2013 World Snooker Championship

Summary

The 2013 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2013 Betfair World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May 2013 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 37th consecutive year the Crucible had hosted the World Snooker Championship; the 2013 event was the last ranking tournament of the 2012–13 snooker season. Sports betting company Betfair sponsored the event for the first time.

2013 Betfair World Snooker Championship
Tournament information
Dates20 April – 6 May 2013 (2013-04-20 – 2013-05-06)
VenueCrucible Theatre
CitySheffield
CountryEngland
OrganisationWorld Snooker
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£1,111,000
Winner's share£250,000
Highest break Neil Robertson (AUS) (143)
Final
Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)
Runner-up Barry Hawkins (ENG)
Score18–12
2012
2014

Despite not having played a competitive match all season, defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan did not lose one session in the tournament and defeated Barry Hawkins 18–12 in the final to become a five-time World Champion, joining Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry as the only players to have successfully defended their titles at the Crucible. O'Sullivan broke Hendry's record of 127 career centuries at the Crucible, finishing the tournament with 131, and also became the first player to make six century breaks in a World Championship final. Of the 55 century breaks made during the event, Neil Robertson made the highest break, a 143, in his first-round loss to Robert Milkins.

Overview edit

The World Snooker Championship is an annual cue sport tournament and the official professional world championship of the game of snooker.[1] Since 1977, the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield has hosted the event.[2] During the tournament, 32 professional players compete in one-on-one snooker matches in a single elimination format, each of which is played over several frames. The event's 32-player lineup is selected using the snooker world rankings and a pre-tournament qualification round.[3][4] English player Ronnie O'Sullivan won the previous year's championship by defeating fellow countryman Ali Carter in the final 18–11.[5] The winner of the 2013 event earned prize money of £250,000, from a pool of £1,111,000.[6] Sports betting company Betfair sponsored the event for the first time in 2013.[7]

Format edit

 
The main draw of the 2013 tournament was played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

The 2013 World Snooker Championship was held between 20 April and 6 May 2013 in Sheffield, England.[4] It was the last of 11 rankings events in the 2012–13 snooker season on the World Snooker Tour.[8][9] The tournament featured a 32-player main draw that took place at the Crucible Theatre and a 92-player qualifying draw that was played on 6 and 11 April 2015 at the English Institute of Sport.[10] This was the 45th successive world championship to be contested using the knockout format after reverting from a challenge match system in the 1960s.[4]

Ordinarily the top-16 players in the world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players.[11] Despite not playing a competitive event since the last world championship, Ronnie O'Sullivan was seeded first overall as the defending champion; the remaining 15 seeds were allocated using the latest world rankings, which were released after the China Open, the penultimate event of the season.[11] The number of frames needed to win a match increased with each round of the main draw, starting with best-of-19-frames matches in the first round and ending with the final, which was played as a best-of-35-frames match.[11][4]

Prize fund edit

The event had a prize fund of £1,111,000, of which the winner received £250,000. A breakdown of prize money for 2013 is shown below:[6]

  • Winner: £250,000
  • Runner-up: £125,000
  • Semi-final: £52,000
  • Quarter-final: £24,050
  • Last 16: £16,000
  • Last 32: £12,000
  • Last 48: £8,200
  • Last 64: £4,600
  • Non-televised highest break: £1,000
  • Televised highest break: £10,000
  • Total: £1,111,000

Tournament summary edit

First round edit

 
Interior of the Crucible Theatre before the third session of the first day

The first round was played between 20 and 25 April 2013; matches were held as the best-of-19 frames over two sessions. Players Jack Lisowski, Michael White, Ben Woollaston, Dechawat Poomjaeng, Matthew Selt and Sam Baird made their debuts at the main stages of the event.[12][13][14] Poomjaeng was only the third player from Thailand, after James Wattana and Tai Pichit, to reach the event.[15] Two of the debuting players progressed to the second round; Michael White advanced by defeating two-time champion Mark Williams 10–6,[16] while Dechawat Poomjaeng advanced by beating Stephen Maguire 10–9.[17]

Four Chinese players—a record for the event—had played in the 2012 competition but Ding Junhui was the only Chinese player to appear in 2013.[18] Ding defeated Alan McManus 10–5 to reach the second round.[18] Peter Ebdon was playing in his 22nd consecutive World Championship, equalling the number of consecutive appearances made by Steve Davis and putting him third for consecutive appearances behind Stephen Hendry on 27 and O'Sullivan on 26.[19] In a repeat of the final of the 2006 event, Ebdon faced Graeme Dott;[20] the match overran and was played over three sessions. Dott was ahead 8–6 after the second session and eventually won 10–6.[20][21] The match lasted for more than seven hours; Ebdon had a high break of 37.[20] Dott criticised Ebdon for his perceived slow play and called for a rule to limit the time a player could spend over a shot.[22]

