Did you notice the polite applause for the 13th black (century) and the thunderous applause for the maximum?
I wonder who was playing on the other tables.
Ronnie O'Sullivan Runs 14th Career 147 At 2018 China Open
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I wonder who was playing on the other tables.
Most of those 147s were done in front of his customers at his club in Leicester....
...which is oddly enough pronounced 'Lester'...I used to bug him about that when Willie
would crack up about some of my Canuckisms...like, uh, FRAME?...that's what we call
being unjustly accused in Canada. :smile:
ALL14 of Ronnie's and the 10 by Hendry were televised. I still can't get over Steve Davis only having one in competition. I know his style was more conservative than the Rocket but still its kinda surprising.
But he had the first one in competition.
Old snooker rule books list 147s starting in the 1950s but they were in practice or exhibition games. Davis's maximum came about 100 years after the invention of the game.
I suspect that the old style stressed safety play using the size of the table as a weapon. Players now are accurate enough potters that the table gives little protection and they know they have to make the most of any scoring opportunity.
To give Steve Davis some more credit...he was playing on much heavier cloth than
today's players....and the tables were unheated.
I was quoted as saying..."I had to part the nap to find the cue ball."
Good point. Didn't think about how much the table/cloth has changed. The level of play i watch on-line is just ridiculous. Some times it looks like they're playing on a big bar-box they way they make balls.To give Steve Davis some more credit...he was playing on much heavier cloth than
today's players....and the tables were unheated.
I was quoted as saying..."I had to part the nap to find the cue ball."
Willies maxi claims are dubious, grapevine says they used to smash the pack in practice sessions and start over when they missed.
The real records are in matchplay.
I wouldn’t say they were dubious...I believe every one he says he ran.
But you’re quite right....open breaks and rerack and try again.
I agree that the real records are the matchplay runs...for the first 10 reds, you might play
safe in a match....in practise, you’re always going for the max.
The 14 by Ronnie is the record.
Second is Hendry with 11
The highest score in a professional match game is held by neither of these men.
Come on, up with it....I know more than one player has run a table with the free ball start.
...but I didn't know anybody ran one in a match.
Jamie Burnett in 2004 shot a 148, the max 155 was made once officially in a practice frame by Jamie Cope in 2005,
Alex Higgins was said to have also accomplished a 155 but it's not official.
Kinda like those 400 ball runs in a basement.
Maybe.... but who knows for sure.
I have a 362 unfinished in my basement , the dog saw everything , camera was running but forgot the film and had to stop when my wife hollered "DINNER"
"Ya feel me Scottie P?"
I was hoping someone would know just enough to get in trouble over this, and bet me a couple of million, you couldn;t score over 147, thanks a lot !
Ronnie runs maxes all the time, you can find quite a few videos of him running them in exhibition. I couldn't even guess how many he has made. By comparison, Gary Wilson came to Canada for some exhibitions and made 3 over the course of a week of exhibition matches. As others have mentioned, only professional competition is counted for these records.
Wait till he starts shooting with a Revo and use pivot system. :grin:
Lord, that middle pocket cut shot.
Lord, that middle pocket cut shot.
Lol
I think some folks here confuse 147 with century.
More than ten 147 is considered extremely tough feat so more than hundred 147 is urban legend. Anyway , while 147 performance is awesome, great players are measured by major titles won and number of centuries.
On that count, Ronnie is the greatest ever. Aside from multiple WC and majors, he has 900+ centuries and no one else comes close. 2nd is Hendry and Higgins with 700+. :thumbup:
I think some folks here confuse 147 with century.
More than ten 147 is considered extremely tough feat so more than hundred 147 is urban legend. Anyway , while 147 performance is awesome, great players are measured by major titles won and number of centuries.
On that count, Ronnie is the greatest ever. Aside from multiple WC and majors, he has 900+ centuries and no one else comes close. 2nd is Hendry and Higgins with 700+. :thumbup:
No they are referring to 147's in practice.
Willie Thorne was known as 'Mr Maximum' for allegedly scoring loads in practice...but in Jimmy White's autobiography he reckoned he had over 200 himself.
That of course was in the 80's when players didn't practice anything like they do today, I doubt Hendry, O'Sullivan or even some of the second tier modern pro's keep track of their practice 147's as they'd be in the high hundreds or low thousands (for the older pro's)....pretty sure there's a video of a 13/14 year old Ronnie O'Sullivan clear to the final black and then just put his cue down as even then he made 147's for fun (in practice...not in matches at that stage)!
Now in competition of course that's a completely different thing...
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I think Ronnie is the best ever but Hendry accomplished more in a shorter time period culminating of course with all those world titles