The SangSom 6-Red World Championship 2019 was an invitation tournament of the Snooker Main Tour of the 2019/20 season in the special Six-Red-Snooker format , which was held in Thailand from September 2nd to 7th . For the fourth time, the Bangkok Convention Center Hall (BCC Hall) in Central Plaza Ladprao in the capital Bangkok was the venue. For the eleventh time since 2008 the 6-Red World Championship was on the calendar of the professional tour.
Defending champion was the Englishman Kyren Wilson . He survived the group stage, but was eliminated in the round of 16. The tournament was won for the second time since 2014 by Stephen Maguire from Scotland . In the final he defeated his compatriot John Higgins 8: 6.
As in the previous year, there were 32 participants. 10 amateurs from different countries came to the 22 professionals of the Main Tour . For the first time, the two top players in the women's world rankings, Reanne Evans and Ng On Yee , who had also participated in other professional tournaments, were invited.
For the preliminary round, the field was divided into eight groups, each consisting of four players. They played against each other in round robin mode, the two best in each group reached the round of 16.
While players prevailed in 6 of the 8 groups, from whom this was to be expected, there were surprises in 2 groups. In group A, Passakorn Suwannawat , who last played on the Main Tour in 2014, clearly defeated two professionals from the top ranks of the world rankings and won the group. He was the only Thai to survive the group stage. The 2018 U21 world champion , Wu Yize, came second in Group B. It was the only group decided based on the frame ratio and the young Chinese benefited from his clear 5-0 win over Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn . Apart from Passakorn and Wu, all amateurs were eliminated in the group stage.
Legend
Sp.
Number of games played
SG
Number of games won
SV
Number of games lost
Fr.
Number of completed frames
FG
Number of frames won
FV
Number of frames lost
FD
Frame difference
Points
Total points
The two best in the group made it to the round of 16.
The 8 group winners were set, the 8 runners-up were drawn before the start of the main round. 7 group winners prevailed in the round of 16, only ex-professional Passakorn Suwannawat , who had surprisingly won Group A, narrowly lost to Ali Carter . The second amateur in the knockout round, Wu Yize, also missed the last 8, as did defending champion Kyren Wilson and long-time world number one Mark Selby . Last year's second finalist, Ding Junhui, also failed in the quarter-finals . The two top-seeded players then met in the semi-finals: John Higgins , fifth in the world rankings , prevailed 7: 5 against number 3 Mark Williams . With the same result, Stephen Maguire won against World Cup semi-finalist Gary Wilson , making for the first time an all-Scottish 6 Reds final.
In the final, the two players who had won the Team World Cup together a few weeks earlier met each other . While John Higgins had traveled to Bangkok as vice world champion , Stephen Maguire last stood in an individual final in 2017 and his last two tournament victories were already 5 years ago, one of which was the 6 Reds title in 2014 . The two Scots had never met before at the 6 Reds World Championship.
Maguire had the better start to the finals, winning the first three frames. Then the game turned and Higgins not only equalized, but took a 4-3 lead with a series of 4 frames won. But his compatriot was able to counter and won again 3 frames in a row to the intermediate result of 6: 4. Higgins was able to delay the decision: After a mistake by Maguire, he stole the 11th frame and with the highest final break of 58 points in frame 12 he equalized again. After that, however, a break of 39 points was enough for Maguire to make it 7: 6 and he was only missing one frame to win. He also got the hard-fought 14th frame and thus the second 6-Reds world title and his 10th Main Tour title overall.
Final: Best of 15 Frames BCC Hall, Bangkok, Thailand, September 7, 2019
The only maximum break (with 6-Reds-Snooker are possible without additional foul points with a take of 75 points) was achieved by the Thai Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in his last group game against Graeme Dott . A total of 25 players managed at least one break of 50 or more points, 91 times the 50 mark was reached during the tournament.
^ SangSom 6 Red World Championship. (PDF; 59 kB) Results. In: thailandsnooker.org. Billiard Sports Association of Thailand, September 7, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019 .
Stephen Maguire
Kyren Wilson
Mohammed Shehab
Wu Yize
Luca Brecel
Bernard Tey Choon Kiat
Kurt Dunham
Ryan Day
Mohamed Khairy
Ken Doherty
Alexis Callewaert
Ng On Yee
