The Greatest Comeback in Snooker History | Hendry vs Hallett | 1991 Masters Final

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Enjoy the intense drama that engulfs both players. Stephen Hendry is on the brink of defeat and far behind on the scoreboard but agonizingly save one frame at a time, while Mike Hallett creates chances to win but struggles to cross the finish line under increasing pressure.
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@CesarMuroya 2 года назад

My thanks to @Boutros Boutros Boutros Ghali for recommending this match.

@castleanthrax1833 2 года назад

A very diplomatic choice Boutros. 😎🇦🇺

@EnricoFantini 2 года назад

@@castleanthrax1833 🕊

@edwells4769 Год назад

Less a comeback and more a complete meltdown by Hallett. Hendry had no business winning this match, he wasn't playing well at all

@masterxyr 2 года назад

Jesus, was this filmed during the plague? everyone's coughing! Phenomenal player Hendry is. I wish I had watched more back in the day. Cold as ice. Cheers Cesar!

@Govanification 2 года назад

Seriously, watching this in post-covid times makes all the audience coughs stand out even more. Hopefully we've normalized staying home when you're sick more than it has been the last several decades! It's kinda rude to strangers in public and especially to performers when you're hacking up a lung for hours on end.

@masterxyr 2 года назад

@@Govanification amen! I'd also add that infecting others who might eventually lose workdays or get sick, is very impolite!

@flucazade 2 года назад

This was film back in the day of smoking in venues and smoking snooker venues was brutal, coughers were probably non smokers getting their passive dose

@Govanification 2 года назад

@@flucazade Ahhh I didn't even think of that! What a different world. Can you imagine people smoking on airplanes?

@sevenatenine2441 2 года назад

I think a lot more people smoked back then, hence coughing was a lot more common in general

@rhysoto90 2 года назад

Imagine being on the 2 most devastating finals losses in Masters history, but in the most different ways possible. Losing 9-0 to Steve Davis and then blowing a 7-0 lead against Stephen Hendry. Heartbreaking for Mike Hallett.

@edwells4769 Год назад

Hallett blew this one bad too. David just crushed him, don't think his head was straight. Here, he just melted down. Hendry was beatable in almost every match he ended up winning.

@zardoz8023 Год назад

@@edwells4769 Davis not David, and "beatable in every frame", not "match". When did you start watching snooker? A day before you wrote this comment?

@edmundpower1250 Год назад

@@zardoz8023 Now now! Sarcasm isn't healthy. Flog your log, and then after the frustration is gone, say sorry to that innocent comment

@zardoz8023 Год назад

@@edmundpower1250 Maybe you should open a dictionary and learn the true meaning of the word "sarcasm", kid, because there's zero of it in my comment.

@edmundpower1250 Год назад

@@zardoz8023 Your last sentence is pure sarcasm

@tonynaccarato4751 5 дней назад

Its never over until the last frame is won, two fine gentlemen playing a great game of world class snooker, cheers to both of them.

@AJsVIEW 2 года назад

Probably the greatest comeback ever in Snooker History! Great upload, Cesar, thank you! I would've died out of sheer tension had I played here!

@AnilSingh-nl4ok 2 года назад

The greatest comeback is the 1985 snooker final which was decided on the last black please check historical records

@WahidKhan-gb6zl 2 года назад

Thank goodness you didn’t play there then !

@AnilSingh-nl4ok 2 года назад

@@WahidKhan-gb6zl yrs

@pyrrhicvictory6978 Год назад

Neil Robertson comeback vs John Higgins from 4-9 down in Tour Championship final, that has to rate up there. Higgins has choked a few finals in recent years, he don't seem to have the temperament he used to have.

@deneuvejanic5738 Год назад

@@pyrrhicvictory6978 , 17.12.2017 neil robertson vs CAO yupeng 2/8 down to win 9/8 ... ok it's not j.higgins but awesome stuff . and now , for me, the semi finale wsc2023 brecel vs SI jiahui 5/14 down for win 17/15 is the most comeback in snooker history

@jaberwoky_ 2 года назад

All these years later and knowing the outcome, it's still exciting to watch! I'd like to have seen the last few pots or at least the scores of a few games that weren't shown but this was a great compilation. Thanks!

