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The 2024 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May 2024. Organised by the World Snooker Tour, it was the 17th and final ranking event of the 2023–24 season. The title sponsor was car retailer Cazoo, so the tournament was promoted as the 2024 Cazoo World Snooker Championship.
The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
However, O'Sullivan won six consecutive frames, making breaks of 58, 74, 52, and 51, to lead by 9–6. Trump closed in to 9–7 by winning the 16th frame, but O'Sullivan took the next with a break of 52 to capture a 10–7 victory, claiming his third World Grand Prix title, and a record-extending 41st ranking title.
The World Snooker Championship semi-finals provided high drama at the Crucible Theatre RESULT: Mark Selby holds off furious Mark Allen comeback to win 17-15 in marathon semi-final
It was the tenth ranking event of the 2024–25 season following the 2024 UK Championship and preceding the 2024 Scottish Open. The event was held at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester, England, from 4–7 December 2024. [7] The tournament was played using a variation of the traditional snooker rules. The draw was randomised before ...
The World Snooker Tour in the 2024–25 season initially consisted of 127 professional players, but dropped to 126 after Michael White had his WPBSA membership revoked. The tour includes the top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2024 World Championship and 31 players who earned a two-year card the previous year. [1]
The match was closely contested, Williams coming out on top by 18–16 to win the World Championship for the first time since 2003, setting a new record for the longest gap between World Championship victories. He won £425,000. [136] Higgins reached the final again in 2019, only to be beaten 18–9 by Judd Trump, who won £500,000.
Instead in February/March 2006, a new tournament with the name IBSF World Grand Prix was held in Prestatyn, Wales as the qualification for a place on 2006/2007 World Snooker Main Tour, although the winner wasn't called World Champion. [1] In 2007 an all-Thailand final saw Atthasit Mahitthi defeat Passakorn Suwannawat 11–7.