2011 Premier League Snooker
The 2011 PartyPoker.com Premier League Snooker was a cue sport tournament played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker, that was played from 18 August to 27 November 2011.
Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, and he won his 10th Premier League Snooker title by defeating Ding Junhui 7–1.
Format
All evenings in the league stage featured three matches: two semi-finals and a final. All matches were best of 5 frames, with no dead frames played, points were awarded for every frame won. Meaning that the maximum number of points a player could obtain was 24 and the minimum was 0. All frames were subjected to a 20 second shot clock and there were two 20 second extensions available for each player in every frame. The miss rule was also changed; meaning that a player had three attempts to make legal contact with the ball on or otherwise ball in hand was given to the incoming player anywhere on the table. The final frame of any match was played under shoot-out rules. Each player appeared on 4 nights and were seeded to determine who they face. The play-offs were played to the rules used in previous editions.[1]
Prize fund
[2]
- Winner: £60,000
- Runner-up: £30,000
- Semi-final: £20,000
- 5th Place: £17,500
- 6th Place: £15,000
- 7th Place: £12,500
- 8th Place: £10,000
- 9th Place: £8,000
- 10th Place: £6,000
- Highest break (per night): £1,000
- Maximum break: £25,000
Players
Players were seeded according to their world rankings apart from the defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan who was the number one seed.[1]
League phase
(breaks above 50 shown between brackets); breaks 100 and above are indicated bold.[3][4][5]
- August 18 – Embassy Theatre, Skegness, England[6]
- Semi-finals:
- John Higgins 3–0 Jimmy White → 61–36, (105)–5, 71–69[7]
- Neil Robertson 0–3 Matthew Stevens → 18–63, 44–76, 13–(82)[8]
- Final: John Higgins 0–3 Matthew Stevens → 18–(91), 0–(95), 10–65[9]
- September 1 – Guildford Spectrum, Guildford, England[10]
- Semi-finals:[11]
- Jimmy White 0–3 Mark Williams → 1–(105), 30–61, 5–82 (60)
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 2–3 Shaun Murphy → 63–48, 45–71, 68–49, 6–(115), 0–91 (85)
- Final: Mark Williams 3–1 Shaun Murphy → 67–(65), 14–66, 62–47, (101) 118–6[12]
- September 22 – Ravenscraig Sports Facility, Motherwell, Scotland[13]
- Semi-finals:
- John Higgins 0–3 Neil Robertson → 14–126 (57, 69), 0–93 (87), 35–95[14]
- Ding Junhui 3–2 Shaun Murphy → (92) 124–7, 36–(98), 8–117 (98), (87) 102–21, (80)–0[15]
- Final: Neil Robertson 3–1 Ding Junhui → 56–63, (140)–0, (109) 118–0, 54–42[16]
- September 29 – The Dome, Doncaster, England[17]
- Semi-finals:
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–0 Matthew Stevens → 70–0, (94)–0, 77–12[18]
- Ding Junhui 0–3 Ali Carter → 9–82, 14–120 (50,70), 0–92 (91)[19]
- Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–1 Ali Carter → 41–54, 52–42, (68) 72–21, 36–6[20]
- October 6 – Hutton Moor Leisure Centre, Weston-super-Mare, England[21]
- Semi-finals:
- Mark Williams 1–3 Judd Trump → 0–79 (64), 76–14, 0–79 (50), 23–71[22]
- John Higgins 2–3 Matthew Stevens → 5–(104), 68–87, (57) 61–1, 68–67 (67), 0–51[23]
- Final: Judd Trump 3–0 Matthew Stevens → 72–43, (81)–0, 67–30[24]
- October 13 – Biddulph Leisure Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, England[25]
- Semi-finals:
- Mark Williams 2–3 Ali Carter → 27–69, 66–41, 45–63, (115) 131–1, 0–84[26]
- Jimmy White 2–3 Ding Junhui → (52) 87–39, (59)–66, (52) 72–(56), 24–115 (78), 20–59[27]
- Final: Ali Carter 1–3 Ding Junhui → (96)–0, 7–67, 51–72, 1–72 (66)[28]
- October 20 – Riverside Leisure Centre, Exeter, England[29]
- Semi-finals:
- Ali Carter 1–3 Judd Trump → (78)–0, 14–62, 16–(111), 31–57 (53)[30]
- Shaun Murphy 1–3 Neil Robertson → 37–66 (60), (53) 74–41, 35–83 (52), 49–68[31]
- Final: Judd Trump 3–1 Neil Robertson → 55–54, 38–76, 74–0 (59), 79–0 (76)[32]
- November 3 – Southampton Guildhall, Southampton, England[33]
- Semi-finals:
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–2 Judd Trump → 0–(139), (53) 94–32, (89)–22, 46–64 (58), (70) 78–4[34]
- Neil Robertson 2–3 Ding Junhui → 59–72, 14–(61), (66) 72–17, (55) 70–46, 7–100 (58)[35]
- Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan 1–3 Ding Junhui → (77) 82–0, 1–74, 58–68, 17–79 (76)[36]
- November 10 – Spiceball Leisure Centre, Banbury, England[37]
- Semi-finals:
- John Higgins 3–1 Ali Carter → 36–52, (101) 117–13, (79) 95–0, 67–38[38]
- Mark Williams 3–0 Matthew Stevens → 63–28, 76–5, (105)–0[39]
- Final: John Higgins 3–1 Mark Williams → (125) 130–1, 44–77, (89)–24, 69–22[40]
- November 17 – Grimsby Auditorium, Grimsby, England[41]
- Semi-finals:
- Judd Trump 0–3 Shaun Murphy 1–75, 0–(122), 14–111 (100)[42]
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 3–0 Jimmy White → (65) 87–29, 75–6, (103) 120–6[43]
- Final: Shaun Murphy 1–3 Ronnie O'Sullivan → 16–(82), 35–(78), (52) 83–0, 40–(100)[44]
Table
Top four qualified for the play-offs. The order of players was decided on most frames won, and than least frames lost.[4][5]
Play-offs
November 26–27, Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton-on-Sea, England[3][4]
* 0–66, 70–33, (109)–3, 34–59, (55) 96–0, (84) 85–0, (88) 92–9[45]
** 89–37, 28–53, 15–74 (58), (59) 68–17, (139)–0, 69–58, 14–70, (75)–25[46]
*** (52) 68-31, (92) 96-16, (56) 80-24, 57-43, 33-70, 79-52, (63)-61 (60), (77)-0[47]
Qualifiers
The qualification for this tournament, the Championship League was played in eight groups from 3 January to 24 March 2011.
Century breaks
[4][5]
- 140, 109 Neil Robertson
- 139, 111 Judd Trump
- 139 Ding Junhui
- 125, 105, 101 John Higgins
- 122, 115, 100 Shaun Murphy
- 115, 105, 105, 101 Mark Williams
- 109, 103, 100 Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 104 Matthew Stevens
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