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.
Tournament information | |
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Dates | 13–21 October 2007 |
Venue | A.E.C.C. |
City | Aberdeen |
Country | Scotland |
Organisation | WPBSA |
Format | Ranking 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) |
Score | 9–6 |
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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
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[2]
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Ranking points
The breakdown of ranking points for this year is shown below:[2]
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Main draw
Round-robin stage
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
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 2B
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 2C
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 2D
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 2E
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 2F
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 2G
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 2H
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Knockout stage
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 Swail | 3 | |||||||||||||
Ronnie O'Sullivan | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Michael Judge (IRL) | 2 | |||||||||||||
Ronnie O'Sullivan | 6 | |||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 5 | |||||||||||||
Peter Ebdon (ENG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Barry Hawkins (ENG) | 2 | |||||||||||||
Peter Ebdon | 3 | |||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy | 5 | |||||||||||||
Shaun Murphy (ENG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ryan Day (WAL) | 3 | |||||||||||||
Ronnie O'Sullivan | 6 | |||||||||||||
Marco Fu | 9 | |||||||||||||
Ali Carter (ENG) | 3 | |||||||||||||
Joe Perry (ENG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Joe Perry | 3 | |||||||||||||
Gerard Greene | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ricky Walden (ENG) | 0 | |||||||||||||
Gerard Greene (NIR) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Gerard Greene | 5 | |||||||||||||
Marco Fu | 6 | |||||||||||||
Stephen Maguire (SCO) | 3 | |||||||||||||
Liu Song (CHN) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Liu Song | 0 | |||||||||||||
Marco Fu | 5 | |||||||||||||
John Higgins (SCO) | 4 | |||||||||||||
Marco Fu (HKG) | 5 | |||||||||||||
Final
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
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
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 1B
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 1C
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 1D
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 1E
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 1F
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 1G
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Group 1H
Player | MP | MW | FW | FL | FD |
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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 |
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Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
- 147, 126, 108 – Jamie Burnett
- 142 – Issara Kachaiwong
- 141 – Xiao Guodong
- 140, 133, 117, 102 – Liu Song
- 136 – David Gray
- 135 – Alex Davies
- 133 – Jimmy White
- 132, 100 – Fergal O'Brien
- 132 – David Gilbert
- 130 – Scott MacKenzie
- 129, 128, 118 – Tom Ford
- 128, 127 – Rod Lawler
- 128, 108 – Tony Drago
- 128 – David Roe
- 127, 125, 121, 112, 102 – Mark Davis
- 127, 125, 103 – Kurt Maflin
- 126, 122, 101, 100 – Robin Hull
- 122 – Andy Hicks
- 121, 116 – Andrew Higginson
- 119, 110 – Judd Trump
- 119 – Rory McLeod
- 115, 107 – Marcus Campbell
- 113 – David Morris
- 112, 111 – Ricky Walden
- 112, 107 – Supoj Saenla
- 112 – Adrian Gunnell
- 111, 100 – Munraj Pal
- 107 – Michael Judge
- 106 – Liang Wenbo
- 106 – Matthew Selt
- 105 – Steve Mifsud
- 103 – James McBain
- 103 – Stuart Pettman
- 103 – Drew Henry
- 102, 101 – Leo Fernandez
- 100 – Jimmy Michie
Televised stage centuries
- 147, 122, 117, 113, 104 – Tom Ford
- 143, 111, 110 – Dave Harold
- 138, 119 – Anthony Hamilton
- 138, 108 – Shaun Murphy
- 138 – Jamie Cope
- 137, 135, 127, 125, 123, 119, 100 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 134, 110, 107, 103 – Peter Ebdon
- 134 – Michael Judge
- 133, 119, 117, 110, 109, 106, 105, 103, 101 – Marco Fu
- 133 – Graeme Dott
- 131, 102 – Mark Selby
- 130, 104, 104 – Stephen Maguire
- 124, 103 – Stuart Bingham
- 123, 101 – Gerard Greene
- 119, 112, 110, 107 – John Higgins
- 114, 107, 100 – Ryan Day
- 113, 112, 102 – Liu Song
- 113 – Nigel Bond
- 112, 101 – Ali Carter
- 103 – Stephen Hendry
- 102 – Tian Pengfei
- 102 – Mark Allen
- 101 – Marcus Campbell
- 100 – Stuart Pettman
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