@shidy121 2 года назад

Prime Stephen Hendry was untouchable and a gentleman 👍

@deneuvejanic5738 Год назад

the perfect class-player

@freyc1 4 месяца назад

Well, I would agree in general, but in this match, he was very "touchable".

@johnnycashwoody5284 24 дня назад

His highest break in this match was 60 ffs 😆

@beefchops1400 15 дней назад

His prime was 1992-1999….he was still fairly young and raw here and certainly not at his best, Hallet helped him few times with easy misses!

@corallaroc2946 2 года назад

Reverse pressure at its finest. To an extent this may rather be considered one of the biggest meltdowns in snooker history.

@steviegbcool Год назад

jimmy loosing 10 in a row against hendry in 1992 wc close 2nd. Shows how important psychology and mental strength is in snooker.

@haggismuncher4543 5 месяцев назад

Osulivan getting up and shaking hendrys hand before the match was over was great aswell hendry couldn't believe it 😂

@user-ti6bj8gs5r 27 дней назад

I never knew Mike Hallet was such a great player, very fast player with all the shots and great cue power too

@timg5011 Месяц назад

I remember watching this and being gripped. I went into school the next day and found out my teacher had skipped watching the evening session, in the expectation Hallett would win. The memory of his face when I told him Hendry had won is one of the most cherished of my childhood.

@EannaButler 2 года назад

I'd say Mike Hallett never wanted to see the pink ball again, after a few frame-ball pinks missed here.. Excellent vid. You maintain the flow of commentary thru somehow perfectly, as ever. And you took care and attention to present the scoreboard in a modern fashion, overlaid on the vid - that takes some amount of work - but it would be doubly-cool if you could put a little arrowhead triangle next to the player taking the next shot! Stephen was a real tiger. Probably the best snooker temperament the game has ever seen. Ronnie is raw talent, Stephen is raw belief.

@rayfinkle2805 28 дней назад

It wasn’t the pink that cost him it was decelerating on the blue . If he’d have struck if right the pink followed by the black would have been in his pocket

@neilwilliams4420 2 года назад

Preferred snooker back then with the older thicker cloths, even more skilful to play well on those than the slick cloths and lighter balls today, also back then the commentators didn’t speak about every single bloody shot like they do today!!! We were left to watch in peace and make up our own minds about what they could do

@paleshelter4002 19 дней назад

great comment.... 💯

@martinsledge7563 2 года назад

Remember watching this back in the day left such an impression on me, thanks for the upload!,,

@pingpong9656 2 года назад

Never heard of Mike, but he sure plays a good game!

@JatinderSingh-db3gp 2 года назад

Hendry the most complete snooker player of all time his mind set was at a different level

@jedaaa Год назад

I wouldn't say that, I mean even he admits he doesn't have a safety game, I'd have to say Selby and Higgins as the most complete pkayers

@user-hu3cx5xu5t 2 месяца назад

Hendry was never the complete player. His safety was average at best. He was an incredible attacking player, a master break builder. He also managed to play his best snooker under pressure. That’s why he won so much in a relatively short amount of time. But once he lost a little bit of consistency as happens with age, and the general standard improved, he stopped winning.

@DoomyMacDoomface 23 дня назад

What a great venue the Wembley conference centre was. It helped that the tournament format requires only the one table. All 2000 spectators are watching one match. Great atmosphere.

@irmasil3 4 месяца назад

Another masterclass from Stephen, from his era of "I don't give a fuck about positioning,I can pot anything".... :)

@patrickcrowther9195 Месяц назад

"The world's No.1 star..." - God I loved Ted Lowe.

@darrenmcgowan3932 2 года назад

Greatest and saddest collapses from a winning lead in snooker history. Mike just fell apart. 😓

@AnilSingh-nl4ok 2 года назад

Davis also in 1985 lost from 8-0 lead and on the black ball.

