2007_Grand_Prix_(snooker)

Royal London Watches Grand Prix
Tournament information
Dates	13–21 October 2007
Venue	A.E.C.C.
City	Aberdeen
Country	Scotland
Organisation	WPBSA
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£470,500
Winner's share	£75,000
Highest break	Tom Ford (ENG) (147)
Final
Champion	Marco Fu (HKG)
Runner-up	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)
Score	9–6
	← 2006 2008 →

2007 Grand Prix (snooker)

Snooker tournament

The 2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 13 and 21 October 2007 at the A.E.C.C. in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Quick Facts Tournament information, Dates ...

Dave Harold made 14 consecutive foul and misses during his round-robin stage match against Liu Song. This is the most consecutive foul and misses made in any professional event.^[1]

Marco Fu won the title by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–6 in the final.

Main draw

Round-robin stage

The first round used a round-robin format like last season. The top 32 and the 16 qualifiers were placed in eight groups of six with the top two from each group qualifying for the knockout stage. Matches in the round-robins were the best of seven frames.^[2]^[3]

Tom Ford made a maximum break in his match against Steve Davis.^[4] For this feat he won £24,000.

Qualifying

Qualifying for the 2007 Grand Prix was held between 17 September and 23 September 2007 at Pontin's Prestatyn using a round-robin format. The entries were placed into eight groups with the top 2 from each group qualifying for the finals in Aberdeen. All matches at this stage were played over the best of seven frames.^[2]^[7]

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Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Joe Swail (NIR)	5	4	18	11	+7
Joe Perry (ENG)	5	4	16	12	+4
Jimmy Michie (ENG)	5	2	14	14	0
Neil Robertson (AUS)	5	2	14	14	0
Stephen Lee (ENG)	5	2	13	16	−3
Mark Davis (ENG)	5	1	9	17	−8

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)	5	5	20	6	+14
Gerard Greene (NIR)	5	4	18	9	+9
Tom Ford (ENG)	5	2	17	15	+2
Dominic Dale (WAL)	5	2	11	17	−6
Steve Davis (ENG)	5	2	9	18	−9
Mark Joyce (ENG)	5	0	10	20	−10

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Peter Ebdon (ENG)	5	5	20	12	+8
Liu Song (CHN)	5	3	16	12	+4
Matthew Stevens (WAL)	5	3	14	14	0
Mark Selby (ENG)	5	2	14	14	0
Dave Harold (ENG)	5	2	13	15	−2
Joe Delaney (IRL)	5	0	10	20	−10

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Shaun Murphy (ENG)	5	4	19	11	+8
Marco Fu (HKG)	5	4	19	14	+5
Stuart Pettman (ENG)	5	3	16	13	+3
Stuart Bingham (ENG)	5	2	13	13	0
Ding Junhui (CHN)	5	2	13	14	−1
Ben Woollaston (ENG)	5	0	5	20	−15

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Ali Carter (ENG)	5	5	20	4	+16
Marcus Campbell (SCO)	5	4	16	14	+2
Michael Holt (ENG)	5	3	15	14	+1
Anthony Hamilton (ENG)	5	2	14	13	+1
Fergal O'Brien (IRL)	5	1	10	18	−8
Graeme Dott (SCO)	5	0	8	20	−12

2007_Grand_Prix_(snooker)

2007 Grand Prix (snooker)

Prize fund

Ranking points

Main draw

Round-robin stage

Group 2A

Group 2B

Group 2C

Group 2D

Group 2E

Group 2F

Group 2G

Group 2H

Knockout stage

Final

Qualifying

Group 1A

Group 1B

Group 1C

Group 1D

Group 1E

Group 1F

Group 1G

Group 1H

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

Televised stage centuries

References

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Tournament information

Dates	13–21 October 2007 (2007-10-13 – 2007-10-21)
Venue	A.E.C.C.
City	Aberdeen
Country	Scotland
Organisation	WPBSA
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£470,500
Winner's share	£75,000
Highest break	Tom Ford (ENG) (147)
Final
Champion	Marco Fu (HKG)
Runner-up	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)
Score	9–6
← 2006 2008 →

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Ricky Walden (ENG)	5	4	18	10	+8
Michael Judge (IRL)	5	4	18	14	+4
Mark Allen (NIR)	5	3	15	15	0
Mark Williams (WAL)	5	2	14	17	−3
Ken Doherty (IRL)	5	1	13	17	−4
Ian McCulloch (ENG)	5	1	14	19	−5

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Stephen Maguire (SCO)	5	4	17	9	+8
Barry Hawkins (ENG)	5	3	16	13	+3
Stephen Hendry (SCO)	5	3	17	16	+1
Rory McLeod (ENG)	5	3	16	15	+1
Paul Davies (WAL)	5	2	13	18	−5
Jamie Cope (ENG)	5	0	12	20	−8

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
John Higgins (SCO)	5	5	20	6	+14
Ryan Day (WAL)	5	3	17	10	+7
Nigel Bond (ENG)	5	2	12	14	−2
Mark King (ENG)	5	2	11	13	−2
Tian Pengfei (CHN)	5	2	12	17	−5
Andrew Norman (ENG)	5	1	7	19	−12

Last 16 Best of 9 frames		Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames		Semi-finals Best of 11 frames		Final Best of 17 frames



