2013 World Snooker Championship

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2013 Betfair World Snooker Championship
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Tournament information
Dates20 April – 6 May 2013 (2013-04-20 – 2013-05-06)
Venue Crucible Theatre
City Sheffield
CountryEngland
Organisation World Snooker
Format Ranking event
Total prize fund £1,111,000
Winner's share£250,000
Highest breakFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Neil Robertson  (AUS) (143)
Final
ChampionFlag of England.svg  Ronnie O'Sullivan  (ENG)
Runner-upFlag of England.svg  Barry Hawkins  (ENG)
Score18–12
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The 2013 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2013 Betfair World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May 2013 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 37th consecutive year the Crucible had hosted the World Snooker Championship; the 2013 event was the last ranking tournament of the 2012–13 snooker season. Sports betting company Betfair sponsored the event for the first time.

Contents

Despite not having played a competitive match all season, defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan did not lose one session in the tournament and defeated Barry Hawkins 18–12 in the final to become a five-time World Champion, joining Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry as the only players to have successfully defended their titles at the Crucible. O'Sullivan broke Hendry's record of 127 career centuries at the Crucible, finishing the tournament with 131, and also became the first player to make six century breaks in a World Championship final. Of the 55 century breaks made during the event, Neil Robertson made the highest break , a 143, in his first-round loss to Robert Milkins.

Overview

The World Snooker Championship is an annual cue sport tournament and the official professional world championship of the game of snooker. [1] Since 1977, the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield has hosted the event. [2] During the tournament, 32 professional players compete in one-on-one snooker matches in a single elimination format, each of which is played over several frames . The event's 32-player lineup is selected using the snooker world rankings and a pre-tournament qualification round. [3] [4] English player Ronnie O'Sullivan won the previous year's championship by defeating fellow countryman Ali Carter in the final 18–11. [5] The winner of the 2013 event earned prize money of £250,000, from a pool of £1,111,000. [6] Sports betting company Betfair sponsored the event for the first time in 2013. [7]

Format

The main draw of the 2013 tournament was played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. Sheffield Crucible theatre.png
The main draw of the 2013 tournament was played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

The 2013 World Snooker Championship was held between 20 April and 6 May 2013 in Sheffield, England. [4] It was the last of 11 rankings events in the 2012-13 snooker season on the World Snooker Tour. [8] [9] The tournament featured a 32-player main draw that took place at the Crucible Theatre and a 92-player qualifying draw that was played on 6 and 11 April 2015 at the English Institute of Sport. [10] This was the 45th successive world championship to be contested using the knockout format after reverting from a challenge match system in the 1960s. [4]

Ordinarily the top-16 players in the world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players. [11] Despite not playing a competitive event since the last world championship, Ronnie O'Sullivan was seeded first overall as the defending champion; the remaining 15 seeds were allocated using the latest world rankings, which were released after the China Open, the penultimate event of the season. [11] The number of frames needed to win a match increased with each round of the main draw, starting with best-of-19-frames matches in the first round and ending with the final, which was played as a best-of-35-frames match. [11] [4]

Prize fund

The event had a prize fund of £1,111,000, of which the winner received £250,000. A breakdown of prize money for 2013 is shown below: [6]

  • Winner: £250,000
  • Runner-up: £125,000
  • Semi-final: £52,000
  • Quarter-final: £24,050
  • Last 16: £16,000
  • Last 32: £12,000
  • Last 48: £8,200
  • Last 64: £4,600
  • Non-televised highest break: £1,000
  • Televised highest break: £10,000
  • Total: £1,111,000

Tournament summary

First round

Interior of the Crucible Theatre before the third session of the first day World Snooker Championship 2013 day 1 session 3.jpg
Interior of the Crucible Theatre before the third session of the first day

The first round was played between 20 and 25 April 2013; matches were held as the best-of-19 frames over two sessions . Players Jack Lisowski, Michael White, Ben Woollaston, Dechawat Poomjaeng, Matthew Selt and Sam Baird made their debuts at the main stages of the event. [12] [13] [14] Poomjaeng was only the third player from Thailand, after James Wattana and Tai Pichit, to reach the event. [15] Two of the debuting players progressed to the second round; Michael White advanced by defeating two-time champion Mark Williams 10–6, [16] while Dechawat Poomjaeng advanced by beating Stephen Maguire 10–9. [17]

