World Series of Snooker 2008/09
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 |
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Mark Selby | 4th | ||||||||||||
Rafał Jewtuch | 0 | ||||||||||||
Mark Selby | 5 | ||||||||||||
Gary Britton | 1 | ||||||||||||
Ken Doherty | 1 | ||||||||||||
Gary Britton | 4th | ||||||||||||
Mark Selby | 3 | ||||||||||||
John Higgins | 6th | ||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 4th | ||||||||||||
Martyn Desperques | 1 | ||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 2 | ||||||||||||
John Higgins | 5 | ||||||||||||
John Higgins | 4th | ||||||||||||
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 |
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Graeme Dott | 4th | ||||||||||||
Chris McBreen | 1 | ||||||||||||
Graeme Dott | 5 | ||||||||||||
John Higgins | 4th | ||||||||||||
John Higgins | 4th | ||||||||||||
Let Münstermann | 3 | ||||||||||||
Graeme Dott | 6th | ||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 1 | ||||||||||||
Stephen Maguire | 4th | ||||||||||||
Hans Blanckaert | 0 | ||||||||||||
Stephen Maguire | 3 | ||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 5 | ||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 4th | ||||||||||||
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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Professional players :
Wildcard player :
Tournament course
Quarter-finals October 25, 2008 |
Semi-finals October 26, 2008 |
Final October 26, 2008 |
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Ken Doherty | 4th | ||||||||||||
Rafał Górecki | 0 | ||||||||||||
Ken Doherty | 5 | ||||||||||||
Mark Selby | 3 | ||||||||||||
Mark Selby | 4th | ||||||||||||
Mariusz Sirko | 0 | ||||||||||||
Ken Doherty | 4th | ||||||||||||
Ding Junhui | 6th | ||||||||||||
Ding Junhui | 4th | ||||||||||||
Piotr Murat | 0 | ||||||||||||
Ding Junhui | 5 | ||||||||||||
Steve Davis | 1 | ||||||||||||
Steve Davis | 4th | ||||||||||||
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 |
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John Higgins | 4th | ||||||||||||
Anna Maschirina | 0 | ||||||||||||
John Higgins | 4th | ||||||||||||
Shachar Ruberg | 0 | ||||||||||||
Shachar Ruberg | 4th | ||||||||||||
Syarhej Wassiljeu | 1 | ||||||||||||
John Higgins | 5 | ||||||||||||
Ding Junhui | 0 | ||||||||||||
Ding Junhui | 4th | ||||||||||||
Serhiy Issajenko | 0 | ||||||||||||
Ding Junhui | 4th | ||||||||||||
Mark Selby | 2 | ||||||||||||
Mark Selby | 4th | ||||||||||||
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
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Group 2
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Games:
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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 |
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John Higgins | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Steve Davis | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Steve Davis | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Jimmy White | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
John Higgins | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Stephen Maguire | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Ding Junhui | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Stephen Maguire | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Stephen Maguire | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Gary Britton | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
John Higgins | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 6th | |||||||||||||||||
Graeme Dott | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Luca Brecel | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
Ken Doherty | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Luca Brecel | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Graeme Dott | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Mark Selby | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
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
- Official homepage of the World Series of Snooker ( Memento from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
credentials
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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 .