Mark Allen makes 147 maximum en route to securing quarter-final berth

Mark Allen made a 147 maximum break during his third-round match against Ben Mertens at the British Open – where he had said the table should be “burned” – before going on to book a place in the quarter-finals.

Allen won a final-frame shootout in his opening match of the tournament against Gary Wilson before describing conditions at the Centaur Arena in Cheltenham as “absolutely embarrassing”, adding “the table needs to be burned”.

The world number three – who later apologised to interviewer Rob Walker on X for his outburst – had comfortably seen off the Republic of Ireland’s Aaron Hill 4-1 in his next match to set up a showdown with Belgian Mertens.

How magical was this?