On this week

Cliff Thorburn became the first player to make two maximum breaks in professional competition. His second came in a Matchroom League match against Jimmy White at the Hawth Theatre in Crawley.

Just seven days after claiming the China Open title, Mark Williams beat Stephen Lee 9-4 to win the Singha Thailand Masters at the Merchant Court Hotel in Bangkok.

Chris Shutt defeated Mike Russell, the defending and seven times former champion, by 1620-1365 to win the World Professional Billiards title at the World Snooker Centre in Prestatyn.

At Ebbw Vale Leisure Centre, Doug Mountjoy beat Cliff Wilson 9-3 in the final to claim the Strongbow Welsh Professional Championship for the third time. In doing so he continued a sequence of winning the title every other year from 1980.

Defending champion Mark Williams retained his Singha Thailand Masters title beating Stephen Hendry 9-5 in the final at the Riverside Montien Hotel in Bangkok.

Hopes were high at the inaugural Kilkenny Masters, an invitation event involving a mixture of top-16 players and leading Irish professionals. The event was won by Ronnie O'Sullivan, who beat Barry Hawkins 9-1 in the final. Sadly, the event was cancelled after its first year.

At The Mayfield Leisure Centre in Belfast Alex Higgins beat defending champion Dennis Taylor 16-11, regaining the Smithwicks Irish Professional Championship he had last held in 1979.

At the age of just 15 years and 98 days, Ronnie O'Sullivan, made a 147 break in the Southern Area quarter-final of the English Amateur Championship against Jamie Woodman. It made him the youngest player ever to have made a competitive maximum - but exactly 13 years later the record was broken by Judd Trump (see below).

The first Kloster Thailand Open was won, appropriately, by James Wattana. The trailblazing Thai player claimed the second ranking title of his career with a 9-7 victory over Steve Davis at Bangkok's Imperial Queens Park Hotel.

Murt O'Donoghue, the New Zealander who made the first recorded maximum break in 1934, died aged 93. He had also been the first man to record a total clearance, which he achieved in 1929 - a feat which, incredibly, he achieved from his break-off!

Thirteen years to the day after Ronnie O'Sullivan became the youngest to make a maximum break in competition, Judd Trump eclipsed the Rocket's record when he compiled a 147 against Chris Piech in an under-16 tournament at Potters in Coalville, Leicestershire. He was aged 14 years and 206 days at the time.

At the Citywest Hotel near Dublin, Ronnie O'Sullivan won the Fáilte Ireland Irish Masters by beating Matthew Stevens 10-8 in the final. It was O'Sullivan's third victory in the event after he'd previously taken the title in 2001 and 2003.

At the Riverside Theatre in Coleraine, Dennis Taylor won the Smithwicks Irish Professional Championship for the third year in succession. He beat former champion Alex Higgins 16-13 in the final.

Jimmy White won the European Open in Tongeren in Belgium beating Mark Johnston-Allen 9-3 in the final. It was the second year running that Johnston-Allen had lost in the final of the event.

Stephen Hendry beat John Higgins 9-6 in the play-off final at Colwyn Bay to clinch the Betfair Premier League title for a record sixth time.

In the final qualifying round of the 888.com World Championship at Prestatyn, Robert Milkins compiled his first competitive 147 break in his match against Mark Selby - but still lost 10-4. This was the first maximum ever made in the qualifying stage of snooker's premier event.