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| snooker champions |
Monday 07 July, 2008 |
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 10:03 GMT 11:03 UK 
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Crucible facts and figures |
| Statistical information on the World Snooker Championship.
Champions
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| Year |
Winner |
Score |
Runner up |
| 2006 |
Graeme Dott |
18-14 |
Peter Ebdon |
| 2005 |
Shaun Murphy |
18-16 |
Matthew Stevens |
| 2004 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan |
18-8 |
Graeme Dott |
| 2003 |
Mark Williams |
18-16 |
Ken Doherty |
| 2002 |
Peter Ebdon |
18-17 |
Stephen Hendry |
| 2001 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan |
18-14 |
John Higgins |
| 2000 |
Mark Williams |
18-16 |
Matthew Stevens |
| 1999 |
Stephen Hendry |
18-11 |
Mark Williams |
| 1998 |
John Higgins |
18-12 |
Ken Doherty |
| 1997 |
Ken Doherty |
18-12 |
Stephen Hendry |
| 1996 |
Stephen Hendry |
18-12 |
Peter Ebdon |
| 1995 |
Stephen Hendry |
18-9 |
Nigel Bond |
| 1994 |
Stephen Hendry |
18-17 |
Jimmy White |
| 1993 |
Stephen Hendry |
18-5 |
Jimmy White |
| 1992 |
Stephen Hendry |
18-14 |
Jimmy White |
| 1991 |
John Parrott |
18-11 |
Jimmy White |
| 1990 |
Stephen Hendry |
18-12 |
Jimmy White |
| 1989 |
Steve Davis |
18-3 |
John Parrott |
| 1988 |
Steve Davis |
18-11 |
Terry Griffiths |
| 1987 |
Steve Davis |
18-14 |
Joe Johnson |
| 1986 |
Joe Johnson |
18-12 |
Steve Davis |
| 1985 |
Dennis Taylor |
18-17 |
Steve Davis |
| 1984 |
Steve Davis |
18-16 |
Jimmy White |
| 1983 |
Steve Davis |
18-6 |
Cliff Thorburn |
| 1982 |
Alex Higgins |
18-15 |
Ray Reardon |
| 1981 |
Steve Davis |
18-12 |
Doug Mountjoy |
| 1980 |
Cliff Thorburn |
18-16 |
Alex Higgins |
| 1979 |
Terry Griffiths |
24-16 |
Dennis Taylor |
| 1978 |
Ray Reardon |
25-18 |
Perrie Mans |
| 1977 |
John Spencer |
25-21 |
Cliff Thorburn |
| 1976 |
Ray Reardon |
27-16 |
Alex Higgins |
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| marco fu |
Wednesday 02 July, 2008 |
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Marco Fu
| Marco Fu |
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| Born |
January 8, 1978 (1978-01-08) (age 30) |
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| Professional |
1998– |
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Highest r-
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#14 (2008/09) |
| 2008/09 ranking |
#14 |
| Career winnings |
GB£6-
90,765[1] |
Hi-
ghest break |
147 (2000)>[2] |
| Tournament wins |
| Ranking |
1 |
| Non-ranking |
1 | >
Marco Fu Ka-chun (Chinese name: 傅家俊; b. January 8, 1978), best known as Marco Fu, is a professional snooker player from Hong Kong, China.
