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INCREDIBLE & RARE Snooker Break! 16 Red TOTAL Clearance - Steve James #snooker
INCREDIBLE & RARE Snooker Break! 16 Red TOTAL Clearance - Steve James #snooker
Welcome once again to Snooker International with another exciting Snooker Video.
I want you to know about Steve James, a very talented and fast snooker player from the UK, who made the only televised 16 red total clearance at a ranking event, the World Championships in Sheffield in the year 1990.
A former postman like Terry Griffiths, the high point of his career was his sole ranking title - the Mercantile Credit Classic in 1990, beating Australian Warren King 10-6 in the final. His world ranking peaked at number seven the following season, the best of his five seasons in the top sixteen.
On 14th of April 1990, in his match against Alex Higgins at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, Steve James became the first player to produce a 16-red total clearance in competitive play.
In other words, he potted 16 reds and 16 colours consecutively, followed by all the coloured balls in order: a situation that was only possible because he was awarded a free ball before any red had been potted.
A year later he reached the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championship, beating defending champion Stephen Hendry in the quarter-finals (it was six years before anyone else beat Hendry in the tournament: Ken Doherty in 1997).
He was beaten in the semi-final by Jimmy White, with whom he shares his birthday; coincidentally, the match began on their birthday, the second of May.
He was the first player ever to score two centuries on his Crucible debut, including a 140, the second highest by a debutant of all time. In addition to 1991, he reached the quarter-finals on his debut in 1988, and the last 16.
Now enjoy this extremely rare and awesome break he made.
Welcome once again to Snooker International with another exciting Snooker Video.
I want you to know about Steve James, a very talented and fast snooker player from the UK, who made the only televised 16 red total clearance at a ranking event, the World Championships in Sheffield in the year 1990.
A former postman like Terry Griffiths, the high point of his career was his sole ranking title - the Mercantile Credit Classic in 1990, beating Australian Warren King 10-6 in the final. His world ranking peaked at number seven the following season, the best of his five seasons in the top sixteen.
On 14th of April 1990, in his match against Alex Higgins at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, Steve James became the first player to produce a 16-red total clearance in competitive play.
In other words, he potted 16 reds and 16 colours consecutively, followed by all the coloured balls in order: a situation that was only possible because he was awarded a free ball before any red had been potted.
A year later he reached the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championship, beating defending champion Stephen Hendry in the quarter-finals (it was six years before anyone else beat Hendry in the tournament: Ken Doherty in 1997).
He was beaten in the semi-final by Jimmy White, with whom he shares his birthday; coincidentally, the match began on their birthday, the second of May.
He was the first player ever to score two centuries on his Crucible debut, including a 140, the second highest by a debutant of all time. In addition to 1991, he reached the quarter-finals on his debut in 1988, and the last 16.
Now enjoy this extremely rare and awesome break he made.
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Amazing break 16 reds and colours, and then all colours I was always wondering if anyone got more then the 15 reds, and your video answered that question, good for you op that you knew about this. I wonder how many people have recorded breaks higher then 147, i assume the highest possible break you can ever get in snooker is 155. Very nice break, would be interested to see breaks over 147, if anyone knows how many are actually made in competition and are on video to see. Has anyone ever got a 155 break in snooker, in theory the highest possible break?
11 semi finals and 2 wins he was good. He played for Wednesbury cons as an amateur in the West Midlands league and was one of 4 players to turn professional in the same year from that club the others were Anthony Harris, Jim chambers and Martin Clark . I know because I played for Wednesbury Cons the year after them trying to pick up the pieces after they left.
Wasted talent he was
Wasted talent seems a bit harsh but for his level of talent you would have thought that he could have achieved more in the game than he actually did.
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Excellent post! I have great memories of Steve James - such a fluent and aggressive break builder. I wonder how successful he could have been with the kind of coaching available now.
Yes, I remember him fondly too. Very exciting to watch when he was an up and coming player.
He was on a program surgeons at the edge of life on bbc he had a bad bike crash at 100mph recently 2021 ish broke both his arms thought I recognized him . What a great player in the day Quick and lovely to watch faster than Higgins !! What memories !!
He was a real talent.