2007/08 snooker season

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2007/08 snooker season
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Season dates
Beginning of the season August 6, 2007
End of season May 5, 2008
Ranked tournaments 7th
Non-ranking 1
Invitation tournaments 3
number of players 96
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
Masters EnglandEngland Mark Selby
World Champion EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
World ranking
Ranking first ScotlandScotland John Higgins
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The 2007/08 snooker season consisted of a series of snooker tournaments that are part of the Main Tour . In addition to titles and prizes, there were also points for the snooker world rankings in seven tournaments . There were also invitation and non-ranking tournaments in which no points were awarded.

The number of tournaments had increased by one compared to the previous season. In order to do justice to the increasing importance of the snooker sport in China, the Shanghai Masters was a second tournament in the Asian country. The Malta Cup was initially removed from the tournament calendar after three years, but was resumed this season, but only with the status of an invitation tournament.

The season began on August 6, 2007 with the Shanghai Masters and ended on May 5, 2008 with the World Championship finals .

Season results

The following table shows the final results of this season.

date competition venue Art winner finalist Result
August 6 to August 12, 2007 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai Masters 2007 Shanghai World ranking tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 10: 6
September 25 to September 30, 2007 IrelandIreland Irish Professional Championship 2007 Dublin Non-ranking tournament IrelandIreland Ken Doherty IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien 9: 2
October 6, 2007 EnglandEngland Pot Black Cup London Invitation tournament IrelandIreland Ken Doherty EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 1: 0 (71:36)
October 13 to October 21, 2007 ScotlandScotland Grand Prix 2007 Aberdeen World ranking tournament Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 9: 6
November 4 to November 11, 2007 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland Trophy 2007 Belfast World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien 9: 5
December 8th to December 16th, 2007 EnglandEngland UK Championship 2007 York World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 10: 2
January 13th to January 20th, 2008 EnglandEngland Masters 2008 London Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Mark Selby EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 10: 3
February 4 to February 10, 2008 MaltaMalta Malta Cup 2008 Portomaso Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 9: 3
February 11th to February 17th, 2008 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh Open 2008 Newport World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Mark Selby EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 9: 8
March 23 to March 30, 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China Open 2008 Beijing World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 10: 9
April 19 to May 5, 2008 EnglandEngland World Snooker Championship 2008 Sheffield World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland Ali Carter 18: 8

World ranking

The snooker world ranking is only updated after a season has ended and takes into account the performance of the past two seasons. The following table shows the 32 best placed players in the 2007/08 season, based on the results from 2005/06 and 2006/07 . The previous year's position is given in brackets.

Place 1 - 8 Place 9 - 16 17th - 24th place Place 25 - 32
1 ScotlandScotland John Higgins (4) 9 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui (27) 17th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail (30) 25th EnglandEngland Nigel Bond (20)
2 ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott (6) 10 ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire (9) 18th EnglandEngland Joe Perry (18) 26th EnglandEngland Anthony Hamilton (16)
3 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy (5) 11 EnglandEngland Mark Selby (28) 19th EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins (12) 27 Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu (22)
4th IrelandIreland Ken Doherty (2) 12 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams (8) 20th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens (14) 28 EnglandEngland Ian McCulloch (26)
5 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) 13 EnglandEngland Stephen Lee (10) 21st EnglandEngland Mark King (29) 29 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen (62)
6th EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon (7) 14th EnglandEngland Ali Carter 15 22nd EnglandEngland Jamie Cope (48) 30th EnglandEngland Dave Harold (36)
7th AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson (13) 15th EnglandEngland Steve Davis (11) 23 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham (24) 31 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale (40)
8th ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (1) 16 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day (17) 24 EnglandEngland Michael Holt (21) 32 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Gerard Greene (39)

Qualification for the main tour 2007/08

In addition to the 64 best-placed players in the world rankings at the end of the 2006/07 season - with the Finn Robin Hull resigning due to illness - the remaining 33 starting places were awarded as follows:

Remaining on the main tour over the one-year ranking 2006/07
  1. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Wenbo
  2. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Tian Pengfei
  3. MaltaMalta Tony Drago
  4. EnglandEngland Joe Jogia
  5. EnglandEngland Lee Spick
  6. IrelandIreland David Morris
  7. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Song
  8. EnglandEngland Mark Joyce
Qualification via the PIOS tour 2006/07
  1. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Lee Walker
  2. ScotlandScotland James McBain
  3. EnglandEngland Munraj Pal
  4. IrelandIreland Leo Fernandez
  5. EnglandEngland Matthew Selt
  6. EnglandEngland Jamie O'Neill
  7. EnglandEngland Alex Davies
  8. EnglandEngland Ashley Wright
Qualification via international amateur championships
  1. NorwayNorway Kurt Maflin ( IBSF amateur world champion )
  2. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Michael White ( EBSA U19 European Champion )
  3. BelgiumBelgium Kevin van Hove ( EBSA International Play-Off )
  4. ThailandThailand Supoj Saenla ( ACBS Asian Champion )
  5. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiao Guodong ( ACBS-U-21 Asian Champion )
Qualification through national associations
  1. EnglandEngland Jimmy Robertson (English nomination 1)
  2. EnglandEngland Martin Gould (English nomination 2)
  3. ScotlandScotland Fraser Patrick (Scottish Nomination)
  4. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Gareth Coppack (Welsh nomination)
  5. IrelandIreland Rodney Goggins (Irish nomination)
  6. Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Patrick Wallace (Northern Irish nomination)
  7. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Chuang (Asian nomination)
  8. AustraliaAustralia Steve Mifsud (Oceanic Nomination)
Qualification via WPBSA Wildcard
  1. EnglandEngland Alfie Burden
  2. EnglandEngland Ben Woollaston
  3. ThailandThailand Issara Kachaiwong

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2007-8 Main Tour Players ( Memento from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) globalsnookercentre.co.uk