Stephen Hendry’s maximum 147 becomes Magic Moment of the Year – Snooker Update
Recently finished 2012 World Snooker Championship brought some crucial moments during its run at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Some of these moments made history and the former seven-time World Snooker Champion, Stephen Hendry’s maximum 147 was one
of them. This moment of the championship was selected as the Magic Moment of the Year by the snooker governing body, World Snooker.
Hendry was playing his first round match against the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open snooker tournament winner, Stuart Bingham and was on top of his form. He proved his class against the Englishman when he pushed him down from the very start of the match.
The 43-year-old legend nudged the English potter five frames down after he fired the maximum 147 break in the seventh frame.
The Golden Brain defeated Bingham by an easy score line of 10-4 in the opening round to set up the defending champion, John Higgins clash in the second round of the tournament. The clash seemed quite tough as both potters were in an outstanding form. The
match was one of the most awaited clashes of the championship which was won by the Wonder Brain by the score line of 13-4.
The veteran Scottish potter had a superb start in the 2012 World Snooker Championship and reached the quarter-final stage after beating Higgins where he faced compatriot Stephen Maguire. Despite the fact that he was in good form, the veteran potter failed
to improvise against Maguire and lost to him by an easy score line of 2-13. Afterwards, the Wonder Boy announced his retirement from World Snooker.
Meanwhile, England’s Stuart Bingham performed brilliantly in the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open and on the basis of his performance he was given the Performance of the Year Award. Nevertheless, Bingham was unable to win another major ranking title last
season.
Total 10 maximum 147 breaks were fired in the rest of the season by the cue sticks of Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mike Dunn, David Gray, Ricky Walden, Ding Junhui, Jamie Cope, Matthew Stevens, Marco Fu, Robert Milkins and Stephen Hendry. Out of all these 147s, Hendry’s
has a unique distinction because it is his 11th maximum break which equals Ronnie O’Sullivan’s record.
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