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The 2022 World Snooker Championship was a professional tournament held from 16 April to 2 May 2022 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, its 46th consecutive year there. Broadcast by the BBC in the UK and by others elsewhere, the championship had £2,395,000 in prizes, with £500,000 for the winner. Ronnie O'Sullivan (pictured) made his 30th Crucible appearance, equalling Steve Davis's record. Reaching a record 20th quarter-final and a record 13th semi-final, O'Sullivan defeated Judd Trump 18–13 to equal Stephen Hendry's record of seven world titles. Aged 46 years and 148 days, he became the oldest world champion in snooker history, beating Ray Reardon, who was aged 45 years and 203 days in 1978. The main stage had a record 109 century breaks, with 16 by Mark Williams, who equalled Hendry's 2002 record. Neil Robertson made the 12th maximum break at the Crucible, against Jack Lisowski in the second round. Mark Selby and Yan Bingtao's 85-minute frame was the longest in Crucible history. (Full article...)
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editHurricaneHiggins and Lee Vilenski, it was admittedly rather difficult for me to get this blurb down to the character limit, so i took some liberties with my rewording that i normally wouldn't have. hopefully, i was successful with keeping all of the details that you two wanted, though i apologize if i made anything worse. please feel free to revert anything you disagree with. dying (talk) 21:59, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks so much, @Dying. Your edits look great to me. You've managed to retain all the key details — O'Sullivan's record-equalling 30th appearance and seventh world title, a new record for oldest world champion, the most Crucible centuries, the 12th Crucible maximum, and the longest Crucible frame — while keeping the blurb remarkably compact. Great job. HurricaneHiggins (talk) 10:26, 24 April 2023 (UTC)