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Luca Brecel beat Mark Selby 18-15 in a classic final to win his first World Snooker Championship.

The Belgian had never won a match before on his previous visits to the Crucible, but knocked out the defending world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and two other former winners to clinch the title.

Here is how the tournament unfolded.

Results

Final

Luca Brecel 18-15 Mark Selby

Semi-finals

Luca Brecel 17-15 Si Jiahui

Mark Selby 17-15 Mark Allen

Quarter-finals

Mark Allen 13-10 Jak Jones

Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-13 Luca Brecel

Anthony McGill 12-13 Si Jiahui

John Higgins 7-13 Mark Selby

Second round

Robert Milkins 7-13 Si Jiahui

Anthony McGill 13-8 Jack Lisowski

John Higgins 13-2 Kyren Wilson

Mark Allen 13-4 Stuart Bingham

Mark Williams 11-13 Luca Brecel

Jak Jones 13-7 Neil Robertson

Ronnie O'Sullivan 13-2 Hossein Vafaei

First round

Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-7 Pang Junxu

Stuart Bingham 10-4 David Gilbert

Neil Robertson 10-3 Wu Yize

Luca Brecel 10-9 Ricky Walden

Ali Carter 6-10 Jak Jones

Ding Junhui 6-10 Hossein Vafaei

Mark Williams 10-5 Jimmy Robertson

Gary Wilson 10-8 Elliot Slessor

Mark Allen 10-5 Fan Zhengyi

John Higgins 10-3 David Grace

Jack Lisowski 10-7 Noppon Saengkham

Anthony McGill 10-6 Judd Trump

Kyren Wilson 10-5 Ryan Day

Robert Milkins 10-9 Joe Perry

Mark Selby 10-8 Matthew Selt

Si Jiahui 10-9 Shaun Murphy

Ronnie O'Sullivan 13-2 Hossein Vafaei

Neil Robertson 7-13 Jak Jones

Maximum breaks

There have now been 14 maximums at the World Championship, with two coming during the 2023 tournament.

Kyren Wilson achieved the feat in his first-round win over Ryan Day, while Selby became the first player to do so in a World Championship final.

A total of 10 players have now made 147s at the Crucible. O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry have made three 147s, with Cliff Thorburn, Jimmy White, Mark Williams, Ali Carter, John Higgins, Neil Robertson. Wilson and Selby also making maximums.