Nations Cup 2001

Nations Cup 2001
Tournament type:	Team competition
Venue:	Reading , England
Opening:	January 13, 2001
Endgame:	January 21, 2001
Winner:	Scotland
Finalist:	Ireland
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The Nations Cup 2001 was a snooker tournament that was held from January 13-21, 2001 in Reading . It was an invitation tournament as part of the Main Tour of the 2000/01 snooker season .

It was a national tournament in which each participating country was represented by three players. The frames were played with a changing line-up and sometimes as a double.

The Nations Cup was first held under this name in 1999; However, similar tournaments called the World Cup or World Team Cup go back to 1979. Until the new World Cup in 2011 , the tournament was no longer played.

Attendees

group	nation	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
A.	England	Anthony Hamilton	Stephen Lee	John Parrott
A.	Ireland	Ken Doherty	Fergal O'Brien	Michael Judge
A.	Northern Ireland	Joe Swail	Gerard Greene	Terry Murphy
A.	People's Republic of China	Marco Fu	Hasimu Tuerxun	Because Hai Lin
B.	Wales	Mark Williams	Matthew Stevens	Dominic Dale
B.	Scotland	John Higgins	Stephen Hendry	Alan McManus
B.	Malta	Tony Drago	Alex Borg	Joe Grech
B.	Thailand	James Wattana	Phaithoon Phonbun	Noppadon Noppachorn

Group stage

Group A

space team Games won games gained frames lost frames difference 1  Northern Ireland 3 2 11 9 +2 2  Ireland 3 2 11 10 +1 3  England 3 1 9 9 0 4th  People's Republic of China 3 1 8th 11 −3

England 4-1 China Northern Ireland 4 - 3 Ireland Ireland 4 - 3 England China 4 - 3 Northern Ireland Ireland 4 - 3 China Northern Ireland 4-2 England

Group B

space team Games won games gained frames lost frames difference 1  Wales 3 3 12 3 +9 2  Scotland 3 2 10 6th +4 3  Thailand 3 1 5 9 −4 4th  Malta 3 0 3 12 −9

Scotland 4-2 Malta Wales 4-1 Thailand Thailand 4 - 1 Malta Wales 4-2 Scotland Scotland 4 - 0 Thailand Wales 4-0 Malta

Final round

	Semifinals					final
		Northern Ireland	0
		Scotland	5
							Scotland	6th
							Ireland	2
		Ireland	5
		Wales	1

Web links

• Tournament results on sportinglife.com ( Memento from June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )