Affected by the global public health crisis, China's snooker star Fu Jiajun has not participated in the professional snooker tour for a long time, and many fans are worried that the 42-year-old "Magic Boy" is not about to enter the twilight of his career, and may even retire directly. But in fact, Fu Jiajun not only has no plans to leave the professional arena, but is actively planning a comeback, and his training status is getting better and better.
According to HK media South China Morning Post, Fu Jiajun is currently practicing hard every day, and after playing a single 147 in just 6 minutes and 25 seconds in training last week, he scored an extremely rare 148 points in a practice match against local Player Chau Hon-man, showing amazingly good form.
Although it is 147 or 148, it is not played in an official match, but it is done on video. In fact, in the current situation that most professional competitions have no audience and only live television, such a training environment is relatively close to actual combat.
Wayne Griffiths
To play a single 148 points, a necessary condition is that the opponent fouls, and in this training game, Fu Jiajun got such an opportunity to play the "16th red ball" (rule: when the opponent fouls and the target red ball is blocked, you can use a color ball as a target red ball to hit, score a point, and then play another color ball). Wayne Griffiths, son of past championship winner and renowned Welsh coach Terry Griffiths, who is currently head coaching at HK as head coach of the local sports academy, said: "It's very rare because you need a free kick. It's not hard to get a free kick, but it's very, very rare to do it on that basis. It has only been seen once in official matches (Jamie Burnett had scored a single stroke of 148 in the 2004 British Championship qualifiers). So he (Fu Jiajun) was able to hit 148 after hitting 147, and he enjoyed it very much. Chau himself shot a 147 at the start of the year, so he's not in bad shape. ”
In his career, Kopp shot a three-shot 147 in an official match
In fact, Snooker's single-shot top score wasn't 147 or 148. In 1995, Maltese player Tony Drago also scored a single-shot 149 against Nick Manning. In 2006, Jamie Kopp scored a 155-pointer in an audience-filled practice match (the opponent opened the foul and used the color ball to transition and score a black ball), which was also the highest point that snooker could theoretically score with a single shot.
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