@edmundpower1250 Год назад

@@AnilSingh-nl4okyes but at 8-0 he was still not even half way there. Hallet was more than three quarters way there

@Guvna07 2 года назад

Trivia - Mike returned home to discover he’d been burgled

@jamesbyrne9312 2 года назад

Really. Luck is so cruel sometimes to all of us

@jaberwoky_ 2 года назад

Second time that week.

@edmundpower1250 Год назад

@@jaberwoky_Holy crap! Burgled twice in a week!!

@dannyH84 8 месяцев назад

@@edmundpower1250he was only broken into once stupid

@ravivarman2020 2 года назад

Great upload again. Brings back memories. I remember reading about this match in pot black magazine many years ago :) now get to witness.

@sebastianschwald1625 10 месяцев назад

The amount of chances he had is unbelievable!

@no-one-in-particular 2 года назад

The whole crowd has tuberculosis

@andrewjohnston2850 Месяц назад

a mix of being able to smoke inside and the air conditioning being on

@robhendrikx2198 Год назад

This match was not broadcast by the BBC, but I followed the score on ceefax, seeing Hendry claw his way back. It wasn't Mike Hallett's day, because when he got home, his house had been burgled.

@connecttoquran3579 Год назад

It was mate. I remember watching it as an 8 year old

@edmundpower1250 Год назад

Are you kidding? His house was burgled? Holy crap

@Ed30675 11 месяцев назад

@@connecttoquran3579 likewise...watched it live as it happened...and never forgotten...

@dannyH84 8 месяцев назад

Wouldn’t of had anything too nick

@planetx1595 Месяц назад

Rotten luck

@scottmccabe6071 4 месяца назад

Crazy watching this back all these years on. Table is so heavy, both really having to work the cue ball. Hallett hit the balls so hard and how many chances did he have to win. Hendry simply believed and kept at it. Great watch.

@TheMattTempest 19 дней назад

Hallett is firing them in like bullets. Can't think of any contemporary player who hits every shot so hard. Great to watch but probably not a good idea.

@brian7193 Год назад

I still cant believe mike blew this but apart from the players i believe this was the best time for great refs in the sport for me the top 3 refs in order were john smyth,len ganley and alan chamberlain with john street not far behind these,i cant remember the tournanwnr but i remember alex higgins demanding a rerack during a match with john smyth quickly letting alex know that he was in charge and would decide when it would be a rerack, and the legendary len ganley what a ref what a guy what a character r.i.p len

@TheMurderBird 2 года назад

liked this one a lot thanks!

@steviewonder7495 Год назад

I remember watching this live on TV and went crazy. When Stephen won in the end I have never forgotten this game, he only lived around 15 miles from me in South Queensferry and I lived in Baberton Edinburgh where his father stayed for a while.

@haggismuncher4543 5 месяцев назад

Neither has hallet 😂

@blehoo1 2 года назад

Hendry was a beast back then but for me the 1983 Coral UK Championship Final tops the lot - Alex coming back from 7-0 down after the first session to beat Steve Davis in his heyday. It was just so unlikely given the machine that Davis had become. It turned out to be Alex's last great hurrah.

@faceman1477 Год назад

The 1989 Irish Masters was his last hurrah!!

@keithmac3001 Месяц назад

Was gonna say he fine Hendry in Ireland in the masters final 89

@DaveInBridport 15 дней назад

I've always liked Stephen. His attitude. His general demeanour. His play.

@OliverSG1 2 года назад

My god the amount of coughing

@chrisstrayer4323 2 года назад

(Ex smoker here) I noticed the coughing too. As well as the sponsorship signs for Benson and Hedges cigarettes. 🤔 hehe

@tesla-spectre 2 года назад

They were all training for "Who wants to be a millionaire"😂

@pech3617 2 года назад

You’d have though Tecwen Whittock was in the audience

@dannyferguson4827 2 года назад

Covid must have existed back then as well 😂

@edwells4769 Год назад

Never seen so many players tremble as they contemplate you, coughing till their face turns blue, hacking like they have the flu

@sircxx8621 Год назад

I can’t watch it! I can’t bear to watch Hallett go through that again!!

