2010 Premier League Snooker
The 2010 PartyCasino.com Premier League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 2 September to 28 November 2010.
Tournament information | |
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Dates | 2 September– 28 November 2010 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Organisation(s) | Matchroom Sport |
Format | Non-ranking event |
Total prize fund | £200,000 |
Winner's share | £30,000 |
Highest break | 139 |
Final | |
Champion | |
Runner-up | |
Score | 7–1 |
← 2009 2011 → |
Shaun Murphy was the defending champion, but Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated him 7–1 in the final.[1][2]
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[3][4]
- Winner: £30,000
- Runner-up: £15,000
- Semi-final: £5,000
- Frame-win: £1,000
- Century break: £1,000 (only in league phase)
- Maximum break: £25,000
- Total: £200,000
League phase
Ranking | Name | OSU | FU | MUR | ROB | WIL | SEL | DIN |
Frames W–L | Match W–D–L | Pld–Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ronnie O'Sullivan | x | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 23–13 | 3–3–0 | 6–9 |
2 | Marco Fu | 3 | x | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 20–16 | 3–2–1 | 6–8 |
3 | Shaun Murphy | 3 | 2 | x | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 19–17 | 2–2–2 | 6–6 |
4 | Neil Robertson | 1 | 2 | 4 | x | 3 | 2 | 6 | 18–18 | 2–1–3 | 6–5 |
5 | Mark Williams | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | x | 4 | 3 | 17–19 | 1–3–2 | 6–5 |
6 | Mark Selby | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | x | 2 | 17–19 | 2–1–3 | 6–5 |
7 | Ding Junhui | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | x | 12–24 | 1–2–3 | 6–4 |
Top four qualified for the play-offs. If points were level then most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If that ended 3–3 then the player who got to three first was higher.[3] (Breaks above 50 shown between (parentheses); century breaks are indicated with bold.)[5][6][7]
- 2 September – Southampton Guildhall, Southampton, England
- 16 September – Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth, England
- 30 September – Guildhall, Preston, England
- 7 October – Brentwood Leisure Centre, Brentwood, England
- 14 October – Inverness Leisure Centre, Inverness, Scotland
- 21 October – Spiceball Leisure Centre, Banbury, England
- 28 October – Penrith Leisure Centre, Penrith, England
- 4 November – Hutton Moor Leisure Centre, Weston-super-Mare, England
- 11 November – Grimsby Auditorium, Grimsby, England
- 18 November – Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales
Play-offs
27–28 November – Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton-on-Sea, England[6][7][29]
Semi-finals Best of 9 frames | Final Best of 13 frames | ||||||||
1 | 5 | ||||||||
4 | 1 | ||||||||
1 | 7 | ||||||||
3 | 1 | ||||||||
2 | 2 | ||||||||
3 | 5 | ||||||||
* (61) 74–34, 8–91 (65), (82) 90–0, (139)–0, (102)–0, (77) 78–52 (51)[30]
** (83)–0, 70–5, 0–116 (103), 0–(81), 0–(97), 0–97 (69), 0–72 (68)[31]
*** (74) 81–12, (123)–0, (59) 82–34, 84–32, 67–35, 43–68, (68) 77–0, (51) 83–28[32]
Qualifiers
The qualification for this tournament, the Championship League was played in eight groups from 4 January to 25 March 2010.
Century breaks
- 139, 130, 123, 119, 119, 116, 110, 103, 102
Ronnie O'Sullivan - 131, 119, 104, 101, 100
Mark Selby - 124, 120, 116
Neil Robertson - 124, 109, 103
Shaun Murphy - 122, 113, 105, 104
Mark Williams - 122, 103
Ding Junhui - 107
Marco Fu
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