Life and career
Marco Fu was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Canada with his parents at the age of 12. After his high school graduation at age 18, Hong Kong Billiard Sports Control Council Co. Ltd President Joseph Lo invited him to return to Hong Kong to begin his career as a professional snooker player.[3]-
In 1998, the year he turned professional, Fu reached the final of the >Grand Prix, beating Ronn-
ie O'Sullivan (5-4) and then Peter Ebdon (6-1) in the process.>[4] An in-form Stephen Lee proved too strong for Fu in the final, defeating him 9-2, but Fu nevertheless rose dramatically through the rankings, reaching number 15 in the world for the 2000/01 season.>[2] When he first turned professional, he was ranked 377th in the world.>[4]
He was voted WPBSA Newcomer of the Year[1] and WSA Young Player of the Year in 1999.>[4]
Tipped by many pundits as a potential champion of the game, >[2] Fu's subsequent performance was disappointing, and he slid back down the rankings. His only real achievement of note over the next five years was reaching the semi-finals of the Welsh Open in 2003. In this tournament, Fu whitewashed Stephen Lee 5-0 in the quarter-finals before losing his semi-final 6-4 to Stephen Hendry, who went on to win the title.[5]-
In the 2003 World Championship three months later Fu reached the first of his two World Championship quarter-finals to date. In what Snooker Scene magazine described as "one of the greatest upsets in the history of the game", the unseeded 25-year-old knocked out world No. 1 and runaway favourite Ronn-
ie O'Sullivan in the first round of the tournament. Fu dominated this match from the outset, opening up a 6-3 overnight lead; and although O'Sullivan made three centuries (including a ma-
ximum 147 break) while recovering, Fu never looked to be in trouble and won 10-6.[6] Fu subsequently eliminated Alan McManus 13-7 in the second round[7] before losing 13-9 to Stephen Lee in his quarter-final.[8]
Although he regained a top 16 position for 2004/2005 after a consistent 2003/2004 season, he only spent one season back in the top 16, dropping down to #22 after a less successful season in 2005-2006.[9]-
However, he had a good 2006 World Championship, beating three seeded players - Alan McManus 10-3, Stephen Maguire 13-4, and Ken Doherty 13-10 - to reach the semi-finals, where he lost to world no.7 and 2002 world champion Peter Ebdon 17-16. In that match, Fu was 15-9 down with only one session left to play, but won seven out of the next eight frames to send the match into the deciding frame, which Ebdon eventually won.>[10] Fu's success in this tournament can be largely attributed to working with coach Terry Griffiths. Marco had used Griffiths for a short while some years ago - but did not commit to the necessary changes in technique.>[2]
2006-07 was not hugely successful. He skipped the UK Championship [11] to play in the Asian games (winning two medals there), and, largely due to the fact that he was affected by a virus, was unable to repeat his World Championship form of the previous year, losing 10-3 to Anthony Hamilton in the first round,[1-
2] a defeat that saw Fu start the 2007/2008 season ranked 27th in the world - a drop of five places.[11]
Nine years after his first appearance in a ranking final at the 1998 Grand Prix, Fu won the 2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix — his first ever victory in a ranking event. After defeating the reigning World Champion John Higgins in the first knockout round 5-4, Liu Song 5-0 in the quarter-final and Gerard Greene 6-5 in the semi-final, he faced Ronn-
ie O'Sullivan in the final.[1-
3] After falling 4-3 behind at the mid-session interval, he went on to win 9-6, with a break of 76 in the final frame.[14] Previously, Fu’s biggest title has been the invitational H-
asseroder Premier League which he captured in 2003, beating Mark Williams 9-5 in the final in Sunderland>. This was the first time the title went outside of the British Isles.[15]
Fu is a prolific break-builder.[16] He achieved his highest break of 147 in 2000 at the Regal Scottish Masters>[2] and has compiled 147 competitive century breaks during his career.[17] He qualified for the 2008 World Championship, with a 10-3 win over Alan McManus [1-
8]. He played China's Ding Junhui in the first round of 2008 World Championship, and it was a empatic fight, which he unfortunately lost 10-9.[19]
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| Ronnie O'Sullivan |
Monday 30 June, 2008 |
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O'Sullivan punished for comments |
O'Sullivan's points deduction will not affect his ranking |
World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan has been fined by World Snooker and docked ranking points for lewd comments at a media conference at the China Open.
The 32-year-old lost the 700 ranking points he earned for his first-round defeat by Marco Fu in Beijing, but he will remain world number one.
O'Sullivan was fined £2,750 and a spokesman for O'Sullivan said: "Ronnie has accepted his punishment.
"He realises he made a mistake, but he never intended to offend anyone."
O'Sullivan's sexually suggestive comments were branded as "unacceptable" by World Snooker chairman Sir Rodney Walker and the matter was referred to a disciplinary committee.
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606: DEBATE
| "He wants to forget what happened and move forward," added the spokesman for O'Sullivan's management company 110Sport.
"He has apologised to World Snooker, the promoter of the China Open, his fans and also to his sponsors.
"He is keen to get on with his career and continue demonstrating why he is regarded as the best player in the world."
O'Sullivan had already apologised for his comments, admitting he was embarrassed by his actions and chastising himself for letting down his family with his behaviour at the tournament in March.
Since then, he has won his third world title with a comprehensive 18-8 defeat of Ali Carter in the final in April.
In May 2007 O'Sullivan was fined after walking out of a match against Stephen Hendry, and he was banned and fined in 1996 for assaulting a snooker official.
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| A-Z LIST OF SNOOKER PLAYERS |
Sunday 22 June, 2008 |
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1. Hugh Abernethy 13.ronnie O'sullivan
2. Shokat Ali 14. joe davis
3. Mark Allen 15.kevin van hove
4. Ian Anderson 16.ray reardon
5. Pankaj Advani 6. Au Chi-wai
7 marco fu . 8. jimmy white 9.hurricane higgins
10.steve davis20 danni sanchez
11. John Bear
12. joe jonson |
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| LYNDA'S ARTICLES |
Sunday 22 June, 2008 |
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Player Profile: Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Professional |
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| First Name: |
Ronnie |
| Last Name: |
O'Sullivan |
| Town / Country: |
Chigwell, Essex, England |
| DoB: |
5 December 1975 |
| Club: |
Ilford |
| High Break: |
147 |
| Ranking: |
1st (2004/5-2005/6) |
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Biography: |
Ronnie O'Sullivan has been making snooker headlines since he was 10 years old and knocked in a break of 117. Two years later he made a witnessed total clearance of 142 and became British under-16 champion the following year when still only 13. A year later he reached the quarterfinals of the under-19 event but lost his under-16 title at the semi-final stage. Still only 14 he was winning prizes of up to £1000 and at 15 he made his first 147 in the 1991 English Amateur championship but he went on to lose in the final. He did go on to win the IBSF World Under-21 event in 1991 when still only 15 and it was a surprise when he lost in the last 16 of the World Amateur of that year. In just about his last event as an amateur he lost to Stephen Lee in the Southern final of the 1992 English Amateur championship.
So, in the summer of 1992, Ronnie joined the professional ranks and began the long qualifying process. He made an immediate impact by winning 38 straight matches, a record unlikely ever to be beaten, and qualified for the final stages of all but one of the ranking events. Even at this early stage he was being picked as a future world champion. He went on to reach one quarterfinal and five times got to the last 32 including the world championship. In non-ranking events he won his first professional title in the Nescafe Extra Challenge and reached the semi-final of the Humo Masters as well as the same stage in the minor-ranking Strachan Challenge and finished that debut season ranked 57th.
He began the 1993/94 season by reaching the Dubai Classic semi-final and then went on to the UK championship. It was still a week or so before his eighteenth birthday and having seen off Steve Davis 9-6 in the last eight he beat Stephen Hendry in the final by 10-6 to become the youngest ever winner of a ranking event. He went on to reach the final again in his very next event, the European Open, but this time Hendry got his revenge but Ronnie collected his second ranking title when he beat James Wattana to win the British Open. At the Crucible, although he did win his first round match, he lost heavily in his next to John Parrott but he had done enough to leap into the top 16 at number 9 after just two seasons as a professional. He also collected the Benson & Hedges Championship which gave him a wild card to the Masters at Wembley but there he failed to get past his opening match.
Despite two finals, two semi-finals and three quarters, he failed to add another ranking event victory in 1994/95 but he did take the £120,000 winners cheque in the Benson & Hedges Masters giving him, already, two of snooker's big three titles. He had now moved up to third in the rankings. In the next season, although he won the non-ranking Charity Challenge and again got to the final at Wembley and to the semis of the world championship, he again failed to win a ranking event and dropped down to eighth. During these two seasons he had to watch John Higgins, who had joined the professional ranks at the same time as Ronnie, take much of the glory.
