World Series of Snooker 2008/09

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John Higgins during a break at the third tournament in Warsaw

This article deals with the five tournaments of the World Series of Snooker in the 2008/09 season , when this tournament series, co-organized by multiple world champion John Higgins, was first held. A few (mostly four) players from the upper range of the snooker world rankings and some wildcard players (mostly from the host nation) competed in each tournament .

The tournament series is intended to popularize snooker in countries that are not visited by the Main Tour . There are no ranking points .

1st tournament in St. Helier

The first tournament - and thus the beginning of the World Series of Snooker at all - took place on June 21 and 22, 2008 on the British island of Jersey . The venue was Fort Regent in the town of St. Helier .

There was a small sensation in Round 1 when ex- world champion Ken Doherty lost significantly to local wildcard player Gary Britton, while the other three professional players easily reached the semi-finals. In the semifinals, Gary Britton led 2-0 against Mark Selby, but lost the game 2-5. With the same result, John Higgins was able to prevail against Shaun Murphy.

In the final, Higgins was able to prevail 6: 3 after a 2: 2 at the mid-session interval .

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Professional players :

Wildcard player :

Tournament course

  Quarter-finals
June 21, 2008 		Semi-finals
June 22, 2008 		Final
June 22, 2008
                           
  EnglandEngland Mark Selby 4th        
PolandPoland Rafał Jewtuch 0  
EnglandEngland Mark Selby 5
  jerseyjersey Gary Britton 1  
IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 1
jerseyjersey Gary Britton 4th  
EnglandEngland Mark Selby 3
  ScotlandScotland John Higgins 6th
EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 4th    
guernseyguernsey Martyn Desperques 1  
EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 2
  ScotlandScotland John Higgins 5  
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 4th
  jerseyjersey Aaron Canavan 0  

Century Breaks

  • 105 - Mark Selby
  • 104 - John Higgins

2nd tournament in Berlin

The second tournament took place on July 12th and 13th, 2008 in Berlin . The venue was the Tempodrom , which had a capacity of around 1,600 spectators.

In what is probably the most exciting and best quarter-final match, Lasse Münstermann missed the semi-finals against John Higgins after a 3-1 lead in a dramatic final phase. He forced Higgins over the full distance, but then had to admit defeat to the multiple world champion 3: 4. An unsettled Patrick Einsle and the other two wildcard players living in Germany lost quite clearly. Graeme Dott and Shaun Murphy could each prevail in the semi-finals.

Dott won the final after he had already led 4-0 at the mid-session interval , with a clear 6-1 against a Shaun Murphy, who never really got into the game.

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Professional players :

Wildcard player :

Tournament course

  Quarter-finals
July 12, 2008 		Semi-finals
July 13, 2008 		Final
July 13, 2008
                           
  ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 4th        
New ZealandNew Zealand Chris McBreen 1  
ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 5
  ScotlandScotland John Higgins 4th  
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 4th
GermanyGermany Let Münstermann 3  
ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 6th
  EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 1
ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 4th    
BelgiumBelgium Hans Blanckaert 0  
ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 3
  EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 5  
EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 4th
  GermanyGermany Patrick Einsle 0  

Century Breaks

  • 132 - Shaun Murphy
  • 113 - Graeme Dott

3rd tournament in Warsaw

The third tournament took place on October 25th and 26th, 2008 in Warsaw .

The professionals lived up to their role as favorites and all made it to the semi-finals without losing frames. Ding Junhui won the final against Ken Doherty from Ireland 6-4.

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The game between the Polish amateur Mariusz Sirko (at the table) and Mark Selby (in the background), also in the picture: referee Michaela Tabb

Professional players :

Wildcard player :

Tournament course

  Quarter-finals
October 25, 2008 		Semi-finals
October 26, 2008 		Final
October 26, 2008
                           
  IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 4th        
PolandPoland Rafał Górecki 0  
IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 5
  EnglandEngland Mark Selby 3  
EnglandEngland Mark Selby 4th
PolandPoland Mariusz Sirko 0  
IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 4th
  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 6th
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 4th    
PolandPoland Piotr Murat 0  
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 5
  EnglandEngland Steve Davis 1  
EnglandEngland Steve Davis 4th
  PolandPoland Rafał Jewtuch 0  

Century Breaks

  • 102 - Mark Selby
  • 101 - Ding Junhui
  • 100 - Mark Selby

4th tournament in Moscow

The fourth and final tournament took place on November 22nd and 23rd, 2008 in Moscow . The venue was the Krilya Sovetov Sports Arena .

This time there were only three instead of four professionals, five wildcard players; Graeme Dott had to cancel at short notice and was replaced by 14-year-old Israeli Shachar Ruberg. Due to scheduling difficulties, there was no TV broadcast. John Higgins clearly won the tournament, he never lost a single frame.

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Professional players :

Wildcard player :

Tournament course

  Quarterfinals
November 22, 2008 		Semi-finals
November 23, 2008 		Final
November 23, 2008
                           
  ScotlandScotland John Higgins 4th        
RussiaRussia Anna Maschirina 0  
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 4th
  IsraelIsrael Shachar Ruberg 0  
IsraelIsrael Shachar Ruberg 4th
Belarus 1995Belarus Syarhej Wassiljeu 1  
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 5
  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 0
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 4th    
UkraineUkraine Serhiy Issajenko 0  
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 4th
  EnglandEngland Mark Selby 2  
EnglandEngland Mark Selby 4th
  RussiaRussia Ruslan Tschinachow 1  

Century Breaks

  • 127 - John Higgins

Final tournament in Portimão

The final took place from May 8th to 10th, 2009 in Portimão , Portugal . The venue was the Pavilhão Arena .

