The 2001 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2001 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 21 April and 7 May 2001 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.
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| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 21 April – 7 May 2001 |
| Venue | Crucible Theatre |
| City | Sheffield |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £1,532,000 |
| Winner's share | £250,000 |
| Highest break |  Joe Swail (NIR) (140) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) |
| Runner-up |  John Higgins (SCO) |
| Score | 18–14 |
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Defending champion Mark Williams lost in the second round 12–13 against Joe Swail, and became the latest first-time champion to fall to the Crucible curse, being unable to defend his first World title.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his first World title by defeating John Higgins 18–14 in the final.
Tournament summary edit
- Both Steve Davis and Jimmy White failed to qualify for the championship for the first time since their World Championship debuts, in 1979 and 1981 respectively.[1][2] They were both eliminated in the final qualifying round; Davis lost 6–10 against Andy Hicks and White lost 7–10 against Michael Judge.[3]
- Patrick Wallace reached the quarter-finals of the championship on his debut, however he never qualified for the main draw again.[4]
Prize fund edit
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[5]
- Winner: £250,000
- Runner-up: £147,000
- Semi-final: £73,000
- Quarter-final: £36,500
- Last 16: £20,000
- Last 32: £14,000
- Last 48: £10,500
- Last 64: £6,600
- Last 96: £4,000
- Last 128: £1,100
- Highest break: £20,000
- Maximum break: £147,000
- Total: £1,532,000
Main draw edit
Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).[6][7][8]
| Final (Best of 35 frames) Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. 6 & 7 May 2001.[14] Referee: Eirian Williams.[15] | ||
| Ronnie O'Sullivan (4) England
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18–14 | John Higgins (2) Scotland
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| 92–41, 0–92, 81–0, 79–0, 56–47, 0–135, 90–28, 71–0, 49–72, 49–36, 2–53, 50–68, 99–0, 100–12, 22–108, 99–0, 81–26, 12–78, 139–0, 85–0, 133–0, 33–65, 21–67, 0–98, 19–68, 68–0, 78–43, 8–67, 5–101, 68–60, 69–71, 80–45 | Century breaks: 4 (O'Sullivan 2, Higgins 2) Highest break by O'Sullivan: 139 |
92–41, 0–92, 81–0, 79–0, 56–47, 0–135, 90–28, 71–0, 49–72, 49–36, 2–53, 50–68, 99–0, 100–12, 22–108, 99–0, 81–26, 12–78, 139–0, 85–0, 133–0, 33–65, 21–67, 0–98, 19–68, 68–0, 78–43, 8–67, 5–101, 68–60, 69–71, 80–45 |
| Ronnie O'Sullivan wins the 2001 Embassy World Snooker Championship
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Qualifying edit
The qualifying matches were held between 20 February and 4 March 2001 at the Newport Centre in Newport, Wales.
Round 1 edit
| Best of 19 frames | ||
 Hasimu Tuerxun |
10–3 |  Lasse Münstermann
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| Tom Ford |
10–2 |  Charoen Phorat
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| Ricky Walden |
10–5 |  David McDonnell
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| Shailesh Jogia |
10–9 | Shaun Murphy
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 Bob Chaperon |
10–6 | Ian Hurdman
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| Darryn Walker |
10–3 | Eddie Barker
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| Lee Spick |
10–7 | Michael Rhodes
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 Neil Robertson |
10–7 | Paul Davison
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Round 2–4 edit
Round 5–6 edit
Century breaks edit
There were 53 century breaks in the Championship.[16] The highest break of the tournament was 140 made by Joe Swail.[6][17]
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References edit
- ^ "Steve Davis at the World Championships". Snooker Database. Retrieved 11 May 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Jimmy White at the World Championships". Snooker Database. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ King, Steve. "End of an era as Davis misses out on Crucible". The Scotsman on HighBeam Research. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ "Patrick Wallace at the World Championships". Snooker Database. Archived from the original on 5 May 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. p. 130.
- ^ a b c "World Championship 2001". global-snooker.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
- ^ "Embassy World Championship 2001". Snooker.org. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. pp. 52–53.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Crucible: First round". BBC Sport. 27 April 2001. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Crucible: Second Round". BBC Sport. 28 April 2001. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Crucible: Quarter-Finals". BBC Sport. 3 May 2001. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ "Framewatch: O'Sullivan v Swail". BBC Sport. 5 May 2001. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ "Framewatch: Higgins v Stevens". BBC Sport. 5 May 2001. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ "Framewatch: O'Sullivan v Higgins". BBC Sport. 7 May 2001. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. p. 143.
- ^ Downer, Chris (2012). Crucible Almanac. p. 150.
- ^ "Crucible Centuries". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.