15 November 1998 – LUKE SIMMONDS MAKES IT A DOUBLE
In Guangzhou, China, Luke Simmonds beat Ryan Day 11-10 to add the IBSF
World (Amateur) Championship to the World Under-21 title he had won two months
earlier. He was only the third player, after Ken Doherty and Marco Fu, to win
both titles in the same year.
15 November 2006 – MAFLIN WINS IBSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Kurt Maflin who now represents Norway,
won the IBSF World Championship in Amman in Jordan. He beat
England’s
Daniel Ward 11-8 in the final a victory which qualified him to play on the
professional tour in 2007/8.
15 November 2009
– THIRD RANKING TITLE FOR ROBERTSON
The Bahrain Championship,
the first ranking event to be held in the Middle East
for 14 years, was won by Neal Robertson.
He claimed his third ranking title with a 9-7 victory over Matthew Stevens.
16 November 1990 – HIGH SPEED DRAGO!
In the last 64 of the Stormseal UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall, Tony
Drago completed a 9-0 victory over Joe O’Boye in just 81 minutes – the
fastest ever best-of-17 frame match.
16 November 2000 – FIRST VICTORY FOR SHAUN MURPHY
Shaun Murphy beat Stuart Bingham 9-7 in the final of the Benson &
Hedges Championship at the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre in Malvern to gain his
first title as a professional and also to qualify for the Masters at Wembley.
16 November 2003 – TONS GALORE AS HENDRY TAKES FOURTH BRITISH OPEN TITLE
At the Brighton Centre, Stephen Hendry won the British Open for a record
fourth time with a 9-6 victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan. The final included an
unprecedented run of five successive century breaks, two from Hendry and three
from O’Sullivan.
17 November 1987 – MAXIMUM MAN WILLIE DOES IT FOR REAL!
The man who claims to have made more maximum breaks, in practice, than anyone
else, Willie Thorne compiled the one and only 147 he ever made in competition.
It came against Tommy Murphy in the last 32 of the Tennents UK Championship at
Preston Guild Hall. Sadly for Willie it was before the televised stage and he
won just £5,000 in stead of the £50,000 bonus he would have had if it had come
a round later.
17 November 2000 – GRAY HITS 50TH MAXIMUM!
David Gray hit his first 147 break in the last 32 of the Travis Perkins UK
Championship at the Barbican in York.
This was the fiftieth maximum to have been made in professional competition.
19 November 1989 – KEN COMPLETES WORLD AMATEUR / JUNIOR DOUBLE
Ken Doherty became the first player to win both the World Amateur and World
Under-21 titles – and he did it in the same year. In Singapore
he beat Jonathan Birch 11-2 to add the IBSF World Amateur Championship to the
Under-21 title he a claimed in Reykjavik
a couple of months previously.
19 November 1999 – PREECE IS YOUNGEST WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPION
At the age of 17 years and 147 days, Ian Preece of Wales became the
youngest ever winner of the IBSF World Amateur Championship when he defeated
David Lilley 11-8 in the final in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
19 November 2000 – SECOND MAXIMUM FOR DYSON
Nick Dyson became only the seventh player to make more than one maximum
break in professional competition. His latest came in the second round of the
Liverpool Victoria UK Championship at Bournemouth
against Stuart Bingham. His first had come in a UK Tour event in March 1999.
20 November 1983 - LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON!
In the last 32 of the Coral UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall, Geoff
Foulds lost 9-1 to Steve Davis and later, on the same table, son Neal
Foulds lost 9-4 to David Taylor. This was the only time that a father and
son have both reached the final stages of a major snooker tournament.
20 November 1994 – FIRST MAXIMUM IN WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
In Johannesburg, Preecha Sae-Be made the first ever maximum break in the
World Amateur Championship. It came in a group match against Tom Kollins of the
USA.
21 November 1871 – COOK RETAINS BILLIARDS TITLE.
William Cook successfully defended the English Billiards Championship, effectively
the world championship, when he beat off a challenge from Joseph Bennett
1000-942.
