From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2008 Welsh Open (snooker)
2008 Welsh Open (snooker)
Welsh Open Winner: £35,000 Stage 1 high break: £500
Tournament information Runner Up: £17,500 Stage 2 high break: £2,000
Semi Finalists: £8,750 Stage 1 max: £1,000
Dates 11–17 February 2008
Quarter Finalist: £6,500 Stage 2 max: £20,000
Venue Newport Centre Last 16: £4,275 Total: £225,500
City Newport Last 32: £2,750
Last 48: £1,725
Country Wales Last 64: £1,325
Organisation(s) WPBSA
Format Ranking event Main draw
Total prize fund £225,500 [2][3]
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
Winner’s share £35,000
Best of 9 frames Best of 9 frames Best of 9 fram
Highest break 143
Final
Champion Mark Selby
Runner-up Ronnie O’Sullivan
22 5 1 Neil 5
Jamie Robertson
Score 9–8 Cope
← 2007 Jim- 4 22 1
1 Neil
2009 → my Michie Jamie Robertson
Cope
The 2008 Welsh Open professional ranking snooker tour-
nament took place between 11 and 17 February 2008 in 14 Ali 5
20 4 14
the Newport Centre in Newport. Carter
Matthew
Mark Selby won his first ranking title, beating Ronnie Stevens
O’Sullivan 9–8, coming back from an 5–8 deficit.
Tian 5 Tian 2
Pengfei Pengfei
Notable happennings
• Tian Pengfei won the last 3 frames to oust one of the 21 5 15 5
Welsh favourite, Matthew Stevens 5–4. Mark King Steve
• David Roe led John Higgins 3–1 before losing 3–5. Davis
• Mark Williams won the last 3 frames to beat Marco An- 1 21 3
15
Fu 5–4. drew Nor- Mark King
• Ali Carter led Neil Robertson 4–0 but won only 5–3. man
• Ronnie O’Sullivan won the high break prize with a
143 in the last frame of his 6–3 semi-final victory 6 5
17 Joe 2 6
over Shaun Murphy, surpassing an effort of 134 from Swail Ronnie
Marcus Campbell. O’Sullivan
• Mark Selby had a highest break of 77 in the final
Judd 5 Judd 3
compared to O’Sullivan’s 135.
Trump Trump
Prize fund
[1]
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Judge
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Hamilton 2008.[4] Lee
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Final: Best of 17 frames
Newport Centre, Newport, Wales, 17 February 2008.[2]
Ronnie O’Sullivan 8–9 Mark Selby
England England
90 77), 60, 69–5, 72–44, 56
Afternoon: 6–90 (77 50–60 69 72 51), 62, 139 70,65 130–0 108)
56–23 (51 35–62 0–139 (70 65), 130 (108
97–0 93), 135–6 135), 72 72), 87–35 (63 69 (54 0–89 28–86 (62
Evening: 97 (93 135 (135 22–72 (72 87 63), 69–1 54), 89, 86 62)
67 53),
53–67 (O’Sullivan 53 37–7272
135 Highest break 77
2 Century breaks 0
6 50+ breaks 5
Liang 5 Paul 1 An- 5 Pa- 5 Pa- 2 Stu- 2
Wenbo Davies drew trick Wal- trick Wal- art
Norman lace lace Pettman
Ashley 2 Liang 5 2 James 3 Jim- 5 An- 5
Wright Wenbo Liang McBain my White drew Hig-
Wenbo ginson
Lee 2 Judd 5 2 Rod- 5 Rod- 1 Jim- 2
Walker Trump Andy ney Goggins ney Gog- my White
Hicks gins
5 1 Judd 5 Kurt 5 Ian 5 5
Martin Martin Trump Maflin Preece David Gil-
Gould Gould bert
David 5 Mike 5 John 5 I 4 Kurt 1 Ian 1
Morris Dunn Parrott Kachaiwong Maflin Preece
Gareth 1 2 4
Tony 5 Joe 5 2
Coppack David Mike Delaney Jamie
Drago
Morris Dunn Burnett
5 Bar- 1 3 Kevin 1 Tony 4 Joe 5
Matthew ry Pinches Mark Van Hove Drago Delaney
Selt Davis
Mark 5 w/d Alan 5
Ben 1 5 5
Joyce Robin Hull McManus
Woollaston Matthew Matthew
Jimmy 4 Mark w/o 1
Selt Selt
Robertson Joyce Mark
Liu 5 Tom 5 5 Joyce
Song Ford Adrian
Jamie 5 Rod 5 2
Gunnell
O’Neill Lawler James
Xiao 2 Liu 1 Tom 2
Wattana
Guodong Song Ford
Liu 2 4 Rod 5
Leo 5 Drew 5 Fer- 4 Chuang Jamie Lawler
Fernandez Henry gal O’Neill
O’Brien
Lee 5 Mar- 5 4
Fraser 2 Leo 4 5
Spick cus Camp- Ricky
Patrick Fernandez Drew
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Henry
Supoj 1 Lee 4 5
Mun- 3 Stu- 5 5 Spick Marcus
Saenla
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Pettman Judge
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Alex 5 5 1 • 130, 124 Stephen • 105, 102 Ali Carter
Davies David Roe David Hendry • 103 Dave Harold
Gray • 129, 108, 105 Shaun • 102 Rod Lawler
4 Alex 0 5 Murphy • 100 Anthony Hamilton
Michael Davies David Roe • 125, 114 John Higgins • 100 Neil Robertson
White • 123 Stuart Bingham
• 123, 112 Judd Trump
• 117, 101 Marco Fu
Century breaks • 115 Ding Junhui
Qualifying stages centuries References
• 134 Stuart Pettman • 112 Ian Preece
[1] "Preisgeld Welsh Open 2008". brownball.de.
• 128 Munraj Pal • 109 Tom Ford
http://www.brownball.de/welshopen08/
• 126 Judd Trump • 105 David Roe
preisgeld_welshopen08.html. Retrieved 27 March
• 123 Tony Drago • 104 Jimmy Michie
2011.
• 122 Liang Wenbo • 100 Lee Walker
[2] ^ "Welsh Open 2008". WWW Snooker.
• 113 Issara Kachaiwong
http://www.snooker.org/trn/0708/
wo2008_res.shtml. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
Television stages centuries [3] "Welsh Open 2008". brownball.de.
• 143, 135, 113, 108, 105, • 114, 101 Mark Selby http://www.brownball.de/welshopen08/
101 Ronnie O’Sullivan • 114, 100 Mark Williams spielplan_welshopen08.html. Retrieved 27 March
• 134 Marcus Campbell • 112 Michael Judge 2011.
• 133 Ken Doherty • 109 Stephen Maguire [4] "Qualifikation Welsh Open 2008". brownball.de.
• 132, 115, 108, 107 Joe • 107 Andrew Higginson http://www.brownball.de/welshopen08/
Perry • 107 Jamie Cope quali_welshopen08.html. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
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