Four Chinese players—a record for the event—had played in the 2012 competition but Ding Junhui was the only Chinese player to appear in 2013. [18] Ding defeated Alan McManus 10–5 to reach the second round. [18] Peter Ebdon was playing in his 22nd consecutive World Championship, equalling the number of consecutive appearances made by Steve Davis and putting him third for consecutive appearances behind Stephen Hendry on 27 and O'Sullivan on 26. [19] In a repeat of the final of the 2006 event, Ebdon faced Graeme Dott; [20] the match overran and was played over three sessions. Dott was ahead 8–6 after the second session and eventually won 10–6. [20] [21] The match lasted for more than seven hours; Ebdon had a high break of 37. [20] Dott criticised Ebdon for his perceived slow play and called for a rule to limit the time a player could spend over a shot. [22]

The ending of the match between defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and Marcus Campbell was not aired on the BBC, which instead broadcast a repeat episode of the 1970s sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em . The match was also unavailable on the BBC Red Button service, leading to viewers expressing their anger on social networks. The CEO of World Snooker Barry Hearn, apologised to fans on Twitter and wrote a formal letter of complaint to the BBC. [23] O'Sullivan won the match 10–4; [24] he had not played a competitive match since winning the title the year before. [25] O'Sullivan said he wanted to "take some time off" and had refused to sign the player's contract for the following season. [26]

Robert Milkins defeated the 2010 champion Neil Robertson 8–10. [27] Robertson made the highest break of the event—a 143 in frame six—and led 5–2 but Milkins tied the match at 8–8 before winning the next two frames. [27] In other matches, four-time champion John Higgins lost 6–10 to Mark Davis [28] whilst former finalist Matthew Stevens lost 7–10 to qualifier Marco Fu. [29]

Second round

The second round was played between 25 and 30 April as the best of 25 frames over three sessions. Shaun Murphy defeated Graeme Dott 13–11 [30] after leading 6–2 after the first session. [31] Dott's elimination meant there were no Scottish players in the last eight for the first time since 1988. [32] Michael White reached his first ranking event quarter-final by defeating Poomjaeng 13–3 after two of the three scheduled sessions. [33] In the fourth frame, Poomjaeng used the spider to bridge over the blue ball but missed a red ball on three occasions and forfeited the frame. [34]

O'Sullivan became the first defending champion since Murphy in 2006 to reach the quarter-finals when he defeated Ali Carter, his opponent in the 2008 and 2012 World Championship finals, 13–8. [35] Ricky Walden, in his first world championship second-round appearance, defeated Robert Milkins 13–11. [36] Milkins trailed 3–9 but recovered to 10–11 and 11–12 but Walden won the frame he needed for victory. [37] Barry Hawkins also reached his first Crucible quarter-final after defeating world number one Mark Selby 13–10. [38]

Quarter-finals

The quarter-finals were played on 31 April and 1 May as best-of-25 frames matches over three sessions. In his match against Stuart Bingham, O'Sullivan won 11 of the first 12 frames and won the match 13–4 in the first frame of the third session. [39] Judd Trump trailed 3–8 against Shaun Murphy but tied the score at 12–12 to force a deciding frame . The final frame lasted 53 minutes and was won by Trump. [40] [41] Ricky Walden defeated Michael White 13–6 and Hawkins defeated Ding Junhui 13–7, eliminating the two remaining non-English competitors from the tournament. [29] Walden reached the semi-finals of the World Championship on his third attempt, despite not having previously won a match in his earlier appearances in the main stages of the event in 2009 and 2011. [42]

Semi-finals

The semi-finals were played between 2 and 4 May 2013 over four sessions as the best-of-33 frames. This was the third semi-finals round in the modern history of snooker in which all of the players were English. [43] O'Sullivan played Judd Trump in the first semi-final; in the 23rd frame, O'Sullivan received a reprimand from referee Michaela Tabb for allegedly making an obscene gesture with his cue. A World Snooker spokesman later stated eyewitnesses had also observed O'Sullivan making an inappropriate gesture but it was not captured on camera. [44] O'Sullivan defeated Trump 17–11 [29] and became the first defending champion to reach the final since Ken Doherty in 1998. [45] In the other semi-final, Barry Hawkins trailed Ricky Walden 8–12 but won nine of the next eleven frames to win 17–14. [46] [47]

Final

Ronnie O'Sullivan won a fifth championship, defeating Barry Hawkins 18-12. Ronnie O'Sullivan with World Championship Trophy 2013.jpg
Ronnie O'Sullivan won a fifth championship, defeating Barry Hawkins 18–12.

