• There were five debutants in this year's tournament: future Masters champion Mark Allen was the only one of the five to win his opening match, knocking out third seed and 1997 Champion Ken Doherty 10–7.^[1] Future world champion and future world number one Judd Trump won four qualifying matches, but lost 6–10 to Shaun Murphy after having led 6–5. Another future world number one, Ding Junhui, lost heavily to Ronnie O'Sullivan 2–10. David Gilbert led 7-time champion Stephen Hendry 5–1 at one stage before eventually losing 10–7. Irishman Joe Delaney won two final-frame deciders in Qualifying against Barry Pinches and double world semi-finalist Alan McManus, but was heavily defeated by Matthew Stevens 10–2 having trailed 0–5.
• Former world champion John Parrott made his final appearance at the Crucible, beating Steve Davis 10–9 in the first round before losing 8–13 to Shaun Murphy in the last 16.^[2][3]
• There were final-frame opening round wins for qualifiers Fergal O'Brien and Joe Swail over Barry Hawkins and Mark Williams respectively, Swail coming from 0–4 down. Mark Selby was even further behind, 0–5 against Stephen Lee before winning 10–7.
• Ian McCulloch qualified for the first time since his semi-final appearance in 2005. Having beaten defending champion Graeme Dott in the first round, he lost 8–13 to Anthony Hamilton in the last 16, and this would also prove to be his last appearance at the Crucible.
• Before the tournament began, Ronnie O'Sullivan alleged that the WPBSA draw had been fixed,^[4] after having been drawn in the first round against Ding, considered by bookmakers to be among the favourites for the title,^[4][5] and noting that he had drawn European Open and UK Champion, Stephen Maguire, in both 2004 and 2005.^[4] O'Sullivan later withdrew the accusation,^[6] and made no formal complaint to the WPBSA, who maintain that the draw was genuine.^[4]
• Shaun Murphy came back from 7–12 down to win his quarter-final match 13–12 against Matthew Stevens, a feat never before accomplished in a best-of-25-frame match.^[7]
• In frame 29 of his semi-final match, John Higgins compiled the Crucible's 1,000th century break.^[8][9]
• Future four-time world champion Mark Selby reached his first final this year. He had a surprising run to the final, as he was a qualifier, he had only made his Crucible debut two years earlier, and he had not previously progressed beyond the last 16.
• The final had the latest finish in World Championship history, with the conclusion of the 31st and final frame coming at 12:54 a.m. BST, just two minutes later than in 2006.^[10]
• John Higgins' second world title came nine years after his first,^[11] the longest gap between wins since his namesake Alex Higgins. This was the longest gap between titles at the Crucible until 2018.

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^[12][13]

Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers). The first round draw was done by presenters Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams of BBC Breakfast on 19 March and it was announced on Breakfast at 7.30 am BST the next day.^{[12][14][15][16][17]}

The preliminary qualifying rounds for the tournament took place in Pontin's Prestatyn, Wales.^[12][19]

Round 1

Round 2

Qualifying for the 2007 World Snooker Championship, was held between 23 February to 2 March 2007 at Pontin's, Prestatyn, Wales. The final qualifying round took place at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield between the 12–15 March 2007.^[12][19]

Round 1

Rounds 2–5

Televised stage centuries edit

There were 68 centuries scored in the televised stage of the 2007 championship, which was joint equal highest in the history of the tournament (with the tournament held in 2002) until 2009.^[20][21]

Qualifying stage centuries edit

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