Ronnie O'Sullivan Fastest 147 in History 5 minutes 20 seconds 1997 World Championship - YouTube Ronnie O'Sullivan Fastest 147 in History 5 minutes 20 seconds 1997 World Championship Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 10, 2013 Ronald Antonio "Ronnie" O'Sullivan (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player from Chigwell, Essex. He is the reigning World Snooker Champion, having won the title for a fifth time in 2013. O'Sullivan turned professional in 1992, at the age of 16. Known for his rapid playing style, he soon earned the nickname "The Rocket".

He won his first ranking title, the 1993 UK Championship, one week before his 18th birthday, and still holds the record as the youngest player ever to win a professional ranking tournament. He has won a total of 25 ranking titles in his career to date, including five World Championship and four UK Championship titles, and was ranked world number one for five seasons between 2002/2003 and 2009/2010. His non-ranking tournament achievements include four Masters and ten Premier League titles and winning the Nations Cup with England in 2000. O'Sullivan is joint third with John Higgins on the list of players to have won the most ranking titles, and is fourth behind Stephen Hendry, Ray Reardon, and Steve Davis on the list of players to have won the most World Championships in the modern era. With career earnings of over £7 million, he is second after Hendry on snooker's all-time prize-money list.

He is also second behind Hendry on the list of players making the most competitive century breaks, with a total of 701.[4] He has compiled 11 maximum breaks in professional competition, a record he shares with Hendry. At the 1997 World Championship, he set the record for the fastest competitive maximum break at 5 minutes 20 seconds. On 21 April 1997, while playing Mick Price in the first round of the World Championship, O'Sullivan made the fastest ever competitive maximum break in 5 minutes 20 seconds, an average of one shot every 8.8 seconds. This was also O'Sullivan's first maximum break in professional competition. Category Ronnie O' Sullivan Fastest 147 in History - 5 minutes 20 seconds - 1997 World Championship - YouTube Ronnie O' Sullivan Fastest 147 in History - 5 minutes 20 seconds - 1997 World Championship Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading...

Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Mar 14, 2012 This legendary snooker player has made snooker look so easy. That was his first 147 in crucible theater in 1997 World Championship. Since then, he has made 11 official 147 Maximum breaks, and it was his 1st Official 147. Category World Records - snooker.org Awards | Odd Stuff | World Records | Managers Snooker World Records Here are the (unofficial) snooker world records that I have collected. If you notice any errors or know of any other records, please let me know. World Championships Most Titles The World Professional Championship (instituted 1927) was won a record 15 times by Joe Davis, on the first 15 occasions it was contested 1927-40 and 1946.

The most wins in the Amateur Championships (instituted 1963) have been two by; Gary Owen in 1963 and 1966; Ray Edmonds 1972 and 1974; and Paul Mifsud (Malta) 1985-86. Allison Fisher (b. 24 Feb 1968) has won seven Women's World Championships, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1991, 1993-94. Maureen Baynton (née Barrett) won a record eight Women's Amateur Championships between 1954 and 1968, as well as seven at billiards. Youngest The youngest man to win a world title is Michael White (Wales) (b. 5 Aug 1991) who was 14 yr 210 days when he won the World Amateur Snooker Championships in Prestatyn, Wales on 3 Mar 2006. Stephen Hendry (Scotland) (b.

13 Jan 1969) became the youngest World Professional Champion, at 21 yr 106 days on 29 Apr 1990. Stacey Hillyard (b. 5 Sep 1969) won the Women's World Amateur Championship in October 1984 at the age of 15. Highest Breaks Maximum Breaks The first to achieve the maximum break of 147 was E.J. Murt O'Donoghue (New Zealand) (1901-94) at Griffiths, New South Wales, Australia on 26 Sep 1934. The first officially ratified 147 was by Joe Davis against Willie Smith at Leicester Square Hall, London on 22 Jan 1955. The first achieved in a major tournament were by John Spencer (b. 18 Sep 1935) at Slough, Berks on 13 Jan 1979, but the table had oversized pockets, and by Steve Davis (b.

