World Snooker Champion
Former IBSF World Snooker Champion Stuart Bingham has compiled a maximum 147 break during the qualifying rounds of The Masters 2006 at the World Snooker Centre @ Pontin's in Prestatyn Sands, Wales. The 29-year-old from Basildon in England, who was facing Scotland's Marcus Campbell in the quarter-finals of this qualifying event for the right to take up the final berth available at next year's Masters at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England, raced away to a 4-0 lead with breaks of 62, 30, 38 and 34. Bingham, who won the IBSF World Snooker Championship in New Zealand back in 1996, returned from the interval to wrap up the match in sensational style with the second maximum break of his professional career. There was less good news however for the former IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Champion, Ding Junhui, as the youngster from China took on Northern Ireland's highly experienced Joe Swail for a place in the semi-finals of qualifying for The Masters 2006. After being 3-1 down going into the interval, Ding hit back to level the match at 3-3 only for Swail to nudge ahead 4-3 with a break of 102. Ding responded with a break of 116 to force a decing frame, but the 37-year-old from Belfast comprehensively took the final frame with a break of 74. For all the frame scores and results from the qualifying rounds of The Masters 2006, click here for ibsf.org's coverage.
Former IBSF World Snooker Champion Stuart Bingham has compiled a maximum 147 break during the qualifying rounds of The Masters 2006 at the World Snooker Centre @ Pontin's in Prestatyn Sands, Wales. The 29-year-old from Basildon in England, who was facing Scotland's Marcus Campbell in the quarter-finals of this qualifying event for the right to take up the final berth available at next year's Masters at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England, raced away to a 4-0 lead with breaks of 62, 30, 38 and 34. Bingham, who won the IBSF World Snooker Championship in New Zealand back in 1996, returned from the interval to wrap up the match in sensational style with the second maximum break of his professional career. There was less good news however for the former IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Champion, Ding Junhui, as the youngster from China took on Northern Ireland's highly experienced Joe Swail for a place in the semi-finals of qualifying for The Masters 2006. After being 3-1 down going into the interval, Ding hit back to level the match at 3-3 only for Swail to nudge ahead 4-3 with a break of 102. Ding responded with a break of 116 to force a decing frame, but the 37-year-old from Belfast comprehensively took the final frame with a break of 74. For all the frame scores and results from the qualifying rounds of The Masters 2006, click here for ibsf.org's coverage.