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Snooker frames have no time limit
A single frame once lasted more than two hours in a professional match Players may take as long as they like over a shot, and the referee can warn them for slow play but cannot force a clock. The longest professional frame ran past two hours in 2017. Some events now use a shot clock for time-limited formats. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Snooker frames have no time limit: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- A single frame once lasted more than two hours in a professional match. The figure is taken from World Snooker, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.