Players Tour Championship 2011/12 - Grand Finals

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Players Tour Championship 2011/12 - Grand Finals

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Tournament type: World ranking tournament
Venue: Bailey Allen Hall, NUI , Galway
Opening: March 14, 2012
Endgame: March 18, 2012

Winner: EnglandEngland Stephen Lee
Highest Break: 131 ( Walden , Robertson ) EnglandEngland
AustraliaAustralia
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The Grand Finals of the Players Tour Championship 2011/12 were a snooker tournament that was held between March 14th and 18th, 2012 on the campus of the National University of Ireland (NUI) in the western Irish port city of Galway .

Prize money and world ranking points

Prize money World ranking points
winner £ 70,000 3,000
finalist £ 35,000 2,400
Semi-finalist £ 20,000 1,920
Quarter finalist £ 10,000 1,500
Round of 16 £ 5,000 1,140
Last 24 £ 2,750 840
Highest break £ 3,000
All in all £ 250,000

Finals

The 24 players who had won the most prize money in the previous twelve tournaments in the PTC series were eligible to participate. Participation in at least half of the tournaments, three in the UK and three in Europe, was also required. The eight players with the most prize money initially received a bye and only started in the round of 16. The game was played in the knockout mode Best of 7 .

Defending champion Shaun Murphy missed the qualification as 37th in the prize money ranking.

In the first round, the No. 51 in the world rankings, Xiao Guodong from China, and the Welshman Jamie Jones caused surprises. The Chinese, who played with a broken left hand, beat Dominic Dale 4-2. Jamie Jones was 3-1 behind in the first round match against reigning world champion John Higgins when he started to catch up, won the following three frames and made it to the round of 16. In his game against Andrew Higginson it looked at the score of 2: 3 and 1:59 points after a match point for the Englishman; but this missed and Jones secured the win of the frame with the black. In the decisive frame, the Welshman was unlucky when he lost the black in the security game. Higginson could now decide the frame and the match at an open table.

Xiao prevailed 4-2 in a terrific game against the No. 1 on the seeding list, Judd Trump , and thus made it into a quarter-finals on the Main Tour for the fourth time in his career. World number one Mark Selby beat the Chinese 4-1 after a 1-0 lead from Ding Junhui .

The second seeded Ronnie O'Sullivan had to cancel his first round game due to illness and gave Ricky Walden the ticket for the quarter-finals .

In an interview before his quarter-final against Stephen Lee , Mark Selby was asked how he would assess his opponent. Selby said that Lee has become very strong again in the current season after weaker years and should not be underestimated. His assessment should prove to be true. Lee knocked Selby 4-0 off the table and moved into the semi-finals as the second player after Stephen Maguire . In a quarter-final marked by mistakes, Andrew Higginson beat Xiao Guodong 4-1 and advanced to the semi-finals as Stephen Lee's opponent. Neil Robertson completed the second semifinals with his 4-1 win over Joe Perry .

In the first semi-final game of the last day of the tournament, Andrew Higginson was unable to prevail despite a Century Break of 104 against Stephen Lee (2: 4), who continued to play strongly, who himself contributed a Century of 102 and was the first finalist. In the second semi-final game, the winner of the previous PTC tournament from Fürstenfeldbruck and finalist of the German Masters , Stephen Maguire, suffered a heavy defeat (0: 4) against the winner of PTC events 6 & 8 , Neil Robertson. Robertson scored his second Century Break in this tournament with 110 points. Stephen Lee also demonstrated his strong form in the final. He dominated Neil Robertson in a one-sided final at will and won the final 4-0.

  First round Round of 16 Quarter finals Semifinals final
                                             
18th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiao Guodong 4th   1  EnglandEngland Judd Trump 2            
20th  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale 2   18th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiao Guodong 4th  
18th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiao Guodong 1
  7th  EnglandEngland Andrew Higginson 4th  
13  ScotlandScotland John Higgins 3 7th  EnglandEngland Andrew Higginson 4th
23  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Jones 4th   23  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Jones 3  
7th  EnglandEngland Andrew Higginson 2
  14th  EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 4th  
9  EnglandEngland Ben Woollaston 2   5  EnglandEngland Mark Selby 4th    
22nd  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 4th   22nd  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 1  
5  EnglandEngland Mark Selby 0
  14th  EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 4th  
10  EnglandEngland Martin Gould 1 4th  EnglandEngland Michael Holt 1
14th  EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 4th   14th  EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 4th  
14th  EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 4th
  3  AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 0
21st  EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins 3 3  AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 4th
24  EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 4th   24  EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 1  
3  AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 4th
  11  EnglandEngland Joe Perry 1  
19th  IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien 0 6th  ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 2
11  EnglandEngland Joe Perry 4th   11  EnglandEngland Joe Perry 4th  
3  AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 4th
  8th  ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 0  
16  EnglandEngland Mark Davis 4th   8th  ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 4th    
12  EnglandEngland Tom Ford 1   16  EnglandEngland Mark Davis 2  
8th  ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 4th
  15th  EnglandEngland Ricky Walden 3  
15th  EnglandEngland Ricky Walden 4th 2  EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan -
17th  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens 0   15th  EnglandEngland Ricky Walden kl.  

final

Final: Best of 7 Frames
Referee: Paul Collier
Bailey Allen Hall, Galway , Ireland , March 18, 2012
EnglandEngland Stephen Lee (14) 4 : 0 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson (3)
65 : 48, 62 : 25 (52), 63 : 25, 73 : 66 (Lee 66)
66 Highest break 35
0 Century Breaks 0
2 50+ breaks 0

qualification

The qualification took place via the prize money list of the previous 12 PTC tournaments.

Century Breaks

EnglandEngland Ricky Walden 131, 130, 104
AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 131, 110
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 123, 105
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 123
EnglandEngland Andrew Higginson 120, 104
EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 114, 102
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiao Guodong 100
EnglandEngland Joe Perry 100

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PTC11 & 12 Entry Pack (PDF; 251 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . Archived from the original on June 4, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
  2. ^ O'Sullivan not in Galway . Eurosport . Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Century Breaks . In: worldsnookerdata.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  4. ↑ 2012 PTC Grand Finals Draw . In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . Archived from the original on June 4, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  5. ↑ Results . In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . Archived from the original on June 4, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b Betfair Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2012) . WWW snooker. Retrieved January 31, 2012.

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