2007 World Snooker Championship

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This article is about the snooker tournament. For the sport simulation video game, see World Snooker Championship 2007 (video game).

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Tournament information
Dates21 April – 7 May 2007
VenueCrucible Theatre
CitySheffield
CountryEngland
OrganisationWPBSA
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£941,000
Winner's share£220,000
Highest breakEngland Ali Carter (144)
Final
ChampionScotland John Higgins
Runner-upEngland Mark Selby
Score18–13
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The 2007 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2007 888.com World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament. The event began on 21 April and ran until 7 May 2007 (with the final continuing into the early hours of 8 May) at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

Graeme Dott was the defending champion, but lost in the first round 7–10 to Ian McCulloch and became another World Champion who fell to the Crucible curse and could not defend his first World title.

John Higgins won his second World title by defeating qualifier Mark Selby 18–13 in the final. The tournament was sponsored by online casino 888.com.

Tournament summary

  • This year's tournament saw the debut of future world champion and future world number one Judd Trump. Trump lost 6–10 to Shaun Murphy in the first round, after having led 6–5. Another future world number one, Ding Junhui, also made his debut this year; he lost heavily to Ronnie O'Sullivan 2–10 in the first round. A further notable debutant this year was future Masters champion Mark Allen who reached round 2 after knocking out third seed and 1997 Champion Ken Doherty 10–7. and David Gilbert also made his debut.
  • Before the tournament began Ronnie O'Sullivan alleged that the WPBSA draw had been fixed,[1] after having been drawn in the first round against Ding, considered by bookmakers to be among the favourites for the title,[1][2] and noting that he had drawn European Open and UK Champion, Stephen Maguire, in both 2004 and 2005.[1] O'Sullivan later withdrew the accusation,[3] and made no formal complaint to the WPBSA, who maintain that the draw was genuine.[1]
  • Shaun Murphy came back from 7–12 down to win his quarter-final match 13–12 against Matthew Stevens, a feat never before accomplished in a best of 25 frame match.[4]
  • Former World champion John Parrott made his final appearance at the Crucible beating Steve Davis 10–9 in the first round before losing 13–8 to Shaun Murphy in the last 16.[5]
  • During his semi-final match, John Higgins compiled the Crucible's 1,000th century break in frame 29.[6][7]
  • Future three-time world champion Mark Selby reached his first final this year. Selby's run was a surprising one as he was a qualifier, had only made his debut in 2005 and had never previously got beyond the Last 16.
  • The final had the latest finish in history, with the conclusion of the 31st and final frame coming at 00:54 am BST, just two minutes later than in 2006.[8]
  • John Higgins' second title came nine years after his first, the longest gap between wins since his namesake Alex Higgins. Until 2018 this was the longest gap between titles at the Crucible.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[9][10]

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). The first round draw was done by presenters Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams of BBC Breakfast on 19 March and it was announced on Breakfast at 7.30 am BST the next day.[9][11][12][13][14] Template:World Snooker Championship Rounds

Preliminary qualifying

The preliminary qualifying rounds for the tournament took place in Pontin's Prestatyn, Wales.[9][15]

Round 1

England Bradley Jones 5–0 England Neil Selman
England Del Smith 5–4 England Tony Knowles

Round 2

England Bradley Jones 5–0 England Stephen Ormerod
England Les Dodd w/o-w/d India David Singh
England Ali Bassiri 0–5 England Phil Seaton
England Del Smith 5–0 England Barry Stark

Qualifying

Qualifying for the 2007 World Snooker Championship, was held between 23 February to 2 March 2007 at Pontin's, Prestatyn, Wales. The final qualifying round took place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield between the 12–15 March 2007.[9][15]

Round 1

Thailand Issara Kachaiwong 8–10 England Bradley Jones
Netherlands Roy Stolk 10–7 England Phil Seaton
England Ben Woollaston 10–3 England Del Smith
England James Leadbetter 10–8 England Les Dodd