The ending of the match between defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and Marcus Campbell was not aired on the BBC, which instead broadcast a repeat episode of the 1970s sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. The match was also unavailable on the BBC Red Button service, leading to viewers expressing their anger on social networks. The CEO of World Snooker Barry Hearn, apologised to fans on Twitter and wrote a formal letter of complaint to the BBC.[23] O'Sullivan won the match 10–4;[24] he had not played a competitive match since winning the title the year before.[25] O'Sullivan said he wanted to "take some time off" and had refused to sign the player's contract for the following season.[26]

Robert Milkins defeated the 2010 champion Neil Robertson 8–10.[27] Robertson made the highest break of the event—a 143 in frame six—and led 5–2 but Milkins tied the match at 8–8 before winning the next two frames.[27] In other matches, four-time champion John Higgins lost 6–10 to Mark Davis[28] whilst former finalist Matthew Stevens lost 7–10 to qualifier Marco Fu.[29]

Second round edit

The second round was played between 25 and 30 April as the best of 25 frames over three sessions. Shaun Murphy defeated Graeme Dott 13–11[30] after leading 6–2 after the first session.[31] Dott's elimination meant there were no Scottish players in the last eight for the first time since 1988.[32] Michael White reached his first ranking event quarter-final by defeating Poomjaeng 13–3 after two of the three scheduled sessions.[33] In the fourth frame, Poomjaeng used the spider to bridge over the blue ball but missed a red ball on three occasions and forfeited the frame.[34]

O'Sullivan became the first defending champion since Murphy in 2006 to reach the quarter-finals when he defeated Ali Carter, his opponent in the 2008 and 2012 World Championship finals, 13–8.[35] Ricky Walden, in his first world championship second-round appearance, defeated Robert Milkins 13–11.[36] Milkins trailed 3–9 but recovered to 10–11 and 11–12 but Walden won the frame he needed for victory.[37] Barry Hawkins also reached his first Crucible quarter-final after defeating world number one Mark Selby 13–10.[38]

Quarter-finals edit

The quarter-finals were played on 31 April and 1 May as best-of-25 frames matches over three sessions. In his match against Stuart Bingham, O'Sullivan won 11 of the first 12 frames and won the match 13–4 in the first frame of the third session.[39] Judd Trump trailed 3–8 against Shaun Murphy but tied the score at 12–12 to force a deciding frame. The final frame lasted 53 minutes and was won by Trump.[40][41] Ricky Walden defeated Michael White 13–6 and Hawkins defeated Ding Junhui 13–7, eliminating the two remaining non-English competitors from the tournament.[29] Walden reached the semi-finals of the World Championship on his third attempt, despite not having previously won a match in his earlier appearances in the main stages of the event in 2009 and 2011.[42]

Semi-finals edit

The semi-finals were played between 2 and 4 May 2013 over four sessions as the best-of-33 frames. This was the third semi-finals round in the modern history of snooker in which all of the players were English.[43] O'Sullivan played Judd Trump in the first semi-final; in the 23rd frame, O'Sullivan received a reprimand from referee Michaela Tabb for allegedly making an obscene gesture with his cue. A World Snooker spokesman later stated eyewitnesses had also observed O'Sullivan making an inappropriate gesture but it was not captured on camera.[44] O'Sullivan defeated Trump 17–11[29] and became the first defending champion to reach the final since Ken Doherty in 1998.[45] In the other semi-final, Barry Hawkins trailed Ricky Walden 8–12 but won nine of the next eleven frames to win 17–14.[46][47]

Final edit

 
Ronnie O'Sullivan won a fifth championship, defeating Barry Hawkins 18–12.

The 2013 final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Barry Hawkins was played on 5 and 6 May as the best-of-35 frames over four sessions and officiated by Jan Verhaas.[48] O'Sullivan led 5–3 after the first session; Hawkins drew level at 7–7 but O'Sullivan won the last three frames of the day to take a 10–7 overnight lead.[49] O'Sullivan's break of 103 in the 15th frame was his 128th century break at the Crucible Theatre, breaking Stephen Hendry's record of 127 Crucible centuries,[50] and he extended the record to 131 century breaks.[51] O'Sullivan won the third session by five frames to three to lead 15–10.[52] O'Sullivan went on to win the final 18–12 to take his fifth world title[53] and become the first defending champion to retain his title since Hendry in 1996[54] and the first player to score six century breaks in a world championship final.[53]

