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Embassy World Snooker Championship
Tournament information
Dates20 April–6 May 2002
VenueCrucible Theatre
CitySheffield
CountryEngland
OrganisationWPBSA
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£1,615,770
Winner's share£260,000
Highest breakWales Matthew Stevens (145)
Final
ChampionEngland Peter Ebdon
Runner-upScotland Stephen Hendry
Score18–17
← 2001
2003 →

The 2002 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2002 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 April and 6 May 2002 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, but he lost in the semi-finals 13 frames to 17 against Stephen Hendry and became another first time champion who fell to the Crucible curse and could not defend his first World title.

Peter Ebdon won his first world title by defeating seven-time World Champion Hendry 18–17 in the final. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.

Tournament summary

  • Stuart Bingham narrowly missed out on a maximum break during his first-round match against Ken Doherty, making it to the final pink.[1]
  • Stephen Hendry reached his record ninth World Championship final and beat the eight set by Steve Davis in the 1980s. Hendry also took the record for century breaks in a world championship, as his 16 bettered John Higgins's total of 14 in 1998.[2]
  • This was Hendry's last appearance in a World final and effectively signalled the start of his decline as major force in the game.
  • Davis himself failed to qualify for the Championship for the second year in a row, losing to Finland's Robin Hull 8–10 at Newport.[3]
  • John Williams refereed his tenth World final. He retired from the game soon afterwards.[4]
  • Ebdon's victory made him the first man to win both his semi-final and final in deciding frames. Ebdon also required a snooker to stay in his semi-final match against Matthew Stevens.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[5][6]

Main draw

Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).[5][7][8] Template:World Snooker Championship Rounds

Century breaks

There were 68 century breaks in this World Championship, a record which was equalled in 2007 and superseded in 2009.[9][10] The highest break of the tournament was 145, made by Matthew Stevens during his quarter-final match against Higgins.[5] This was just the second time that the highest break of the tournament was 145, after Doug Mountjoy's in 1981.[9] Hendry made 16 century breaks during the tournament, the record for most centuries at a ranking event.[2][11]

References

  1. ^ "Snooker: Bingham falls short in maximum chase". The Birmingham Post on HighBeam Research. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b Turner, Chris. "Various Snooker Results". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  3. ^ "Robin Hull profile (2002 World Snooker Championship)". Sporting Life. Archived from the original on 14 June 2002. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  4. ^ "Top 10 Crucible finals". Sky Sports. 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
  5. ^ a b c "World Championship 2002". Global Snooker. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  6. ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. p. 130.
  7. ^ "World Snooker results and reports". BBC Sport. 6 May 2002. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  8. ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. pp. 54–55.
  9. ^ a b "Crucible Centuries". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. p. 150.
  11. ^ "January 13 down the years: A legend makes his first mark". ESPN. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
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