22 Aug 1957) who had a ratified break of 147 against John Spencer in the Lada Classic at Oldham, Greater Manchester on 11 Jan 1982. This was also the first televised maximum. The youngest to score a competitive maximum was Judd Trump (b. Aug 1989) at 14 yr 206 days days in an under-16 series match against Chris Piech at the Potters Club in Coalville on 13 Mar 2004. Ronnie O'Sullivan (b. 5 Dec 1975) made a maximum at 15 yr 98 days during the English Amateur Championship (Southern Area) at Aldershot, Hants on 13 Mar 1991. Cliff Thorburn (Canada) (b. 16 Jan 1948) was first to make two tournament 147 breaks on 23 Apr 1983 (the first in the World Professional Championships) and 8 Mar 1989. Peter Ebdon (b.

27 Aug 1979) and James Wattana (Thailand) (b. 17 Jan 1970) have also achieved this feat. Ronnie O'Sullivan have the most maximums in the professional game with 13 ahead of Stephen Hendry who has 11. O'Sullivan's latest came at the 2014 Coral UK Championship , in the last frame of the last-16 match against Matthew Selt (England). Stephen Hendry became the first to make more than two tournament 147s. Hendry's first was made in the European League and his second in the 1995 World Championship . The record-breaking third came on 25 Nov 1995 in the UK Championship .

Not content with this he made his fourth maximum on 5 Jan 1997 in the 1997 Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge and his fifth on 23 May 1998 in the 1998 Dr Martens Premier League , his sixth on 19 Sep 1999 in the final of the 1999 British Open (the first maximum in a ranking final), his seventh on (21-23) November in 1999 in the 1999 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship , his eighth on 25 Feb 2001 in the final of the 2001 Rothmans Grand Prix, his ninth on 28 Apr 2009 in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Betfred.com World Championship , his 10th in the second round of the 2011 Wyldecrest Park Homes Welsh Open and his 11th in the first round of the 2012 Betfred.com World Championship ! Leo Levitt was the first amateur to achieve the maximum break, in november 1948 at the Windsor Bowling alley in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Geet Sethi (India) was the first one to manage one in competition, in the Indian Amateur Championships on 21 Feb 1988. In the World Junior Championship in Iceland (June 1989) Gary Hill made a maximum break at the age of 20 years 8 months and became the youngest player to achieve this in a WPBSA recognised competion. In April 2002 the New Zealand No2, amateur Harry Haenga, father of national champion Daniel Haenga, scored a 147 off the break against Glenn Gemmel at the Porirua Club, near Wellington, New Zealand. This was not in a tournament but was witnesses by two A Grade players, one of whom is a NZ representative and the other is a Referee. Ronnie O'Sullivan and Jimmy White made 147s in consecutive frames during an exhibition in Ireland, in January 2009. Peter Ebdon made 147s in two consecutive frames during an exhibition match against Steve Davis in 2003. 16 Red Ball Clearances In Competition The highest snooker break in competition is Wally West's 151.

He made the break in the final of a club handicap at the Hounslow Lucania Club in 1976 against Derek "Butch" Rogers, in front of about 100 spectators. The qualified referee John Posner was in charge of the match. Wally won the first frame with the aid of a 104. In the second, Butch clipped the blue and left Wally snookered. Wally potted green as his free ball with a brown to follow. He then took 14 red and blacks and a pink off the last red. He then cleared up to make the 151. Jamie Burnett (Scotland) made a break of 148 on 16 October 2004, at the Prestatyn qualifiers for the Travis Perkins UK Championship. This was the first break over 147 in professional snooker. Burnett made the break in the 14th frame of his match against Leo Fernandez. He potted the brown as the extra red, then another brown followed by the 15 reds and all the colours.

