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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 that took place at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It started on 21 April 2007 and was scheduled to finish on 7 May 2007, but continued into the early hours of 8 May, ending at 12:54 a.m. BST. The final broke the record for the latest finish time in a World Snooker Championship final, narrowly beating the 2006 final by two minutes.

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

  • There were five debutants in this year's tournament: future Masters champion Mark Allen was the only one of the five to win his opening match, knocking out third seed and 1997 Champion Ken Doherty 10–7.[1] Future world champion and future world number one Judd Trump won four qualifying matches, but lost 6–10 to Shaun Murphy after having led 6–5. Another future world number one, Ding Junhui, lost heavily to Ronnie O'Sullivan 2–10. David Gilbert led 7-time champion Stephen Hendry 5–1 at one stage before eventually losing 10–7. Irishman Joe Delaney won two final-frame deciders in Qualifying against Barry Pinches and double world semi-finalist Alan McManus, but was heavily defeated by Matthew Stevens 10–2 having trailed 0–5.
  • Former world champion John Parrott made his final appearance at the Crucible, beating Steve Davis 10–9 in the first round before losing 8–13 to Shaun Murphy in the last 16.[2][3]
  • There were final-frame opening round wins for qualifiers Fergal O'Brien and Joe Swail over Barry Hawkins and Mark Williams respectively, Swail coming from 0–4 down. Mark Selby was even further behind, 0–5 against Stephen Lee before winning 10–7.
  • Ian McCulloch qualified for the first time since his semi-final appearance in 2005. Having beaten defending champion Graeme Dott in the first round, he lost 8–13 to Anthony Hamilton in the last 16, and this would also prove to be his last appearance at the Crucible.
  • Before the tournament began, Ronnie O'Sullivan alleged that the WPBSA draw had been fixed,[4] after having been drawn in the first round against Ding, considered by bookmakers to be among the favourites for the title,[4][5] and noting that he had drawn European Open and UK Champion, Stephen Maguire, in both 2004 and 2005.[4] O'Sullivan later withdrew the accusation,[6] and made no formal complaint to the WPBSA, who maintain that the draw was genuine.[4]
  • 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.[7]
  • In frame 29 of his semi-final match, John Higgins compiled the Crucible's 1,000th century break.[8][9]
  • Future four-time world champion Mark Selby reached his first final this year. He had a surprising run to the final, as he was a qualifier, he had only made his Crucible debut two years earlier, and he had not previously progressed beyond the last 16.
  • The final had the latest finish in World Championship history, with the conclusion of the 31st and final frame coming at 12:54 a.m. BST, just two minutes later than in 2006.[10]
  • John Higgins' second world title came nine years after his first,[11] the longest gap between wins since his namesake Alex Higgins. This was the longest gap between titles at the Crucible until 2018.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[12][13] Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-break

  • Winner: £220,000
  • Runner-up: £110,000
  • Semi-final: £42,000
  • Quarter-final: £22,000
  • Last 16: £14,000
  • Last 32: £10,600
  • Last 48: £7,400
  • Last 64: £4,500

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  • Stage one highest break: £1,000
  • Stage two highest break: £10,000
  • Stage one maximum break: £5,000
  • Stage two maximum break: £147,000
  • Total: £941,000

Шаблон:Col-end

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.[12][14][15][16][17]

Шаблон:32TeamBracket-Info

Шаблон:WSC table

Preliminary qualifying

The preliminary qualifying rounds for the tournament took place in Pontin's Prestatyn, Wales.[12][18]

Round 1

Шаблон:Flagicon Bradley Jones 5–0 Шаблон:Flagicon Neil Selman
Шаблон:Flagicon Del Smith 5–4 Шаблон:Flagicon Tony Knowles

Round 2

Шаблон:Flagicon Bradley Jones 5–0 Шаблон:Flagicon Stephen Ormerod
Шаблон:Flagicon Les Dodd w/o-w/d Шаблон:Flagicon David Singh
Шаблон:Flagicon Ali Bassiri 0–5 Шаблон:Flagicon Phil Seaton
Шаблон:Flagicon Del Smith 5–0 Шаблон:Flagicon 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.[12][18]

Round 1

Шаблон:Flagicon Issara Kachaiwong 8–10 Шаблон:Flagicon Bradley Jones
Шаблон:Flagicon Roy Stolk 10–7 Шаблон:Flagicon Phil Seaton
Шаблон:Flagicon Ben Woollaston 10–3 Шаблон:Flagicon Del Smith
Шаблон:Flagicon James Leadbetter 10–8 Шаблон:Flagicon Les Dodd

Rounds 2–5 Шаблон:32TeamX4RoundBracket-NoSeeds

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.[19][20] Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-2

Шаблон:Col-2

Шаблон:Col-end

Qualifying stage centuries

[12] Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-2

Шаблон:Col-2

Шаблон:Col-end

References

Шаблон:Reflist

Шаблон:World Snooker Championship Шаблон:Snooker season 2006/2007

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