He got back on the winning road in 1996/97 taking both the German Open and Asian Classic titles on the ranking circuit. He also won the Matchroom league and lost in the finals of both the Charity Challenge and the Masters. It was at Sheffield, in the world championship, however that he made his biggest headlines that season. In his opener against Mick Price, Ronnie thrilled the world with a magnificent 147 maximum in just 5 minutes and 20 seconds. He collected £165,000 for this effort but sadly lost in the deciding frame in the next round to Darren Morgan. He was now ranked seventh and in 1997/98 he collected a second UK title as well as the Scottish Open but still he could not get beyond the semi-finals in the Embassy. He did beat Ken Doherty in the final of the Benson & Hedges Irish Masters only to be disqualified after failing a drug test and his only other victory came in the Far East in the Riley Superstars International. He had now got back up to third in the rankings and now Ronnie, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins and Mark Williams were beginning to be known as 'The Big Four' and were expected to dominate every event.
A poor season by Ronnie's standards followed. Having pulled out of the UK his best was again reaching the world semi-finals although he did pick up the Scottish Masters title and, for the third year running, lost in the final of the Charity Challenge. By now Ronnie was often talking of giving up the game and sometimes it did seem that his heart was not in it. He did collect two more ranking titles in 1999/2000, the China International and Scottish Open, but ended that term on a real low having lost in his opening match at the Crucible. On the non-ranking circuit, the Champions Cup had replaced the Charity Challenge but for Ronnie the result was the same - runner-up. He nevertheless retained his fourth spot in the rankings and helped England capture the Nations Cup.
The 2000/01 season started on a positive note with victory in the Champions Cup. This was swiftly followed by winning the Regal Masters in Motherwell after which he got to the Grand Prix final, losing to Mark Williams. Then it was the semis in the UK before going out to the Far East where he retained his China International title. Back home again things did not go so well on the ranking tour but he won the Irish Masters and the Premier League. At the Crucible for the world championships, Ronnie was beginning to run into some awesome form prompting Peter Ebdon, after his quarterfinal defeat, to compare him with Mozart! He met arch rival John Higgins, who was also in tremendous form, in the final, the outcome of which was in doubt right up to the final session. Ronnie prevailed 18-14 and he had finally achieved what had been predicted for him in those early teenage years even though it had taken him longer than most people expected. A wonderful season, in which he had amassed total of six titles, saw his prize money rise to over £2,750,000.
All Ronnie had left to achieve was the world number one position in the rankings and he started the next season well with a semi-final in the British Open. He then made his fifth maximum break in the new LG Cup which he followed with his third UK title. He only failed to get past the last sixteen twice but a late surge from Mark Williams meant that the top ranking position was still in doubt as the players arrived at the Crucible. After a great run in defence of his title, Ronnie lost in the semis to Stephen Hendry but had done enough to clinch that number one ranking. He rounded off the season with a third Premier League title.
Ronnie is, in the opinion of most pundits, the most naturally talented player the game has ever seen although some favour Alex Higgins or Jimmy White. What is certain is that he is ready to assume the mantle of 'Peoples Champion', which they previously held. Sadly, like other supremely talented sportsmen - Alex Higgins from snooker and George Best from football to name just two - Ronnie's temperament is questionable and he often performs well below his best and frequently seems to lose interest. His talent is such, however, that he can build century breaks left-handed as well as right and when he is in the 'groove', his opponents can do nothing but sit back and admire his magic. He has no less than five officially recognized maximums to his name and now stands fourth in the all-time prize money list with over £3 million. What is left for him to achieve? Well I am sure he would hope to win more world titles and if his mind is right it is difficult to see anyone preventing him from doing so.
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Achievements:
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World Professional champion |
2001, 2004 |
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United Kingdom champion |
1993, 1997, 2001 |
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British Open champion |
1994 |
| Grand Prix Champion |
2004 |
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Asian Classic champion |
1996 |
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German Open champion |
1996 |
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Regal Scottish Open champion |
1998, 2000 |
| Welsh Open Champion |
2004, 2005 |
| European Open |
2003 |
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China International champion |
2000, 2001 |
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Masters champion |
1995, 2005 |
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Irish Masters champion |
2001, 2003, 2005 |
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Regal Scottish Masters champion |
1998, 2000, 2002 |
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Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge winner |
1996 |
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Champions Cup winner |
2000 |
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Premier League winner |
1997, 2001, 2002, 2005 |
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Benson & Hedges championship winner |
1993 |
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Nations Cup winner |
2000 (English team) |
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Nescafe Extra Challenge winner |
1992 |
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Riley Superstar International winner |
1997 |
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IBSF World Under 21 champion |
1991 |
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