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The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship is Joe Davis, who won fifteen consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era, usually dated from the reintroduction in 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is shared by Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan , both having won the ...
Mark Selby and Marco Fu set a new record for the longest frame of snooker ever played at the Crucible, seventy six minutes eleven seconds. Prize money for the 2017 Championship was a record £1,750,000 with the winner receiving £375,000. Prize money for first-round losers was a record £16,000, exceeding the £15,000 players received in 2003.
The Triple Crown in professional snooker refers to winning the sport's three longest-running and most prestigious tournaments: the World Snooker Championship (first held in 1927 and staged as a knockout tournament continuously since 1969), the invitational Masters (held annually since 1975), and the UK Championship (held annually since 1977).
This is a list of professional snooker players ordered by the number of "ranking titles" they have won. A ranking title is a tournament that counts towards the snooker world rankings. World rankings were introduced in the 1976–77 season, initially based on the results from the previous three World Championships.
It was viewed by 18.5 million people in the United Kingdom, which as of 2024 remains a record viewing figure for BBC2, and as of 2024 is still the record for a post-midnight audience for any British television channel. The total match time of 14 hours and 50 minutes is the longest ever recorded for a best-of-35-frames match.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Achievement in snooker Ronnie O'Sullivan (pictured) has scored the most century breaks in professional snooker tournaments at more than 1,200. In snooker, a century break (also century, sometimes called a ton) is a break of 100 points or more, compiled in one visit to the table. A ...
Davis won the first 15 world championships from 1927 to 1946, and he is the only undefeated player in World Snooker Championship history. In 1935, he scored the championship's first century break . A professional English billiards player from the age of 18, Davis was World Billiards Champion four times between 1928 and 1932.
This beat the previous record of 74 minutes, which took place between Ebdon and Graeme Dott in the 2006 World Snooker Championship final. [1] Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled a maximum break in the deciding frame of his semi-final match against Mark Selby, his eighth maximum, equalling the official record of tournament 147 breaks first set by Stephen ...