Neil Robertson moving closer to joining elite snooker century break club that includes Ronnie O’Sullivan

During that whitewash win, Australian ace Robertson compiled his first century break of the 2025/26 campaign with an effort of 102 in the second frame.

According to the website snookerinfo.co.uk, that latest three-figure contribution is the 983rd century break of Robertson’s professional career, and he is in touching distance of hitting that magical 1,000 landmark that so few players in the history of the sport’s top flight have reached.

Providing all is well, it is now a case of how soon this season that Robertson will hit four digits and become a member of a very exclusive break-building club.

Having not entered the upcoming Championship League Ranking Event, the 43-year-old’s next engagement on the World Snooker Tour won’t be until the Shanghai Masters which starts at the end of July.

Soon after that is the second edition of the Saudi Arabia Masters, and not long after that is the Wuhan Open which will complete a very lucrative Asian triple-header.

Who has made at least 1,000 century breaks in professional snooker?

At the time of writing, only three players have made 1,000 or more century breaks in official professional competition.

Ronnie O’Sullivan was the first player in history to make four-figures; he memorably racked up his 1,000th ton in the final frame of winning the 2019 Tour Championship at the Guild Hall in Preston - against Robertson in the title match.

The seven-time World Champion is still top of the ‘most centuries ever made’ list with 1,289.

The second person to complete 1,000 centuries in top tier play was John Higgins who did so during last season’s English Open when he was on the TV table against Mark Allen in a last 16 match.

Only a few days later in the next tournament on the World Snooker Tour, Judd Trump became the third member of the millennium ton club as he fashioned century number 1,000 in front of the television cameras during his British Open quarter-final tie with Allen.

In terms of the all-time list, Trump is currently second with 1,087, and Higgins is third is with 1,039.

The only other player on the all-time list with over 900 professional centuries is former World Champion Robertson, who is fourth.

Career Triple Crown winner Robertson has already achieved several very special achievements when it comes to break-building throughout his illustrious career.

He was the first player to compile 100 century breaks in a single campaign when he did so against Trump in the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Unfortunately for Robertson, there wasn’t the same £100,000 bonus prize that Trump scooped last season for making the same feat.

Robertson has constructed five maximum 147 breaks in his pro career, so far. One of those came during the 2015 UK Championship final in York - a match he went on to win - that was the first 147 in history to be crafted in a Triple Crown event final.

In 2022, Robertson realised another ambition when he pieced together a 147 on snooker’s grandest stage of all, the Crucible, in that year’s World Championship.

‘The Thunder from Down Under’ enjoyed a rejuvenating season last term when he collected two ranking event titles - the 2024 English Open and the 2025 World Grand Prix. His victory at the Brentwood Centre last September ended a near two-and-a-half year wait for a ranking crown.