All eight professional players who participated in the first four tournaments were also in the final tournament. The tournament tree was arranged in such a way that the four professionals who had shown the best performances in the previous tournaments (Higgins, Ding, Selby and Dott) initially had a bye, while the other four (Murphy, Doherty, Maguire and Davis) competed against one qualifier each. The qualifiers, in turn, initially played in two groups of four for a place in the round of 16. In the groups everyone played against everyone in a match best of 7 with only 6 red balls.

Group 1 included Ryan Day, a professional on the Snooker Main Tour, and Gary Britton and Lasse Münstermann, two players who had recommended themselves for the final tournament through good performances at the St. Helier tournament and Berlin tournament ; added Michał Zieliński . As expected, Ryan Day was group winner. Britton also made it into the second round in second place.

Group 2 also included a professional player, Jimmy White . There was also the Israeli Shachar Ruberg , who showed a good performance in Moscow , and Itaro Santos, a player born in Brazil and now living in Germany. Group 2 was completed by the only 14-year-old U19 European champion Luca Brecel from Belgium. Brecel was surprisingly group winner, favorite White also reached the next round in second.

In the second round, Brecel was able to beat ex-world champion Ken Doherty and surprisingly move into the quarter-finals. Steve Davis won the duel against Jimmy White by a fluke in the last frame.

Luca Brecel's winning streak ended in the quarter-finals, but Graeme Dott was only slightly defeated 4: 5. Co-organizer John Higgins made it to the semi-finals against Steve Davis. Stephen Maguire beat Ding Junhui 5-2 quite clearly, while Shaun Murphy reached the semifinals with a narrow 5-4 over Mark Selby.

In the semifinals, John Higgins and Shaun Murphy were able to prevail against Maguire and Dott, respectively, which led to the relaunch of the final of the World Cup , which had only been played a week earlier. Murphy was able to retaliate for his defeat in the World Cup final by defeating Higgins 6-2 and securing the prize money of € 50,000.

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Preliminary round

Group 1

Item player Sp. Victories Frames win. Frames left Diff. Pt.
1 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 3 3 12 2 +10 3
2 jerseyjersey Gary Britton 3 2 8th 9 −1 2
3 GermanyGermany Let Münstermann 3 1 7th 9 −2 1
4th PolandPoland Michał Zieliński 3 0 5 12 −7 0

Games:

  • Ryan Day  4-0 Gary Britton
  • Michał Zieliński 1: 4 Lasse Münstermann
  • Ryan Day 4  : 1 Michał Zieliński
  • Let Münstermann 2-4 Gary Britton
  • Ryan Day 4  : 1 Lasse Münstermann
  • Gary Britton  4-3 Michał Zieliński

Group 2

Item player Sp. Victories Frames win. Frames left Diff. Pt.
1 BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 3 3 12 6th 6th 3
2 EnglandEngland Jimmy White 3 2 11 5 6th 2
3 GermanyGermany Itaro Santos 3 1 6th 10 −4 1
4th IsraelIsrael Shachar Ruberg 3 0 4th 12 −8 0

Games:

  • Jimmy White 4-1  Itaro Santos
  • Luca Brecel 4-2  Shachar Ruberg
  • Jimmy White  4-0 Shachar Ruberg
  • Itaro Santos 1: 4 Luca Brecel
  • Jimmy White 3-4 Luca Brecel
  • Shachar Ruberg 2-4 Itaro Santos

Tournament course

  Round of 16
8./9. May 2009
Best of 9
10 red balls 		Quarterfinals
May 9, 2009
Best of 9
10 red balls 		Semi-finals
May 10, 2009
Best of 9
15 red balls 		Final
May 10, 2009
Best of 11
15 red balls
                                     
        
   ScotlandScotland John Higgins 5  
     EnglandEngland Steve Davis 2  
 EnglandEngland Steve Davis 5
 EnglandEngland Jimmy White 4th  
   ScotlandScotland John Higgins 5  
   ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 3  
        
        
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 2
     ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 5  
 ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 5
 jerseyjersey Gary Britton 1  
   ScotlandScotland John Higgins 2
   EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 6th
        
        
   ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 5
     BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 4th  
 IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 3
 BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 5  
   ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 4th
   EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 5  
        
        
   EnglandEngland Mark Selby 4th
     EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 5  
 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 5
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 2  

Century Breaks

  • 122 - Shaun Murphy
  • 105 - Shaun Murphy (on 10 reds)
  • 101 - John Higgins (on 10 reds)
  • 100 - Graeme Dott (on 10 reds)
  • 100 - Shaun Murphy

Web links

credentials

  1. ^ World Series of Snooker - Jersey. (No longer available online.) In: snooker-virus.de. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 .
  2. ^ World Series of Snooker - Berlin. (No longer available online.) In: snooker-virus.de. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ World Series of Snooker - Warsaw. (No longer available online.) In: snooker-virus.de. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 .
  4. ^ World Series of Snooker - Moscow. (No longer available online.) In: snooker-virus.de. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ The World Series of Snooker Grand Final 2009 - Running Order. (No longer available online.) In: theworldseriesofsnooker.com. Archived from the original on June 2, 2009 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ 2008-09 World Series of Snooker Grand Finals. (No longer available online.) In: global-snooker.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ World Series of Snooker - Finals. (No longer available online.) In: snooker-virus.de. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 .