World Snooker Championship 2023 full results and highest break
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Luca Brecel beat Mark Selby 18-15 in a classic final to win his first World Snooker Championship.
The Belgian had never won a match before on his previous visits to the Crucible, but knocked out the defending world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and two other former winners to clinch the title.
Here is how the tournament unfolded.
Results
Semi-finals
Luca Brecel 17-15 Si Jiahui
Mark Selby 17-15 Mark Allen
Quarter-finals
Mark Allen 13-10 Jak Jones
Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-13 Luca Brecel
Anthony McGill 12-13 Si Jiahui
John Higgins 7-13 Mark Selby
Second round
Robert Milkins 7-13 Si Jiahui
Anthony McGill 13-8 Jack Lisowski
John Higgins 13-2 Kyren Wilson
Mark Allen 13-4 Stuart Bingham
Mark Williams 11-13 Luca Brecel
Jak Jones 13-7 Neil Robertson
Ronnie O'Sullivan 13-2 Hossein Vafaei
First round
Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-7 Pang Junxu
Stuart Bingham 10-4 David Gilbert
Neil Robertson 10-3 Wu Yize
Luca Brecel 10-9 Ricky Walden
Ali Carter 6-10 Jak Jones
Ding Junhui 6-10 Hossein Vafaei
Mark Williams 10-5 Jimmy Robertson
Gary Wilson 10-8 Elliot Slessor
Mark Allen 10-5 Fan Zhengyi
John Higgins 10-3 David Grace
Jack Lisowski 10-7 Noppon Saengkham
Anthony McGill 10-6 Judd Trump
Kyren Wilson 10-5 Ryan Day
Robert Milkins 10-9 Joe Perry
Mark Selby 10-8 Matthew Selt
Si Jiahui 10-9 Shaun Murphy
Ronnie O'Sullivan 13-2 Hossein Vafaei
Neil Robertson 7-13 Jak Jones
Maximum breaks
There have now been 14 maximums at the World Championship, with two coming during the 2023 tournament.
Kyren Wilson achieved the feat in his first-round win over Ryan Day, while Selby became the first player to do so in a World Championship final.
A total of 10 players have now made 147s at the Crucible. O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry have made three 147s, with Cliff Thorburn, Jimmy White, Mark Williams, Ali Carter, John Higgins, Neil Robertson. Wilson and Selby also making maximums.