He made a blue on the first red, a pink on the last one and another pink on one of the other reds. The rest went with blacks. He went on to win the match 9-8. The first 16 red clearance in a tournament was by Steve James (b. 2 May 1961) who made 135 against Alex Higgins in the World Professional Championships at Sheffield, S Yorks on 14 Apr 1990. Steve Duggan (b. 10 Apr 1958) made a witnessed break of 148 against Mark Rowing in a local handicap tournament at in the Woodlands Snooker Club, Woodlands, Doncaster, S Yorks on 27 Apr 1988. The Guinness Book of Records got it wrong at the time, saying it was in a practise match. Phil Doody was the referee in the aforementioned match. The week before the match Rowing, made a 155 break against Doody, in a practise frame, on the same table, in the same club! Unfortunately, as only Rowing and Doody were present, the Guinness Book of Records, wouldn't record it.

Dean Reynolds (England) had a 16 red clearance of 143 in the seniors event of the 2006 European Team championships, in Carlow, Ireland. 6 December 2008 Ricky Walden (England) made a 16 red clearance of 141 against Mark Davis (England) in the last qualifying round for the 2008 Maplin UK Championship. The event was held at The World Snooker Academy in EIS (English Institute of Sport) Sheffield. He won the frame 149-0. It was the thirteenth frame of the best-of-17 match, which he lost 7-9. Others In 2006 Jamie Cope became the first player to record a 155 break. He did it in a witnessed practice match. Jamie is a professional snooker player from Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire, England. On 23 April 2003 Cope had made a 151 break on the match table at The Reardon Snooker Club (Hanley Stoke-on-Trent) during a practise game with David Fomm-Ward.

After a foul shot by his opponent Jamie was snookered behind the Brown ball. He took the Brown as the free ball and then potted Blue, 8 Red and 8 Black, 2 Red and 2 Pink, 5 Red and 5 Black. Then cleared all the colours. He was 17 years old at the time. Teenager Sam Harvey scored a break of 151 during a practice match at his home club in Bedford in November 2010. The 17-year-old was playing tour professional Kyren Wilson when he registered the score. After a foul from his opponent early in the frame, Harvey was left with a free ball, and potted the brown to a centre pocket, gaining position on the black. He then spilt the reds open and went on to pot all 15, taking 12 more blacks, two pinks and a blue before clearing the colours. In 1995 Tony Drago's (Malta) (b. 22 Sep 1965) made a 149 in a practice match against Nick Manning at the West Norwood Snooker Club. Drago broke off and snookered Manning behind the brown.

Manning tried to escape from the snooker but left a free ball. Drago took the brown as the free ball and then the brown again for four more points and followed that with 15 reds, 13 blacks, a pink and a blue and all the colours. Eddie Manning (Leicester, England) also achieved a 149, in 1997 at Willie Thorne's in Leicester. His practice partner was Kam (or Kan?) Pandya. Manning. Like Drago he took brown, brown, 13 blacks, pink and blue. Stephen Hendry made a 148 in practice vs Alfie Burden in 1993. In 1976 Alex Higgins knocked in a 146 vs Willie Thorne in a Challenge Match. He had brown, green, 10 blacks and 5 pinks. Cliff Thorburn managed a 139 in practice against Geoff Foulds in 1980. Other High Breaks and Most Unanswered Points Kelly Fisher is the leader among the women. She has a 143 in competition and 20+ 147's in practice.

Four consecutive century breaks were first compiled in a major tournament by John Higgins : 103, 104, 138 and 128, in Preston, England on Sun 16th October 2005. He achieved the feat in the final of the 2005 Grand Prix , against Ronnie O'Sullivan . Shaun Murphy (England) equalled the feat in the 2007 Welsh Open , Feb 14 2007, in Newport Centre, Wales. He beat Jamie Cope 5-0 in the second round and won the first four frames with 135, 110, 102 and 101. Three consecutive century breaks were first compiled in a ranking tournament by Steve Davis : 108, 101 and 104 at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs on 10 Sep 1988. In 1998 John Higgins (Scotland) (b. 18th May 1975) became the first to manage the feat in a World Championship match.

Peter Ebdon became the first to make four century breaks in five frames, in the European Open qualifying competition at Blackpool on 6 Sep 1992. Stephen Hendry made seven centuries in the final of the 1994 UK Championship , which is a record in a professional match. He also became the first player ever to make five centuries in seven frames. In the 2004 British Open Stephen Maguire (Scotland) made five consecutive centuries over two matches. He finished his quarter-final match against Anthony Hamilton with three centuries and started his semi-final against Ronnie O'Sullivan with two more. Mark Allen (N.Ireland) has also made five consecutive century breaks, at the Larne Masters, in the Fountain Club in Larne, Northern Ireland, 23 January 2005. Allen finished off his second round match against Stephen Smith with a 117, before rattling in breaks of 134, 120 and 104 to beat Declan Hughes 3-0. He then began his quarter-final match against Robert McCullough with a 116.

Just for good measure, Mark had begun his match against Smith with a 111 break, making it a phenomenal six centuries in seven frames. In the 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy Ronnie O'Sullivan made five centuries - the first time that has ever been achieved in a ranking event best-of-nine match. The third-round match, which he won 5-2, was played 8 November against Allister Carter (England). Ronnie warmed up with 108, 122 and 107 intaking a 3-1 lead before a 147. Carter pulled one frame back then O'Sullivan closed with a 129 total clearance. John Higgins won the 2005 Grand Prix in Preston and rewrote the record books in the process. In his final demolition of Ronnie O'Sullivan (9-2) he knocked in four consecutive century breaks (103, 104, 138 and 128), a feat never to have been accomplished in professional ranking tournaments.

Higgins also broke the "points unanswered" record in a ranking event (previously set by Stephen Hendry , 487 in the 1996 Wembley Masters against Jimmy White ). Higgins scored 494 points without a reply from O'Sullivan. This record was later beaten by Stuart Bingham (England) who made 547 against Sam Baird in the 2016 China Open . Ronnie O'Sullivan has the all-time record with 556 points in the 2014 Masters final . Maximum break | Snooker Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The highest break possible is 155. This can occur when an opponent fouls but leaves the player snookered on all 15 reds. 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. By potting the free ball followed by a colour, then all the reds with colours, and then the colours up to the pink or black, the player can compile a break of more than 147.

If the free ball is followed by a black, and the player goes on to clear the table taking all blacks with the reds and then all six colours, the total score for the break is 155. Breaks exceeding 147 Edit At least eight breaks in excess of 147 have been recorded. A 151 is reported to have been compiled by Wally West against Butch Rogers in West London's Hounslow Luciana snooker club during a club match in 1976. After Rogers fouled, Wally took the green as his free ball followed by the brown. He then took 14 red and blacks and a pink off the last red. He then cleared up to make the 151. In April 1988 Steve Duggan made a 148 in a practice frame against Mark Rowing in Doncaster. In 1993 Stephen Hendry made a 148 in a practice match against Alfie Burden .

In 1995 Tony Drago made a 149 in practice against Nick Manning in West Norwood, London in 1995, that was recorded by the Guinness Book of Records as the highest in this category. In that match Drago nominated the brown as the free ball, to score one point. He then potted the brown again, for four more points, before potting 13 reds and 13 blacks, a red and a pink, a red and a blue, then all the colours. In 1997 Eddie Manning achieved a 149 in a practice match against Kam Pandya at Willie Thorne's in Leicester. Like Drago he took brown, brown, 13 blacks, pink and blue. In April 2003 Jamie Cope made a 151 break at The Reardon Snooker Club during a practice game with David Fomm-Ward. After a foul by his opponent, Cope was snookered behind the brown ball. He took the brown as the free ball and then potted blue, 13 reds with blacks and two with pinks, then the six colours.

In October 2004, during qualifying for the UK Championship , Jamie Burnett achieved a 148 against Leo Fernandez , becoming the first player to achieve a break of more than 147 in professional competition. He took the brown as the free ball and then potted the brown again, followed by the 15 reds with 12 blacks, two pinks and a blue, then the six colours. Prizes Edit In professional tournaments, there is usually a substantial prize awarded to any player achieving a 147 break, typically was an amount containing "147", e.g. £147, £1,470, £14,700 or £147,000 depending on the prestige of the tournament. As an extreme case, Ronnie O'Sullivan 's 1997 maximum earned him £165,000 (£147,000 of this was for making the 147 break and another £18,000 was for achieving the highest break of the tournament). In six-red snooker only the fastest maximum earns a prize money.

