Century Breaks
The were 10 century breaks at the championship, the highest being 143 by Willie Thorne. There was also a £5,000 bonus for compiling a higher break than the championship record of 145.
- 143, 122, 112, 106 Willie Thorne
- 135, 118 Alex Higgins
- 126, 102 Jimmy White
- 111 Kirk Stevens
- 100 John Virgo
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Famous quotes containing the words century and/or breaks:
“As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;
So will a man’s reason vary with the quality of his friends.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)
“Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unflecked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)