Neil Robertson hits 147 maximum break at World Snooker Championship 2022

Neil Robertson hit a stunning 147 against Jack Lisowski at the World Snooker Championships in Sheffield. The Aussie knocked in the maximum break to reduce the deficit to one frame at 10-9.

Robertson, who won his only World Championship in 2010, scoops £40,000 in prize money for knocking in the 147. It is only the 12th maximum break since the tournament moved to the Crucible Theatre in 1977.

It is Robertson's first maximum break at the Crucible and he was congratulated by his Lisowki as well as the players on the other table, Judd Trump and Anthony McGill. The Thunder from Down Under then claimed the next frame to level the scores at 10-10.

Robertson came into the second session of his best of 25 second round match trailing 9-7 to Lisowski. The 40-year-old has won four events this season and beat Ashley Hugill 10-5 in the first round.

Leicester's Mark Selby - the defending champion - exited the competition at the hands of China's Yang Bingtao on Sunday night. Selby lost his second round tie 13-10.

Yan had built a two-frame lead heading into their concluding session and looked set to make short work of the defending champion when he won the first two frames in the evening to extend his lead to 11-7. But Selby surged back to within one frame with consecutive breaks of 86, 117 and 88, setting up the ultimately crucial 22nd frame which Yan finally won after squeezing the black into the middle.

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