Rounds 2–5

Round 2
Best of 19 frames		Round 3
Best of 19 frames		Round 4
Best of 19 frames		Round 5
Best of 19 frames
England Alfie Burden10England Dave Gilbert10Northern Ireland Gerard Greene6England Mark King6
Scotland Robert Stephen9England Alfie Burden9England Dave Gilbert10England Dave Gilbert10
China Liu Song10Malta Tony Drago9England Adrian Gunnell10England Michael Holt10
New Zealand Dene O'Kane3China Liu Song10China Liu Song8England Adrian Gunnell7
England Judd Trump10Pakistan Shokat Ali7England Jamie Cope7Thailand James Wattana5
England Bradley Jones8England Judd Trump10England Judd Trump10England Judd Trump10
China Tian Pengfei10England Joe Jogia10Scotland Drew Henry10England Joe Perry10
Netherlands Roy Stolk2China Tian Pengfei4England Joe Jogia7Scotland Drew Henry5
England Mark Joyce10Finland Robin Hullw/dRepublic of Ireland Fergal O'Brien10England Stuart Bingham5
United Arab Emirates Mohammed Shehab6England Mark Joycew/oEngland Mark Joyce4Republic of Ireland Fergal O'Brien10
England Paul Wykes3England Rory McLeod10England Tom Ford8England Andy Hicks10
Malta Alex Borg10Malta Alex Borg6England Rory McLeod10England Rory McLeod4
England Lee Page10Wales Paul Davies10Republic of Ireland Michael Judge10Hong Kong Marco Fu10
Northern Ireland Dermot McGlinchey1England Lee Page1Wales Paul Davies5Republic of Ireland Michael Judge9
England Matthew Couch10England Jimmy Michie10England Mark Davis10China Ding Junhui10
Wales Jamie Jones5England Matthew Couch4England Jimmy Michie2England Mark Davis6
Wales Ian Preece10Republic of Ireland Joe Delaney10England Barry Pinches9Scotland Alan McManus9
England Ben Woollaston8Wales Ian Preece7Republic of Ireland Joe Delaney10Republic of Ireland Joe Delaney10
China Liang Wenbo10England Mike Dunn10England Dave Harold10Northern Ireland Joe Swail10
England Jeff Cundy5China Liang Wenbo3England Mike Dunn3England Dave Harold9
England Paul Davison10Scotland Jamie Burnett10England Jimmy White4England Nigel Bond10
England Peter Lines8England Paul Davison5Scotland Jamie Burnett10Scotland Jamie Burnett6
Thailand Passakorn Suwannawat10England David Roe8Scotland Marcus Campbell10Wales Ryan Day10
Germany Patrick Einsle4Thailand Passakorn Suwannawat10Thailand Passakorn Suwannawat9Scotland Marcus Campbell5
England Chris Melling6England Andrew Norman10Wales Dominic Dale10England Ian McCulloch10
Republic of Ireland David Morris10Republic of Ireland David Morris8England Andrew Norman8Wales Dominic Dale4
England Lee Spick10Northern Ireland Mark Allen10England Rod Lawler5England Robert Milkins4
England Sean Storey4England Lee Spick5Northern Ireland Mark Allen10Northern Ireland Mark Allen10
England Chris Norbury9England Stuart Pettman3England John Parrott10England David Gray7
England James Leadbetter10England James Leadbetter10England James Leadbetter7England John Parrott10
England Andrew Higginson10Scotland Scott MacKenzie6England Ricky Walden10England Mark Selby10
Scotland Mark Boyle4England Andrew Higginson10England Andrew Higginson9England Ricky Walden6

Century breaks

Televised stage centuries

There were 68 centuries scored in the televised stage of the 2007 championship, which was joint equal highest in the history of the tournament (with the tournament held in 2002) until 2009.[16][17]

Qualifying stage centuries

[9]

References

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  2. ^ "World Championship – Outright". EasyOdds.com. Archived from the original on 27 April 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
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  4. ^ "Stevens hit for six as Murphy Prevails Archived 13 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine" WorldSnooker.com – Tournament News, 2 May 2007
  5. ^ "Parrott edges out colleague Davis". BBC Sport. BBC News. 22 April 2007. Archived from the original on 27 May 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2007.
  6. ^ "Snooker: Selby pockets a place in the final ; SNOOKER: 888.COM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FROM SHEFFIELD". Sunday Sun on HighBeam Research. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2012.(subscription required)
  7. ^ Lyon, Sam; Dirs, Ben (5 May 2007). "John Higgins (Sco) 17–15 Stephen Maguire (Sco)". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 20 April 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  8. ^ "Higgins beats brave Selby in epic". BBC Sport. 8 May 2007. Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
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  10. ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. p. 130.
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  12. ^ "2007 World Championships Results". Snooker Database. Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
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  14. ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. pp. 64–65.
  15. ^ a b "2007 888.com World Championship Qualifying". Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 19 August 2007.
  16. ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. p. 152.
  17. ^ "Crucible Centuries". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
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