Tournament information | |
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Dates | 13–21 October 2007 |
Venue | A.E.C.C. |
City | Aberdeen |
Country | Scotland |
Organisation | WPBSA |
Format | Ranking event |
Total prize fund | £470,500 |
Winner's share | £75,000 |
Highest break | Tom Ford (ENG) (147) |
Final | |
Champion | Marco Fu (HKG) |
Runner-up | Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) |
Score | 9–6 |
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The 2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 13 and 21 October 2007 at the A.E.C.C. in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Dave Harold made 14 consecutive foul and misses during his round-robin stage match against Liu Song. This is the most consecutive foul and misses made in any professional event. [1]
Marco Fu won the title by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–6 in the final.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: [2]
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The breakdown of ranking points for this year is shown below: [2]
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The first round used a round-robin format like last season. The top 32 and the 16 qualifiers were placed in eight groups of six with the top two from each group qualifying for the knockout stage. Matches in the round-robins were the best of seven frames. [2] [3]
Tom Ford made a maximum break in his match against Steve Davis. [4] For this feat he won £24,000.
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Joe Swail (NIR) | 5 | 4 | 18 | 11 | +7 |
Joe Perry (ENG) | 5 | 4 | 16 | 12 | +4 |
Jimmy Michie (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 0 |
Neil Robertson (AUS) | 5 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 0 |
Stephen Lee (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 13 | 16 | −3 |
Mark Davis (ENG) | 5 | 1 | 9 | 17 | −8 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) | 5 | 5 | 20 | 6 | +14 |
Gerard Greene (NIR) | 5 | 4 | 18 | 9 | +9 |
Tom Ford (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 17 | 15 | +2 |
Dominic Dale (WAL) | 5 | 2 | 11 | 17 | −6 |
Steve Davis (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 9 | 18 | −9 |
Mark Joyce (ENG) | 5 | 0 | 10 | 20 | −10 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Peter Ebdon (ENG) | 5 | 5 | 20 | 12 | +8 |
Liu Song (CHN) | 5 | 3 | 16 | 12 | +4 |
Matthew Stevens (WAL) | 5 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 0 |
Mark Selby (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 0 |
Dave Harold (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 13 | 15 | −2 |
Joe Delaney (IRL) | 5 | 0 | 10 | 20 | −10 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Shaun Murphy (ENG) | 5 | 4 | 19 | 11 | +8 |
Marco Fu (HKG) | 5 | 4 | 19 | 14 | +5 |
Stuart Pettman (ENG) | 5 | 3 | 16 | 13 | +3 |
Stuart Bingham (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
Ding Junhui (CHN) | 5 | 2 | 13 | 14 | −1 |
Ben Woollaston (ENG) | 5 | 0 | 5 | 20 | −15 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Ali Carter (ENG) | 5 | 5 | 20 | 4 | +16 |
Marcus Campbell (SCO) | 5 | 4 | 16 | 14 | +2 |
Michael Holt (ENG) | 5 | 3 | 15 | 14 | +1 |
Anthony Hamilton (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 14 | 13 | +1 |
Fergal O'Brien (IRL) | 5 | 1 | 10 | 18 | −8 |
Graeme Dott (SCO) | 5 | 0 | 8 | 20 | −12 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Ricky Walden (ENG) | 5 | 4 | 18 | 10 | +8 |
Michael Judge (IRL) | 5 | 4 | 18 | 14 | +4 |
Mark Allen (NIR) | 5 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
