2008 Jiangsu Classic

Guolian Securities Jiangsu Classic
Tournament information
Dates 4–8 June 2008
Venue Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium
Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium
City Nanjing
Wuxi
Country China
Organisation(s) WPBSA
Format Non-ranking event
Total prize fund £64,000
Winner's share £20,000
Highest break 110
Final
Champion China Ding Junhui
Runner-up England Mark Selby
Score 6–5
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The 2008 Guolian Securities Jiangsu Classic was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 8 June 2008 in two cities in the Jiangsu Province, China.

The round-robin stage consisted of two groups of six players, eight top 16 players and four Chinese wild cards. The final was staged at the Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium in Wuxi, while the rest of the tournament had been held at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Nanjing.[1]

Ding Junhui, the only player to have won all his matches, delighted his home crowd by taking the title with a tense final frame decider defeat of Mark Selby.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[2]

Round-robin stage

[2][3]

Group A

POS Player MP MW FW FL FD PTS
1England Joe Perry 55102+85
2Wales Ryan Day 5484+44
3China Jin Long 526602
4England Shaun Murphy 5257−22
5China Liang Wenbo 5148−41
6Australia Neil Robertson 5139−61

(breaks above 50 shown between brackets), breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.

  • Shaun Murphy 2–0 Jin Long → (80) 137–0, (65) 107–0
  • Neil Robertson 0–2 Liang Wenbo → 54–59, 3–115 (89)
  • Ryan Day 0–2 Joe Perry → 43–65, 9–63 (62)
  • Shaun Murphy 2–1 Liang Wenbo → 72–52, 1–85 (76), 69–18
  • Ryan Day 2–1 Neil Robertson → 73–50, 30–68 (64), (59) 68–23
  • Shaun Murphy 1–2 Neil Robertson → 7–81, 72-(52), 37–71
  • Joe Perry 2–1 Jin Long → 72–23, 40–72, 77–40
  • Ryan Day 2–1 Jin Long → 0-(86), (100)-0, (73) 77–0
  • Joe Perry 2–1 Liang Wenbo → 40–76, 61–44, (77) 83–1
  • Ryan Day 2–0 Liang Wenbo → (91) 92–28, (89)-20
  • Shaun Murphy 0–2 Joe Perry → 44–64, ?-?
  • Neil Robertson 0–2 Jin Long → 26–59 (59), 8–92
  • Liang Wenbo 0–2 Jin Long → 40–80, 0–91 (62)
  • Neil Robertson 0–2 Joe Perry → 6–94, 43–92 (81)
  • Shaun Murphy 0–2 Ryan Day → 7–98 (62), 58–70

Group B

POS Player MP MW FW FL FD PTS
1China Ding Junhui 55102+85
2England Mark Selby 5376+13
3England Peter Ebdon 5278−12
4China Liu Chuang 5257−22
5England Ali Carter 5258−32
6China Li Hang 5158−31

(breaks above 50 shown between brackets), breaks 100 and above will be indicated bold.

  • Mark Selby 2–1 → Li Hang 57–7, 2–66 (64), (100) 119–4
  • Peter Ebdon 1–2 Liu Chuang → (66) 79–25, (53)-55, 35–59
  • Ali Carter 0–2 Ding Junhui → 15–109 (108), 2–64
  • Mark Selby 2–0 Liu Chuang → (102) 111–0, (86)-33
  • Ali Carter 2–1 Peter Ebdon → (68) 69–0, 0–102 (93), 68–35
  • Ding Junhui 2–1 Li Hang → (72)-0, 31–70 (54), 85–44
  • Mark Selby 1–2 Peter Ebdon → 71–43, 16-(100), 20–82 (68)
  • Ali Carter 0–2 Li Hang → 0–79 (75), 4–50
  • Ding Junhui 2–0 Liu Chuang → (77) 78–11, 61–54
  • Ali Carter 2–1 Liu Chuang → 68–52, 23–72, 62–55
  • Mark Selby 0–2 Ding Junhui → 10-(110), 30–69
  • Peter Ebdon 2–1 Li Hang → (60) 84–8, 35–73, 66–17
  • Liu Chuang 2–0 Li Hang → 68–8, 65–18
  • Peter Ebdon 1–2 Ding Junhui → 2–76, (59) 77–0, 66–68
  • Mark Selby 2–1 Ali Carter → (62) 67–24, 0–124 (52,72), (72)-1

Knock-out stages

[2][3]

Semi-finals
Best of 9 frames 		Final
Best of 11 frames
      
England Joe Perry 1
England Mark Selby* 4
England Mark Selby 5
China Ding Junhui 6
China Ding Junhui** 4
Wales Ryan Day 0

* 32–71, (51) 75–43, 1–75 (52), 1–81 (74), 22–97 (81)
** (52) 75–21, (81) 85–0, (75) 120–1, (108) 120–0

Final

Final: Best of 11 frames.
Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium, Wuxi, China, 8 June 2008.[2][3]
Mark Selby
 England		 5–6 Ding Junhui
 China
63–50, 52–60, 67–41, 36–76(50), 24–68(59), 38–77
49–(70), 85(64)–44, 93(85)–14, 75(74)–0, (52)–77(61)
85 Highest break 70
0 Century breaks 0
4 50+ breaks 4

Century breaks

[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Turner, Chris. "China International, China Open, Shanghai Masters, Jiangsu/Wuxi Classic". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "2008 Guolian Securities Jiangsu Snooker Classic". Archived from the original on 2006-08-09. Retrieved 2006-08-08.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Top Snooker: 2008 Jiangsu Classic Information & Draw". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
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