JACK LISOWSKI near Ali Carter stunned with an "outrageous" fluke changeable astatine the UK Championship.
The 2 rivals faced disconnected successful the snooker tournament for a spot successful the quarter-finals connected Wednesday.
Lisowski, 33, got disconnected to a beardown commencement arsenic helium won 2 of the archetypal 3 frames of the match.
In the 4th frame, helium adjacent got a helping manus from a spot of luck.
He was starring the framework 49-1 and trying to cookware a reddish into the acold apical pocket.
He misjudged his shot, and it cannoned disconnected the country of the pocket.
However, the reddish past rebounded disconnected the static greenish and rolled perfectly into the mediate pocket.
Carter was near stunned successful his spot portion the Eurosport commentator said: "Not definite I've ever seen a fluke similar that before".
Fans were besides near bemused by the freak fluke changeable arsenic they reacted connected societal media.
One wrote: "There’s been a batch of unusual things happening this week, lads."
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A 2nd commented: "Against Ali Carter arsenic well, adjacent better."
A 3rd wrote: "Jack Lisowski with an outrageous fluke."
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A 4th said: "Just unreal."
Another added: "That is conscionable truthful lucky."
Lisowski went connected to triumph the full lucifer 6-4 to dump Carter retired of the tournament.
After the clash, helium insisted that helium "got away" with the win.
He said: "I didn't play arsenic good arsenic the different time but I was benignant of expecting that.
"I felt a spot inexperienced astatine the end. I conscionable propulsion the vessel retired astatine the incorrect times and helium could person been coming backmost astatine me.
"It could decidedly person been 5-5, truthful I got distant with that.
"The fans present are amazing. I deliberation they possibly watched the crippled against Selby the different time and appreciated it, due to the fact that helium had 94% cookware success.
"I was looking backmost connected it and to bushed him is truly tough. I felt a batch of enactment contiguous and sometimes that tin enactment maine nether pressure.
"My attraction is getting amended though and that decidedly helped. The assemblage successful York is my favourite bunch."
Elsewhere, Mark Allen booked his spot successful the last 8 with a 6-4 triumph implicit Wu Yize.
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