2008 Jiangsu Classic
The 2008 Guolian Securities Jiangsu Classic was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 8 June 2008 in two cities in the Jiangsu Province, China.
Tournament information | |
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Dates | 4–8 June 2008 |
Venue | Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium Wuxi Sports Center |
City | Nanjing Wuxi |
Country | China |
Organisation(s) | WPBSA |
Format | Non-ranking event |
Total prize fund | £64,000 |
Winner's share | £20,000 |
Highest break | 110 |
Final | |
Champion | |
Runner-up | |
Score | 6–5 |
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The round-robin stage consisted of two groups of six players, eight top 16 players and four Chinese wild cards. The final was staged at the Wuxi Sports Center in Wuxi, while the rest of the tournament had been held at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Nanjing.[1]
Ding Junhui, the only player to have won all his matches, delighted his home crowd by taking the title with a tense final frame decider defeat of Mark Selby.
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[2]
- Winner: £20,000
- Runner-Up: £9,000
- Semi-final: £4,000
- 3rd place in group: £2,000
- 4th place in group: £1,000
- Appearance Fees for 8 professionals: £2,500
- Highest break: £1,000
- Total: £64,000
Round-robin stage
Group A
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(breaks above 50 shown between brackets), breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.
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Group B
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(breaks above 50 shown between brackets), breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.
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Knock-out stages
Semi-finals Best of 9 frames | Final Best of 11 frames | ||||||||
Joe Perry | 1 | ||||||||
Mark Selby* | 4 | ||||||||
Mark Selby | 5 | ||||||||
Ding Junhui | 6 | ||||||||
Ding Junhui** | 4 | ||||||||
Ryan Day | 0 | ||||||||
* 32–71, (51) 75–43, 1–75 (52), 1–81 (74), 22–97 (81)
** (52) 75–21, (81) 85–0, (75) 120–1, (108) 120–0
Final
Final: Best of 11 frames. Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium, Wuxi, China, 8 June 2008.[2][3] | ||
Mark Selby |
5–6 | Ding Junhui |
63–50, 52–60, 67–41, 36–76 (50), 24–68 (59), 38–77 49–70 (70), 85–44 (64), 93–14 (85), 75–0 (74), 52–77 (52, 61) | ||
85 | Highest break | 70 |
0 | Century breaks | 0 |
4 | 50+ breaks | 4 |
Century breaks
- 110, 108, 108
Ding Junhui - 102, 100
Mark Selby - 100
Ryan Day - 100
Peter Ebdon
References
- Turner, Chris. "China International, China Open, Shanghai Masters, Jiangsu/Wuxi Classic". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
- "2008 Guolian Securities Jiangsu Snooker Classic". Archived from the original on 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2006-08-08.
- "Top Snooker: 2008 Jiangsu Classic Information & Draw". Archived from the original on 2009-12-09. Retrieved 2009-05-20.