Snooker breaks

Great breaks, shot by shot

Each break is drawn to scale on a full-size table: where every ball went, which pocket, and the cue ball’s path. Watch the broadcast alongside and the table replays each pot as it happens.

Mark Williams

Break of the tournament? · v Barry Hawkins

124

The Welsh Potting Machine at his best: from an open table, fifteen reds with ten pinks, three blues and two blacks, then the colours down to the pink. WST called it the break of the tournament so far.

World Championship · Crucible, last 16 · 24 April 2026 · 35 pots

Ronnie O'Sullivan

The fastest 147 · v Mick Price

147

Five minutes and eight seconds from the break-off red to the final black: still the fastest maximum ever made in competition.

World Championship · Crucible, round 1 · 21 April 1997 · 36 pots

Kyren Wilson

Maximum at the Crucible · v Ryan Day

147

Wilson's first Crucible maximum, made on the opening day of his match with Ryan Day: the 13th 147 in Crucible history.

World Championship · Crucible, round 1 · 19 April 2023 · 36 pots