5 Facts About World Snooker Championship

1. World Snooker Championship had decamped to the Norbreck Castle Hotel in Blackpool for a long summer of preliminary rounds and O'Sullivan emerged as the undoubted star.

2. World Snooker Championship is an annual ranking snooker tournament founded in 1927 and since 1977 played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

3. In 1982 the World Snooker Championship ended on Sunday 16 May while in 1985, 1990 and 1995 it ended on the last Sunday in April.

4. World Snooker Championship became the first player to make six century breaks in a Crucible final.

5. World Snooker Championship is the leading snooker tournament both in terms of prestige and prize money.