Top 10 moments of 2022/23 snooker season: No. 3 – Ali Carter displays champion powers of recovery at German Masters

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.

Yet such a scattering of memorable comebacks from the vast vault of living memory pale into insignificance when you consider the obstacles Ali Carter has overcome to remain among the elite of his potting life and times. Speaking to Eurosport ahead of this year's World Championship, Carter opened up on the severity of health issues he faced away from the table having twice battled cancer over the past decade after being diagnosed with Crohn's disease 20 years ago.