List of official maximum 147s in professional competition In 1983, Cliff Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum break at the World Championships , a feat that has since been repeated by Jimmy White , Stephen Hendry (twice), Ronnie O'Sullivan (three times), Mark Williams and Ali Carter . Hendry and O'Sullivan are the only players to have made a maximum break during the World Championships and then go on to win the title – Hendry in 1995 and O'Sullivan in 2008 O'Sullivan compiled each of the five fastest 147 breaks ever recorded, the fastest of which took 5 minutes and 20 seconds recorded in the 1st round of the 1997 World Championship . Michael White compiled the fastest 75 break, it took 2 minutes and 28 seconds in the group stage of the 2009 Six-red World Championship . Hendry, O'Sullivan and Mark Williams are the only players who have made maximums to win matches.

Hendry compiled a maximum in the final at the 1997 Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge winning him the title, Williams at the 2005 World Championship , and O'Sullivan at the 2007 UK Championship and 2008 World Championship . Two of these were made in the deciding frame of the match: Hendry's in the 1997 Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge final and O'Sullivan's maximum at the 2007 UK Championship in the semi-final. Only Hendry and John Higgins have made maximums in finals of tournaments. Hendry has made three, the first in the final of the 1997 Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge, the second at the 1999 British Open and the third at the 2001 Malta Grand Prix . Higgins made a maximum in the final of the 2003 LG Cup . Higgins became the first and only player to record a 147 in successive ranking events and matches; he made one in his 9–5 defeat by Mark Williams in the LG Cup final at Preston, and then one in his first match at the British Open , both in 2003.

Higgins' maximum breaks at the 2003 LG Cup and 2004 Grand Prix made him the first and only player to record maximums in the same tournament in successive years (the LG Cup being the sponsor's name for that year's Grand Prix). Since Higgins made the maximums in the 2003 final and the 2004 first round, he made maximums in successive rounds of the same tournament but not at the same event. The youngest player to make an official 147 in professional competition is Stephen Maguire at the 2000 Scottish Open qualifiers just a week after his 19th birthday. The youngest player to have made a televised 147 is Ding Junhui , who was 19 years and 7 months at the time, in the 2007 Masters . The youngest player to make a 147 in the televised stages of a ranking event was Jamie Cope at 21 years and 1 month old at the 2006 Grand Prix . The oldest player to make a maximum in professional competition is Cliff Thorburn, who was 41 during the 1989 Matchroom League .

The oldest player to have made a 147 in a world ranking event is Stephen Hendry, who made his maximum break at the 2009 World Championship at the age of 40. On April 29, 2008 Ali Carter made his first 147 break against Peter Ebdon in their quarter-final match of the 2008 World Championships . This was the first time a 147 break had been made twice in the same professional tournament at the same venue, following O'Sullivan's maximum during the previous day's play. Two maximum breaks were previously compiled by Stephen Hendry and John Parrott during the 1992 Matchroom League but at different venues. Cliff Thorburn is the first player to have made more than one competitive maximum break and Stephen Hendry is the first player to have made more than one televised maximum break. Joe Swail compiled the first competitive maximum break to be made on the Continent, during a Belgian tournament in Brussels in December 1993. He was playing R. Melkenbeek, a local amateur.

List of matches where more than one 147 was compiled Learn and talk about 1997 World Snooker Championship, 1997 in English sport, 1997 in snooker, World Snooker Championships Tournament summary[ edit ] The semi-final matches were best of 33 for the first time, having previously been best of 31. [2] Ronnie O'Sullivan made the quickest maximum break in history with a time of 5 minutes and 20 seconds, [3] and the fourth in the history of the tournament. [4] Terry Griffiths' first round encounter against Mark Williams was his last ever professional match. [5] Stephen Hendry 's five-year run as World Champion came to an end after losing to Ken Doherty 12–18. It was Hendry's first defeat at the World Championship since 1991 , [6] spanning 29 matches, a Crucible record. [7] Doherty became only the second player from outside the United Kingdom to win the world title in the modern era, following Cliff Thorburn in 1980 .

