Stephen Hendry's Maiden Crucible 147 | 1995 World Championship [vs Jimmy White]
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Hendry 147, Everton and Spencer on comms. Best days ever...
Jimmy white must have been sick of the sight of Hendry by this point 😂
His lack of talent must a really rankled with his poor play.
Hendry did not beat White every time they met throughout the whole of the 1990's.
White had 3 triple crown wins over Hendry 1988 to 1998 since when Hendry was starting to become a big threat. 2 in the world championships 1988 and 1998 and 1 in the UK championships in 1991. All triple crown meetings between White and Hendry were massive meetings. Hendry won his 7th world title only 1 year after White beat him for the second time at the Crucible.
@@robovac3557jimmy hardly lacked talent. Jimmy’s problem was off the table with drink and drugs and his hedonistic lifestyle.
Jimmy White is one of the most talented people to pick up a cue @@robovac3557
@@robovac3557 In terms of talent, Jimmy White was right up with Ronnie Alex Higgins and Judge Trump.
This kids prime was unbelievable. He was like a human computer. He could see all the positions in front of him and would run through the table so effortlessly. Young enough to show a little brash confidence sometimes and then learned to harness that and showed the ability to figure out of those spots with such coolness and calm.
I know there will be many who may have refused to see Hendry as the GOAT in his time, but he inspired kids his age like me who couldn't believe how he was in there besting all of them!
Hendry The Great !!
I don't think there's anybody now or then who could have beaten Stephen Hendry playing his best game.
I put a comment on Linsay Spences thoughts earlier and i also recall something that has stuck with me.
I do concede i may be wrong, but these feats have stayed in my head for like 40yrs.
During a UK Open which i think he won, he made a 147. He also i think made a 146 and that was incredible for back then. I even think it may of come in the final just to make it better.
While I agree with a lot of this, I do want to say without throwing the GOAT discussion into the ring that Hendry was levels above the vast majority of players at this time. If he'd have been competing with prime Ronnie, prime Higgins, prime Williams, prime Trump, prime Selby, and so on, his results would have been much more hard fought and he wouldn't have anywhere near the stats he has now. That's not knocking Stephen, that's more a statement about the opponents he was facing. We could have had a blinding 1990s if the class of '92 had been born 5-6 years earlier!
@@HamsterSport I'd agree. The goat discussion does take the shine off other greats. I am biased cuz I was a little younger then Hendry and lived in the midlands of England when he came on the scene. It was crazy seeing a kid go into the crucible and steady his nerves and beat everyone. It was unlike anything else.
@@jiiig8667 Without a doubt he was the next level. Every generation has their player that elevates them on to the next era. We have been lucky with the Class of '92 to have 3 players and then Judd Trump and Selby, Ding Junhui, and I believed the Chinese players would be the ones to elevate the game once again but a lot of them are suspended due to this most recent match fixing investigation. Sadly Hendry hasn't retained his classic brutality on the table judging by his most recent couple of games but I believe we are close to seeing the next super talent coming up. Maybe Stephen can return to his glory once again but time will tell!
In a World Championship Final, Stephen Hendry at his peak beats any other player at their peak.
You know it, I know it, he knows it and they know it.
That’s not to say there wouldn’t be some great battles, but he’d 100% come out on top.
GOAT.
Nonsense. It was a great clearance in some respects but not a excellently executed break. He lost position quite a few times. Now compare that with O'Sullivan's 5.20 minutes break. The absolute control he had over the white ball was unbelievable, and at that pace? Come on. Only a Hendry fanboy could say what you said. Hendry said it himself, O'Sullivan is the best he's ever seen. He knows it and YOU know it.
They don’t even deserve idiotic comparison like you’re doing . So what if Hendry miss a little control and overcome it with flair and also Ronnie with amazing control of cue ball. It is never the problem of whether a 147 being badly executed or not. When a 147 is executed everything is impeccable in its own way. Instead of comparing, why don’t enjoy them as the greatest players of all. After all, they had changed the way of snooker and leave a legacy that is worth persecution if you take it for granted ! If you watch a professional and elegant game, then be a civilized audience !
totally agree
Thats interesting considering Hendry has lost 2 WC finals at his peak....Ronnie has lost one too to Mark. Davis to Taylor. They were all not invincible.
