What can you say? Just two days after completing his third career 147 during his PTC12 match against Brandon Winstone, Ding Junhui has done it again, with a further maximum break against James Cahill during the PTC11 event…
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The current flurry of 147 breaks in the professional ranks shows no signs of abating as first Matthew Stevens and then Ding Junhui added to the collection today at the PTC12 event in Sheffield. Incredibly, this marks the first time that there have been two official maximums recorded on the same day…
EDIT: In fact, this appears to actually be the second time that this is happened as both John Higgins and Stephen Maguire did in fact complete maximums during different tournaments on the 24th March 2000. Thanks to all those who spotted that!
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Away from the action at PTC10 today, an interesting story has broken on Twitter as Mike Dunn revealed that contrary to this article at World Snooker which stated that he would receive £3,500 for his maximum at the recent German Masters qualifiers, it would appear that he has now been told that he will be given the lesser sum of £2,000 instead…
Congratulations to former Scottish Open champion David Gray who today during the amateur qualifying rounds for the PTC10 event in Sheffield compiled his second career maximum break on his way to a 4-2 victory against Robbie Williams.
Hot on the heels of the 147 made by Mike Dunn at the German Masters qualifiers last week, the break is the 80th maximum made in professional competition, though interestingly it is the first to have been made by an amateur player.
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Congratulations to Redcar’s Mike Dunn who has recorded the first 147 break of his career during frame four of his match with Kurt Maflin this evening during the German Masters qualifiers. In total it is the 79th maximum break in professional competition and the perfect way for Mike to mark his 40th birthday two days ago.
There was some confusion as to whether Mike would receive receive any additional prize money for his feat and initially Mike was told that he would not, but today World Snooker have confirmed that he will in fact receive the rolling non-televised total of £3,500. While the player’s pack was silent on the issue, I feel that this is the fairest decision and in the spirit of the current system.
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Congratulations to Stephen Hendry who has tonight recorded his tenth career 147 break in the opening frame of his match against Stephen Maguire to again equal the record of Ronnie O’Sullivan at the top of the list. See how that affects the 147 list.
Courtesy of the WWWSnooker Twitter feed, you can now watch footage of Mark Williams’ 147 break over at YouTube here. Not the best quality but it is better than nothing!
Meanwhile you can also see a video here of Ding Junhui breaking off in the final frame of his match against Liang Wenbo. As a few have said recently, has there ever been a player who is worse having fallen a few frames behind?
