Thorburn, receiving 28 points start in each frame, claims to have beaten Higgins in every frame they played, and that Higgins refused to pay up. Sure enough it went straight in. Up against Robert Milkins in the first round, it was a match which the Welshman completely dominated. 1. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Thorburn recalled: I had a dream a couple of weeks beforehand where I potted the first black, the reds split open and I cleared up. Video, 00:03:36Burn hopes to end Newcastle trophy drought, Klopp uses driving analogy to explain confidence. He then cleared up to make the 151. Your email address will not be published. He was placed in the plate competition. Mark Williams became the first Welshman to join the elite maximum club during a 10-1 demolition job over Robert Milkins, although he'd get knocked out in the very next round. However, beginning in the 199495 season, at least one maximum break has been achieved every season thereafter; the 13 maximums scored in the 201617 season is the highest number to date. He took the brown as the free ball, then potted the brown again followed by the 15 reds with 12 blacks, two pinks and a blue, then the six colours.[6][21][22]. Video, 00:00:19Whoops! The "Rest of the World" team was Thorburn, World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, Billiards Association and Control Council, 1952 World Professional Match-play Championship, "Snooker: Three players fail drug tests but remain anonymous", "Artist puts a perfect frame on the map ", "Assetereum World Seniors Masters 2018 Cliff Thorburn is your Champion! Video Unavailable. [74], At the 2016 Welsh Open, Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Barry Pinches 41 in the first round. Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn CM (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. 'That' maximum remains as unfathomable now as it was back then and arguably the most unbreakable record in sport. 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. He managed to get perfectly on the last black, only to rattle it in the jaws. The Rocket, who was just 21 and four years away from his first of five Crucible crowns, compiled his break during a 10-6 first-round victory over Mick Price and it won him a whopping 147,000. [6][26] In 2009 Jimmy White and Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled consecutive maximum breaks at an exhibition match in Ireland. Video, 00:00:26, 'Can I finish? [1][2] His parents separated when he was eighteen months old. That all changed in 1934 when New Zealander Murt ODonoghue made a 147 in New South Wales in Australia. When you've played at all of the major venues in front of capacity crowds, it's hard to focus and get motivated playing with just one man and a dog watching. He averaged just 8.6 seconds a shot during the 147, which was the first of a record 15 maximums he has made so far in his career. - Ten Hag almost forgets EFL Cup. Stephen Hendry composed a point perfect 147 break in the deciding frame of his 1997 Charity Challenge final against OSullivan, to take home the title with a 9-8 victory. [8] Cliff Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum break at the World Snooker Championship, a feat that has since been repeated by Jimmy White, Stephen Hendry (three times), Ronnie O'Sullivan (three times), Mark Williams, Ali Carter, John Higgins and Neil Robertson. O'Sullivan also holds the record for the fastest competitive maximum break at just over five minutes, which he set at the 1997 World Championship. 9 February 2010, 01:12 AM. Mark Williams enjoyed this healthy boost to his bank balance at the 2005 World Championship. Video, 00:00:58, 'Massive performance' from Man Utd - Ten Hag, No regrets starting Kane on bench - Stellini. 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. Maddocks was 15 years and 90 days old when he achieved the feat at the LiteTask Pro-Am series in Leeds on 9 July 2017. His second indelible mark on the Crucible. Video, 00:02:44, How 'listener' Howe has improved Newcastle, Why does who owns Manchester United matter? [23] Thorburn went ahead at 1211 and 1312, Higgins levelling the match both times, and the third session ending 1313. At the 2013 UK Championship, Mark Selby fired in the 100th in snooker history in his semi-final win over Ricky Walden. The first 147 to be made in a professional competitiveranking tournament came several decades later in 1979 by John Spencer. Obviously not a race but here's how all the Crucible 147s - now including Neil Robertson - looked after 5 minutes and 8 seconds. 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Hendry, Mark Williams, O'Sullivan (on six occasions), Barry Hawkins, Matthew Stevens, Ding Junhui, Andy Hicks, Shaun Murphy, Ryan Day, John Higgins, Mark Davis (on two occasions), Martin Gould, Luca Brecel, Tom Ford (on two occasions) and Marco Fu have all made maximums to win matches. I understand that my consent will be asked again before any other use be made of my personal data. Thorburn led by 9-2 but eventually lost 9-10. Years later, Ronnie O'Sullivan did it in only five minutes and twenty seconds. Potting this red ball followed by the blackresults in an extra 8 points being gained in the breakbefore any of the regulation balls on the table have even been potted. Video, 00:01:16, Up Next. Thorburn's entry for the 1972 World Snooker Championship arrived too late for him to be included in the main draw. Video, 00:00:26, 'Can I finish? Kirk Stevens hits a 147 against Jimmy White in 1984 3. 