@johnnybravo9096 Месяц назад

I'd only heard of this Hallet guy maybe once or twice. He was superb!

@ahmedaslam7916 2 года назад

Glad to see you posted a video not having Ronnie in it

@wretchlikeme6899 2 года назад

Imagine all those people coughing in 2022, it would be hilarious!

@danhanna8610 2 года назад

Notice who the company is that is advertised behind the table?

@wretchlikeme5321 2 года назад

@@danhanna8610 I can't make it out. video is grainy.

@Govanification 2 года назад

@@danhanna8610 Benson & Hedges cigarettes lol

@jonsaddler3067 2 года назад

Hallett got home to Grimsby the next day to find his house had been burgled. Poor guy

@edmundpower1250 Год назад

Holy crap! Really? 😲

@beatletat 2 года назад

Mike Hallet never won a ranking tournament apart from the Hong Kong open......such a great player. He was fast but always hit the balls hard and firm! Really unlucky not to win this match

@TheMattTempest Год назад

Hallet had an unusual action, didn't he? Short and snappy and whiplash - barely any drawback, definitely no pause, real 'crack' on the cueball.

@TheShocker650 10 месяцев назад

Ronnie O'Sullivan never won a ranking tournament apart from the 39 ranking tournaments he won.

@ad5038 2 года назад

every time i watch this i feel mike cannot lose this

@Littlefire5 2 года назад

Mike is really dangerous with potting but couldn't remain calm. Stephen is one of the best players but got pretty lucky with this one.

@wormsnake1 Год назад

Incredible. Stephen Hendry did come back but there’s no question that Mike Hallet bottled it.x

@bonkerbonker5083 2 года назад

Achieving such a feat places Stephen Hendry as the greatest Snooker player of all time , An absolutely incredible comeback !

@jamesbyrne9312 2 года назад

I would say it says more about his opponent cracking under pressure rather than Hendrys brilliance. Still a great comeback though

@bonkerbonker5083 2 года назад

@@jamesbyrne9312 , This proves to me beyond any doubt that Stephen Hendry had nerves of steel to succeed in such a turnaround, unheard of and a record that will most likely never be equaled !

@jamesbyrne9312 2 года назад

@@bonkerbonker5083 it was great but not unheard of. His opponent did everything possible to lose

@bonkerbonker5083 2 года назад

@@jamesbyrne9312 we must remain in good faith and give credit to Stephen Hendry

@jamesbyrne9312 2 года назад

@@bonkerbonker5083 oh I do but he was helped by his opponent

@user-ti6bj8gs5r 27 дней назад

9:02 That red into the is one of the best shots I have ever seen! 😮

@zamiluddin637 8 месяцев назад

I remember this Amazing

@CasperLCat 20 дней назад

Hendry’s nerve was so impressive, but I always feel bad for the guy who let it slip away, or was match point up in a pro tennis Grand Slam tournament and lost, etc. That heartbreak and self-doubt must last for years.

@vgamerul4617 2 года назад

11:42 turning point..

@22reg. 26 дней назад

If there was ever a time a player didn't want the 'session' to end it was Mike Hallet probably playing the best match Snooker he ever did against one of the all time great players. MH should never have lost that 8th frame...but he did and the 'rest is history'

@ravivarman2020 2 года назад

@18:47 is Hendry the only player who sights the pocket , then delivers his cue.? Don't recall any other player on the planet who follows that technique, very unique. I have tried his method many times and failed miserably. Why does he do it, is beyond my understanding. Before you deliver your cue the last thing you want to do is to look away from the line of aim.

@bazs7669 2 года назад

I remember watching this as an 11-year old and thinking how did he do it? Felt really bad for Hallett

@user-ti6bj8gs5r 27 дней назад

Hendry must have been so happy to get from 7-0 behind to 8-8 just for someone to lose the deciding frame!

@TheTmny876able 11 дней назад

Dennis taylor was 8-0 down in the 1985 world snooker final, and of course went on to win.

