On this week

In Guangzhou, China, Luke Simmonds beat Ryan Day 11-10 to add the IBSF World Amateur Championship to the World U21 title he won two months earlier. He was only the third player, after Ken Doherty and Marco Fu, to win both titles in the same year.

15 November 2006 - MAFLIN WINS IBSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPKurt Maflin, a Londoner who now represents Norway, won the IBSF World Championship in Amman in Jordan. He beat England’s Daniel Ward 11-8 in the final a victory which qualified him to play on the professional tour in 2007/8.

15 November 2009 - THIRD RANKING TITLE FOR ROBERTSONThe Bahrain Championship, the first ranking event to be held in the Middle East for 14 years, was won by Neal Robertson. He claimed his third ranking title with a 9-7 victory over Matthew Stevens.

16 November 1990 - HIGH SPEED DRAGO
In the last 64 of the Stormseal UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall, Tony Drago completed a 9-0 victory over Joe O’Boye in just 81 minutes - the fastest best-of-17 frame match.

16 November 2000 - FIRST VICTORY FOR MURPHY

Shaun Murphy beat Stuart Bingham 9-7 in the final of the Benson and Hedges Championship at the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre in Malvern to gain his first title as a professional and also qualify for the Masters at Wembley.

At the Brighton Centre Stephen Hendry won the British Open for a record fourth time with a 9-6 victory over Ronnie O'Sullivan. The final included an unprecedented run of five successive century breaks, two from Hendry and three from O’Sullivan.

The man who claims to have made more maximum breaks in practice than anyone else, Willie Thorne, compiled the only 147 he made in competition. It came against Tommy Murphy in the last 32 of the Tennents UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall. Sadly for Willie it was before the televised stage so he won just £5,000 instead of the £50,000 he would have had it come a round later.

David Gray hit his first 147 break in the last 32 of the Travis Perkins UK Championship at the Barbican in York. This was the 50th maximum made in professional competition.

Doherty became the first player to win both the World Amateur and World U21 titles - and he did it in the same year. In Singapore he beat Jonathan Birch 11-2 to add the IBSF World Amateur Championship to the U21 title he claimed in Reykjavik a couple of months previously.

At the age of 17 years and 147 days, Ian Preece of Wales became the youngest winner of the IBSF World Amateur Championship when he defeated David Lilley 11-8 in the final in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Nick Dyson became only the seventh player to make more than one maximum break in professional competition. His latest came in the second round of the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship at Bournemouth against Stuart Bingham. His first had come in a UK Tour event in March 1999.

In the last 32 of the Coral UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall, Geoff Foulds lost 9-1 to Steve Davis and later, on the same table, son Neal Foulds lost 9-4 to David Taylor. This was the only time that a father and son have both reached the final stages of a major snooker tournament.

In Johannesburg, Preecha Sae-Be made the first ever maximum break in the World Amateur Championship. It came in a group match against Tom Kollins of the USA.

William Cook successfully defended the English Billiards Championship, effectively the World Championship, when he beat off a challenge from Joseph Bennett 1000-942.