Thepchaiya Uh-Nooh made what is believed to be the first 155 maximum break ever captured on video yesterday:
Pro player Jamie Cope is also said to have made one in practice* and no-one has ever made one in an official match (although breaks over 147 have been made).
For those not familiar with the quirky rules of snooker, this is possible if a player gets a 'free ball' which allows you to nominate any ball as your next legal shot.
Typically (but not always) this happens when there's still reds on the table, so an example would be when a player fouls and leaves their opponent behind the yellow. If the player who's turn it now is can't see both sides of a red they are awarded a free ball and nominate a colour as a red (so here they may nominate the yellow as a red), they then would pot a colour as their next shot and carry on as normal.
Whilst a free ball isn't uncommon, a free ball so early on in the game (i.e. with all 15 reds on the table) is very uncommon for obvious reasons, so this is a little bit of history (albeit not official)!
*Practice meaning a non-official match against another player, not a line-up!
Pro player Jamie Cope is also said to have made one in practice* and no-one has ever made one in an official match (although breaks over 147 have been made).
For those not familiar with the quirky rules of snooker, this is possible if a player gets a 'free ball' which allows you to nominate any ball as your next legal shot.
Typically (but not always) this happens when there's still reds on the table, so an example would be when a player fouls and leaves their opponent behind the yellow. If the player who's turn it now is can't see both sides of a red they are awarded a free ball and nominate a colour as a red (so here they may nominate the yellow as a red), they then would pot a colour as their next shot and carry on as normal.
Whilst a free ball isn't uncommon, a free ball so early on in the game (i.e. with all 15 reds on the table) is very uncommon for obvious reasons, so this is a little bit of history (albeit not official)!
*Practice meaning a non-official match against another player, not a line-up!