Shame he got the yips. He'd still be a top competitor without it imo
Day out for the lads 4:39
Hendry in his prime was unstoppable.
The thing with Hendry was that he went for his shots he never held back...
This was on top of the brilliant super player he was and personally to me THE GOAT !!!!!
No matter how hard a peak Hendry in the 1990's tried to achieve them in Crucible finals, chasing an 18-2 is impossible to do and chasing an 18-3 like in 1989 was and is never going to be repeated though.
@@dvidclapperton When Hendry's wife use to shout down to him and say...
Stephen which shirt do you want to play in the final of the WC with !!!!!...
Think that completely and absolutely sums him up !!!
@@RFED2O
Hendry had a huge edge on century breaks rate and an average of much fewer number of visits per frame to the table over his 3 biggest challengers at the time (it was still White, Steve Davis and Parrott at the time.) and vs everybody else at the time it would have been extraordinary had he not made it to the world championship final at that time that he waa guaranteed to wear that shirt in the final hat he and his wife discussed about wearing rounds in advance of the final or even in advance of his first round match.
Since 1995 many more players (on the very Riley table that Hendry made the bulk of his 775 centuries that he was dominating at the Crucible during the period approaching and into the mid 1990's) scored centuties at a rate far more skin to Hendry, (Davis, White and Parrott were rapidly falling down the all time century list by 2000) Hendry's Crucible success slowed but still he won again in 1999 and lost by 1 solitary frame in the 2002 world championship final. Hendry was still exceptional late 1990's on but not invincible any longer. You can't be invincible any more if so many others are also making centuries at a fast rate, not just yourself when previously you were invincible you were the only player making centuries at such a fast rate for so long. Parrott's 229 centuries on today's list looks really dreadful now compared to how it looked back in 1999 when he was still the 6th most prolific century break maker of all time then. Parrott's now is the 38th most prolific century break builder of all time right now.
No sorry you cant be serious with Ronnie doing his stuff after 30 years...you need to justify
@@ekspatriatRonnie is the GOAT 🐐
Love John Spencers commentary
Hendry had the most beautiful que action of any player ever
It is beautiful. Also Stephen lees with his aggression was top tier.
* cue
9:22 .Len Gangley's sneaky look at Stephen's body language to see if he snookered himself on the green.
Phenomenal snooker from probably the greatest player the game has ever seen. John Spencer's commentary was always engaging, he was also a great player in his day.
Hendry's main strengths were his concentration and mental strength, in his prime he was in a league of his own.
He was an incredible long potter too. He seemed to be the first player to constantly knock in a huge long shot, often after the break off, and stay on the black and proceed to make a century or total clearance.
I was a player back then and following seeing Davis's rise, when Hendry started doing this, i said he is like no other player.
Two other things i remember, when he played Doherty in a UK Open final, 1st frame Ken won and then Hendry went ton, ton, ton in a row. Then Ken won his next, then Hendry a ton, then Ken another and Hendry a ton. I may be wrong, but he was either 5-3 up and made 5 tons or he was 7-3 up with 5tons. Whichever it was no one else seemed to be playing at that level.
@@dannymiles6503 the 94 uk final with doherty is the greatest standard ever seen in a match. 7 centuries in a 10 frames is insane.
@@johnmccaughey2722 Geez John thats incredible thanks. I also left a comment replying to another where i seem to recall another UK Open final he won. He made a 147 in the event and then made a 146 during the final. I may be wrong after all these years, but if im right, that was an incredible feat for back then. These days the players most times play in optimum conditions like super quick cloth and heated slate and more. Thanks for your help John.
@@johnmccaughey2722 he actually scored 6 tons in 8 frames and 7 in the whole match.
the amazing thing about hendry when he beat jimmy white all of those times is that virtually everybody in the arena on each occasion was willing him to lose (apart from a few scots) such amazing temperament-
Все очень просто, Хендри - гений снукера!
Fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed him playing at the time, & today love to get back to his cesarian years.
The last black was absolutely unreal.
Yes, with the pressure of making the Mt Everest of breaks, but also the &147k bonus prize. The blue also was such a precision shot, as he almost nicks the pink first and had to trust rolling it slow to the jaws, which it touches and slides in, so he doesnt send the pink too hard to the cushion.
The commentary seems less talkative (for want of a better word) than it is now. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
how happy was Jimmy for him at the end!
Unbelievable player run out of position a few times hampered etc still got the job done. The last black was insane. I’m a Ronnie fan & he will always be number 1. Two of the greatest players snookers produced at that table. The whirlwind vs the crucible king 👑 👑👑👑👑👑👑
Fabulous!
How you miss Clive Everton commentating
John Spencer too - commentating gold-dust the two of them!
Fantastic!
at his best he was simply unbeatable
Peak Hendry wasn't seen in the big eventd after the 2002 world championships, certsinly wasn't seen apart from the odd basis.
It was too tall order for Hendry to maintain that sort of level for 2 full decades beyond that 1990's dwcade thar he woyld still be just as superior to tjwcqgolw of the rest of the field throughout his 30's and 40's as he was in his 20's no matter whehher whwther they were younger or older than him. Even if he did into the 2000's and right up to the last day of 2019, he would have had to improve his level far too significantly to total perfection of not giving his opponent an extra visit to the table in any frame even if they score 0 points themselves from their visit, and himself not take an extra visit to totally clear the table of making 140+ in any frsme over every single frame post break off to stay as much ahead of the entire field as he did in the 1990's plus also win 7 or 8 world titles in both the 2000's and 2010's. But that level proved beyond him, it is beyond everybody if truth be told.. Because by then a lot more players were playing to a much higher standard than in the past.
Tetris has been totally mastered by a teenager recently, but snooker itself will never be totally mastered by a aingle player, only the field can ever be mastered at best. Hendry only mastered the field at best.
What a player 👌🏻
Almost 30 years ago he got 147k for a 147 (+20k for highest break) ... today, it's so 'commonplace', it's virtually a dead set certainty someone will get one so it's down to 40k and just an interesting side issue
King Hendry , the greatest
Not now, not even on paper.
@@cone78omdiaco21 I know that.
9:28 feather that cue 🪶 complete control 💯%
It’s been said elsewhere but the commentary was much better back then. They knew when to shut up and only speak when necessary and let you enjoy it instead of the constant yakking now from Davis and Co.
It’s the non snooker pros who are most annoying!! Eurosport trash Dave Hendon and Co… non stop drivel, useless statistics thank the Lord for the mute button 😂
I disagree. A John Virgo would have added excitement which was worthy of the occasion. These guys were a bit too quiet for too long.
Unbelievable!
That’s some bonus in 1995 £147k
He actually got £163000 as there was also 16k for the highest break of the championship.
Jimmy was dipping into Reardon's Brylcreem pot in the mid 1990's.
😂
Not the only thing he was dipping into.
Only at the Crucible, but not at every venue. Not every meeting from day 1 of 1990's to day 365 of 1999 either.
What a break. Not sure what he did on the yellow though, really unusual shot, but clearly had tension in the arm. He looked so cool and calm though
What you didn’t see is Len Ganley kissing him,he really did🤣
Some of his positional play was a little iffy, but he battled on, held his nerve and came up with the goods eventually!
10:44 a split second of disappointment on his face then back into focus
KING.
HE'S DONE IT !!!
167000 GBP on the table for the last shot and he kept his cool... 🎉
147,000
No it would have been 167 unless there was another maximum because there was 20k on the table for the biggest break of the tournament.
Ronnie is the GOAT. Hendry was the greatest in 1990’s : 7 WC’s during 9 years.
Hendry is the most special goat🎉❤😂
He had ice running through his veins.
STEPHEN LEE was in attendance for this
that final blue was pink first!!!
Hendry completely battered jimmy throughout the 90s, No wonder Jimmy lost his hair
Should of at least won that one when he missed black off the spot in decider mate gutted Jimmy never won a world title big Jimmy fan, all the boozing and crack smoking before matches didn't help Jimmy lol
He has a full head of hair now, so all is good 😊
White won quite a few matches vs Hendry in the 1990's including in triple crown UK semi final in 1991 and also first round of the world championships in 1998.
So Hendry was not unbeaten vs White throughout the 1990's, or Steve Davis either for that matter. Davis still won some rakiing tournaments, won quite a few matches vs Hendry, and among some of his losses to Hendry in the 1990's took Hendry to 16-15 in the 1990 UK Championship final.
People talk as though Hrndry thrashed everybody every time they met in the 1990's, and Hendry also smashing everybody with a session to spare from round 2 to the final throughout the 1990's. He did not, it's not on record.
@@dvidclapperton Hendry is the greatest of all time. do with that as you wish.
@@mrsalvatore1234
I never said he's not. But (and you're far from alone on here) you're trying to claim Hendry did not lose to players that he actually did lose to in the 1990's and a few more times than once, and yes some in triple crown events as well, and yes even in the pre 1996 to 1999 period. Yes it happened, and I saw it all with my own eyes in the 1990's when it was on the BBC and ITV.
But he didn't thrash all opponent every time he faced them. He didn't record 100% records against allcomers throughout the 1990's.
He thrashed White 18-5 in the 1993 eotld championship final. But that can't truly get construed as "Hendry's thrashing everybody with a session to spare" like some tried to construe it as what he was going to do in the wotld championships from then on. He had only thrashed the one player with a session to spare in the 1993 world championhipa, not all 4 opponents from the round 2 to the final. Hendry has never thrashed everybody in the same world championships with a session to spare at the Crucible. That is a fact. Hendry has never won every single full session where he needed to win at least 5 frames on the way to the title at the Crucibke in any of the 7 world titles he won. Nor has he went an entire snooker season unbeaten. Everybody loses, even he lost aometimes even at the Crucible, and indeed in 1991 he did vs Steve James in the quarter finals, yes in the early to mid 1990's where people thought Hendry couldn't lose a match anywhere against anybody. He did compete in 1986 to 1991 at the Crucible so he did lose a few matches before embarking on a 29 match winning streak where his winning run couldn't realistically last forever. But he wasn't completely unbeaten at the Crucible before he lost to Doherty in the 1997 world championship final. You'd think he never lost a match at the Crucible until Doherty the way aome people are going on.
Williams, Higgins, Ebdon, McManus, Wattana, White, Steve Davis and quite a few others did not go through the whole 1990's without a single win over Hendry or rarely winning one match. The hesd to hesd stats on CueTracker prove that he did not. You can lose some matches even when you're the best player in the world, not even he could win every single one. Going through the whole decade with 100% record against allcomers is impossible.
!47 grand bonus, there's oil barons from abu dubai in the audience, no wonder he walked straight out.
I’m always amazed the amount of coughing you used to get at the crucible compared to now
What was it?
Microphone positions
Age demographic then in the audience
More smokers
Having been a couple of times last 3 years and watched a lot I’m convinced it’s much less coughing now
The last 2 points you made is the answer
4:42
£147,000 for a maximum is mental!! I guess once Hendry and Ronnie were capable of getting one during any frame in the 90's, they had to reconsider the amount... 😄
The Bannister Effect maybe
@@marktyler3381 Exactly. It's the same in darts - Phil Taylor won £100k for the first televised PDC 9-dart finish on Sky and nowadays they are so commonplace there sometimes isn't even any prize money for getting one!
The maximum prize back then was covered by an insurance policy by the sponsors and promoters based on the risk it may happen. You cant insure something that will happen, hence the big cheques stopped when the became normal.
Jimmy white watching movie of Hendry the great🎉
Hendry was only young at the time. And the whirwind was a legend.
Some player.
147thousand pounds... That's a great deal of bonus for a max!
Plus 20k highest break prize 💰
Good break but the colours were not the best by a long way 😂
Grand for every point nice little bonus allright! Stephen hendry was a machine in the balls in his pomp still prefer Ronnie though bigger Jimmy fan too gutted he never landed that world title
Hendry had just beaten O'Sullivan in the quarter final, O'Sullivan was great fun to watch but still had a fair bit to go in terms of consistency and temperament
@@allthekingshorses7178
Hendry's 1986 to 1991 learning years at the Crucible did happen too, so Hendry did not immediately embark on his run of 5 world titles and 29 match wins on the trot at the Crucible like some have tried to claim, it wasn't a blank sheet of paper. Hendry's 1986 to 1991 at the Crucible including his 5 losses there is on record, but it shouldn't be deducted from his record as though it didn't happen or that he was only learning. Everbody who plays at tne Cducuble for the first few time id/has been learning, so should we just deduct ths period from all who weren't winning the title at the Crucible every year at least for their first 6 years at the Crucible as well?
If what some claim that John Higgins, O'Sullivan and Williams were around and at their peaks at the Crucible 1994 to 1996 (they weren't until at least after 1996, not before 1997 as though they weren't at their peaks afterwards which is ridiculous claim some people make about those 3) and none of them won it then while Hendry did, then Hendry was as much around as them in 1987 to 1989 when he didn't win while Steve Davis won.
Hendry only dominated 1 era, not 3 eras despite popular belief, so Hendry did not see off allcomers of all eras what some have been trying to claim. Hendry was unable to completely dominate the 2000's the way he did the 1990's despite him still being at an age where legibally it was highly possible. And in snooker you don't have to be young to be exceptionally good the way you need to be in tennis, but Hendry could not turn being exceptional in his 20's to becoming even greater still in his 40's when the 2010's came around (but I say that in the face of being exceptional in your 20's doesn't automaticslly mean you're even greater 2 decades older, but it's a very rare thing, but Hendry was seen as being so exceptional that he could only keep getting better rather than decline, but the likes of Williams, John Higgins and O'Sullivan all still managed to maintain their levels enough that they have all proven to be higjly competitive in theit 40's to be able to win the world title (but Hendry couldn't maintain enough of a level ro still manage to win he world title beyond 30 or close to winning at 33 let alone in his 40's) it was still a possibility but he was unable to dominate 3 eras he couldn't keep getting even better post 1999 while the fields kept getting better (but that was a tall order) or remaining highly competitive enough like Williams, O'Sullivan and John Higgins after 30 and into their 40's to win the world title in both the 2000's and 2010's.
Do you reckon Jimmy was actually willing him on lol?
And I have the 147th comment! Cool!
If memory serves me right, the prize was £147K + a Rolls Royce from the promoters.
Never been so much at stake for a 147 and never will be again....
Plus another £20k for the highest break.
1:51 🫢🧐👂🏻
Стивен - Король
Almost 350k in todays money 😮
£147000 in 1995 and they get about £50000 now for it 😂
Surprised players were still allowed to smoke during games.
Why not
Yeah before the woke took over controlling us
First winner of the £147,000.
I think there was a 20k high break prize as well so 167k in total.
It was 16k so 163k total :)@@johnmccaughey2722
They could smoke there... ffs, what happened to us, that we are so scared of everything these days?
Who would you put your house on in a what if. Hendry in his prime there or O Sullivan in not his prime but at his best mentally. You all get what I'm saying. Who would you put your house in the first to 18.
Hendry in his prime, simple
hendry for me.
It wouldn't be all over by 4pm bank holiday Monday whoever won, that's for sure. So no 18-3. An 18-3 couldn't ever possibly happen today in a world championship final, that's so 1980's complety an irrelevant scoreline in the late 1990's, 2000's, 2010's and this decade. And Hendry was even better in winning the 1999 world championsbip against the best field he ever faced (comparing the same rounds with other years he won it) yes even better than the 1993 world championships and he didn't beat any of them wirh a session to spare in 1999. Williams played a lot better in the 1999 world championship final than White did in the 1993 world championship final, and Williams also won 3 main tour world titles to White's 0 in his career. White also played the worst he had ever played of all his meetings with Hendry at the Crucible in that 1993 world championship final, none of their other meetings at the Crucible ended with a session to spare, I doubt that a peak O"Sullivan and also in a good frame of mind would have succommed by anywhere near the aame way as White did even if he lost to a peak Hendry in the 1993 world championship final even if he lost to Hendry, it would have been by no worse than 18-14 had he lost, not 18-5.
It would go deep into the 4th session. Both of their first 2 world championship semi final meetings ended 17-13 so it would be a 4 frsmes margin or less in it in a best of 35 world championship final whoever won had auch a meeting ever happened.
It would go down to a respotted black in frame 35.
Ice man
147k for a 147 back in 1995 now they only get 40
Maybe the ￡147k was being won more often than they anticipated.
In darts they pay out for the highest checkout, but pay out the grand sum of 0p for the 9 darter.
Whats with all the coughing?
They had a cough
Ronnie only won 1 wc in Ronnies prime when Hendry lost it Ronnie won lots of he’s prime
Mad to think he did all this with a cheap crappy bent cue.
How coked was Jimmy 🤣
I recorded this videos off my tv in 1995 and put it up on TH-cam years ago subtitled, but now you claim ownership of it - yet I see thousands of videos on this website from the tv - why did you feel the need to block mine that was up years before yours and to help deaf and hard of hearing - it had 97,000 views as well
“And this is where precision has to be precise.” What a plonker of a commentator.
I hated hendry when he kept beating jimmy in the world final effing and blinding at the telly and a few years i thought it wasn't hendrys fault that jimmy white was just a big loser waste of space
I remeber when snooker and f1 was sponsered by b and h ciggeretts man.
Jimmy White casually lighting that cigarette at 5:30 when the frame is over.
We can't have that, gambling is much better.
Yeah right, I'm no fan of fans but gambling?
Brilliant player but why oh why are him and Ken receiving ITCs? Snooker will never move on if it keeps offering players who aren't good enough these wildcards just because 20 years ago they won stuff. You cannot keep trotting out stuff from the past.
Please rethink the idea to offer cards to players who will never grace the game's elite again and allow the chance for more players and potentially some fresh young talent to grace the tour.
Well said
Ppl will tune in to see hendry. Ppl love a bit of nostalgia and seeing a guy who won the world championship 7 times make a comeback is entertaining to some.
It’s called respect.. just like jack Nicklaus etc get invited to play the golf open & masters etc at their ripe old age
How many countries were represented in this "World" Championship?
Canada (1)
England (18)
Malta (1)
Northern Ireland (1)
Rep of Ireland (1)
Scotland (4)
South Africa (1)
Thailand (2)
Wales (3)
@@cddb5408 So 9 countries with 32 players in total, 18 (56.25%) from England, 26 (81.25%) from one country (UK), 1 from Rep. of Ireland and 5 from the rest of the world. Not to mention 29 out of 32 players coming from countries of the British Commonwealth. Do these participations justify the title "world championship"?
@@stathislourantos1194 Considering how snooker has grown in other markets since then - yes!
All the ones with players good enough to qualify. Have you ever wondered why that particular sperm made it to that particular egg and created you? I'm wondering after reading your pathetic snarky comment. Put your life to better use...
@@stathislourantos1194 baseball - the World Series?
The two geezers in cosplay foreshadowing current event where the Arabs match into the sport with their oil money 30 years down the line. ,😄😄
And then Ronnie came and made 147 a daily occurrence
Robnie has 4 more than Stephen.
@@tbug5737 Throughout a MUCH longer playing career too.
Why does Ronnie say Hendry is his hero?
John Spencer , possibly the worse snooker commentator , EVER !
Was a good player but boring to watch... Unlike JW and ROS...
I loved watching his matches - when on it, he was like a snooker equivalent of a Swiss clock.
Stephen Hendry boring??? By that you mean consistently brilliant. Check out his match against Jimmy White at the 1988 WSC, in terms of pure attacking snooker both players put on a masterclass
I do love watching Ronnie and Jimmy, and i loved watching Hendry knocking in a long red, as he was the best long potter then, and most times make a 100 and often a total clearance. I also love watching Thepchaiyah play. He plays snooker beautifully and takes on lots of hard shots.
Hendry smashing both White and Bond with Session to spare back to back in the semi and final were not on the cards before his 147.
That final black: can anyone imagine Jimmy (if he ever got himself to that situation!) potting that?
Absolutely no fuckin chance!!
That was the difference between Stephen and Jimmy.
Jimmy was a bottler concerned only with booze and powder.... and the odd bit of snooker .
If Jimmy had put the same amount of effort into snooker as Stephen had then maybe he wudda had similar success...... but he didn't.
ZERO sympathy 4 Jimmy.