Grand Prix 2008
Grand Prix 2008
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center, Glasgow , Scotland |
| Opening: | October 11, 2008 |
| Endgame: | October 19, 2008
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| Winner: |
 John Higgins
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| Finalist: |
 Ryan Day
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| Highest Break: | 139 ( Marco Fu )
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The Grand Prix 2008 , after the sponsor also the Royal London Watches Grand Prix , was a snooker tournament of the Snooker Main Tour , which took place from October 11th to 19th, 2008 in the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center in Glasgow . After two years in Aberdeen , the tournament moved again, but stayed in Scotland. After two years with a group phase, the tournament mode was changed back to a purely elimination tournament.
Defending champion Marco Fu failed in the round of 16 against world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan . The winner was John Higgins who, with his fourth title win, caught up with the sole record winner Stephen Hendry . The Scot defeated Ryan Day 9-7.
Prize money / world ranking points
The total prize money was slightly higher than in 2007. After the tournament changed the mode, the prize money structure also changed. The top 4 continued to receive the same prize money, it rose a little up to 16th place and it was redistributed for the other places. The number of world ranking points remained the same for all top 16 players, the other places were reassessed.
| Prize money | Weltrang- a list points |
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| winner | £ 75,000 | 6,250 |
| finalist | £ 35,000 | 5,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 20,000 | 4,000 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 12,000 | 3.125 |
| Round of 16 | £ 9,500 | 2,375 |
| Last 32 | £ 7,100 | 1,750 |
| Last 48 | £ 4,650 | 1,438 |
| Last 64 | £ 2,200 | 1,125 |
| Last 80 | - | 813 |
| Last 96 | - | 250 |
| Highest Break (Final Round) | £ 4,000 | |
| Highest Break (Qualification) | £ 500 | |
| All in all | £ 494,600 |
Final round
In the previous year, the Grand Prix was still a top 16 tournament with a previous group phase, this year, as in all normal ranking tournaments, a four-stage qualification and a final tournament with 32 participants were played. The final round with the top 16 in the world rankings and the 16 qualifiers began on October 11th in Glasgow. After each round, the matches for the next round were drawn anew.
kl. = without a fight
final
John Higgins entered the final with 18 world rankings, including three Grand Prix wins. His opponent Ryan Day was in a final for the third time and had lost the two times before. The experienced Scot also took the lead right away and extended the lead to 5: 2 by the end of the session. In Session 2 he even increased to 7: 2, then Day started a race to catch up and came within one frame to 7: 6. But Higgins did not allow the equalizer and finally finished to 9: 7. Before him, only fellow countryman Stephen Hendry had won the tournament four times. For Ryan Day the success was one of the most successful times of his career, at the end of the season he moved up to 6th place in the world rankings.
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Final: Best of 17 Frames Referee: Eirian Williams Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center, Glasgow , Scotland , October 19, 2008 |
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John Higgins
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9 : 7 |
Ryan Day
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Afternoon : 77 : 39, 86 : 47 (85), 24: 89 (64), 90 : 0 (57), 73 : 1 (52), 4: 119 (82), 69 : 21 (65); Evening : 79 : 4 (62), 63 : 52 (Day 52), 8: 69 (69), 65: 74 , 0: 89 (89), 46: 61 , 81 : 11 (50), 0: 83 ( 83), 74 : 36 (53) |
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| 85 | Highest break | 89 |
| 7th | Century breaks | 6th |
| 7th | 50+ breaks | 6th |
qualification
The qualifying games took place from September 22nd to 25th, 2009. In round 1, places 65 to 96 of the world rankings played against each other, the winners met in round 2 on places 49 to 64, in round 3 numbers 33 to 48 and in round 4 numbers 17 to 32.
Century breaks
15 players achieved 26 breaks of at least 100 points in the main tournament, the most successful being Ryan Day with 5 Centurys . There were 24 Centurys out of 21 players in the qualification.
Main tournament
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qualification
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- ↑ a b 2008 Grand Prix - Finishes. CueTracker, accessed October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ 2008 Grand Prix. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed October 17, 2017 .
- ^ A b Royal London Watches Grand Prix (2008). snooker.org, accessed October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Rankings - 2008-2009. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed October 17, 2017 .
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