Even by Ronnie O’Sullivan’s standards, tonight we saw something special from him as he not only defeated Ding Junhui 9-3 to win the Welsh Open title for the third time in his career, but did so with a record 12th maximum break in the final frame.
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There were some 13 years between his first two competitive maximum breaks, but hot on the heels of his second effort at the Championship League last month, Shaun Murphy has today made his third career 147 break in the final frame of his 4-2 win against Jamie Jones at the Gdynia Open event in Poland.
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Day three at Crondon Park this week has seen two notable feats achieved, as first Shaun Murphy notched up the first 147 maximum break of 2014, while Neil Robertson produced a mesmerising display against Joe Perry to break the record for the amount of centuries recorded in a single season – and we are only in January!
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Just four days after Mark Selby made the 100th maximum break in professional snooker at the UK Championship, today saw Thailand’s Dechawat Poomjaeng follow suit with 147 number 101 in Barnsley.
Playing in the German Masters qualifiers against amateur Zak Surety today, Dechawat made his first career 147 break during the fourth frame, to take a 3-1 lead at the mid-session interval.
Poomjaeng’s effort earns him a bonus of £2,500, while he also went on to claim a 5-3 victory to book his place at the venue stages in Berlin.
The referee was also the first officiated by referee Greg Coniglio, who joins the list of referees to have presided over a maximum in professional snooker.
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Congratulations to Mark Selby, who has today made the 100th maximum break in professional competition, during the opening session of his semi-final with Ricky Walden.
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Congratulations to Judd Trump, who has this evening hit the first maximum 147 break of his professional career, at the ET7 event in Antwerp.
Coming in the third frame of his last 32 match against Mark Selby, the break is the 99th maximum in snooker history and earns Judd the rolling PTC maximum prize of £3,500, provided that the break is not equalled during the remainder of the weekend.
Despite the landmark, Judd was to eventually lose the match 4-3, meaning that he will not repeat his title success in Antwerp from two years ago.
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Congratulations to Australia’s Neil Robertson, who today hit his second career maximum break, during the second frame of his 5-0 victory against Egypt’s Mohamed Khairy at the 2013 Wuxi Classic qualifiers.
The 98th 147 break in all, this has to go down as one of the best, as Neil produced a series of stunning pots, with the balls in far from straight-forward positions, right until the final black.
Bagging him the rolling qualifiers prize of £3,000, providing that the break is not equalled today or tomorrow, the run follows his first maximum at the 2010 China Open in Beijing, which came shortly before he lifted the world title for the first time at the Crucible.
The maximum is the first at the South West Snooker Academy in a ranking event and the fourth overall in competition.
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The action meanwhile continues at the South West Snooker Academy, click here to view all of the scores so far.
Congratulations to Jack Lisowski who has today equalled the feat of Andy Hicks yesterday to make his first career maximum break at the 2012 UK Championship qualifiers. Coming during the third frame of his 6-2 win against Chen Zhe, the break is the 94th officially recorded 147 in snooker history and earns him a share of the £2,500 top prize, plus half of the £500 pre-TV high break prize.