2011 World Snooker Championship

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2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship
Tournament information
Dates16 April – 2 May 2011
VenueCrucible Theatre
CitySheffield
CountryEngland
OrganisationWPBSA
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£1,111,000
Winner's share£250,000
Highest break
Final
Champion John Higgins (SCO)
Runner-up Judd Trump (ENG)
Score18–15
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The 2011 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 16 April and 2 May 2011 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 35th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible and was the last ranking event of the 2010-11 snooker season. The event was organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association and had a total prize fund of £1,111,000, with £250,000 going to the winner of the event. The tournament was sponsored by sports betting company Betfred.

Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but lost 8–10 against Judd Trump in the first round. Trump became the youngest player since 1990 to reach the final where he lost to John Higgins. This was Higgins' fourth world title, becoming only the fourth man to win four or more championships. Ding Junhui meanwhile became the first player from China to reach the semi-finals. Mark King and Ding Junhui made the highest breaks at the Crucible with 138; while James Wattana compiled the highest break of the tournament during qualifying with 141.

An audience of 3.93 million viewers watched the final session in Great Britain with 2.03 million watching the third session of the final.[1] The second and fourth sessions of the final was the most watched programme on BBC Two for their particular weeks. Viewing figures on the BBC peaked at 6.6 million viewers. The figure of 3.9 million who watched the final session was up 50% on the year before. It was estimated that nearly half of the UK population watched the tournament at some point. In China, Ding Junhui's semi-final had an average watch of 19.4 million with a peak audience of 30 million over seven television networks.[2] A record number of fans bought tickets, with the last four days and other sessions sold out with sales up 15% on 2010.[3]

Tournament summary

First round

Second round

  • Mark Selby made three records in his 13–4 victory over Stephen Hendry.[15] Selby became the first snooker player to compile six century breaks at a World Championship match in the Crucible.[16][17][18] This was also a record for a best of 25 frame match and took the number of Selby's century breaks in the season to 54, a record previously held by Hendry.[17][19]
  • Ding Junhui came back from 9–12 to defeat Stuart Bingham 13–12. Ding qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Championship for the first time in his career.[20]

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

  • Judd Trump defeated Ding Junhui 17–15 in an absorbing match to become the second youngest player, after Stephen Hendry in 1990, to reach the final of the World Championship.[26] Trump also reached his second consecutive ranking final after winning the China Open at the start of the month.[27] In China, the second session of the match drew a peak audience of nearly 30 million viewers and averaging over 19 million, with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association claiming it was the highest rated sports programme of 2011 up to that point;[28] however, the Women's Tennis Association claimed that the women's singles final of the Australian Open held earlier in the year drew an audience of 60 million viewers on Chinese television.[29][30]
  • Mark Williams won the first session 5–3, and could maintain his advantage after the second session, which ended 4–4. John Higgins then won six of the next eight frames, to lead 13–11. Higgins won the match 17–14 to reach his third final in five years.[31] During the 28th frame Higgins was heckled by a member of the audience, "How did you swallow that £300,000, John? ... You're a disgrace to snooker." in reference to the News of the World allegations the previous year, for which the heckler was later ejected from the venue.[32]

Final

  • Ted Lowe, BBC commentator for many years and the deviser of the long-running snooker programme Pot Black, died at the age of 90 on the morning of 1 May. Before the start of the final that day, a minute's applause in honour of Lowe took place.[33]
  • The referee of the final was Jan Verhaas, who refereed his fourth World Championship final.[34][35]
  • There was a small format change with sessions of 8, 9, 8 and 10 frames rather than 8, 8, 8 and 11.
  • After the first session was tied at four frames all, Trump won the second session 6–3 to take a 10–7 lead into the second day's play.[36][37] Higgins took a 13–12 lead after the third session of the final, which he won 6–2.[38] The score levelled at fourteen frames all, but Higgins won four of the last five frames to win the match 18–15. Higgins won his 24th ranking title and became only the fourth player to win the World Championship four times in the modern era after Ray Reardon, Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry.[39]
  • The highest break of the tournament was 138 made by both Mark King and Ding Junhui. This was the first time that the highest break of the tournament was lower than 140 since 1987, when it was 127 made by Steve Davis.[40]

Prize fund

In an effort of World Snooker to cut costs there was no separate prize money for a maximum break. In previous years the prize money for this achievement was £147,000.[41] For the 2011 tournament there was a £1,111,000 prize fund with the winner receiving £250,000. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[42][43][44]

Main draw

Below is the full draw for the main stage of the tournament. The numbers in brackets denote player seeding, whilst those in bold denote match winners.[45][46][47][48] The draw for the first round took place on 21 March 2011, one day after the Players Tour Championship Finals.[4][49]

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Qualifying

Preliminary qualifying

The preliminary qualifying rounds for the tournament took place on 3 March 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield. (WPBSA members not on The Tour.)[50][51][52][53]

