Top 10 moments of 2022/23 snooker season: No. 8 – Hong Kong Masters breaks world record in Ronnie O'Sullivan title win

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.

8 – Hong Kong Masters sets new gold standard Ad Ronnie O'Sullivan has played at the greatest venues in snooker over the past 31 years, but it is fair to say the vast Hong Kong Coliseum was a stand-alone sporting experience, unique in its bustling brilliance. World ChampionshipTop 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 9 – Selby compiles ultimate 147 at CrucibleYESTERDAY AT 10:28 A crowd of just under 9,000 – a world-record attendance for a snooker match – witnessed the snooker GOAT complete a 6-4 win over Marco Fu in the Hong Kong Masters final last October.

«To have 9,000 fans watching a snooker match [is] unheard of,» said O'Sullivan. «So hopefully we can come back year [after] year, because the fans have been fantastic. It has probably been the best week as a snooker player to play snooker.

»So I just want to thank everyone for making this such a special tournament." There have some rousing venues for snooker across the globe, past and present, in the modern televised era of professionalism. The old Wembley Conference Centre staged the Masters in London between 1979 until 2006 and would regularly manage to house 2,500 salivating snooker fans with Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins, Jimmy 'Whirlwind' White and O'Sullivan helping to make the joint crackle. In recent times, the Masters at Alexandra Palace and the German Masters at the Tempodrom in Berlin produce packed backdrops fit for elite sport while the intimacy of the World Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield