World Seniors Championship 2017

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World Seniors Championship 2017
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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Venue: Baths Hall, Scunthorpe
Opening: 22nd March 2017
Endgame: March 24, 2017

Winner: EnglandEngland Peter Lines
Finalist: EnglandEngland John Parrott
Highest Break: 69 ( Peter Lines ) EnglandEngland
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The 2017 World Seniors Championship was a snooker tournament that was held from March 22nd to 24th at Baths Hall in Scunthorpe in the north east of England . After the hosting contract, which ran until 2016, had expired, Snooker Legends took over the organization of the event this year.

The defending champion was the Englishman Mark Davis . Unlike in the previous year, the tournament was no longer part of the Snooker Main Tour . This was the first time that professional players were no longer allowed and Davis could not defend his title.

The tournament was won by Peter Lines , who was still a professional until 2016. In four rounds, he did not give a single frame and won the final against John Parrott 4-0.

For record world champion and co-organizer Stephen Hendry it was the first tournament since 2013, Willie Thorne hadn't played a tournament since 2002.

Prize money

With the loss of the previous sponsor Betway, the prize money also fell significantly. The winner got £ 8,000 less than in 2016, losers from the round of 16 got nothing. A total of £ 18,000 instead of £ 50,000 was distributed.

Prize money
winner £ 10,000
finalist £ 3,000
Semi-finalist £ 1,500
Quarter finalist £ 500
All in all £ 18,000

In addition, there was £ 500 for the highest break.

In addition to the prize money, this year the winner also got a place in the 128 field in the qualification for the snooker world championship 2017 .

Main round

Field of participants

Eight players were invited and ranked according to the number of their world championship titles , the number of triple crown victories and ranked tournaments.

  1. ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (7 times world champion)
  2. CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn (1 × World Champion, 4 × Triple Crown)
  3. EnglandEngland John Parrott (1 × World Champion, 2 × Triple Crown, 9 × Ranking tournament)
  4. Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor (1 × world champion, 2 × triple crown, 2 × ranking tournaments)
  5. EnglandEngland Joe Johnson (1 × World Champion, 1 × Triple Crown)
  6. IrelandIreland Patsy Fagan (1 × Triple Crown)
  7. EnglandEngland Tony Knowles (2 × ranking tournament)
  8. EnglandEngland Willie Thorne (1 × ranked tournament)

The first four players were seeded directly for the quarter-finals. The other four played against four qualifiers in the preliminary round. These had emerged as winners from four qualifying tournaments in England, Ireland and Germany:

Winner at the Crucible Sports and Social Club in Newbury , England (February 17-19)
  • EnglandEngland Jonathan Bagley
Winner at the Northern Snooker Center in Leeds , England (February 22nd to 25th)
  • EnglandEngland Aiden Owens
Winner in the Ballroom Nuremberg , Germany (March 3rd to 5th)
Winner at D'Arcy McGees at Spawell in Dublin , Ireland (March 10-12 )

The minimum age of all participants was 40 years.

Tournament statistics

A game was won when a player won three out of four frames (four out of six in the final). When the score was 2: 2, the decision was brought about with a respotted black (black ball put back on). In the main tournament there was also a “ shot clock ” that limited the time per shot to 30 seconds (with two time outs per match and player).

  Round 1 Quarter finals Semifinals final
                                     
8th  EnglandEngland Willie Thorne 1  
Q  EnglandEngland Aiden Owens 3  
  1  ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 3  
    Q  EnglandEngland Aiden Owens 2  
      
        
  1  ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 0  
  Q  EnglandEngland Peter Lines 3  
6th  IrelandIreland Patsy Fagan 0  
Q  EnglandEngland Peter Lines 3  
  4th  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 0
    Q  EnglandEngland Peter Lines 3  
      
        
  Q  EnglandEngland Peter Lines 4th
  3  EnglandEngland John Parrott 0
5  EnglandEngland Joe Johnson 3  
Q  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Patrick Wallace 0  
  3  EnglandEngland John Parrott 3
    5  EnglandEngland Joe Johnson 0  
      
        
  3  EnglandEngland John Parrott 3
  Q  EnglandEngland Jonathan Bagley 2  
7th  EnglandEngland Tony Knowles 2  
Q  EnglandEngland Jonathan Bagley 3  
  2  CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn 0
    Q  EnglandEngland Jonathan Bagley 3  
      

Century breaks

No century breaks were achieved in the main tournament . The highest break was 69 points from Peter Lines in the semifinals.

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  1. ↑ a b Michael Day: Snooker Legends Set to Cross Cues Once Again. The Cue View, March 20, 2017, accessed April 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b snookerlegends.co.uk: The 2017 World Seniors Championships. (PDF; 186 kB) Snooker Legends, January 20, 2017, accessed on April 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Super Star Online World Seniors (2017). Snooker.org, accessed April 30, 2017 .