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

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No. 8 – Hong Kong Masters units new gold commonplace

Ronnie O’Sullivan has performed on the best venues in snooker over the previous 31 years, however it’s honest to say the huge Hong Kong Coliseum was a stand-alone sporting expertise, distinctive in its bustling brilliance.

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“So hopefully we will come again yr [after] yr, as a result of the followers have been unbelievable. It has most likely been the very best week as a snooker participant to play snooker.

“So I simply wish to thank everybody for making this such a particular match.”

There have some rousing venues for snooker throughout the globe, previous and current, within the fashionable televised period of professionalism.

The previous Wembley Convention Centre staged the Masters in London between 1979 till 2006 and would commonly handle to deal with 2,500 salivating snooker followers with Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins, Jimmy ‘Whirlwind’ White and O’Sullivan serving to to make the joint crackle.

In current instances, the Masters at Alexandra Palace and the German Masters on the Tempodrom in Berlin produce packed backdrops match for elite sport whereas the intimacy of the World Championship on the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield continues to offer its personal claustrophobic calls for.

But there’s little doubt that the Hong Kong Masters set a brand new gold commonplace with teeming crowds eager to revel within the sport’s main figures that additionally included former world champions Judd Trump, Mark Selby, John Higgins, Mark Williams and Ng On Yee, the three-time ladies’s world champion.

Over 7,500 noticed O’Sullivan get well a 4-1 deficit to oust 2017 winner Neil Robertson within the semi-finals of the invitational match with the venue mimicking Flushing Meadows for a US Open tennis match or Madison Sq. Backyard in boxing.

Native icon Fu responded by laying on a 147 most break within the deciding body of his 6-5 victory over Higgins within the semi-finals.

“I’ve been to the ATP tennis in London earlier than and it felt one thing just like that,” stated O’Sullivan.

“I’ve by no means skilled it and I didn’t suppose I might expertise that. It’s simply unbelievable. One of the best occasion I’ve ever performed in my life.

“It’s a totally different sort of nerves to the Crucible. That’s evil, on prime of you and intense. Right here you have got the followers, however there is a little more area.

“I felt some good nerves and I loved the event. I needed it to hold on, so I’m disillusioned the match is over.”

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