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- Katherine Walsh, Digital sports reporter
- Published: 15:40, 1 Feb 2025
- Updated: 15:40, 1 Feb 2025
SNOOKER prima Mark Allen has threatened to BOYCOTT the German Masters successful a fiery societal media rant.
The Northern Irishman, who clinched the 2018 rubric successful Berlin, is not a instrumentality of the Tempodrom venue.
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Allen criticised the format and admitted helium "hates the event" pursuing his second-round decision to Wu Yize.
The 38-year-old adjacent went arsenic acold to suggest helium mightiness skip the German Masters altogether unless important changes are made.
He vented connected X: "Not to beryllium successful this years German Masters. Well done to Wu.
"Anyone who sees maine backmost astatine this lawsuit nether existent conditions has support to archer maine off. Thanks successful advance."
Allen's frustrations revolve astir the tournament's aboriginal set-up, wherever aggregate tables situation the main TV table.
He famously declared successful 2018: "So (my) hate/hate matter with the German Masters continues.
"Seriously hatred the event. So distracting for each players who aren't connected array one.
"Will not beryllium backmost until set-up changes. Such a shame by the mode astir Germany arsenic it has the imaginable to beryllium amazing."
Allen had cruised to a 5-0 triumph implicit David Lilley successful the archetypal circular this week, earlier losing 5-4 to Wu.
He has skipped tournaments successful favour of honing his skills for the World Championship successful Sheffield this May.
The Pistol has won 11 ranking titles passim his career.
List of all-time Snooker World Champions
BELOW is simply a database of snooker World Champions by year.
The grounds is for the modern era, wide considered arsenic dating from the 1968-69 season, erstwhile the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) took power of the sport.
The archetypal World Championships ran from 1927 - with a interruption from 1941-45 due to the fact that of World War II and 1958-63 due to the fact that of a quality successful the sport.
Joe Davis (15), Fred Davis and John Pulman (both 8) were the astir palmy players during that period.
Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan stock the grounds for the most titles successful the modern era, with 7 each.
- 1969 - John Spencer
- 1970 - Ray Reardon
- 1971 - John Spencer
- 1972 - Alex Higgins
- 1973 - Ray Reardon (2)
- 1974 - Ray Reardon (3)
- 1975 - Ray Reardon (4)
- 1976 - Ray Reardon (5)
- 1977 - John Spencer (2)
- 1978 - Ray Reardon (6)
- 1979 - Terry Griffiths
- 1980 - Cliff Thorburn
- 1981 - Steve Davis
- 1982 - Alex Higgins (2)
- 1983 - Steve Davis (2)
- 1984 - Steve Davis (3)
- 1985 - Dennis Taylor
- 1986 - Joe Johnson
- 1987 - Steve Davis (4)
- 1988 - Steve Davis (5)
- 1989 - Steve Davis (6)
- 1990 - Stephen Hendry
- 1991 - John Parrott
- 1992 - Stephen Hendry (2)
- 1993 - Stephen Hendry (3)
- 1994 - Stephen Hendry (4)
- 1995 - Stephen Hendry (5)
- 1996 - Stephen Hendry (6)
- 1997 - Ken Doherty
- 1998 - John Higgins
- 1999 - Stephen Hendry (7)
- 2000 - Mark Williams
- 2001 - Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 2002 - Peter Ebdon
- 2003 - Mark Williams (2)
- 2004 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)
- 2005 - Shaun Murphy
- 2006 - Graeme Dott
- 2007 - John Higgins (2)
- 2008 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (3)
- 2009 - John Higgins (3)
- 2010 - Neil Robertson
- 2011 - John Higgins (4)
- 2012 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (4)
- 2013 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (5)
- 2014 - Mark Selby
- 2015 - Stuart Bingham
- 2016 - Mark Selby (2)
- 2017 - Mark Selby (3)
- 2018 - Mark Williams (3)
- 2019 - Judd Trump
- 2020 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (6)
- 2021 - Mark Selby (4)
- 2022 - Ronnie O'Sullivan (7)
- 2023 - Luca Brecel
- 2024 - Kyren Wilson
Most World Titles (modern era)
- 7 - Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 6 - Ray Reardon, Steve Davis
- 4 - John Higgins, Mark Selby
- 3 - John Spencer, Mark Williams
- 2 - Alex Higgins
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