The final session of the match between Thorburn and Griffiths lasted more than seven hours and finished at 3:51 am, the latest finish for a snooker match at the Crucible. Thorburn achieved the first maximum break at a World Snooker Championship in the fourth frame. He was only the second player after Davis at the 1982 Classic to make an official maximum. The break started with Thorburn a . While he was completing the break, play stopped on the tournament's second table because his friend and fellow Canadian Werbeniuk wanted to watch. During the semi-final, which finished at 12:45 am, Thorburn had learnt that his wife Barbara had suffered a miscarriage on the day that he made his maximum break.