2015 World Cup (snooker)

World Cup 2015 06 15 2015 06 21 y Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium Wuxi China WPBSA Non-ranking team event $800,000 $200,000 137 China BZhou YuelongYan Bingtao ScotlandJohn HigginsStephen Maguire 4–1 2011 2017 The 2015 Nongfu Spring World Cup was a professional non-ranking team snooker tournament that took place from 15 to 21 June 2015 at the Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium in Wuxi, China.Nongfu Spring World Cuphttp://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/Matches/Index/13847/world-cup WorldSnookerData.com: World Cup 2015-10-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20151020043248/http://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/Matches/Index/13847/world-cup 2015-10-20 dead It was the 14th edition of the event, and it was televised live by Eurosport.Eurosport transmission schedules for the Nongfu Spring World Cup Teams and players Seed Nation Player 1 Player 21 A Ding Junhui Xiao Guodong2 Mark Selby Stuart Bingham3 Neil Robertson Vinnie Calabrese4 Marco Fu Au Chi-wai5 John Higgins Stephen Maguire6 Mark Williams Michael White7 Ken Doherty Fergal O'Brien8 Kurt Maflin Anita Maflin Marvin Lim Chun Kiat KK Chan Hossein Vafaei Ehsan Heydari Nezhad Hamza Akbar Muhammad Sajjad B Zhou Yuelong Yan Bingtao Aditya Mehta Pankaj Advani Rory Thor Mohd Reza Hassan Ahmed Saif Ali Alobaidaly Dechawat Poomjaeng Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Tony Drago Alex Borg Igor Figueiredo Itaro Santos Mateusz Baranowski Adam Stefanow Khalid Alkamali Mohamed Shehab Andreas Ploner Paul Schopf Luca Brecel Tomasz Skalski Gerard Greene Joe Swail Lukas Kleckers Felix Frede Prize fund Winner: $200,000 Runner-Up: $100,000 Semi-final: $60,000 Quarter-final: $40,000 Third in group: $22,500 Fourth in group: $15,000 Fifth in group: $10,000 Sixth in group: $7,500 Total: $800,000 Format October 2015 The 2015 World Cup consisted of 24 national teams, with two players competing for each side, and the initial round divided the entrants into four pools of six sides apiece. During the Group Stage, every national team played a best-of-five match against each of the other sides in their pool. Three victories were required to secure a head-to-head team win, but all five individual contests needed to be played, similar to the Davis Cup and Fed Cup formats in professional tennis. All matches were scheduled to include two singles contests, a doubles encounter, and two reverse singles showdowns. The top two teams from each bracket advanced to the Knockout Stages. During the Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, and Championship Final, the remaining national sides were paired off a head-to-head knockout bracket. The format for these head-to-head matches was a sudden death best-of-seven competition, similar to professional sporting events like baseball's World Series and basketball's NBA Finals, with the contest coming to an end as soon as one team accumulated four individual victories. These encounters were scheduled as two singles showdowns, a doubles match, two reverse singles contests, another doubles encounter, and a winner-take-all singles showdown if necessary. The side that won the Final were named champions. Group round Group A Gameday Team 1 Score Team 2 Team 1 Score Team 2 Team 1 Score Team 2 15 June 2015 A 3–2 3–2 5–0 16 June 2015 A 5–0 0–5 5–0 17 June 2015 A 5–0 0–5 3–2 18 June 2015 A 5–0 3–2 2–3 19 June 2015 A 3–2 4–1 1–4 PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints 1 1 A 5 25 21 4 17 21 2 5 25 19 6 13 19 3 5 25 16 9 7 16 4 5 25 8 17 −9 8 5 8 5 25 7 18 −11 7 6 5 25 4 21 −17 4 Group B Gameday Team 1 Score Team 2 Team 1 Score Team 2 Team 1 Score Team 2 15 June 2015 3–2 4–1 2–3 16 June 2015 3–2 2–3 0–5 17 June 2015 2–3 4–1 1–4 18 June 2015 1–4 1–4 2–3 19 June 2015 5–0 2–3 4–1 PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints 1 5 25 17 8 9 17 2 5 5 25 16 9 7 16 3 4 5 25 14 11 3 14 4 5 25 13 12 1 13 5 5 25 10 15 −5 10 6 5 25 5 20 −15 5 Group C Gameday Team 1 Score Team 2 Team 1 Score Team 2 Team 1 Score Team 2 15 June 2015 3–2 5–0 0–5 16 June 2015 2–3 4–1 1–4 17 June 2015 3–2 4–1 2–3 18 June 2015 4–1 4–1 4–1 19 June 2015 2–3 4–1 3–2 PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints 1 6 5 25 20 5 15 20 2 3 5 25 14 11 3 14 3 5 25 13 12 1 13 4 5 25 13 12 1 13 5 5 25 8 17 −9 8 6 5 25 7 18 −11 7 Group D Gameday Team 1 Score Team 2 Team 1 Score Team 2 Team 1 Score Team 2 15 June 2015 1–4 1–4 B UAE 2–3 16 June 2015 3–2 B 5–0 UAE 3–2 17 June 2015 4–1 B 5–0 UAE 2–3 18 June 2015 5–0 UAE B 3–2 4–1 19 June 2015 3–2 B 5–0 4–1 UAE PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints 1 B 5 25 19 6 13 19 2 5 25 16 9 7 16 3 2 5 25 16 9 7 16 4 7 5 25 14 11 3 14 5 5 25 7 18 −11 7 6 5 25 3 22 −19 3 Final round QuarterfinalsBest of 7 frames(20 June 2015) SemifinalsBest of 7 frames(21 June 2015) FinalBest of 7 frames(21 June 2015) A1 A 1 B2 4 B1 1 A2 4 C1 4 D2 1 D1 B 4 C2 2 B2 4 A2 3 C1 3 D1 B 4 B2 1 D1 B 4 Final Final: Best of 7 frames. Referee: Paul Collier.Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium, Wuxi, China, 21 June 2015. John HigginsStephen Maguire 1–4 Zhou YuelongYan Bingtao B 0–100 (100), 6–100 (56), 41–69, 67–18, 44–71 37 Highest break 100 0 Century breaks 1 0 50+ breaks 2 Century breaks There were 10 century breaks in the tournament.http://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/Centuries/CenturyBreaks/13847/world-cup 2015 World Cup – Century breaks 2015-10-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20150618132003/http://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/Centuries/CenturyBreaks/13847/world-cup 2015-06-18 dead IND – 137 Pankaj Advani CHN B – 134, 100 Yan Bingtao WAL – 130, 108 Mark Williams SCO – 122 John Higgins AUS – 111 Neil Robertson THA – 108 Dechawat Poomjaeng BRA – 105 Itaro Santos MLT – 105 Tony Drago References 2 External links http://www.worldsnooker.com/tournaments/world-cup-2015/ Category:World Cup (snooker) World Cup Category:Snooker competitions in China Category:Sport in Wuxi Category:June 2015 sports events in China