2007 World Snooker Championship
The 2007 888.com World Snooker Championship will take place between the 21 April and 7 May 2007 at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Graeme Dott is the defending champion. Well known players who have failed to qualify include Jimmy White who lost 4-10 to Jamie Burnett (which will only be the second time that White has missed the Crucible stages) Welsh Open finalist Andrew Higginson who lost 9-10 to Ricky Walden. The final qualifing round took place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield between the 12th-15th March 2007 which well known players, Mark King, James Wattana and Alan McManus went out, McManus, the first time in his career.
Qualification
Qualification for the World Snooker Championship 2007, was held between 23 February to 2 March, 2007 and well known players who have failed to qualify to the final qualifying round include Jimmy White who lost 4-10 to Jamie Burnett (which will only be the second time that White has missed the Crucible stages) Welsh Open finalist Andrew Higginson who lost 9-10 to Ricky Walden. The final qualifing round took place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield between the 12th-15th March 2007 which well known players, Mark King, James Wattana and Alan McManus went out, McManus, the first time in his career. 32 players enter the first round, with the winners playing the 16 players in the next round. This continues for 2 more rounds, with the 16 winners progressing to play in the World Snooker Championship.
- Players in bold qualify to play in the main draw of the World Championship.
Results
1st Round (Best of 19 Frames)
Bradley Jones 10-1 Issara Kachaiwong
Roy Stolk 10-7 Phil Seaton
Ben Woollaston 10-3 Del Smith
James Leadbetter 10-8 Les Dodd
- 1Mark Joyce won, as Robin Hull withdrew?
Qualified players
Seeded players
- 1 Graeme Dott
- 2 Stephen Hendry
- 3 Ken Doherty
- 4 Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 5 John Higgins
- 6 Shaun Murphy
- 7 Peter Ebdon
- 8 Mark Williams
- 9 Stephen Maguire
- 10 Stephen Lee
- 11 Steve Davis
- 12 Barry Hawkins
- 13 Neil Robertson
- 14 Matthew Stevens
- 15 Ali Carter
- 16 Anthony Hamilton
Qualifiers
- 17 Ryan Day
- 18 Joe Perry
- 19 Nigel Bond
- 20 Michael Holt
- 21 Marco Fu
- 22 Ian McCulloch
- 23 Ding Junhui
- 24 Mark Selby
- 25 Joe Swail
- 26 Andy Hicks
- 27 John Parrott
- 28 Fergal O'Brien
- 29 Mark Allen
- 30 Joe Delaney
- 31 Dave Gilbert
- 32 Judd Trump
The first round draw was done by presenters Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams of BBC's Breakfast on March 19 and it was announed on Breakfast at 7.30 the next day.
Drawsheet/Results
Shown below are the results for each round, the numbers in brackets beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).
Template:World Snooker Championship Rounds