Today marks the halfway stage of the 2012 UK Championship qualifiers at the EIS, Sheffield and so far the headline story is the 147 break made by Andy Hicks today, during his second round match against Daniel Wells. Click below for a round-up of the action so far…
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Congratulations to Leicester’s Tom Ford, who has just made his second career maximum break during his last 32 match against Matthew Stevens at the ET4 event in Bulgaria. Coming from his very first shot, Tom looked to be fully in control throughout the break and despite at least three kicks during it, never looked like missing.
The biggest hurdle came as he potted the last difficult red down the right-side cushion, only to suffer a kick and leave the cue ball low on the black. Tom though played a terrific shot to send the cue ball in and out of baulk, missing the baulk colours and leaving himself on the next red.
The maximum is Tom’s second in professional competition, the first having come in 2007 at the Grand Prix against Steve Davis, and earns him £2,500 from the rolling prize fund, unless somebody else makes another during this event.
The break was officiated by Nico De Vos, marking the first time that he has been in charge of a 147.
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Judd Trump leads John Higgins 7-2 after a tremendous opening session of snooker at the 2012 Shanghai Masters final, but it was not all bad news for the four-time world champion as in frame six of the match, he hit the sixth maximum break of his career. Click below for more…
Congratulations to Ireland’s Ken Doherty, who today made the 90th maximum break in professional competition and the first of his 22-year professional career.
The max came during frame three of his 4-0 victory against Germany’s Julian Treiber, and provided it is not equalled during the remaining two days of the event, will earn the former world champion £1,500 from the rolling prize fund…
Congratulations to Stuart Bingham who this morning has become the third player to make a maximum break of 147 in a ranking-event final, during the sixth frame of his Wuxi Classic title match with Ricky Walden.
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Congratulations to Marco Fu who has this morning made the second maximum break of his professional career in the sixth frame of his last 48 match against Matt Selt. The 86th 147 in professional competition and the first of 2012, the break puts Marco 4-2 ahead and at the time of writing within a frame of a place at the venue. Provided that nobody else makes one in the competition, the break will also earn Marco a £500 bonus, though given the recent flurry of maximum breaks that is hardly something that can be taken for granted.
As a side-note, the break also represents the fourth professional 147 officiated by referee Andy Yates, following those of Tom Ford, Liang Wenbo and Kurt Maflin in previous seasons.
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Congratulations to Jamie Cope who has tonight made the third maximum break of his career against Kurt Maflin, becoming the latest player to have made a 147 break during this recent flurry that we are seeing in the professional game.
The 85th maximum break on record, this one lifts Cope into a select group of six players to have made three or more during their professional careers and earns him a £250 share of the maximum prize for this event following Ding Junhui’s effort yesterday.
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A full round-up of the rankings situation following the first two days of PTC11 will follow later this evening…
