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Sonnet 147 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
John Higgins etched his name deeper into Crucible folklore after becoming just the seventh player to strike a maximum 147 break at the World Snooker Championship, writes Will Jennings.
Dott made a maximum break in the qualifying rounds, [147] and Robertson made a maximum in his second-round match against Lisowski, becoming the eighth player to make a 147 at the Crucible. [146] A new record of 109 century breaks was set at the Crucible stage, one more than the 108 made the previous year. [146]
[2] [8] [9] Stephen Hendry made the third maximum break in the championship's history and became the first to go on to win the title after making a 147 break. [10] Hendry's 12 centuries in the tournament beat the record of 10 set by Joe Davis in 1946 and equalled his own record for a ranking event, set at the 1994 UK Championship .
The world number seven had fought back from 2-0 in the morning session
Shaun Murphy hit only the sixth 147 in the history of snooker’s Masters tournament as he beat semi-final opponent Mark Allen in style.. Murphy potted 15 reds and 15 blacks before clearing up the ...
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one‑four‑seven) is the highest possible break in snooker in normal circumstances [a] and is a special type of total clearance. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 reds with 15 blacks for 120 points, followed by all six colours for a further 27 points.
The semi-final matches were best of 33 for the first time, having previously been best of 31. [2]Ronnie O'Sullivan made the fastest maximum break in history with a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds, [3] and the fourth in the history of the tournament.