@chrispayne1824 Месяц назад

25:55 Stephen gave a mention to this bit of commentary in one of his recent videos, laughing at how he was described as the world's number one star, not just snooker's number one star.

@shauncorless8965 24 дня назад

It finished hallett ,,,,he never got over it 😮

@TheMrBennito 10 месяцев назад

No need to ask who kept his cool. Man, Hendry is special.

@RandomIndyWrestling 2 года назад

Always heard this be called a super comeback. It was more of Mike consistently getting to the brink and throwing a bad one in.

@stephenr8615 2 года назад

Indeed. In frame #18, at 27:30, ends up straight on the black, so he can't get to either of those 2 easy reds to win the match. Later in the same frame, losing position on green after yellow was inexcusable. And he just seemed so solid 99% of the time. The 1% killed him.

@steveh572 3 месяца назад

Was Mike Hallet actually this free flowing, or is it just an illusion because of the edits?

@24magiccarrot 4 месяца назад

Mike Hallett and Jimy White probably formed a dealing with Hendry's comeback support group in the 90s

@mikescorpio13 Месяц назад

9:46 i dont really know why but most of the times i missed in my life something unusual would give me a fluke safety just like that haha that was beautiful

@gabrielc6252 Год назад

Mike was hitting them all with a hammer

@ravivarman2020 2 года назад

@12:28 i notice most players use side spin when potting a thin cut. I wonder why? Giving side spin will throw cue ball off line, i assume. Why risk it, if you can play plain ball.

@kajisherpa6749 2 года назад

its hard to pot without side on that ball.U need a lil bit of side to create a thin contact with object ball so that it pots.

@CesarMuroya 2 года назад

Sidespin allows "thinner" cuts due to Spin-Induced Throw from the cue-ball to the object ball. In the case of Hendry's shot, it's right-hand side. However, Hendry probably played with the left side to better target the cut. For example, the black would probably hit the near jaw if you play the same shot with right-hand side instead. If you are interested, my Higgins vs Yan - Part 2 video shows how Throw works (by minute 7).

@GXObserver 2 года назад

At 7'20", a subtitle states "The spinning cue-ball dragged the red to the left". That should be "dragged the red to the right" because it was Hendry's 'view' of the LEFT side of the red that was restricted, not the right.

@dvidclapperton Год назад

The commentators always base things on how we look at it on screen, not on how they play it.

@alakabaz3 Год назад

How good was that brown at 19:24? Hendry misses that, which is very possible being so close to the cushion, Hallett would have surely cleaned up then. No one had bottle like him.

@abcd9032 25 дней назад

And non of them made big mistakes, so every frame was well deserved won, Including the decider which imho was the most thrilling of them all.

@gabrielc6252 Год назад

10:12 What great referees this sport had. Imagine the refs of today like Marcel Eckardt imposing such respect

@guitarreilly 2 года назад

27:54 WHY THE FU*K did he hit it that hard??? someone explain

@likethecountry8649 Год назад

I know. He had sooooo many chances. Even as he was throwing them away, he was lining them up and cueing them pretty well. If he’d taken the pace off just the ones along the cushion, at least one would have gone in, that’s all he needed. It was almost like he didn’t believe they would go in so whacked them to get it over with. Hendry though, clearly a long way from his best, what a mentality to be able to turn it on when on the brink again and again.

@user-vx1lb6ff3e 2 года назад

Талантливый спортсмен! Высокая динамика игры при высокой точности!

@DavidDavid-yz2sh 2 года назад

1, Mike Hallet was an average player in the 90s but look at Mike's level of played here. 2. How many players in the strong Era player could hv survive this ONSLAUGHT and win? Trust me most would thrown in the towel for good. 3. That's the reason why Stephen hendry is the GOAT not becos of 7 world titles but a fighter. RESPECT.

@LeeJF1 2 года назад

Bob Fleming here

@timg5011 Месяц назад

All the people mentioning the coughing: The tournament's sponsored by a cigarette company. What do you expect?!? :)

@richardevans3253 5 дней назад

Some snooker players lack the killer instinct to match their talent. There's no way Mike Hallet should have lost this .

