On May 9, 2022, the Snooker World Championship was successfully concluded, and finally Jimmy White lost the four-time champion in the final to Lee Walker, and due to the participation of 43-year-old Michael Holt, fans ridiculed and called on Ronnie O'Sullivan to participate in the Elder World Championship, thus further dominating Crucible and setting more records. But this is just a joke, after all, the Senatorial Tournament sets the threshold for participation, and although O'Sullivan meets the requirements for his age, he cannot participate because the world ranking is too high, otherwise the Senatorial Tournament will lose its relatively balanced confrontation. So then again, which records O'Sullivan currently sits on, and which records are the most difficult to break, this article re-sorts and sorts.
No.1 Seven-lap Grand Slam ★★★★★
Why close-up "Seven Laps Grand Slam" instead of writing about 21 three-time winners? Because the difficulty of the seven-lap Grand Slam is greater than the difficulty of the 21 three majors, 7 World Championships + 7 Masters + 7 British Championships, who can chase! Even with O'Sullivan's three members, Higgins and Williams are also looking back, and then look at the strongest big three in today's football world, Selby, Robertson and Trump, Selby although holding 9 three major competitions, Trump although the potential is huge, but the two focus on one attack and one defense, the requirements for their own energy are very high, with the increase of age, whether Selby can maintain the top defense, Trump can continue to output top attack, it seems difficult at present.
Robertson's performance at the World Championships has also been seen, and the 40-year-old will have more difficulties in the future in Crucible. Therefore, I hung five stars in this record, which is the most difficult. O'Sullivan took 30 years to achieve this record, and who can maintain such a long-lasting competitiveness?
No.2 38 consecutive pro wins ★★★★★
O'Sullivan went professional in 1992 and won 38 consecutive wins in his first season in the career, the longest winning streak in professional history, which was finally ended by Sterry, in second place was Hendry's 36-game winning streak set between 1990 and 1991, when Hendry won five consecutive ranking titles and was eventually ended by Jimmy White. In addition, O'Sullivan completed three consecutive championships from the 2005 Premier League Spring Tournament to the 2006 Winter Season, which is the record of 32 consecutive victories in the Super League!
I also hang five stars on this record, because I need to break this record, I need the double support of the special format system + genius, because there were a lot of qualifier rounds at that time, and O'Sullivan was a talented player, and in the 128-man flat table format that almost has almost no qualifications today, it is difficult for anyone to achieve such a high winning streak, unless someone plays absolute dominance and wins six or seven consecutive championships.
No.3 5 minutes 8 seconds full score bar ★★★★
The speed of the rocket who can break, there may be many in today's football world, Trump, Zhao Xintong, Lisovsky and even Tachaia, everyone can break it, but the rocket's "speed + precision" who can break, the answer is that no one can break. Of the fastest officially recorded top ten 147 out of 147, eight of them were created by O'Sullivan, the first six were all contributed by O'Sullivan, and even more amazing is that his 15 full score of 147 all took less than 9 minutes! The record of 5 minutes and 8 seconds of net time consumed by the full score is even more impressive.
But this record difficulty coefficient does not hang five stars, the reason for this, I think this is a "point" record, rather than the above two need to support various conditions and even time to accumulate the "surface" record, "point" record is difficult to say, to say simple may be broken at a certain point in time.
No.4 17 years old 358 days ranking competition to win the championship ★★★
In 1993, O'Sullivan set the record for the youngest ranking champion at the British Championships, followed by the record of being the youngest to be in the top 16, and then the record of the youngest Masters champion. Of course, among the "youngest" records, Hendry holds the record for the youngest world champion, and there are many other "youngest" records held by many players. The reason why this record only hangs three stars, one is because the same point record, the probability of being broken is relatively larger, and the other is because this kind of record is not commendable, the youngest, the oldest, each has its own, Yan Bingtao once in the 2017 Northern Ireland final only one round of regret failed to win the championship to break the record of the youngest ranking competition.
No.5 Scored 556 consecutive points ★★★ in a single game
In the quarter-finals of the 2014 Masters, O'Sullivan scored 556 consecutive points, which greatly refreshed the record of 495 consecutive points held by Ding Junhui at that time, and until the current 8 years have passed, this record has not been broken. Bingham set a 547-point streak at the 2016 China Open, but failed to break O'Sullivan's record, and Robertson scored 505 consecutive points in the first round of the 2022 European Masters, which also failed to break the record. The difficulty factor for this record is also given three stars.
In addition, considering the difficulty coefficient, I think that the number-based records such as 39 ranking championships and 1169 strokes (including 15 strokes and 147) are not in the top five, although they have never been seen before. Because in terms of the efficiency of breaking the hundred alone, Trump's overall percentage breaking rate is higher than O'Sullivan's, and with the progress of time, this record is very likely to be broken. In addition, with the development of snooker, the overall number of events is bound to increase in the future, and the overall style of play will be more offensive, so these records are very promising to be broken in the future.
Are there any other records, welcome to add in the comments section.
Note: The data is as of the end of the 2022 World Championships, sorted according to individual judging criteria, you are welcome to give your own ranking and reasoning in the comment area.