Joe Swail (NIR)	5

Marcus Campbell (SCO)	2
		Joe Swail	3

		Ronnie O'Sullivan	5
Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)	5

Michael Judge (IRL)	2
				Ronnie O'Sullivan	6

				Shaun Murphy	5
Peter Ebdon (ENG)	5

Barry Hawkins (ENG)	2
		Peter Ebdon	3

		Shaun Murphy	5
Shaun Murphy (ENG)	5

Ryan Day (WAL)	3
						Ronnie O'Sullivan	6

						Marco Fu	9
Ali Carter (ENG)	3

Joe Perry (ENG)	5
		Joe Perry	3

		Gerard Greene	5
Ricky Walden (ENG)	0

Gerard Greene (NIR)	5
				Gerard Greene	5

				Marco Fu	6
Stephen Maguire (SCO)	3

Liu Song (CHN)	5
		Liu Song	0

		Marco Fu	5
John Higgins (SCO)	4

Marco Fu (HKG)	5

Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Jan Verhaas. Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Scotland, 21 October 2007.^[5]
Ronnie O'Sullivan England	6–9	Marco Fu Hong Kong
Afternoon: 21–100 (78), 104–35 (85), 0–110 (110), 18–84 (74), 127–0 (127), 75–0 (75), 64–33 Evening: 67–5, 0–99, 4–95 (94), 5–121 (117), 0–82 (62), 66–44 (65), 58–60 (52, 60), 0–76 (76)
127	Highest break	117
1	Century breaks	2
5	50+ breaks	8

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Mark Davis (ENG)	7	5	25	15	+10
Mark Joyce (ENG)	7	4	25	17	+8
Jimmy White (ENG)	7	4	21	21	0
Robert Milkins (ENG)	7	4	20	22	−2
Jimmy Robertson (ENG)	7	3	23	22	+1
Supoj Saenla (THA)	7	3	18	20	−2
Alex Davies (ENG)	7	3	15	24	−9
Scott MacKenzie (SCO)	7	2	20	26	−6

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Tom Ford (ENG)	7	6	25	10	+15
Jimmy Michie (ENG)	7	4	22	14	+8
Tony Drago (MLT)	7	4	20	19	+1
James McBain (SCO)	7	4	18	18	0
Andrew Higginson (ENG)	7	3	20	17	+3
James Wattana (THA)	7	3	17	19	−2
Gareth Coppack (WAL)	7	2	9	22	−13
Michael White (WAL)	7	1	14	26	−12

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Joe Delaney (IRL)	7	5	25	16	+9
Ben Woollaston (ENG)	7	5	23	19	+4
Barry Pinches (ENG)	7	4	19	15	+4
David Gilbert (ENG)	7	4	20	17	+3
Issara Kachaiwong (THA)	7	3	19	22	−3
David Gray (ENG)	7	3	19	23	−4
Leo Fernandez (IRL)	7	2	17	23	−6
Lee Spick (ENG)	7	2	17	24	−7

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Stuart Pettman (ENG)	7	7	28	12	+16
Liu Song (CHN)	7	5	23	16	+7
Andy Hicks (ENG)	7	4	22	17	+5
Xiao Guodong (CHN)	7	3	19	20	−1
Jamie Burnett (SCO)	7	3	20	23	−3
Mike Dunn (ENG)	7	3	17	23	−6
Kurt Maflin (NOR)	7	2	20	21	−1
Ashley Wright (ENG)	7	1	9	26	−17

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Fergal O'Brien (IRL)	7	6	26	12	+14
Michael Judge (IRL)	7	6	25	13	+12
Joe Jogia (ENG)	7	4	21	18	+3
David Roe (ENG)	7	4	21	18	+3
Matthew Selt (ENG)	7	3	20	20	0
Rodney Goggins (IRL)	7	2	17	22	−5
Drew Henry (SCO)	7	2	13	25	−12
Kevin Van Hove (BEL)	7	1	11	26	−15

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Ricky Walden (ENG)	7	6	25	16	+9
Marcus Campbell (SCO)	7	5	23	12	+11
Robin Hull (FIN)	7	4	23	19	+4
Munraj Pal (ENG)	7	4	23	20	+3
Martin Gould (ENG)	7	4	21	19	+2
David Morris (IRL)	7	3	24	21	+3
Steve Mifsud (AUS)	7	1	13	27	−14
John Parrott (ENG)	7	1	8	26	−18

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Paul Davies (WAL)	7	5	25	11	+14
Tian Pengfei (CHN)	7	5	24	20	+4
Fraser Patrick (SCO)	7	4	21	20	+1
Ian Preece (WAL)	7	3	17	17	0
Lee Walker (WAL)	7	3	17	19	−2
Alan McManus (SCO)	7	3	19	23	−4
Adrian Gunnell (ENG)	7	3	14	22	−8
Liu Chuang (CHN)	7	2	18	23	−5

Player	MP	MW	FW	FL	FD
Andrew Norman (ENG)	7	6	25	12	+13
Rory McLeod (ENG)	7	5	23	14	+9
Liang Wenbo (CHN)	7	5	22	19	+3
Patrick Wallace (NIR)	7	4	22	19	+3
Alfred Burden (ENG)	7	3	15	17	−2
Judd Trump (ENG)	7	3	19	22	−3
Rod Lawler (ENG)	7	1	19	25	−6
Jamie O'Neill (ENG)	7	1	17	27	−10