Could the EFL Cup final change Karius' career? He managed to get perfectly on the last black, only to rattle it in the jaws. [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. Two frames later, Liang agonisingly missed the final black on 140. There have been 12 maximum breaks in World Championship history, including three each from Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry. Video, 00:00:58, 'Massive performance' from Man Utd - Ten Hag, No regrets starting Kane on bench - Stellini. Un-Nooh is renowned as one of the fastest players on the circuit. Thank you. However, when I got backstage a young boy asked for my autograph and I couldnt sign it as my hand was shaking so much.. '- press officer interrupts Guardiola, How 'listener' Howe has improved Newcastle. It was here that Steve Davis completed a 147 against John Spencer a year earlier, but went under the radar for many and is barely remembered. Cliff unfortunately holds neither of these titles. PLUS look out for special ticket offers and priority booking windows for the big events. Interestingly, the closest anyone has ever got to breaking the 'impossible' record in any event is O'Sullivan himself during the 2003 World Championship when clocking a time of 6:30 against Marco Fu. Painted by the artist Michael Myers, the work is on display at the Macdonald St. Paul's Hotel in Sheffield. Silver Member. The noise that greeted this achievement could only have been surpassed had he managed to win any of his six finals. Obviously not a race but here's how all the Crucible 147s - now including Neil Robertson - looked after 5 minutes and 8 seconds. [31], He won the Canadian Open for a third successive year in 1980, defeating Griffiths 1710 in the final,[32] and was part of the Canada Team that reached the final of the 1980 World Challenge Cup, where they lost 58 to Wales. A 149 by Tony Drago in West Norwood, London in 1998 is recorded by the Guinness Book of Records as the highest in this category. Years later, Ronnie O'Sullivan did it in only five minutes and twenty seconds. Thereafter, players who made a maximum would win or share a tournament's highest break prize, although some events still offer a separate bonus for a 147. There was 44,000 on the line during Un-Noohs maximum attempt against Neil Robertson at the 2015 UK Championship. - 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. [74] A maximum break is worth 5,000 in the televised stages and 500 in qualifying stages of major ranking events. [73], In the 201112 season World Snooker introduced a roll-over system for the maximum break prize money, the "rolling 147 prize". Video, 00:02:59Could the EFL Cup final change Karius' career? His second indelible mark on the Crucible. A Lada car. Thorburn last qualified for the World Championship in 1994, where he faced Nigel Bond in the first round. Video, 00:01:08Why does who owns Manchester United matter? At least five breaks in excess of 147 have been recorded. His 148 came in the qualifying rounds of the 2004 UK Championship. 2023 BBC. Mark Williams (2005), Ali Carter (2008), John Higgins (2020) and Neil Robertson (2022) are the only other two players to have managed 147s in the World Championship at the Crucible. Video, 00:02:44How 'listener' Howe has improved Newcastle. [62], Sean Maddocks is recognised by Guinness World Records as the youngest player to have made a maximum break in any recognised competition. 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! "Produzir contedo de qualidade voltado para um pblico que no tem a internet como principal fonte de informao". He potted brown, brown, 13 blacks, pink and blue. This was eleven minutes of wonderful exciting TV. Some breaks exceeding 147 have been reported in non-tournament settings: Below is a list of maximum breaks by player, as of 16 February 2023.[32][33]. 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