2007 Grand Prix (snooker)

The 2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 13 and 21 October 2007 at the A.E.C.C. in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Royal London Watches Grand Prix
Tournament information
Dates13–21 October 2007 (2007-10-13 – 2007-10-21)
VenueA.E.C.C.
CityAberdeen
CountryScotland
OrganisationWPBSA
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£470,500
Winner's share£75,000
Highest break Tom Ford (ENG) (147)
Final
Champion Marco Fu (HKG)
Runner-up Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)
Score9–6
2006
2008

Dave Harold made 14 consecutive foul and misses during his round-robin stage match against Liu Song. This is the most consecutive foul and misses made in any professional event.[1]

Marco Fu won the title by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–6 in the final.

Prize fund

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The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[2]

Ranking points

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The breakdown of ranking points for this year is shown below:[2]

Main draw

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Round-robin stage

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The first round used a round-robin format like last season. The top 32 and the 16 qualifiers were placed in eight groups of six with the top two from each group qualifying for the knockout stage. Matches in the round-robins were the best of seven frames.[2][3]

Tom Ford made a maximum break in his match against Steve Davis.[4] For this feat he won £24,000.

Group 2A

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Joe Swail (NIR) 5 4 18 11 +7
  Joe Perry (ENG) 5 4 16 12 +4
  Jimmy Michie (ENG) 5 2 14 14 0
  Neil Robertson (AUS) 5 2 14 14 0
  Stephen Lee (ENG) 5 2 13 16 −3
  Mark Davis (ENG) 5 1 9 17 −8

Group 2B

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) 5 5 20 6 +14
  Gerard Greene (NIR) 5 4 18 9 +9
  Tom Ford (ENG) 5 2 17 15 +2
  Dominic Dale (WAL) 5 2 11 17 −6
  Steve Davis (ENG) 5 2 9 18 −9
  Mark Joyce (ENG) 5 0 10 20 −10

Group 2C

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Peter Ebdon (ENG) 5 5 20 12 +8
  Liu Song (CHN) 5 3 16 12 +4
  Matthew Stevens (WAL) 5 3 14 14 0
  Mark Selby (ENG) 5 2 14 14 0
  Dave Harold (ENG) 5 2 13 15 −2
  Joe Delaney (IRL) 5 0 10 20 −10

Group 2D

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Shaun Murphy (ENG) 5 4 19 11 +8
  Marco Fu (HKG) 5 4 19 14 +5
  Stuart Pettman (ENG) 5 3 16 13 +3
  Stuart Bingham (ENG) 5 2 13 13 0
  Ding Junhui (CHN) 5 2 13 14 −1
  Ben Woollaston (ENG) 5 0 5 20 −15

Group 2E

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Ali Carter (ENG) 5 5 20 4 +16
  Marcus Campbell (SCO) 5 4 16 14 +2
  Michael Holt (ENG) 5 3 15 14 +1
  Anthony Hamilton (ENG) 5 2 14 13 +1
  Fergal O'Brien (IRL) 5 1 10 18 −8
  Graeme Dott (SCO) 5 0 8 20 −12

Group 2F

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Ricky Walden (ENG) 5 4 18 10 +8
  Michael Judge (IRL) 5 4 18 14 +4
  Mark Allen (NIR) 5 3 15 15 0
  Mark Williams (WAL) 5 2 14 17 −3
  Ken Doherty (IRL) 5 1 13 17 −4
  Ian McCulloch (ENG) 5 1 14 19 −5

Group 2G

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Stephen Maguire (SCO) 5 4 17 9 +8
  Barry Hawkins (ENG) 5 3 16 13 +3
  Stephen Hendry (SCO) 5 3 17 16 +1
  Rory McLeod (ENG) 5 3 16 15 +1
  Paul Davies (WAL) 5 2 13 18 −5
  Jamie Cope (ENG) 5 0 12 20 −8

Group 2H

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  John Higgins (SCO) 5 5 20 6 +14
  Ryan Day (WAL) 5 3 17 10 +7
  Nigel Bond (ENG) 5 2 12 14 −2
  Mark King (ENG) 5 2 11 13 −2
  Tian Pengfei (CHN) 5 2 12 17 −5
  Andrew Norman (ENG) 5 1 7 19 −12

Knockout stage

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[5][6]

 
Last 16
Best of 9 frames
Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames
Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
Final
Best of 17 frames
 
              
 
 
 
 
  Joe Swail (NIR)5
 
 
 
  Marcus Campbell (SCO)2
 
  Joe Swail3
 
 
 
  Ronnie O'Sullivan5
 
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)5
 
 
 
  Michael Judge (IRL)2
 
  Ronnie O'Sullivan6
 
 
 
  Shaun Murphy5
 
  Peter Ebdon (ENG)5
 
 
 
  Barry Hawkins (ENG)2
 
  Peter Ebdon3
 
 
 
  Shaun Murphy5
 
  Shaun Murphy (ENG)5
 
 
 
  Ryan Day (WAL)3
 
  Ronnie O'Sullivan6
 
 
 
  Marco Fu9
 
  Ali Carter (ENG)3
 
 
 
  Joe Perry (ENG)5
 
  Joe Perry3
 
 
 
  Gerard Greene5
 
  Ricky Walden (ENG)0
 
 
 
  Gerard Greene (NIR)5
 
  Gerard Greene5
 
 
 
  Marco Fu6
 
  Stephen Maguire (SCO)3
 
 
 
  Liu Song (CHN)5
 
  Liu Song0
 
 
 
