Top 10 moments of 2022/23 snooker season: Who did you vote as your favourite? Luca Brecel, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Selby
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Published 31/07/2023 at 12:43 GMT+1
Luca Brecel's stunning success in becoming Belgium's first world champion has been voted the greatest moment of the 2022/23 season by Eurosport snooker fans. The Belgian player had never won a match at the event before April, but produced some scintillating play on his way to an 18-15 final win over Mark Selby. Stream top snooker action live on discovery+, the Eurosport app and at eurosport.com.
Luca Brecel tout sourire après son titre de champion du monde de snooker 2023
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Luca Brecel's landmark World Championship triumph has been voted the outstanding moment of the 2022/23 season by Eurosport snooker fans.
The Belgian player earned 33% of the vote in our poll after becoming the first player from mainland Europe to claim the sport's biggest prize
Brecel also enjoyed epic victories over Ricky Walden (10-9), Mark Williams (13-11), O'Sullivan (13-10) and Si Jiahui (17-15) during his run to the showpiece match in Sheffield.
Snooker GOAT Ronnie O'Sullivan finished second on 17% courtesy of his astonishing world-record century attempt at the Scottish Open in November that saw him reach three figures in three minutes and 34 seconds, .
Brecel begins his 2023/24 campaign at the European Masters with a match against Jackson Page at the KIA Metropol Arena in the German city of Nuremberg between August 22-27 (live on Eurosport and discovery+).
"I'm really looking forward to it," he said. "I am just hoping I can play well at the start of the season and hopefully, I can win one or two tournaments this year."
No. 1 – Brecel's heavy metal snooker bewitches Crucible
Luca Brecel loves listening to hip-hop, is very much of the heavy metal variety, the gegenpress of the green baize.
While he emerges to the walk-on sounds of Insane in the Brain by Cypress Hill, the intensity of his crash, bang, wallop, all-out attacking style is more like Black Ball Sabbath, Motley Crue with cue in hand as he moves rapidly to the thunderous sound of his own beat.
The thin line between genius and insanity is perhaps never truer than finding the fine lines on a snooker table during the annual World Championship stress test.
Brecel was on the rampage at the Crucible in April and May, leathering the back of the pockets with a unique, high-risk, high-reward strategy that some thought would set him up only to lose.
Who knew that the percentage shot was old hat?
Top 10 moments of 2022/23
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 1 – Brecel conquers Crucible with heavy metal snooker
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 2 – Break the night with colour as referee halts protester
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 3 – Carter's champion powers of recovery at German Masters
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 4 – Williams sets maximum record in modern-day classic
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 5 – O'Sullivan invokes spirit of '97 with Rocket-fuelled century
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 6 – The Milkman delivers in biggest match of his life
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 7 – Allen sheds stones to pile on pounds with UK glory
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 8 – Unforgettable Hong Kong Masters shatters world record
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 9 – Selby compiles ultimate 147 at Crucible
- Top 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 10 – Inspirational White finds his second Whirlwind
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