After the conclusion of another extraordinary snooker season, we pick 10 memorable moments from the 2022/23 campaign as captured by the Eurosport cameras.
You can vote for your personal favourite when we reveal our final list of contenders later this month. No. 3 – Captain flies high with German Masters victory Ad Snooker has always been a sport ripe for rousing recovery stories since the inception of professionalism in the modern televised era.
SnookerRobertson and Dott to open new snooker season in Championship LeagueYESTERDAY AT 11:20 Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins retrieved a seemingly impossible position from 7-0 behind in a 16-15 win over Steve Davis in the 1983 UK Championship final with his fellow Northern Irishman Dennis Taylor doing likewise against Davis from 8-0 adrift in an 18-17 win in the celebrated 1985 'black-ball' world final.
Stephen Hendry famously reeled off 10 straight frames from 14-8 behind against Jimmy 'Whirlwind' White in the 1992 Crucible final while new world champion Luca Brecel looked a goner in the semi-finals of this year's event trailing Si Jiahui 14-5 to incredibly complete a 17-15 sporting act of escapology.