  Marco Fu5
 
  John Higgins (SCO)4
 
 
  Marco Fu (HKG)5
 

Final

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Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Jan Verhaas.
Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Scotland, 21 October 2007.[5]
Ronnie O'Sullivan
  England
6–9 Marco Fu
  Hong Kong
Afternoon: 21–100 (78), 104–35 (85), 0–110 (110), 18–84 (74), 127–0 (127), 75–0 (75), 64–33
Evening: 67–5, 0–99, 4–95 (94), 5–121 (117), 0–82 (62), 66–44 (65), 58–60 (52, 60), 0–76 (76)
127 Highest break 117
1 Century breaks 2
5 50+ breaks 8

Qualifying

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Qualifying for the 2007 Grand Prix was held between 17 September and 23 September 2007 at Pontin's Prestatyn using a round-robin format. The entries were placed into eight groups with the top 2 from each group qualifying for the finals in Aberdeen. All matches at this stage were played over the best of seven frames.[2][7]

Group 1A

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Mark Davis (ENG) 7 5 25 15 +10
  Mark Joyce (ENG) 7 4 25 17 +8
  Jimmy White (ENG) 7 4 21 21 0
  Robert Milkins (ENG) 7 4 20 22 −2
  Jimmy Robertson (ENG) 7 3 23 22 +1
  Supoj Saenla (THA) 7 3 18 20 −2
  Alex Davies (ENG) 7 3 15 24 −9
  Scott MacKenzie (SCO) 7 2 20 26 −6

Group 1B

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Tom Ford (ENG) 7 6 25 10 +15
  Jimmy Michie (ENG) 7 4 22 14 +8
  Tony Drago (MLT) 7 4 20 19 +1
  James McBain (SCO) 7 4 18 18 0
  Andrew Higginson (ENG) 7 3 20 17 +3
  James Wattana (THA) 7 3 17 19 −2
  Gareth Coppack (WAL) 7 2 9 22 −13
  Michael White (WAL) 7 1 14 26 −12

Group 1C

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Joe Delaney (IRL) 7 5 25 16 +9
  Ben Woollaston (ENG) 7 5 23 19 +4
  Barry Pinches (ENG) 7 4 19 15 +4
  David Gilbert (ENG) 7 4 20 17 +3
  Issara Kachaiwong (THA) 7 3 19 22 −3
  David Gray (ENG) 7 3 19 23 −4
  Leo Fernandez (IRL) 7 2 17 23 −6
  Lee Spick (ENG) 7 2 17 24 −7

Group 1D

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Stuart Pettman (ENG) 7 7 28 12 +16
  Liu Song (CHN) 7 5 23 16 +7
  Andy Hicks (ENG) 7 4 22 17 +5
  Xiao Guodong (CHN) 7 3 19 20 −1
  Jamie Burnett (SCO) 7 3 20 23 −3
  Mike Dunn (ENG) 7 3 17 23 −6
  Kurt Maflin (NOR) 7 2 20 21 −1
  Ashley Wright (ENG) 7 1 9 26 −17

Group 1E

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Fergal O'Brien (IRL) 7 6 26 12 +14
  Michael Judge (IRL) 7 6 25 13 +12
  Joe Jogia (ENG) 7 4 21 18 +3
  David Roe (ENG) 7 4 21 18 +3
  Matthew Selt (ENG) 7 3 20 20 0
  Rodney Goggins (IRL) 7 2 17 22 −5
  Drew Henry (SCO) 7 2 13 25 −12
  Kevin Van Hove (BEL) 7 1 11 26 −15

Group 1F

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Ricky Walden (ENG) 7 6 25 16 +9
  Marcus Campbell (SCO) 7 5 23 12 +11
  Robin Hull (FIN) 7 4 23 19 +4
  Munraj Pal (ENG) 7 4 23 20 +3
  Martin Gould (ENG) 7 4 21 19 +2
  David Morris (IRL) 7 3 24 21 +3
  Steve Mifsud (AUS) 7 1 13 27 −14
  John Parrott (ENG) 7 1 8 26 −18

Group 1G

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Paul Davies (WAL) 7 5 25 11 +14
  Tian Pengfei (CHN) 7 5 24 20 +4
  Fraser Patrick (SCO) 7 4 21 20 +1
  Ian Preece (WAL) 7 3 17 17 0
  Lee Walker (WAL) 7 3 17 19 −2
  Alan McManus (SCO) 7 3 19 23 −4
  Adrian Gunnell (ENG) 7 3 14 22 −8
  Liu Chuang (CHN) 7 2 18 23 −5

Group 1H

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Player MP MW FW FL FD
  Andrew Norman (ENG) 7 6 25 12 +13
  Rory McLeod (ENG) 7 5 23 14 +9
  Liang Wenbo (CHN) 7 5 22 19 +3
  Patrick Wallace (NIR) 7 4 22 19 +3
  Alfred Burden (ENG) 7 3 15 17 −2
  Judd Trump (ENG) 7 3 19 22 −3
  Rod Lawler (ENG) 7 1 19 25 −6
  Jamie O'Neill (ENG) 7 1 17 27 −10

Century breaks

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Qualifying stage centuries

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Televised stage centuries

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[3][5]

References

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  1. ^ Turner, Chris. "Various Snooker Records". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d "2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix Information". globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009.
  3. ^ a b "2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix Stage 2". globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009.
  4. ^ "Ford leaves hospital and hits 147". BBC News. 14 October 2007. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  5. ^ a b c "2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix Knock Out". globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009.
  6. ^ "Grand Prix". Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  7. ^ a b "2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix Stage 1". globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009.