Mark Williams (WAL) | 5 | 2 | 14 | 17 | −3 |
Ken Doherty (IRL) | 5 | 1 | 13 | 17 | −4 |
Ian McCulloch (ENG) | 5 | 1 | 14 | 19 | −5 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Stephen Maguire (SCO) | 5 | 4 | 17 | 9 | +8 |
Barry Hawkins (ENG) | 5 | 3 | 16 | 13 | +3 |
Stephen Hendry (SCO) | 5 | 3 | 17 | 16 | +1 |
Rory McLeod (ENG) | 5 | 3 | 16 | 15 | +1 |
Paul Davies (WAL) | 5 | 2 | 13 | 18 | −5 |
Jamie Cope (ENG) | 5 | 0 | 12 | 20 | −8 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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John Higgins (SCO) | 5 | 5 | 20 | 6 | +14 |
Ryan Day (WAL) | 5 | 3 | 17 | 10 | +7 |
Nigel Bond (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 12 | 14 | −2 |
Mark King (ENG) | 5 | 2 | 11 | 13 | −2 |
Tian Pengfei (CHN) | 5 | 2 | 12 | 17 | −5 |
Andrew Norman (ENG) | 5 | 1 | 7 | 19 | −12 |
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Last 16 Best of 9 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | |||||||||||
Joe Swail (NIR) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Marcus Campbell (SCO) | 2 | |||||||||||||
Joe Swail | 3 | |||||||||||||
Ronnie O'Sullivan | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Michael Judge (IRL) | 2 | |||||||||||||
Ronnie O'Sullivan | 6 | |||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 5 | |||||||||||||
Peter Ebdon (ENG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Barry Hawkins (ENG) | 2 | |||||||||||||
Peter Ebdon | 3 | |||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 5 | |||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy (ENG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ryan Day (WAL) | 3 | |||||||||||||
Ronnie O'Sullivan | 6 | |||||||||||||
Marco Fu | 9 | |||||||||||||
Ali Carter (ENG) | 3 | |||||||||||||
Joe Perry (ENG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Joe Perry | 3 | |||||||||||||
Gerard Greene | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ricky Walden (ENG) | 0 | |||||||||||||
Gerard Greene (NIR) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Gerard Greene | 5 | |||||||||||||
Marco Fu | 6 | |||||||||||||
Stephen Maguire (SCO) | 3 | |||||||||||||
Liu Song (CHN) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Liu Song | 0 | |||||||||||||
Marco Fu | 5 | |||||||||||||
John Higgins (SCO) | 4 | |||||||||||||
Marco Fu (HKG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Jan Verhaas. Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Scotland, 21 October 2007. [5] | ||
Ronnie O'Sullivan England | 6–9 | Marco Fu Hong Kong |
Afternoon: 21–100 (78), 104–35 (85), 0–110 (110), 18–84 (74), 127–0 (127), 75–0 (75), 64–33 Evening:67–5, 0–99, 4–95 (94), 5–121 (117), 0–82 (62), 66–44 (65), 58–60 (52, 60), 0–76 (76) | ||
127 | Highest break | 117 |
1 | Century breaks | 2 |
5 | 50+ breaks | 8 |
Qualifying for the 2007 Grand Prix was held between 17 September and 23 September 2007 at Pontin's Prestatyn using a round-robin format. The entries were placed into eight groups with the top 2 from each group qualifying for the finals in Aberdeen. All matches at this stage were played over the best of seven frames. [2] [7]
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Mark Davis (ENG) | 7 | 5 | 25 | 15 | +10 |
Mark Joyce (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 25 | 17 | +8 |
Jimmy White (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 21 | 21 | 0 |
Robert Milkins (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 20 | 22 | −2 |
Jimmy Robertson (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 23 | 22 | +1 |
Supoj Saenla (THA) | 7 | 3 | 18 | 20 | −2 |
Alex Davies (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 15 | 24 | −9 |
Scott MacKenzie (SCO) | 7 | 2 | 20 | 26 | −6 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Tom Ford (ENG) | 7 | 6 | 25 | 10 | +15 |
Jimmy Michie (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 22 | 14 | +8 |
Tony Drago (MLT) | 7 | 4 | 20 | 19 | +1 |
James McBain (SCO) | 7 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 0 |
Andrew Higginson (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 20 | 17 | +3 |
James Wattana (THA) | 7 | 3 | 17 | 19 | −2 |
Gareth Coppack (WAL) | 7 | 2 | 9 | 22 | −13 |
Michael White (WAL) | 7 | 1 | 14 | 26 | −12 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Joe Delaney (IRL) | 7 | 5 | 25 | 16 | +9 |
Ben Woollaston (ENG) | 7 | 5 | 23 | 19 | +4 |
Barry Pinches (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 19 | 15 | +4 |
David Gilbert (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 20 | 17 | +3 |
Issara Kachaiwong (THA) | 7 | 3 | 19 | 22 | −3 |
David Gray (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 19 | 23 | −4 |
Leo Fernandez (IRL) | 7 | 2 | 17 | 23 | −6 |
Lee Spick (ENG) | 7 | 2 | 17 | 24 | −7 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Stuart Pettman (ENG) | 7 | 7 | 28 | 12 | +16 |
Liu Song (CHN) | 7 | 5 | 23 | 16 | +7 |
Andy Hicks (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 22 | 17 | +5 |
Xiao Guodong (CHN) | 7 | 3 | 19 | 20 | −1 |
Jamie Burnett (SCO) | 7 | 3 | 20 | 23 | −3 |
Mike Dunn (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 17 | 23 | −6 |
Kurt Maflin (NOR) | 7 | 2 | 20 | 21 | −1 |
Ashley Wright (ENG) | 7 | 1 | 9 | 26 | −17 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Fergal O'Brien (IRL) | 7 | 6 | 26 | 12 | +14 |
Michael Judge (IRL) | 7 | 6 | 25 | 13 | +12 |
Joe Jogia (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 21 | 18 | +3 |
David Roe (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 21 | 18 | +3 |
Matthew Selt (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 0 |
Rodney Goggins (IRL) | 7 | 2 | 17 | 22 | −5 |
Drew Henry (SCO) | 7 | 2 | 13 | 25 | −12 |
Kevin Van Hove (BEL) | 7 | 1 | 11 | 26 | −15 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Ricky Walden (ENG) | 7 | 6 | 25 | 16 | +9 |
Marcus Campbell (SCO) | 7 | 5 | 23 | 12 | +11 |
Robin Hull (FIN) | 7 | 4 | 23 | 19 | +4 |
Munraj Pal (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 23 | 20 | +3 |
Martin Gould (ENG) | 7 | 4 | 21 | 19 | +2 |
David Morris (IRL) | 7 | 3 | 24 | 21 | +3 |
Steve Mifsud (AUS) | 7 | 1 | 13 | 27 | −14 |
John Parrott (ENG) | 7 | 1 | 8 | 26 | −18 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Paul Davies (WAL) | 7 | 5 | 25 | 11 | +14 |
Tian Pengfei (CHN) | 7 | 5 | 24 | 20 | +4 |
Fraser Patrick (SCO) | 7 | 4 | 21 | 20 | +1 |
Ian Preece (WAL) | 7 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 0 |
Lee Walker (WAL) | 7 | 3 | 17 | 19 | −2 |
Alan McManus (SCO) | 7 | 3 | 19 | 23 | −4 |
Adrian Gunnell (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 14 | 22 | −8 |
Liu Chuang (CHN) | 7 | 2 | 18 | 23 | −5 |
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Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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Andrew Norman (ENG) | 7 | 6 | 25 | 12 | +13 |
Rory McLeod (ENG) | 7 | 5 | 23 | 14 | +9 |
Liang Wenbo (CHN) | 7 | 5 | 22 | 19 | +3 |
Patrick Wallace (NIR) | 7 | 4 | 22 | 19 | +3 |
Alfred Burden (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 15 | 17 | −2 |
Judd Trump (ENG) | 7 | 3 | 19 | 22 | −3 |
Rod Lawler (ENG) | 7 | 1 | 19 | 25 | −6 |
Jamie O'Neill (ENG) | 7 | 1 | 17 | 27 | −10 |
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