@wildernessuk 2 года назад

Anybody got a rope? Immortal line.

@Couly Год назад

These two played doubles together back in the day

@5wisher5weet Месяц назад

I didn't know Hallet was this good

@roysmart4359 4 месяца назад

Snooker was sponsorsed almost exclusively by tobacco purveyors back then. Such was their control of the sport they insisted that all audience members smoked a minimum of 5 cigarettes per frame, hence the occasional cough overheard from the crowd. And u tell kids that today, they wont believe you.

@AbCat4 18 дней назад

😆

@youuuuuuuuuuutube Год назад

Heh at least thanks to this game, Mike Hallett has become a well known name in snooker.

@stonward 6 дней назад

Sounds like they recorded this in a TB ward - but then it was sponsored by B&H!

@JB-ze3yf Год назад

Poor Mike so much talent but any shot that came under pressure under hit it every time

@Cheekychappy78 Месяц назад

Stephen Henry v Jimmy white 92 world championship final 14-8 up, Hendry comes back to win 18-14.

@behzadkeyvanjah2618 Год назад

Man hearing all those coughs during a shot would be...

@ravivarman2020 2 года назад

@13:06 Mike may have committed a foul , after potting black he places his cue close to cue ball still rolling close by.

@jaberwoky_ 2 года назад

Nah.

@matheusgolkecardoso8309 Месяц назад

I am a fan of snooker but I do not play. Anyway, I found the way Hallett plays very similar to Ronnie O’Sullivan, specially the cue delivery.

@NewYorkActingCoach 29 дней назад

Perfect commentary, but the title should try to INSIST that people watch it, because it is so extraordinary. Maybe something like "Simply unbelievable" added. I know it may make the title a bit long, but anybody who does NOT watch this needs . . a doctor? Stupendous has become a weak word now.. J.

@xl000 26 дней назад

Snooker videos could really easily to upscaled, and even processed to look like today's HD video ( except for the players) There is very little entropy to a snooker table. All you need to know is the location of the balls.

@MattBell73 Месяц назад

Mike who? Legendary play Hendry 🙏

@user-ti6bj8gs5r 27 дней назад

Love how Mike asks for a rope, then the commentator says "if he loses it will, as we say in the snooker world - do his head in" pretty sure that's not a snooker saying ???

@porkyparry1 Год назад

Still got a pair haven't you Ray😁

@grayeves3309 2 года назад

Good come back.Mike crumpled big time

@thaihoangcfc 2 года назад

29:50 sure he needed to hit the yellow that hard

@martinkerrmusic 2 года назад

Mike just kept hitting crucial shots way too hard. That guy needed to learn how to take a deep breath.

@chrisjames9688 Год назад

Bloody hell hallett played quick

@user-ti6bj8gs5r 27 дней назад

Hendry had some bottle!! 🎉

@Sam-gw5pl Год назад

It’s not like Mike never potted another ball at 8-2. He had loads of chances. Look at him at 8-7 up. He was 55-17 ahead with the balls spread out. Loads of missed chances.

@craigmacdonald7764 Месяц назад

The greatest comeback ever

@tesla-spectre 2 месяца назад

How Hallett did not win the 16th frame is beyond me, still after all th3se years

@dvidclapperton Год назад

It was shocking that the BBC team were talking as though they were widely sxpecting a complete whitewash ad though Hendry was going to do exactly the same as Davis did vs Hallett in 1988, and talking as though it waa astonishing vs the expected score the other way around sven when it was only 1-0 to Hallett. 1-0 and 2-0 Hallett was not that dramatic. 5-0 to 7-0 Hallett was dramatic but the BBC team talking as though it was the polar opposite to what was expected even at only 3-0 as though Hsllett was there just to make up the numbers and incapable of winning a frame vs Hendry in a Masters final was ridiculous. You can't really expect a complete whitewash in a Masters final. After all Hallett can't have been all that bad if he had made the final as well.