Eight century breaks were scored in the final, equalling the record set in the 2002 final between Hendry and Peter Ebdon.[55] At the age of 37, O'Sullivan became the oldest World Snooker Champion since 45-year-old Ray Reardon in 1978.[56] This was O'Sullivan's fifth world championship but he did not rule out a similar season away from the tour, saying; "I had my year out and enjoyed my year out. I intend to play in some small events. Come December or January I'll have a better idea of what I'm going to do."[54][57] As world champion, O'Sullivan was awarded a wild card place at the 2014 Masters, which he also won.[58]

Main draw edit

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).[29][59][60] The draw for the first round took place on 15 April 2013, one day after the qualifying, and was broadcast live by Talksport at 1:30 pm BST.[61]

First round
Best of 19 frames
Second round
Best of 25 frames
Quarter-finals
Best of 25 frames
Semi-finals
Best of 33 frames
Final
Best of 35 frames
20 April
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (1) 10
27, 28 & 29 April
  Marcus Campbell (SCO) 4
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) 13
22 & 23 April
  Ali Carter (16) 8
  Ali Carter (ENG) (16) 10
30 April & 1 May
  Ben Woollaston (ENG) 4
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) 13
24 & 25 April
  Stuart Bingham (9) 4
  Stuart Bingham (ENG) (9) 10
28 & 29 April
  Sam Baird (ENG) 2
  Stuart Bingham (9) 13
21 & 22 April
  Mark Davis 10
  John Higgins (SCO) (8) 6
2, 3 & 4 May
  Mark Davis (ENG) 10
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) 17
20 & 21 April
  Judd Trump (4) 11
  Shaun Murphy (ENG) (5) 10
25 & 26 April
  Martin Gould (ENG) 5
  Shaun Murphy (5) 13
21 & 22 April
  Graeme Dott (12) 11
  Graeme Dott (SCO) (12) 10
30 April & 1 May
  Peter Ebdon (ENG) 6
  Shaun Murphy (5) 12
23 & 24 April
  Judd Trump (4) 13
  Matthew Stevens (WAL) (13) 7
26 & 27 April
  Marco Fu (HKG) 10
  Marco Fu 7
23 & 24 April
  Judd Trump (4) 13
  Judd Trump (ENG) (4) 10
5 & 6 May
  Dominic Dale (WAL) 5
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) 18
24 & 25 April
  Barry Hawkins (15) 12
  Neil Robertson (AUS) (3) 8
28 & 29 April
  Robert Milkins (ENG) 10
  Robert Milkins 11
20 & 21 April
  Ricky Walden (14) 13
  Ricky Walden (ENG) (14) 10
30 April & 1 May
  Michael Holt (ENG) 1
  Ricky Walden (14) 13
20 & 21 April
  Michael White 6
  Mark Williams (WAL) (11) 6
25 & 26 April
  Michael White (WAL) 10
  Michael White 13
22 & 23 April
  Dechawat Poomjaeng 3
  Stephen Maguire (SCO) (6) 9
2, 3 & 4 May
  Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA) 10
  Ricky Walden (14) 14
22 April
  Barry Hawkins (15) 17
  Mark Allen (NIR) (7) 8
27, 28 & 29 April
  Mark King (ENG) 10
  Mark King 9
23 & 24 April
  Ding Junhui (10) 13
  Ding Junhui (CHN) (10) 10
30 April & 1 May
  Alan McManus (SCO) 5
  Ding Junhui (10) 7
20 & 21 April
  Barry Hawkins (15) 13
  Barry Hawkins (ENG) (15) 10
26 & 27 April
  Jack Lisowski (ENG) 3
  Barry Hawkins (15) 13
23 & 24 April
  Mark Selby (2) 10
  Mark Selby (ENG) (2) 10
  Matthew Selt (ENG) 4
Final: (Best of 35 frames) Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 5 & 6 May. Referee: Jan Verhaas.[48]
Ronnie O'Sullivan (1)
  England
18–12 Barry Hawkins (15)
  England
Session 1: 5–3
Frame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
O'Sullivan 87 92 0 0 13 76 113 104 N/A N/A
Hawkins 4 10 98 81 101 7 0 0 N/A N/A
Session 2: 5–4
Frame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
O'Sullivan 0 83 9 75 0 4 103 117 69 N/A
Hawkins 73 37 61 0 91 133 0 5 62 N/A
Session 3: 5–3
Frame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
O'Sullivan 36 134 57 0 133 75 38 124 N/A N/A
Hawkins 71 0 56 90 0 49 87 7 N/A N/A
Session 4: 3–2
Frame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
O'Sullivan 0 18 77 89 89 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Hawkins 131 76 25 8 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
133 Highest break 133
6 Century breaks 2
??? 50+ breaks ???
† = Winner of frame

Qualifying edit

Preliminary qualifying edit

Four preliminary qualifying rounds for the tournament were for invited amateur players and members not on the Main Tour; they took place on 4 and 5 April 2013 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield. Names in bold denote match winners.[62][63][64]

