World Snooker Championship 2005
World Snooker Championship 2005 Embassy World Snooker Championship
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Attendees: | 32 |
Venue: | Crucible Theater , Sheffield , England |
Opening: | April 16, 2001 |
Endgame: | 1./2. May 2001
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Winner: | Shaun Murphy |
Finalist: | Matthew Stevens |
Highest Break: | 147 ( Mark Williams ) |
← 2004
2006 →
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The 2005 World Snooker Championship took place from April 16, 2005 to May 2, 2005 at the Crucible Theater in Sheffield and marked the end of the 2004/05 snooker season .
Surprisingly, the Englishman Shaun Murphy became world champion . The odds for a Murphy win before the World Cup were 150: 1 in the betting shops. He was also the first player since Terry Griffiths in 1979 to qualify for the World Cup.
The defending champion from the previous year Ronnie O'Sullivan lost in the quarterfinals to Peter Ebdon , the 2002 world champion .
Prize money
Prize money 2005 | Profit in £ |
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winner | 250,000 |
defeated finalist | 125,000 |
Semifinals | 51,000 |
Quarter finals | 26,000 |
Round of 16 | 15,850 |
last 32 | 12,000 |
Highest Break (Main Round) | 14,000 |
Maximum break (main round) | 147,000 |
All in all | £ 1,121,800 |
Main round
qualification
Qualifying rounds 1 to 4 took place from February 21 to March 3, 2005 in Prestatyn . The last qualifying round took place on 23/24. March 2005 at the Crucible Theater in Sheffield.
Round 1
game | Player 1 | Result | Player 2 |
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Q1 | Liu Song | 8 10 | Stuart Mann |
Q2 | Steve James | 9: 10 | Justin Astley |
Q3 | Hugh Abernethy | 10 : 6 | Matthew Selt |
Q4 | Ben Woollaston | 10 : 6 | Mark Joyce |
Q5 | Dave Gilbert | 5: 10 | Lee Spick |
Q6 | Kurt Maflin | 9: 10 | Craig Steadman |
Round 2-5
Century Breaks
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swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shaun Murphy - Did you know ...? bbc.co.uk
- ↑ 2005 Embassy World Championship ( memorial from November 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) globalsnookercentre.co.uk