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PLUS look out for special ticket offers and priority booking windows for the big events. Thorburn fluked a pot on the green ball in the deciding frame, to leave White requiring penalty points from Thorburn to win. [48] Thorburn experienced success in the Scottish Masters, an invitational event which opened the snooker season, in 1985 and 1986. Archive: O'Sullivan's second 147. Video, 00:16:43, Up Next. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. A quite incredible career ended at the 2012 World Championship but not before one final crowd-pleasing moment of greatness. It was witnessed by 133 people. Watch as Cliff Thorburn makes World Snooker Championship history by scoring the first maximum 147 break at the Crucible. Cliff Thorburn World Snooker Championship 2007. . He won the invitational Masters in 1983, 1985, and 1986, making him the first player to win the Masters three times and the first to retain the title. [74] A maximum break is worth 5,000 in the televised stages and 500 in qualifying stages of major ranking events. 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. [30] [31] Archive: Cliff Thorburn makes first Crucible 147 maximum break, Archive: The first Crucible 147. Ironically it was actually John Spencer who had the first 147 in a televised tournament a few years earlier. The 2022 World Snooker Championship offered a bonus of 40,000 for a maximum break made at the Crucible and 10,000 for a maximum made in the qualifying rounds, in addition to the 15,000 highest break prize. [23] Thorburn won the first frame, and Higgins won the next five. 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. In November 2010 Sam Harvey made a 151 break in a practice match against, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 23:58. Archive: O'Sullivan's second 147. Video, 00:09:56, Archive: White's wonderful 147. [3] In the quarter-final, he beat Jim Wych 136, having led 53, and 106. Thorburn became the first Canadian world snooker championship finalist. [14] He overcame Taylor 1816 in the semi-final, and twelve hours later was facing Spencer in the final. Only one previous televised 147 break had been made in the sport's history before Thorburn - helped by a fluked opening red . In 2005, Jamie Cope made snooker's first highest possible 155 break in a witnessed practice frame. 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. However, the first televised 147, in any ratified tournament, was by Steve Davis of England at the Lada Classic in Oldham, UK, on 11 January 1982. A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven) is the highest possible break in a single frame of snooker. [42] Commenting on Thorburn's performance in the final, snooker historian Clive Everton observed that the long matches he had played in reaching the final had "left him so drained that he was able to offer only token resistance. This effort also goes into the history books for being the first 147 to seal a victory at the Crucible and the second to win a match anywhere. 109 views, 3 likes, 0 loves, 1 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from TV Norte Tocantins: Voc telespectador de Araguana, participe da. Ronnie O'Sullivan soared to superstar status in five minutes and eight seconds of breathtaking snooker from the gods at a time when he'd won just two of his record 19 Triple Crown titles. 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. Why does who owns Manchester United matter? Tony Meo - 1988 Matchroom League 6. [40][41] Three maximum breaks were compiled on 8 February 1998 during the Buckley's Bitter Challenge, an unofficial event, by Matthew Stevens, Ryan Day and Tony Chappel. White potted the brown and blue, then laid a snooker on the pink. [13], The 1977 World Snooker Championship was the first to be held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. [52] Higgins has made two, at the 2003 LG Cup,[46] and the second at the 2012 Shanghai Masters. [12] He became the first player ever to retain the Masters title, and the first to win it three times. To put that into perspective, that's over a minute quicker than the next fastest by O'Sullivan in 2003. There were a few shots where if it wasnt for that sort of money I would never have went for it, but Im glad I did.. It was five minutes and eight seconds of pure snooker majesty. John Higgins ended an eight-year stretch without a Crucible maximum by making his first, against Norway's Kurt Maflin. Joe Davis made the first officially recognised maximum break in a 1955 exhibition match in London. Canada's Cliff Thorburn makes snooker history by completing the first maximum 147 break at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. "[43], Thorburn enjoyed a resurgence in form during the 198485 season. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. In 1983, Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum break in a World Championship match, achieving the feat in his second-round encounter with Terry Griffiths. 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