Round 1

  Ali Bassiri 0–5   Surinder Gill
  Del Smith 4–5   Ian Barry Stark
  Paul Wykes 5–2   Robin Hull
  Stephen Ormerod 5–0   Bill Kelly

Round 2

  Andrew Norman 5–1   Philip Minchin
  Les Dodd 5–4   Surinder Gill
  David Morris 1–5   Joe Swail
  Stephen Rowlings 5–4   Ian Barry Stark
  Justin Astley 5–2   Tony Knowles
  Lucky Vatnani 3–5   Paul Wykes
  David Singh 2–5   Tony Chappel
  Patrick Wallace 5–0   Stephen Ormerod

Round 3

  Andrew Norman 1–5   Les Dodd
  Joe Swail 5–2   Stephen Rowlings
  Justin Astley 5–2   Paul Wykes
  Tony Chappel 1–5   Patrick Wallace

Round 4

  Les Dodd 1–5   Joe Swail
  Justin Astley 5–2   Patrick Wallace

Main qualifying edit

The first three qualifying rounds for the tournament took place between 6 and 11 April 2013 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield,. The final round of qualifying took place between 13 and 14 April 2013 at the same venue.[10][64][65]

Round 1
Best of 19 frames
Round 2
Best of 19 frames
Round 3
Best of 19 frames
Round 4
Best of 19 frames
  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh10  Gerard Greene4  Ben Woollaston10  Ryan Day9
  Scott Donaldson6  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh10  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh3  Ben Woollaston10
  Zhang Anda10  Cao Yupeng7  Michael White10  Andrew Higginson4
  Passakorn Suwannawat6  Zhang Anda10  Zhang Anda5  Michael White10
  Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon10  Mike Dunn6  Matthew Selt10  Ken Doherty9
  Jamie O'Neill8  Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon10  Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon8  Matthew Selt10
  Michael Wasley10  James Wattana10  Jack Lisowski10  Fergal O'Brien4
  Sean O'Sullivan6  Michael Wasley7  James Wattana4  Jack Lisowski10
  Dechawat Poomjaeng10  Liu Chuang9  Anthony Hamilton4  Jamie Cope3
  Michael Leslie4  Dechawat Poomjaeng10  Dechawat Poomjaeng10  Dechawat Poomjaeng10
  Pankaj Advani8  Adam Duffy6  Mark Joyce10  Michael Holt10
  Joe Swail10  Joe Swail10  Joe Swail7  Mark Joyce7
  Tony Drago10  Andy Hicks7  Dave Gilbert10  Marco Fu10
  Mohamed Khairy3  Tony Drago10  Tony Drago8  Dave Gilbert6
  Aditya Mehta10  Alan McManus10  Nigel Bond8  Tom Ford5
  Daniel Wells7  Aditya Mehta9  Alan McManus10  Alan McManus10
  Luca Brecel6  Rod Lawler10  Anthony McGill9  Martin Gould10
  Fraser Patrick10  Fraser Patrick5  Rod Lawler10  Rod Lawler7
  Robbie Williams7  Jimmy Robertson10  Liang Wenbo10  Mark Davis10
  Li Yan10  Li Yan2  Jimmy Robertson3  Liang Wenbo6
  Ian Burns10  Yu Delu10  Jamie Burnett6  Mark King10
  Joel Walker8  Ian Burns2  Yu Delu10  Yu Delu9
  Liam Highfield10  Barry Pinches9  Jamie Jones9  Marcus Campbell10
  Simon Bedford6  Liam Highfield10  Liam Highfield10  Liam Highfield4
  Chen Zhe7  Peter Lines9  Rory McLeod9  Joe Perry3
  Sam Baird10  Sam Baird10  Sam Baird10  Sam Baird10
  Paul Davison10  Alfie Burden10  Dave Harold9  Dominic Dale10
  Justin Astley8  Paul Davison7  Alfie Burden10  Alfie Burden5
  Craig Steadman10  Kurt Maflin10  Steve Davis7  Peter Ebdon10
  David Grace9  Craig Steadman6  Kurt Maflin10  Kurt Maflin8
  Tian Pengfei10  Jimmy White10  Xiao Guodong4  Robert Milkins10
  Martin O'Donnell5  Tian Pengfei7  Jimmy White10  Jimmy White5

Century breaks edit

Main stage centuries edit

A total of 55 century breaks were made during the main stage of the World Championship.[66][67][68] Neil Robertson, the player who compiled the highest break of the tournament, received a cue stick made of gold.[69]

Qualifying stage centuries edit

A total of 63 century breaks were made during the qualifying stage of the World Championship:[70][71]

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External links edit

  • Official website
  • 2013 Betfair World Championship picture gallery at Facebook