The 2013 final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Barry Hawkins was played on 5 and 6 May as the best-of-35 frames over four sessions and officiated by Jan Verhaas. [48] O'Sullivan led 5–3 after the first session; Hawkins drew level at 7–7 but O'Sullivan won the last three frames of the day to take a 10–7 overnight lead. [49] O'Sullivan's break of 103 in the 15th frame was his 128th century break at the Crucible Theatre, breaking Stephen Hendry's record of 127 Crucible centuries, [50] and he extended the record to 131 century breaks. [51] O'Sullivan won the third session by five frames to three to lead 15–10. [52] O'Sullivan went on to win the final 18–12 to take his fifth world title [53] and become the first defending champion to retain his title since Hendry in 1996 [54] and the first player to score six century breaks in a world championship final. [53]

Eight century breaks were scored in the final, equalling the record set in the 2002 final between Hendry and Peter Ebdon. [55] At the age of 37, O'Sullivan became the oldest World Snooker Champion since 45-year-old Ray Reardon in 1978. [56] This was O'Sullivan's fifth world championship but he did not rule out a similar season away from the tour, saying; "I had my year out and enjoyed my year out. I intend to play in some small events. Come December or January I'll have a better idea of what I'm going to do." [54] [57] As world champion, O'Sullivan was awarded a wild card place at the 2014 Masters, which he also won. [58]

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). [29] [59] [60] The draw for the first round took place on 15 April 2013, one day after the qualifying, and was broadcast live by Talksport at 1:30 pm BST. [61]

