2006/07 snooker season

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2006/07 snooker season
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Season dates
Beginning of the season August 13, 2006
End of season May 7, 2007
Ranked tournaments 7th
Non-ranking 1
Invitation tournaments 2
number of players 96
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon
Masters EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
World Champion ScotlandScotland John Higgins
World ranking
Ranking first ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
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The 2006/07 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that were part of the Main Tour . As in the previous season, the tour consisted of ten tournaments. In addition to the Pot Black Cup and the Masters as invitation tournaments and the Irish Professional Championship as a non-ranking tournament, this season there were seven competitions to win in addition to the title and prize money as well as world ranking points.

The Northern Ireland Trophy , the year before only an invitation tournament, was raised to the rank of a world ranking tournament. The tournament also opened the season on August 13, 2006, which traditionally ended on May 7, 2007 with the World Cup finals.

The total prize money for tournaments on the tour increased by £ 400,000 to a total of £ 3.26 million.

Season results

date competition venue Art winner finalist Result
August 13th to August 20th, 2006 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland Trophy 2006 Belfast World ranking tournament China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 9: 6
September 2, 2006 EnglandEngland Pot Black Cup London Invitation tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark J. Williams ScotlandScotland John Higgins 1: 0 (119: 13)
October 9 to October 11, 2006 IrelandIreland Irish Professional Championship 2006 Templeogue Non-ranking tournament IrelandIreland Ken Doherty IrelandIreland Michael Judge 9: 4
October 21 to October 29, 2006 ScotlandScotland Grand Prix 2006 Aberdeen World ranking tournament AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson EnglandEngland Jamie Cope 9: 5
December 4th to December 17th, 2006 EnglandEngland UK Championship 2006 York World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 10: 6
January 14th to January 21st, 2007 EnglandEngland Masters 2007 London Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 10: 3
January 29 to February 4, 2007 MaltaMalta Malta Cup 2007 Portomaso World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 9: 4
February 12 to February 18, 2007 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh Open 2007 Newport World ranking tournament AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson EnglandEngland Andrew Higginson 9: 8
March 25th to April 1st, 2007 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China Open 2007 Beijing World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott EnglandEngland Jamie Cope 9: 5
April 21 to May 7, 2007 EnglandEngland World Snooker Championship 2007 Sheffield World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Mark Selby 18:13

World ranking

The snooker world ranking is only updated after a season has ended and takes into account the performance of the previous two seasons. The following table shows the 32 best placed players in the 2006/07 season, based on the results from 2004/05 and 2005/06 . The previous year's position is given in brackets.

Place 1 - 8 Place 9 - 16 17th - 24th place Place 25 - 32
1 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (2) 9 ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire (3) 17th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day (33) 25th ThailandThailand James Wattana (32)
2 IrelandIreland Ken Doherty (11) 10 EnglandEngland Stephen Lee (10) 18th EnglandEngland Joe Perry (14) 26th EnglandEngland Ian McCulloch (16)
3 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) 11 EnglandEngland Steve Davis (15) 19th ScotlandScotland Alan McManus (12) 27 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui (62)
4th ScotlandScotland John Higgins (6) 12 EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins (30) 20th EnglandEngland Nigel Bond (27) 28 EnglandEngland Mark Selby (39)
5 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy (21) 13 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson (28) 21st EnglandEngland Michael Holt (24) 29 EnglandEngland Mark King (20)
6th ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott (13) 14th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens (4) 22nd Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu (25) 30th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail (40)
7th EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon (7) 15th EnglandEngland Ali Carter (19) 23 EnglandEngland David Gray (23) 31 EnglandEngland Andy Hicks (31)
8th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams (9) 16 EnglandEngland Anthony Hamilton (17) 24 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham (37) 32 EnglandEngland Robert Milkins (26)

Qualification for the Main Tour 2006/07

In addition to the 64 best-placed players in the world rankings at the end of the 2005/06 season, the remaining 32 starting places were awarded as follows:

Remaining on the main tour via the one-year ranking 2005/06

Qualification via the PIOS tour 2005/06

Qualification via international amateur championships:

Qualification through national associations

Qualification via WPBSA Wildcard

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2006-7 Main Tour Players ( Memento from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) globalsnookercentre.co.uk

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