Liam Pullen compiled the 2025/26 snooker season’s 15th maximum 147 break as the 2025 UK Championship qualifiers got going in Wigan on Saturday.
The young Englishman thumped Kaylan Patel in the first round at the Robin Park Leisure Centre, making a maximum break in the sixth frame en route to a 6-1 victory.
With the total number of 147 breaks for the ongoing campaign now at 15, it already equals the record for a single term that was just set during the most recent campaign.
Considering there is still half of the calendar to be played out, the record looks like it is going to be absolutely smashed as players on the main tour continue to demonstrate their scoring ability.
Maximum 147 breaks in the 2025/26 snooker season
1. Fan Zhengyi (Championship League Snooker)
2. Zhang Anda (Shanghai Masters)
3. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters)
4. Ronnie O’Sullivan (Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters)
5. Ronnie O’Sullivan (Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters)
6. Xiao Guodong (Wuhan Open)
7. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (Wuhan Open)
8. Zhou Yuelong (Xi’an Grand Prix qualifiers)
9. Aaron Hill (English Open)
10. Ali Carter (English Open)
11. Gary Wilson (International Championship qualifiers)
12. Judd Trump (Xi’an Grand Prix)
13. Aaron Hill (Xi’an Grand Prix)
14. Zak Surety (International Championship)
15. Liam Pullen (UK Championship qualifiers)
Click here for the full list of 147 breaks
It was a very busy day of action with 22 matches in total being contested in what is the road to the Barbican Centre in York.
Only 16 competitors from the 128 who are entering the preliminary phase will be able to join the top 16 seeds at the venue stages of the prestigious Triple Crown event next week.
Former UK champion Jimmy White was beaten by a player aged 49 years his junior, with 14 year-old Polish star Michal Szubarczyk once again highlighting his potential with a 6-2 defeat of the veteran legend.
Marco Fu, however, returned from injury to successfully see off the challenge of his Hong Kong compatriot Ng On Yee.
Reanne Evans and Bai Yulu both advanced in the competition after securing respective victories over Peter Lines and Mostafa Dorgham.
Among the amateurs who were invited to make up the numbers, former world seniors champion Igor Figueiredo thrashed David Grace 6-1 and Jamie Clarke edged Lan Yuhao with a 6-4 display.
Elsewhere, there were a few deciding-frame thrillers with Cheung Ka Wai launching an incredible fight back from 5-1 down to deny Florian Nuessle.
Mateusz Baranowski also produced a Houdini act as he edged Sahil Nayyar 6-5 having required three snookers in the 11th frame.
It was a lot easier for the likes of Steven Hallworth, Ian Burns, Chris Totten, Dylan Emery, Connor Benzey, and Huang Jiahao.
There were also wins for Liam Graham, Ross Muir, Bulcsu Revesz, Xu Yichen, Iulian Boiko, Liu Wenwei, and Hatem Yassen.
Liam Highfield and Haydon Pinhey are into the next round too after receiving walkovers from their scheduled ties against Alexander Ursenbacher and Mohammed Shehab.
The UK Championship qualifying event follows the same format as the one in use for the World Snooker Championship.
The lowest seeds enter in round one and will need to win four matches in total to reach the last 32 and the main tournament.
The players ranked from 49 to 80 join in round two before round three sees the remaining contenders seeded from 17 to 48 enter the fray.
That will include a lot of the heavier hitters including the likes of Jack Lisowski, Stuart Bingham, Luca Brecel, Stephen Maguire, and Ali Carter.
On Sunday, the first round concludes with former runner-up Ken Doherty and women’s world number one Mink Nutcharut in action.
The second round will then begin during the afternoon session.
2025 UK Championship qualifiers
Saturday’s Results
Huang Jiahao 6-0 Ethan Llewellyn
Hatem Yassen 6-4 Oliver Brown
Chris Totten 6-2 Oliver Brown
Reanne Evans 6-4 Peter Lines
Ian Burns 6-0 Amaan Iqbal
Dylan Emery 6-1 Brian Cini
Mateusz Baranowski 6-5 Sahil Nayyar
Iulian Boiko 6-4 Umut Dikme
Bulcsu Revesz 6-2 Chatchapong Nasa
Connor Benzey 6-0 Jonas Luz
Steven Hallworth 6-1 Craig Steadman
Bai Yulu 6-1 Mostafa Dorgham
Jamie Clarke 6-4 Lan Yuhao
Marco Fu 6-2 Ng On Yee
Ross Muir 6-2 Fergal Quinn
Liam Pullen 6-1 Kaylan Patel
Cheung Ka Wai 6-5 Florian Nuessle
Xu Yichen 6-4 Hammad Miah
Liam Highfield w/o Alexander Ursenbacher
Michal Szubarczyk 6-2 Jimmy White
Liam Graham 6-2 Zhao Hanyang
Igor Figueiredo 6-1 David Grace
Liu Wenwei 6-2 Krzysztof Czapnik
Haydon Pinhey w/o Mohammed Shehab
Click here to view the full draw (snooker.org)
Featured photo credit: WST
