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| Snooker Ronnie O'Sullivan 147 World Championship 28.04.08 |
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Ronnie O'Sullivan finished his 888.com World
Snooker Championship match against Mark
Williams in glorious style by making a record
ninth 147 maximum break.
The Crucible crowd erupted as O'Sullivan
potted the final ball of his magical maximum,
the seventh made at the Crucible and
O'Sullivan's third - he is the only player to
make more than one at Sheffield.
The Rocket has over-taken Stephen Hendry as
snooker's maximum man, having surpassed the
Scot's record of eight. Chigwell's
32-year-old O'Sullivan has now made three
this season, following 147s in the Northern
Ireland Trophy and one in the deciding frame
of his Maplin UK Championship semi-final
against Mark Selby.
This one came in the last frame of a 13-7
defeat of Williams and put him through to the
quarter-finals to face Liang Wenbo or Joe
Swail. The match looked in the balance going
into the concluding session at 9-7, but world
No 5 O'Sullivan produced an incredible
display of break-building to win the four
frames he needed within 44 minutes.
Runs of 71, 60 and 100 put him 12-7 ahead,
then he split the reds early in the next
frame, clearly setting about a maximum from
the early stages. He was never out of
position, playing a superb shot on the 13th
black to dislodge one awkward red from the
pink, then dished up easily.
Stephen Maguire and Neil Robertson stopped
their match on the adjacent table in the
closing stages of the break, then joined
Williams in congratulating O'Sullivan, who
will collect a £157,000 jackpot providing
the 147 is not equalled.
It's the 62nd 147 in snooker history and
sixth of the season - three for O'Sullivan
plus one each for Jamie Burnett, Tom Ford and
Stephen Maguire.
O'Sullivan was in majestic form throughout
the match against Welshman Williams, also a
two-times world champion, making four
centuries and seven more breaks over 50.
The result means that Williams is out of the
top 16 after 12 years among the elite, though
he looks to be safely in the top 32 for next
season.
Crucible 147s
1983 Cliff Thorburn
1992 Jimmy White
1995 Stephen Hendry
1997 Ronnie O'Sullivan
2003 Ronnie O'Sullivan
2005 Mark Williams
2008 Ronnie O'Sullivan
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