2007 Masters (snooker)

Professional non-ranking snooker tournament, Jan 2007 April 2022 2007 SAGA Insurance Masters SAGA Insurance Masters logo.jpg 2007 01 14 2007 01 21 y Wembley Arena London England WPBSA Non-ranking event £130,000 Ding Junhui CHN (147) Ronnie O'Sullivan ENG Ding Junhui CHN 10–3 2006 2008 The 2007 Masters (officially the 2007 SAGA Insurance Masters) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place from 14 to 21 January 2007 at the Wembley Arena in London, England. It was the 33rd edition of the tournament. In a slight change for 2007, there were 19 competitors, as opposed to 18 up until 2006. The top 16 seeds for ranking events were automatically invited, while the other players entered a qualifying tournament for the right to one of three wild-card places. The two remaining places were granted by the game's governing body at their discretion to Jimmy White and Ding Junhui. Stuart Bingham won the qualifying tournament. Ronnie O'Sullivan won his third Masters title by defeating Ding Junhui 10–3 in the final. With a noticeably partisan crowd, a visibly upset Ding went to shake O'Sullivan's hand after the latter won the 12th frame to go 9–3 in front, apparently believing that the match was over. The two walked arm-in-arm out of the arena. After O'Sullivan clinched the match in the following frame, it later transpired that Ding had indeed believed the match was best-of-17 frames. Field Defending champion John Higgins was the number 1 seed with World Champion Graeme Dott seeded 2. Places were allocated to the top 16 players in the world rankings. Players seeded 14, 15 and 16 played in the wild-card round against the winner of the qualifying event, Stuart Bingham (ranked 24), and two wild-card selections, Ding Junhui (ranked 27) and Jimmy White (ranked 34). This was the only time that there were three matches in the wild-card round. Barry Hawkins was making his debut in the Masters. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:Preisgeld Masters 2007 http://www.brownball.de/masters07/preisgeld_masters07.html brownball.de 24 April 2011 Qualifying stage Winner: £2,000 Runner-up: £680 Semi-final: £250 Quarter-final: £105 Total: £3,600 Televised stage 70% 50% Winner: £130,000 Runner-up: £62,000 Semi-final: £32,000 Quarter-final: £16,000 Last 16: £12,000 Last 18 (seeded): £12,000 Last 18 (wild-cards): £2,000 50% Highest break: £10,000 Maximum break: £25,000 Wild-card round In the preliminary "wild-card round", the three wild-card players were drawn against the players seeded 14th, 15th and 16th:SAGA Insurance Masters 2007 http://www.snooker.org/trn/0607/m2007_res.shtml Snooker.org 29 December 20102007 Saga Masters http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Results/2006-7/06-7MASTERSfinal.htm Global Snooker Centre https://web.archive.org/web/20081224033416/http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Results/2006-7/06-7MASTERSfinal.htm 24 December 2008The Masters http://www.snookerscene.co.uk/page.php?id=60 https://web.archive.org/web/20130124071627/http://www.snookerscene.co.uk/page.php?id=60 24 January 2013 Snooker Scene 8 August 2012 During the course of his match against Anthony Hamilton, Ding Junhui became the 28th and youngest ever player to score a maximum 147 break on live television. Aged 1 Apr 1987 14 Jan 2007 and, he broke the previous record set by Ronnie O'Sullivan in 1997 who was then 5 Dec 1975 21 Apr 1997 and old. This was also just the second maximum in the history of the Masters.Ding compiles maximum at Masters https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/6260923.stm BBC Sport 29 December 2010 14 January 2007 Match Date Score WC1 Sunday 14 January Matthew Stevens WAL (14) 6–1 Jimmy White ENG WC2 Sunday 14 January Ali Carter ENG (15) 6–5 Stuart Bingham ENG WC3 Sunday 14 January Anthony Hamilton ENG (16) 3–6 Ding Junhui CHN Main draw 180 Last 16 Best of 11 frames Quarter-finals Best of 11 frames Semi-finals Best of 11 frames Final Best of 19 frames 1 John Higgins SCO 5 9 Stephen Maguire SCO 6 8 Mark Williams WAL 0 13 Neil Robertson AUS 6 5 Ronnie O'Sullivan ENG 6 15 Ali Carter ENG 1 4 Ken Doherty IRL 6 12 Barry Hawkins ENG 3 3 Stephen Hendry SCO 6 14 Matthew Stevens WAL 5 6 Shaun Murphy ENG 6 11 Steve Davis ENG 3 7 Peter Ebdon ENG 3 Ding Junhui CHN 6 2 Graeme Dott SCO 2 10 Stephen Lee ENG 6 9 SCO Stephen Maguire 6 13 AUS Neil Robertson 2 5 ENG Ronnie O'Sullivan 6 4 IRL Ken Doherty 5 3 SCO Stephen Hendry 6 6 ENG Shaun Murphy 3 CHN Ding Junhui 6 10 ENG Stephen Lee 2 9 SCO Stephen Maguire 4 5 ENG Ronnie O'Sullivan 6 3 SCO Stephen Hendry 2 CHN Ding Junhui 6 5 ENG Ronnie O'Sullivan 10 CHN Ding Junhui 3 Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Jan Verhaas.Wembley Arena, London, England, 21 January 2007. Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) 10–3 Ding Junhui Afternoon: 1–77 (77), 16–109 (109), 62–1 (55), 99–22 (99), 128–0 (128), 101–37 (101), 64–72 (O'Sullivan 58), 116–4 (116) Evening: 96–0 (96), 66–65 (66, 65), 143–11 (143), 97–0, 121–12 (74) 143 Highest break 109 4 Century breaks 1 10 50+ breaks 3 Qualifying The 2006 Masters Qualifying Event were held between 4 and 9 November 2006 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, England. The winner of this series of matches, who qualified for the tournament, was Stuart Bingham.2006 Saga Masters Qualifying Event http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Results/2006-7/06-7MASTERSqual.htm Global Snooker Centre https://web.archive.org/web/20081224055307/http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Results/2006-7/06-7MASTERSqual.htm 24 December 2008 Last 64Best of 7 frames Last 32Best of 9 frames Last 16Best of 9 frames Quarter-finalsBest of 9 frames Semi-finalsBest of 9 frames FinalBest of 11 frames WAL Ryan Day Bye ENG Matthew Couch 4 CHN Liu Song 2 NIR Gerard Greene 4 ENG James Leadbetter 2 ENG Lee Spick 3 NZL Dene O'Kane 4 ENG Barry Pinches 4 UAE Mohammed Shehab 3 SCO Jamie Burnett 4 IRL David Morris 3 ENG David Gray Bye ENG Judd Trump 4 ENG Andrew Higginson 2 ENG Stuart Bingham Bye ENG Jamie Cope w/d ENG Paul Davison w/o ENG Mark King Bye NIR Mark Allen 4 SCO Robert Stephen 1 ENG Ricky Walden 4 CHN Tian Pengfei 1 ENG David Roe 0 MLT Alex Borg 4 ENG Michael Holt Bye ENG Chris Norbury 4 GER Patrick Einsle 1 ENG Nigel Bond Bye SCO Marcus Campbell 3 ENG Mark Joyce 4 NIR Joe Swail Bye ENG Tom Ford w/o ENG Alfie Burden w/d ENG Mark Selby Bye FIN Robin Hull 1 ENG Ben Woollaston 4 ENG Ian McCulloch Bye ENG Joe Jogia 1 THA Passakorn Suwannawat 4 HKG Marco Fu Bye WAL Paul Davies 4 WAL Jamie Jones 0 IRL Michael Judge 2 THA Issara Kachaiwong 4 ENG Jimmy Michie 2 ENG Jeff Cundy 4 ENG Dave Harold 4 ENG Sean Storey 1 ENG Andrew Norman 4 ENG Lee Page 0 ENG Joe Perry Bye IRL Fergal O'Brien 1 CHN Liang Wenbo 4 WAL Ryan Day 5 ENG Matthew Couch 2 NIR Gerard Greene 5 NZL Dene O'Kane 4 ENG Barry Pinches 5 SCO Jamie Burnett 4 ENG David Gray 5 ENG Judd Trump 4 ENG Stuart Bingham 5 ENG Paul Davison 1 ENG Mark King 5 NIR Mark Allen 4 ENG Ricky Walden 5 MLT Alex Borg 3 ENG Michael Holt 5 ENG Chris Norbury 0 ENG Nigel Bond 5 ENG Mark Joyce 3 NIR Joe Swail 5 ENG Tom Ford 1 ENG Mark Selby 5 ENG Ben Woollaston 3 ENG Ian McCulloch 5 THA Passakorn Suwannawat 0 HKG Marco Fu 5 WAL Paul Davies 0 THA Issara Kachaiwong 5 ENG Jeff Cundy 4 ENG Dave Harold 3 ENG Andrew Norman 5 ENG Joe Perry 3 CHN Liang Wenbo 5 WAL Ryan Day 5 NIR Gerard Greene 3 ENG Barry Pinches 2 ENG David Gray 5 ENG Stuart Bingham 5 ENG Mark King 1 ENG Ricky Walden 1 ENG Michael Holt 5 ENG Nigel Bond 2 NIR Joe Swail 5 ENG Mark Selby 5 ENG Ian McCulloch 3 HKG Marco Fu 5 THA Issara Kachaiwong 0 ENG Andrew Norman 2 CHN Liang Wenbo 5 WAL Ryan Day 2 ENG David Gray 5 ENG Stuart Bingham 5 ENG Michael Holt 3 NIR Joe Swail 0 ENG Mark Selby 5 HKG Marco Fu 5 CHN Liang Wenbo 4 ENG David Gray 2 ENG Stuart Bingham 5 ENG Mark Selby 5 HKG Marco Fu 2 ENG Stuart Bingham 6 ENG Mark Selby 2 Century breaks Televised stage centuries Total: 26 147, 128, 109, 108, 105, 105, 104 Ding Junhui 143, 130, 128, 117, 116, 115, 106, 101 Ronnie O'Sullivan 129 Stephen Hendry 127 Ken Doherty 126, 102 Neil Robertson 116 Stephen Maguire 105, 103, 103 Matthew Stevens 103 Anthony Hamilton 103 Ali Carter 100 Stephen Lee Qualifying stage centuries 137, 124, 103 Marco Fu 137 Michael Holt 131 Dene O'Kane 129, 112 Barry Pinches 127, 123, 121, 116, 114, 106 Mark Selby 118, 110, 104, 102 Stuart Bingham 118 Mark King 116 Joe Perry 105, 104 David Gray 104 Jeff Cundy 104 Judd Trump 103 Liang Wenbo 102 Michael Judge 100 Ian McCulloch References 2007 Masters Masters (snooker) Masters (snooker) Category:Events at Wembley Arena Category:Sport in the London Borough of Brent