2008 World Snooker Championship

The Snooker World Championship 2008 took place from 19 April to 5 May 2008 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield held and concluded the snooker season 2007/08. Became world champion for the third time in his career the Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan after a 18:8 in the final against Ali Carter.

Both finalists succeeded in the tournament also each have a maximum break, so it was at a World Cup for the first time more than one maximum break.

3.1 Round 1
3.2 Round 2
3.3 Round 3

4.1 Round 1
4.2 Round 2-5

5.1 Main Round
5.2 Qualifying Round

Purse

Schedule

Defending champion John Higgins difference surprisingly early as the second round against Ryan Day from. Year's finalist Mark Selby was beaten in round one does. Liang Wenbo of China reached at all the quarter-finals in his first World Cup finals as the first Chinese. For Allister Carter of the finals was his until then first entry into the finals of a ranking tournament at all.

Final

For the first time since 1991, there was an all-English final. O'Sullivan quickly developed a head start and led 6-2 after the first session and with 11:5 after the end of the first day. With 16:8 the players went into the fourth and last, the only two frames long then took before O'Sullivan celebrated his third world title.

Pre-qualification

The pre-qualifying was held in Prestatyn between the 3rd and 5th January 2008.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Qualification

The qualifying rounds 1-4 were from 6 to 11 January, 2008 Prestatyn instead. The final round was held from March 7 to 10, 2008 in Sheffield instead.

Round 1

Round 2-5

With Liu Chuang, Liang Wenbo and Jamie Cope succeeded three players to qualify for the first time in her career for the finals.

Century Breaks

Main Round

For the first time in the history of the World Cup two maximum breaks have been played, first by Ronnie O'Sullivan and a day later by Ali Carter. Thereafter, the premiums rule was changed so that each player of such breaks is (proportionately to the number of games played by him maximum Breaks ) involved in the premium of £ 147,000. In addition, among these actors, the premium for the highest CenturyBreak was divided £ 10,000.

A total of 63 Century Breaks were played so that the record of the years 2002 and 2007 of 68 Centuries was not improved. With 12 Century Breaks Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the highest number.

Qualifying round

In the qualifying round, the highest - Century Break by Patrick Wallace was achieved with 139 points. All Century breaks the qualifying round are listed in the following table.

Swell

Chris Downer: Crucible Almanac (2011 edition). Bournemouth 2011.
Chris Turner's Snooker Archive
O'Sullivan's maximum break on Euro Sport
Carter's Maximum Break on Euro Sport

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