Crucible finalist Jak Jones makes first maximum 147 break of 2025 on the World Snooker Tour

Welshman Jones' feat of perfection is the 209th official maximum break in professional snooker and the seventh of the ongoing 2024/25 World Snooker Tour season. It arrived in the third and final frame of his 3-0 group stage victory over top 16 star Chris Wakelin.

The result was a big one for 31-year-old Jones in terms of his hopes of qualifying for the Group Two playoffs in the behind-closed-doors tournament at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester.

It was his third win out of five matches in the seven-player group - with the top four going through to the group playoffs and the bottom two relegated from the competition completely. For more information on the 2025 Championship League Snooker Invitational event, please visit here.

World number 18 Jones is in line to collect the £500 highest break bonus - a prize on offer for each group at the CLSI event - should no-one else fashion a 147 during Tuesday's play. However, there is no additional prize for a maximum in this event.

It has been a breakthrough several months for Jones who, as a qualifier, made it all the way to the final of the 2024 World Championship at the Crucible Theatre.

His maiden ranking event final, Jones was denied snooker's ultimate crown by Kyren Wilson in the title match, but the £200,000 runner-up prize he collected was easily his biggest career payday and temporarily put him into the world's elite top 16 bracket for the first time in his career.

This season hasn't gone according to plan for Jones, with a quarter-final run at the 2024 British Open representing his best result of the 2024/25 term, so far. However, there is still time for him to turn things around as he aims to go back into the world's top 16 and be a seed player for this year's Crucible, therefore avoiding the bother of the qualifying rounds which precede it.

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