First round
Best of 19 frames		Second round
Best of 25 frames		Quarter-finals
Best of 25 frames		Semi-finals
Best of 33 frames		Final
Best of 35 frames
20 April
Flag of England.svg  Ronnie O'Sullivan  (ENG) (1) 10
27, 28 & 29 April
Flag of Scotland.svg  Marcus Campbell  (SCO) 4
Flag of England.svg  Ronnie O'Sullivan  (ENG) (1) 13
22 & 23 April
Flag of England.svg  Ali Carter  (ENG) (16) 8
Flag of England.svg  Ali Carter  (ENG) (16) 10
30 April & 1 May
Flag of England.svg  Ben Woollaston  (ENG) 4
Flag of England.svg  Ronnie O'Sullivan  (ENG) (1) 13
24 & 25 April
Flag of England.svg  Stuart Bingham  (ENG) (9) 4
Flag of England.svg  Stuart Bingham  (ENG) (9) 10
28 & 29 April
Flag of England.svg  Sam Baird  (ENG) 2
Flag of England.svg  Stuart Bingham  (ENG) (9) 13
21 & 22 April
Flag of England.svg  Mark Davis  (ENG) 10
Flag of Scotland.svg  John Higgins  (SCO) (8) 6
2, 3 & 4 May
Flag of England.svg  Mark Davis  (ENG)10
Flag of England.svg  Ronnie O'Sullivan  (ENG) (1) 17
20 & 21 April
Flag of England.svg  Judd Trump  (ENG) (4) 11
Flag of England.svg  Shaun Murphy  (ENG) (5) 10
25 & 26 April
Flag of England.svg  Martin Gould  (ENG) 5
Flag of England.svg  Shaun Murphy  (ENG) (5) 13
21 & 22 April
Flag of Scotland.svg  Graeme Dott  (SCO) (12) 11
Flag of Scotland.svg  Graeme Dott  (SCO) (12) 10
30 April & 1 May
Flag of England.svg  Peter Ebdon  (ENG) 6
Flag of England.svg  Shaun Murphy  (ENG) (5) 12
23 & 24 April
Flag of England.svg  Judd Trump  (ENG) (4) 13
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Matthew Stevens  (WAL) (13) 7
26 & 27 April
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Marco Fu  (HKG)10
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Marco Fu  (HKG) 7
23 & 24 April
Flag of England.svg  Judd Trump  (ENG) (4) 13
Flag of England.svg  Judd Trump  (ENG) (4) 10
5 & 6 May
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Dominic Dale  (WAL) 5
Flag of England.svg  Ronnie O'Sullivan  (ENG) (1) 18
24 & 25 April
Flag of England.svg  Barry Hawkins  (ENG) (15) 12
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Neil Robertson  (AUS) (3) 8
28 & 29 April
Flag of England.svg  Robert Milkins  (ENG)10
Flag of England.svg  Robert Milkins  (ENG) 11
20 & 21 April
Flag of England.svg  Ricky Walden  (ENG) (14) 13
Flag of England.svg  Ricky Walden  (ENG) (14)10
30 April & 1 May
Flag of England.svg  Michael Holt  (ENG) 1
Flag of England.svg  Ricky Walden  (ENG) (14) 13
20 & 21 April
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Michael White  (WAL) 6
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Mark Williams  (WAL) (11) 6
25 & 26 April
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Michael White  (WAL)10
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Michael White  (WAL)13
22 & 23 April
Flag of Thailand.svg  Dechawat Poomjaeng  (THA) 3
Flag of Scotland.svg  Stephen Maguire  (SCO) (6) 9
2, 3 & 4 May
Flag of Thailand.svg  Dechawat Poomjaeng  (THA)10
Flag of England.svg  Ricky Walden  (ENG) (14) 14
22 April
Flag of England.svg  Barry Hawkins  (ENG) (15) 17
Ulster Banner.svg  Mark Allen  (NIR) (7) 8
27, 28 & 29 April
Flag of England.svg  Mark King  (ENG)10
Flag of England.svg  Mark King  (ENG) 9
23 & 24 April
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Ding Junhui  (CHN) (10) 13
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Ding Junhui  (CHN) (10) 10
30 April & 1 May
Flag of Scotland.svg  Alan McManus  (SCO) 5
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Ding Junhui  (CHN) (10) 7
20 & 21 April
Flag of England.svg  Barry Hawkins  (ENG) (15) 13
Flag of England.svg  Barry Hawkins  (ENG) (15) 10
26 & 27 April
Flag of England.svg  Jack Lisowski  (ENG) 3
Flag of England.svg  Barry Hawkins  (ENG) (15) 13
23 & 24 April
Flag of England.svg  Mark Selby  (ENG) (2) 10
Flag of England.svg  Mark Selby  (ENG) (2)10
Flag of England.svg  Matthew Selt  (ENG) 4
Final: (Best of 35 frames) Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 5 & 6 May. Referee: Jan Verhaas. [48]
Ronnie O'Sullivan (1)
Flag of England.svg  England 		18–12 Barry Hawkins (15)
Flag of England.svg  England
Session 1: 5–3
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O'Sullivan8792001376113104N/AN/A
Hawkins4109881101700N/AN/A
Session 2: 5–4
Frame12345678910
O'Sullivan0839750410311769N/A
Hawkins7337610911330562N/A
Session 3: 5–3
Frame12345678910
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Hawkins7105690049877N/AN/A
Session 4: 3–2
Frame12345678910
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Hawkins131762581N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
133Highest break133
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Dagger-14-plain.png = Winner of frame

Qualifying

Preliminary qualifying

Four preliminary qualifying rounds for the tournament were for invited amateur players and members not on the Main Tour; they took place on 4 and 5 April 2013 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield. Names in bold denote match winners. [62] [63] [64]

Round 1

Flag of England.svg Ali Bassiri0–5 Flag of England.svg Surinder Gill
Flag of England.svg Del Smith4–5 Flag of England.svg Ian Barry Stark
Flag of England.svg Paul Wykes 5–2 Flag of Finland.svg Robin Hull
Flag of England.svg Stephen Ormerod5–0 Flag of Ireland.svg Bill Kelly

Round 2

Flag of England.svg Andrew Norman 5–1 Flag of England.svg Philip Minchin
Flag of England.svg Les Dodd 5–4 Flag of England.svg Surinder Gill
Flag of Ireland.svg David Morris 1–5 Ulster Banner.svg Joe Swail
Flag of England.svg Stephen Rowlings 5–4 Flag of England.svg Ian Barry Stark
Flag of England.svg Justin Astley 5–2 Flag of England.svg Tony Knowles
Flag of India.svg Lucky Vatnani 3–5 Flag of England.svg Paul Wykes
Flag of India.svg David Singh2–5 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Tony Chappel
Ulster Banner.svg Patrick Wallace 5–0 Flag of England.svg Stephen Ormerod