[4] [8] Alan Chamberlain would referee his first and only World Championship final. He was the first referee since Jim Thorpe in 1984 to officiate a debut final. All finals up to this year were officiated by either John Williams , Len Ganley or John Street . The next four years would also have referees debuting the final: Lawrie Annandale in 1998 , Colin Brinded in 1999 , John Newton in 2000 and Eirian Williams in 2001 , before John Williams did his 10th final in 2002 . [9] The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: [10] [11] Winner: £210,000 Original courtesy of Wikipedia: — Please support Wikipedia. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia . A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. We're sorry, but there's no news about "1997 World Snooker Championship" right now.

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Last Updated: 16/04/13 4:13pm The perfect clearance The fastest 147 maximum break in snooker history came at the World Championship and was achieved by Ronnie O'Sullivan in 1997. O'Sullivan made his perfect clearance in just five minutes and 20 seconds, against Mick Price. Price, who was making his third Crucible appearance, never qualified for another World Championship. There have been ten 147 maximum breaks in the televised stages of the World Championship. Two players have made three of those each, and no prizes for guessing Stephen Hendry and O'Sullivan are those men responsible. Scots on top Scottish players have won 12 of the last 23 World Championship titles, with Hendry claiming seven (1990-92-93-94-95-96-99), John Higgins four (1998-2007-2009-2011) and Graeme Dott one (2006).

The Sultan of Snooker Derbyshire player Joe Davis was the first world champion in 1927 and won all 15 editions of the tournament he entered. His last title came in 1946 when he retired unbeaten from the World Championship but kept playing in other tournaments. First competition The first event, staged in Birmingham, offered prize money of £6 10s. Only two players entered the 1931 World Championship. Tom Dennis, in whose pub the event was staged, lost 25-21 to Joe Davis. Davis, who won eight world titles, reached the 1978 semi-finals at the age of 64. His brother, the great Joe Davis, sadly collapsed while watching the match and died two months later. Great Scot The youngest world champion was Hendry in 1990. The Scot was just 21 when he beat Jimmy White 18-12. Qualifier to final In 2005 Shaun Murphy became the first player to come through qualifying and win the world title. Judd Trump almost matched him in 2011 but lost out to John Higgins in the final.

Black ball final Television audience of 18.5million watched Dennis Taylor beat Steve Davis on the final black in the 1985 final. Six finals Jimmy White, Walter Donaldson and Fred Davis have each lost six finals - a record. White, unlike Donaldson and Davis, has never been a world champion. Whitewash There has been only one whitewash in a match at the World Championship. It came in the first round in 1992, when 62-year-old Australian Eddie Charlton was beaten 10-0 by defending champion John Parrott. Crucible Theatre The Crucible Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of 980. Recent champions have been said to be struck by the 'Crucible Curse', with the effect that no player has successfully defended his title the following year since Stephen Hendry won his five in a row from 1992 to 1996. Only Ken Doherty of the champions since Hendry's win has returned to reach the following year's final, losing out in 1998 to John Higgins.

Two world titles Doherty is the only player to have won the amateur and professional world titles, registering his win in the unpaid ranks in 1989 before pocketing £210,000 for triumphing at the Crucible in 1997. Selby Makes Historic 147 - World Snooker Selby Makes Historic 147 Saturday 7 Dec 2013 11:02PM Mark Selby made the 100th official maximum break in snooker history at the williamhill.com UK Championship. Selby’s historic break came in the seventh frame of his semi-final match against Ricky Walden at the York Barbican. The maximum is worth £55,000 from the rolling prize for ranking events plus an extra £4,000 for the high break, as long as it is not equalled in the remainder of the tournament. Defending champion Selby got the pack of reds open early in the break and picked them off with blacks before taking the colours. He played a superb shot on the brown to go around the angles and finish on the blue.