Round 1

England Sam Baird 5–1 England Colin Mitchell
England Tony Brown 2–5 England Ali Bassiri
India David Singh 4–5 England David Gray
England Ian Stark 5–2 England Paul Cavney
England Philip Minchin 0–5 England Stephen Rowlings
England Tony Knowles 4–5 England Del Smith
England Les Dodd 4–5 England Stephen Ormerod

Round 2

England Neil Selman 3–5 England Sam Baird
England Ali Bassiri 0–5 England David Gray
England Ian Stark 0–5 England Stephen Rowlings
England Del Smith 5–0 England Stephen Ormerod

Main qualifying

The qualifying rounds 1–4 for the tournament took place between 4 and 10 March 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield. The final round of qualifying took place between 12 and 13 March 2011 at the same venue.[50][51][52][53]

Round 1

England Reanne Evans 6–10 England Sam Baird
Wales Jak Jones 3–10 England Stephen Rowlings

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
EnglandKyren Wilson10Northern IrelandJoe Swail6EnglandRory McLeod10EnglandMark Davis5
Northern IrelandDermot McGlinchey5EnglandKyren Wilson10EnglandKyren Wilson3EnglandRory McLeod10
ChinaLiu Song10EnglandAdrian Gunnell9EnglandMark Joyce6EnglandJoe Perry10
Republic of IrelandMichael Judge8ChinaLiu Song10ChinaLiu Song10ChinaLiu Song6
ThailandJames Wattana10EnglandAndy Hicks2ScotlandJamie Burnett10ChinaLiang Wenbo7
EnglandJustin Astley3ThailandJames Wattana10ThailandJames Wattana8ScotlandJamie Burnett10
ThailandThanawat Thirapongpaiboon8EnglandAlfie Burden7EnglandMike Dunn10EnglandMark King10
EnglandSam Baird10EnglandSam Baird10EnglandSam Baird9EnglandMike Dunn5
ScotlandJames McBain10EnglandIan McCulloch5EnglandMichael Holt10WalesDominic Dale10
ThailandIssara Kachaiwong9ScotlandJames McBain10ScotlandJames McBain8EnglandMichael Holt6
BrazilIgor Figueiredo5EnglandJoe Jogia10EnglandRobert Milkins10EnglandMartin Gould10
Republic of IrelandJoe Delaney10Republic of IrelandJoe Delaney4EnglandJoe Jogia4EnglandRobert Milkins6
ChinaLiu Chuang10EnglandJimmy White9EnglandTom Ford8WalesRyan Day10
EnglandDavid Gray3ChinaLiu Chuang10ChinaLiu Chuang10ChinaLiu Chuang7
Republic of IrelandDavid Morris8EnglandBarry Pinches7EnglandPeter Lines6EnglandJudd Trump10
EnglandDavid Gilbert10EnglandDave Gilbert10EnglandDave Gilbert10EnglandDave Gilbert4
EnglandPaul Davison10ScotlandAnthony McGill7Republic of IrelandFergal O'Brien10WalesMatthew Stevens10
EnglandStephen Rowlings5EnglandPaul Davison10EnglandPaul Davison4Republic of IrelandFergal O'Brien9
Northern IrelandPatrick Wallace10EnglandRod Lawler5EnglandMatthew Selt10ScotlandMarcus Campbell10
EnglandDel Smith2Northern IrelandPatrick Wallace10Northern IrelandPatrick Wallace9EnglandMatthew Selt6
WalesMichael White10EnglandMatthew Couch3EnglandAnthony Hamilton10EnglandBarry Hawkins10
EnglandAdam Wicheard2WalesMichael White10WalesMichael White7EnglandAnthony Hamilton5
EnglandLiam Highfield8EnglandJack Lisowski10EnglandSteve Davis10EnglandStephen Lee10
EnglandKuldesh Johal10EnglandKuldesh Johal7EnglandJack Lisowski9EnglandSteve Davis2
EnglandSimon Bedford10WalesJamie Jones10EnglandDave Harold10Northern IrelandGerard Greene9
ThailandNoppon Saengkham3EnglandSimon Bedford6WalesJamie Jones9EnglandDave Harold10
EnglandBen Woollaston10EnglandStuart Pettman10ScotlandAlan McManus10EnglandStuart Bingham10
EnglandJamie O'Neill8EnglandBen Woollaston5EnglandStuart Pettman8ScotlandAlan McManus2
WalesAndrew Pagett10BelgiumBjorn Haneveer4EnglandNigel Bond9EnglandAndrew Higginson6
ChinaZhang Anda6WalesAndrew Pagett10WalesAndrew Pagett10WalesAndrew Pagett10
ChinaXiao Guodong10EnglandJimmy Robertson10MaltaTony Drago8Republic of IrelandKen Doherty6
NorwayKurt Maflin9ChinaXiao Guodong9EnglandJimmy Robertson10EnglandJimmy Robertson10

Century breaks

Televised stage centuries

There were 74 century breaks in the televised stage of the World Championship.[54][55]

Qualifying stage centuries

There were 73 century breaks in the qualifying stage of the World Championship.[54]

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External links

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