Mark Allen hit two 147 breaks in succession during an exhibition match at the weekend, with snooker fans left in awe at his 'mind-blowing' achievement

MARK Allen had to dig deep to reach the last 32 of the BetVictor English Open at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood yesterday. Allen, who started the season ranked number one in the world, has yet to really fire over the first few months and was staring at another early exit as a 2-0 lead became a 3-2 deficit.

John Higgins became only the second snooker player to reach 1,000 career centuries despite crashing out of the English Open in Brentwood.

Mark Allen made sure that John Higgins celebrations were cut short this evening as the Antrim man booked his place in the quarter finals of the English Open.

The Antrim man had shown his best form of the season by winning three matches to set up the clash with last year’s BetVictor Northern Ireland Open finalist. He was fancied to pr