Contents. Tournament summary First round. Debutants at the Crucible were,. They were all defeated in the first round.
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became the first ever black player at the Crucible. Only two out of the sixteen seeded players lost their first round matches. Lost 5–10 against, while lost 6–10 against.
qualified for the World Championship for a record 29th time, but lost his first round match 2–10 against. In September 2013 was found guilty of conspiring to lose his first round match 4–10 against, for which as part of other offences Lee received a 12-year ban and was ordered to pay £40,000 in costs. Second round. Hendry won his 1,000th frame at the during his match against.
In this very frame Hendry compiled a 140 break. In total, at that moment Hendry had played over 1,700 frames at the Crucible, more than any other player. Hendry went on to win the match 13–10 and qualified for the quarter-finals for a record 18th time. beat defending champion 13–11. Allen made his best appearance at the tournament, ultimately reaching the semi-finals.
won four frames on the final black during the second session of his match with, and went on to win the match 13–8. beat 13–12 having trailed 10–12. and set a new record for the longest frame ever played at the Crucible at 74 minutes 58 seconds, breaking the previous record of 74 minutes 8 seconds set in the final between. The match between and Graeme Dott saw a controversial decision by referee Alan Chamberlain. Dott was going in-off, but stopped the cue ball with his fist before it dropped into the pocket, believing that the in-off was obvious. Chamberlain called a foul and awarded four points to Selby. Convinced that he now had the cue ball in hand, as would be the norm after an in-off, Selby picked up the ball to place it inside the 'D'.
However, Chamberlain then called a foul on him and awarded four points back to Dott. Chamberlain's reasoning was that since the cue ball had never left the bed of the table, Selby should have played the shot from where the cue ball finished. Both players and even members of the audience disputed Chamberlain's decision, but it remained unchanged.
Quarter-finals. Hendry made the ninth of his career in the seventh frame of his match against. Hendry equalled 's record for most 147s and became the second man to score a Crucible 147 more than once, having done it for the first time in.
He became only the second player from Australia in 27 years (since ) to play a semi-final at the Crucible. advanced to the semi-finals against by winning his second consecutive match of the tournament in the final frame, again coming from behind before the last frames, this time 11–12. The final frame required two re-racks. and both reached the first world championship semi-finals of their careers. Semi-finals Both semi-finals featured impressive comebacks from the eventual losers.
Allen came back from a 3–13 deficit against Higgins to 12–15 before losing the match 13–17. In a similar manner, Robertson brought a 7–14 deficit back to 14–14 in his match against Murphy, but lost the final three frames. Final. made history by becoming the first woman to referee a World Snooker Championship final. This was the first final contested by two former world champions since 2003, when defeated 18–16.
After the first session ended all-square at 4–4, opened up an 11–5 lead over, winning the second session 7–1. After the third session, Higgins led 16–8, having won that session 5–3. The second frame of the fourth session was Higgins's 1000th frame in the. The fourth and final session lasted only three frames before John Higgins defeated Shaun Murphy 18–9.
In doing so, Higgins became only the ninth player to lift the trophy more than twice, and only the sixth player to have won more than two titles in the modern era (, and being the others). By winning the title two weeks before his 34th birthday, Higgins became the oldest World Snooker Champion since 36-year-old in 1985. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below.
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. Stage one highest break: £1,000. Stage two highest break: £10,000. Stage one maximum break: £5,000. Stage two maximum break: £147,000.
Total: £1,111,000 Main draw 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 draw for the televised stage of the World Snooker Championship was made on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 at 9.45am on. Preliminary qualifying The preliminary qualifying rounds for the tournament took place on 25 February 2009 at the in. ( members not on The Tour.) Round 1 Bill Kelly 1– 5 David Singh Neil Selman 5–3 Paul Cavney Barry Stark 5–3 Stephen Ormerod 5–0 Christopher Flight Del Smith 5–0 Adam Osbourne Phil Seaton 5–2 Philip Minchin Ali Bassiri 1– 5 Round 2 Colin Mitchell 5–1 David Singh Neil Selman 5–1 Barry Stark Stephen Ormerod 1– 5 Del Smith Phil Seaton 2– 5 Qualifying The qualifying rounds 1–4 for the tournament took place between 26 February and 4 March 2009 at the in. The final round of qualifying took place between 8 and 10 March 2009 at the same venue., 140, 117, 114. 141, 131, 129, 128, 128, 128, 116, 114, 113, 107, 104.
140, 107, 105, 104, 103. 137, 123, 115, 110, 109, 106, 104, 102, 101, 101. 134, 120, 106.
133, 127, 122, 115, 101. 130, 121, 112, 111. 129, 124, 122, 111. 129, 119, 119, 115, 108, 108, 106, 103, 103, 103.
129, 105. 127, 124, 119, 118, 117, 117, 114, 104, 101, 101.
125, 124, 112, 105, 101. 118, 103, 102. 117. 114. 113.
110. 102. 100. 100 Qualifying stage centuries There were 69 century breaks in the qualifying stage of the World Championship.
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