A history of the 147

Ding's previous effort came at the 2007 Masters and he becomes the ninth player to have produced multiple 147s.

The record tournament break however, is a 148 achieved by Jamie Burnett during the qualifying stages of the 2004 UK Championship.

After being awarded a free ball Burnett took the brown as an extra red, then added the brown again and went on to pot all 15 reds with one blue, two pinks and 12 blacks before polishing off the colours.

1 Steve Davis (Lada Classic 1982)

2 Cliff Thorburn (World Championship 1983)

3 Kirk Stevens (Masters 1984)

4 Willie Thorne (UK Championship 1987)

5 Tony Meo (Matchroom League 1988)

6 Alain Robidoux (European Open 1988)

7 John Rea (Scottish Championship 1989)

8 Cliff Thorburn (Matchroom League 1987)

9 James Wattana (World Masters 1991)

10 Peter Ebdon (Strachan Professional 1991)

11 James Wattana (British Open 1992)

12 Jimmy White (World Championship 1992)

13 John Parrott (Matchroom League 1992)

14 Stephen Hendry (Matchroom League 1992)

15 Peter Ebdon (UK Championship 1992)

16 David McDonnell (British Open 1994/1995)

17 Stephen Hendry (World Championship 1995)

18 Stephen Hendry (UK Championship 1995)

19 Stephen Hendry (Liverpool Victoria Charity 1997)

20 Ronnie O'Sullivan (World Championship 1997)

21 James Wattana (Catch International Challenge 1997)

22 Stephen Hendry (Doc Martens League 1998)

23 Adrian Gunnell (Thailand Masters Qualifiers 1998/9)

24 Mehmet Husnu (China International Qualifiers 1998/9)

25 Jason Prince (British Open Qualifiers 1998/9)

26 Ronnie O'Sullivan (Welsh Open 1999)

27 Stuart Bingham (UK Tour 1999)

28 Nick Dyson (UK Tour 1999)

29 Graeme Dott (British Open 1998/9)

30 Stephen Hendry (British Open 1999)

31 Barry Pinches (Welsh Open 1999/2000)

32 Ronnie O'Sullivan (Grand Prix 1999)

33 Karl Burrows (UK Championship 1999)

34 Stephen Hendry (UK Championship 1999)

35 John Higgins (Nations Cup 2000)

36 John Higgins (Irish Masters 2000)

37 Stephen Maguire (Scottish Open 2000)

38 Ronnie O'Sullivan (Scottish Open 2000)

39 Marco Fu (Masters 2000)

40 David McLellan (UK Championship 2000)

41 Nick Dyson (UK Championship 2000)

42 Stephen Hendry (Malta Grand Prix 2001)

43 Ronnie O'Sullivan (LG Cup 2001)

44 Shaun Murphy (UK Championship 2001)

45 Tony Drago (UK Championship 2002)

46 Ronnie O'Sullivan (World Championship 2003)

47 John Higgins (LG Cup 2003)

48 John Higgins (British Open 2003)

49 John Higgins (Grand Prix 2004)

50 David Gray (UK Championship 2004)

51 Mark Williams (World Championship 2005)

52 Stuart Bingham (Masters Qualifying 2005)

53 Robert Milkins (World Championship 2006)

54 Jamie Cope (Grand Prix 2006)

55 Andrew Higginson (Welsh Open 2007)

56 Ding Junhui (Masters 2007)

57 Jamie Burnett (Grand Prix 2007)

58 Tom Ford (Grand Prix 2007)

59 Ronnie O'Sullivan (Northern Ireland Trophy 2007)

60 Ronnie O'Sullivan (UK Championship 2007)

61 Stephen Maguire (China Open 2008)

62 Ronnie O'Sullivan (World Championship 2008)

63 Ali Carter (World Championship 2008)

64 Jamie Cope (Shanghai Masters 2008)

65 Laing Wenbo (Bahrain Championship 2008)

66 Marcus Campbell (Bahrain Championship 2008)

67 Ding Junhui (UK Champioships 2008)