Mark Allen has compiled a 147 break throughout his quarter-final fixture with Mark Selby within the Masters on Friday in London.
The Northern Irishman compiled the right break in the course of the third body of his last-eight showdown on the Alexandra Palace.
It matches Ding Junhui’s most effort from earlier within the week, with the duo set to share the excessive break prize of £15,000.
In making his third profession most break, nevertheless, Allen has set himself as much as pocket a brand new profitable bonus that has been provided this season.
Any participant who compiles two 147 breaks within the Triple Crown occasions – comprising the UK Championship, Masters, and World Championship – will earn a tasty £147,000 jackpot.
Each Allen and Ding are actually on track to land that sum if they will produce one other second of magic on snooker’s greatest of phases.
It’s the primary time in historical past that two 147 breaks have been constructed in the identical Masters match.
Certainly, it’s solely the fifth time in Masters historical past that the particular break has been made.
Kirk Stevens was the primary to realize the feat in 1984, and followers needed to wait one other 23 years till the following one was made in 2007.
Ding Junhui was the participant cheered on that event, and it was the identical participant who was applauded earlier this week – representing the primary cueist to take action twice on the prestigious invitational.
In between, Marco Fu produced the head break on the 2015 Masters throughout his first-round encounter in opposition to Stuart Bingham.
Earlier on Friday, in the meantime, Ali Carter knocked out defending champion Judd Trump in a 6-5 thriller.
The Captain fought again from 5-4 right down to deny the world quantity two, enacting a modicum of revenge for his defeat to the identical opponent on the Wuhan Open remaining earlier this time period.
2024 Masters
– draw, reside scores, outcomes –
Final 16 (bo11)
Judd Trump 6-5 Kyren Wilson
Mark Williams 4-6 Ali Carter
Mark Selby 6-1 Robert Milkins
Mark Allen 6-5 John Higgins
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Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-3 Ding Junhui
Neil Robertson 3-6 Barry Hawkins
Shaun Murphy 6-2 Zhang Anda
Luca Brecel 2-6 Jack Lisowski
Quarter-Finals (bo11)
Matches to be performed on Jan 11 and Jan 12
Judd Trump 5-6 Ali Carter
Mark Selby 3-1 Mark Allen
(Fri, 7pm UTC)
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Ronnie O’Sullivan 6-3 Barry Hawkins
Shaun Murphy 6-3 Jack Lisowski
Semi-Finals (bo11)
Matches to be performed on Jan 13
Ali Carter vs Selby/Allen
(Sat, 7pm UTC)
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Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Shaun Murphy
(Sat, 1pm UTC)
Ultimate (bo19)
Match to be performed on Jan 14
TBC vs TBC
(Solar, 1pm and 7pm UTC)
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