The pink was tricky, played with his cue extension, and he left the cue ball on the top cushion. But Selby rolled a brilliant black into a centre pocket to complete the 147. Given the circumstances, it must be considered one of the best ever blacks to finish a maximum – especially as he missed the last black on 140 at the China Open last season. It’s the third maximum of the season, following Neil Robertson at the Wuxi Classic qualifiers and Judd Trump at the Antwerp Open. And it’s the second of 30-year-old Selby’s career having made one at the 2009 Jiangsu Classic. World number two Selby added the next frame to lead Walden 6-2 and move within three frames of a UK final against Neil Robertson. The defending champion started the match well and took the opening two frames, a 69 break in the first, before winning a battle on the colours to seal the second on the final black (Mark Rawlinson writes). Walden pulled back a closely contested second with a break of 56 but the Chester man missed the final brown in frame four to see Selby take a 3-1 interval lead.

Walden won the next with a top run of 43 but a missed pink in the sixth frame allowed Selby to restore his two-frame cushion at 4-2. Selby then took centre stage with the 147, and a break of 53 was enough to secure the last frame of the session. 147 facts: Snooker’s first official 147 was made by Steve Davis at the 1982 Lada Classic. The following year, Cliff Thorburn made the first in the World Championship. There were just eight maximum breaks in the 1980s but since then the standard of play in snooker has risen dramatically. During the 1990s there were 26 maximums, followed by 35 from 2000-2009 and another 31 maximums since 2010. Ronnie O’Sullivan and Stephen Hendry share the record for the most maximum breaks with 11 each. John Higgins has made seven and Ding Junhui 5.

There have been ten 147s in the World Championship at the Crucible; three apiece from Hendry and O’Sullivan and one from each of Cliff Thorburn, Jimmy White, Mark Williams and Ali Carter O’Sullivan made the fastest 147 on record at the Crucible in 1997, timed at 5 minutes and 20 seconds The highest possible break in snooker is actually 155, if the player is awarded a free ball before a red has been potted. Only one break over 147 has ever been made in professional play, by Jamie Burnett who made a 148 at the 2004 UK Championship qualifiers. This did not count as a maximum break. The youngest player to make an official 147 is Thailand’s Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon, who did so in a 2010 PTC event, age of 16 years and 312 days. Related News Like it Fast?

Watch Ronnie O’Sullivan in Action with fastest ever 147 break Stephen Hendry- Meets O’Sullivan once again Posted By: Isaac sade April 2, 2015 Great moments were always part of the World Snooker Championship, great players always want to perform solid snooker in the crucible theater, “The Rocket” shows us why we like snooker so much. On April 21st- 1997, the young Ronnie O’Sullivan was playing against Mick Price in the first round of the World Snooker Championship. The Rocket was leading 8-5 when Price has left a red ball after playing a very bad safety, the rest is history. With his rapid playing style Ronnie made a century in less than four minutes, and the fastest ever maximum break- Five minutes and twenty seconds, unbelievable. Over his career Ronnie achieved great records, he made thirteen maximum breaks and also the most competitive century breaks- 787. His five times Triple Crown events record is the most impressive- Five times World Champion, five times Masters Champion, and Five times UK Champion. Enjoy this video, some will say that no one will ever do it again. What do you say?

Ronnie O'Sullivan | after dinner speaker | snooker celebrity British professional snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan is the current World No 12, three-times World Champion and the winner of 22 ranking events. Ronnie is currently competing on the world’s premier snooker tour, the 2011-2012 Main Tour. O’Sullivan started his career at an early age. He first achieved a century at the age of 10, scored a 147 maximum break when at just 15, and turned professional at 16. He recorded the youngest ever victory in a ranking tournament when he won the 1993 UK Championship aged 17. He holds the record for the fastest recorded maximum break, made whilst playing Mick Price in the World Snooker Championship on 21 April 1997; he completed the clearance in 5 minutes and 20 seconds – an average of one shot every 9 seconds. In fact, his six maximum breaks include the five fastest on record.

Question: In 1997 at the World Snooker Championship, who made the fastest-recorded maximum break of 147?
Answer: Ronnie O'Sullivan