Shanghai Masters 2011
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Shanghai Masters 2011
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | Shanghai Grand Stage |
| Opening: | September 5, 2011 |
| Endgame: | September 11, 2011
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| Winner: |
 Mark Selby
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| Finalist: |
 Mark Williams
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| Highest Break: | 143 ( Shaun Murphy )
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The Shanghai Masters 2011 (officially: Bank of Communication Shanghai Masters 2011 ) was held as a tournament of the Snooker Main Tour of the 2011/12 season from September 5 to 11, 2011 in Shanghai .
The defending champion was Allister Carter . Mark Selby secured the title with a narrow 10: 9 final victory over Mark Williams .
Prize money / world ranking points
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Round achieved Highest Break (Finals): All in all: Maximum break (final round): |
Prize money £ 2,000 £ £ 350,000 £ 10,000 |
World ranking points
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Wildcard round
The games of the wildcard round took place on September 5, 2011 in Shanghai.
For the second time since 2008, no wildcard player could reach the main tournament.
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Final round
With the qualification for the main tournament, James Wattana and Jack Lisowski had already achieved a great achievement. For both, however, their first round opponents Ronnie O'Sullivan and Jamie Cope were too strong. The most prominent victim of the first round was world number four Ding Junhui . After a 3-0 lead he lost 3-5 against Martin Gould , who increased from game to game as the Chinese slacked off. In a spectacular eighth frame, the Englishman turned the game around and won by first pitting from a snooker and then sinking the black one along the boards. In a match that was protracted despite the clear result, the second Chinese Liang Wenbo was defeated by ex-world champion Neil Robertson 1: 5, which is the first time in the tournament's history that a local player reached the round of 16.
The tournament ended early for the defending champion and world number six Ali Carter , who lost to Mark King 4: 5. He also failed in round 1 of the Australian Open . For the eighth and ninth placed in the world rankings there was also the second opening defeat in the second ranking tournament of the season: Stephen Maguire was fought down 5-4 by Anthony Hamilton , with the Englishman scoring three century breaks. Then Hamilton also managed to win over Ronnie O'Sullivan . World Cup finalist Judd Trump clearly lost 1: 5 to Australia winner Stuart Bingham .
Shaun Murphy struggled with Dominic Dale , but was still able to win 5-4 after trailing 4-1. In round two, the Englishman was initially behind Mark Allen 2: 4 before he started a series of three frame wins with a 143 break, the highest of the tournament, and won 5: 4. So it came to the quarter-finals between Murphy and Mark Selby . Again the game went on for a full 9 frames, but this time it was Selby who made it to the semifinals after falling 2: 4.
There he met Mark King. After his surprising opening victory, he had also stopped Anthony Hamilton's winning streak. King had last been in the semi-finals of a ranking tournament in 2006. But the revenge for his two clear defeats at the Shanghai Masters (2008 with 0: 5, 2010 with 1: 5) failed him thoroughly. Selby won 6-0.
Mark Williams and Neil Robertson met in the second semifinals . Williams moved into the semifinals with just one frame loss. His Australian opponent had won a round before against the reigning world champion and world number two John Higgins with 5: 2. It was a hard-fought game with advantages for Williams up to 3: 1 or 4: 2. Frame five was just as curious as it was indicative, in which Williams was only able to free himself from a snooker after 38 foul points, then Robertson snooker himself and thus got 39 foul points back. Eventually the Australian won and took a 5-4 lead with a series but failed to make the decision. Instead, it was the Welshman who equalized and kept his nerve in the crucial frame.
This resulted in a final of the favorites on the Shanghai Grand Stage: The current number one, Mark Williams, met the player with Mark Selby who was to take over from him a few weeks later at cut-off point 1 at the top. A balanced, high-class game developed with slight advantages for Selby. The search for a quick entry and high breaks, including one century per player, marked the first session. After a 3: 3 intermediate result, Selby went into the break with a 5: 4 lead. Both came back to the arena much more nervous in the evening and a tricky game developed. After another lead by two frames, Selby had the chance to pull away to 7-4. But when Williams was able to take this frame from him, the Englishman increasingly lost the thread. Finally, the Welshman was able to increase to 9: 7 with four frame wins in a row. Standing one frame before the defeat, Selby showed his fighting skills and forced the equalizer. With the momentum of the successful race to catch up, he won the last frame and successfully took revenge for the defeat in the final at the German Masters 2011 .
final
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Final: Best of 19 Frames Shanghai Grand Stage, Shanghai , China , September 11, 2011 |
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Mark Selby
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10 : 9 |
Mark Williams
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Afternoon session: 74: 75 (MS 74), 58 : 42, 115 : 0 (113), 38: 76 (68), 83 : 1 (78), 0: 132 (132), 84 : 55 (MW 51), 95 : 0 (95), 45: 68 (67) evening session: 55 : 25, 37: 64 , 63 : 42, 5: 69 , 39: 70 , 42: 75 , 6: 88 (88), 83 : 48, 78 : 60, 69 : 0 |
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| 113 | Highest break | 132 |
| 1 | Century breaks | 1 |
| 4th | 50+ breaks | 5 |
qualification
The qualifiers were played from July 31 to August 4, 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield .
The biggest surprise of the qualification was 40 year old James Wattana from Thailand . The former world number three in the 1990s, who had dropped out of the Main Tour in the meantime, survived four qualifying rounds and was the only unseeded player in the main tournament after winning the wildcard round. Young player Jack Lisowski also showed a strong performance, with clear victories over Mike Dunn and Marco Fu, among others , reaching his third participation in the main round of a world ranking tournament. For both, however, the first-round opponents Ronnie O'Sullivan and Jamie Cope proved to be too strong. The Norwegian by choice Kurt Maflin as well as Aditya Mehta from India and Passakorn Suwannawat from Thailand also played a successful qualification, who only failed after three wins in the last qualifying round. For both Asians, reaching the round of 48 was their best result so far.
Preliminary round
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Round 1 to 4
Century Breaks
Finals
After the record year 2008 , this was the Shanghai Masters with the second highest number of Centuries to date (25 in total). The highest break was only higher in 2008, with Shaun Murphy winning the award for the second time since 2009. Ronnie O'Sullivan had already scored five Centuries at a Shanghai tournament before Anthony Hamilton (2008).
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qualification
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Prize money on World Snooker ( Memento from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Rolling 147 Total on World Snooker ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ranking points on World Snooker ( Memento from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Final round results (snooker.org)
- ↑ Draw and playing times ( Memento from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (worldsnooker.com; PDF; 106 kB)
- ↑ Qualification results (snooker.org)
- ↑ Vatnani canceled his participation because he was playing the Hash10 World Sim Nationals on this date ( results on cuesportsindia.com)
- ↑ Haneveer canceled his participation because of a shoulder injury. ( Message on prosnookerblog.com)