Round 3

Flag of England.svg Andrew Norman 1–5 Flag of England.svg Les Dodd
Ulster Banner.svg Joe Swail 5–2 Flag of England.svg Stephen Rowlings
Flag of England.svg Justin Astley 5–2 Flag of England.svg Paul Wykes
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Tony Chappel 1–5 Ulster Banner.svg Patrick Wallace

Round 4

Flag of England.svg Les Dodd 1–5 Ulster Banner.svg Joe Swail
Flag of England.svg Justin Astley 5–2 Ulster Banner.svg Patrick Wallace

Main qualifying

The first three qualifying rounds for the tournament took place between 6 and 11 April 2013 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield,. The final round of qualifying took place between 13 and 14 April 2013 at the same venue. [10] [64] [65]

Round 1
Best of 19 frames		Round 2
Best of 19 frames		Round 3
Best of 19 frames		Round 4
Best of 19 frames
Flag of Thailand.svg Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 10 Ulster Banner.svg Gerard Greene 4 Flag of England.svg Ben Woollaston 10 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Ryan Day 9
Flag of Scotland.svg Scott Donaldson 6 Flag of Thailand.svg Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 10 Flag of Thailand.svg Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 3 Flag of England.svg Ben Woollaston 10
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Anda 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Cao Yupeng 7 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Michael White 10 Flag of England.svg Andrew Higginson 4
Flag of Thailand.svg Passakorn Suwannawat 6 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Anda 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Anda 5 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Michael White 10
Flag of Thailand.svg Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon 10 Flag of England.svg Mike Dunn 6 Flag of England.svg Matthew Selt 10 Flag of Ireland.svg Ken Doherty 9
Flag of England.svg Jamie O'Neill 8 Flag of Thailand.svg Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon 10 Flag of Thailand.svg Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon 8 Flag of England.svg Matthew Selt 10
Flag of England.svg Michael Wasley 10 Flag of Thailand.svg James Wattana 10 Flag of England.svg Jack Lisowski 10 Flag of Ireland.svg Fergal O'Brien 4
Flag of England.svg Sean O'Sullivan 6 Flag of England.svg Michael Wasley 7 Flag of Thailand.svg James Wattana 4 Flag of England.svg Jack Lisowski 10
Flag of Thailand.svg Dechawat Poomjaeng 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liu Chuang 9 Flag of England.svg Anthony Hamilton 4 Flag of England.svg Jamie Cope 3
Flag of Scotland.svg Michael Leslie 4 Flag of Thailand.svg Dechawat Poomjaeng 10 Flag of Thailand.svg Dechawat Poomjaeng 10 Flag of Thailand.svg Dechawat Poomjaeng 10
Flag of India.svg Pankaj Advani 8 Flag of England.svg Adam Duffy 6 Flag of England.svg Mark Joyce 10 Flag of England.svg Michael Holt 10
Ulster Banner.svg Joe Swail 10 Ulster Banner.svg Joe Swail 10 Ulster Banner.svg Joe Swail 7 Flag of England.svg Mark Joyce 7
Flag of Malta.svg Tony Drago 10 Flag of England.svg Andy Hicks 7 Flag of England.svg Dave Gilbert 10 Flag of Hong Kong.svg Marco Fu 10
Flag of Egypt.svg Mohamed Khairy 3 Flag of Malta.svg Tony Drago 10 Flag of Malta.svg Tony Drago 8 Flag of England.svg Dave Gilbert 6
Flag of India.svg Aditya Mehta 10 Flag of Scotland.svg Alan McManus 10 Flag of England.svg Nigel Bond 8 Flag of England.svg Tom Ford 5
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Daniel Wells 7 Flag of India.svg Aditya Mehta 9 Flag of Scotland.svg Alan McManus 10 Flag of Scotland.svg Alan McManus 10
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Luca Brecel 6 Flag of England.svg Rod Lawler 10 Flag of Scotland.svg Anthony McGill 9 Flag of England.svg Martin Gould 10
Flag of Scotland.svg Fraser Patrick 10 Flag of Scotland.svg Fraser Patrick 5 Flag of England.svg Rod Lawler 10 Flag of England.svg Rod Lawler 7
Flag of England.svg Robbie Williams 7 Flag of England.svg Jimmy Robertson 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liang Wenbo 10 Flag of England.svg Mark Davis 10
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Yan 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Yan 2 Flag of England.svg Jimmy Robertson 3 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liang Wenbo 6
Flag of England.svg Ian Burns 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yu Delu 10 Flag of Scotland.svg Jamie Burnett 6 Flag of England.svg Mark King 10
Flag of England.svg Joel Walker 8 Flag of England.svg Ian Burns 2 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yu Delu 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yu Delu 9
Flag of England.svg Liam Highfield 10 Flag of England.svg Barry Pinches 9 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Jamie Jones 9 Flag of Scotland.svg Marcus Campbell 10
Flag of England.svg Simon Bedford 6 Flag of England.svg Liam Highfield 10 Flag of England.svg Liam Highfield 10 Flag of England.svg Liam Highfield 4
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Chen Zhe 7 Flag of England.svg Peter Lines 9 Flag of England.svg Rory McLeod 9 Flag of England.svg Joe Perry 3
Flag of England.svg Sam Baird 10 Flag of England.svg Sam Baird 10 Flag of England.svg Sam Baird 10 Flag of England.svg Sam Baird 10
Flag of England.svg Paul Davison 10 Flag of England.svg Alfie Burden 10 Flag of England.svg Dave Harold 9 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Dominic Dale 10
Flag of England.svg Justin Astley 8 Flag of England.svg Paul Davison 7 Flag of England.svg Alfie Burden 10 Flag of England.svg Alfie Burden 5
Flag of England.svg Craig Steadman 10 Flag of Norway.svg Kurt Maflin 10 Flag of England.svg Steve Davis 7 Flag of England.svg Peter Ebdon 10
Flag of England.svg David Grace 9 Flag of England.svg Craig Steadman 6 Flag of Norway.svg Kurt Maflin 10 Flag of Norway.svg Kurt Maflin 8
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tian Pengfei 10 Flag of England.svg Jimmy White 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xiao Guodong 4 Flag of England.svg Robert Milkins 10
Flag of England.svg Martin O'Donnell 5 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tian Pengfei 7 Flag of England.svg Jimmy White 10 Flag of England.svg Jimmy White 5

Century breaks

Main stage centuries

A total of 55 century breaks were made during the main stage of the World Championship. [66] [67] [68] Neil Robertson, the player who compiled the highest break of the tournament, received a cue stick made of gold. [69]

Qualifying stage centuries

A total of 63 century breaks were made during the qualifying stage of the World Championship: [70] [71]

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The 2011 World Snooker Championship 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.

The 2012 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 21 April to 7 May 2012 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 36th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible and the last ranking of the 2011–12 snooker season. The event was broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC, and in Europe by Eurosport.

2013 Masters (snooker) Professional non-ranking snooker tournament, Jan 2013

The 2013 Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held between 13 and 20 January 2013 at the Alexandra Palace in London, England. This was the first time that Betfair sponsored the event. The event was broadcast live on Eurosport and BBC.

The 2014 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 19 April to 5 May 2014 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 38th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible. The tournament was also the last ranking event of the 2013–14 snooker season. The event was sponsored by Dafabet for the first time. A qualifying tournament was held from 8 to 16 April 2014 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield for 16 players, who met 16 seeded participants at the main championships.

The 2014 Coral UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 November and 7 December 2014 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the fifth ranking event of the 2014/2015 season.

The 2015 Championship League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 5 January to 12 February 2015 at the Crondon Park Golf Club in Stock, England.

The 2018 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament held from 21 April to 7 May 2018 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. Hosted by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, it was the 20th and final ranking event of the 2017-18 snooker season and the 42nd consecutive time the World Snooker Championship had been held at the venue. The tournament was broadcast by BBC Sport and Eurosport in Europe, and sponsored by betting company Betfred.

The 2018 Fuhua Group China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, taking place from 2–8 April 2018 in Beijing, China. It was the nineteenth and penultimate ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.

The 2019 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May 2019 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 43rd consecutive year the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible, and the 20th and final ranking event of the 2018–19 snooker season. Qualifying for the tournament took place from 10 to 17 April 2019 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Sports betting company Betfred sponsored the event.

Professional snooker career of Ronnie OSullivan

Ronnie O'Sullivan started his professional snooker career in 1992 and is widely considered one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. His play and accomplishments are described by some peers and pundits as being the greatest in the modern era of snooker. O'Sullivan is a seven-time world champion, and holds many records, including the fastest maximum break in professional competition; the highest number of century breaks; the highest number of maximum breaks, and the most Triple Crown event titles (21).

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