2007 Grand Prix (snooker)


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.
Dave Harold made 14 consecutive during his round-robin stage match against Liu Song. This is the most consecutive foul and misses made in any professional event.
Marco Fu won the title by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–6 in the final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
The breakdown of ranking points for this year is shown below:

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

Group 2A

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Ronnie O'Sullivan55206+14
Gerard Greene54189+9
Tom Ford521715+2
Dominic Dale521117−6
Steve Davis52918−9
Mark Joyce501020−10

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Peter Ebdon552012+8
Liu Song531612+4
Matthew Stevens5314140
Mark Selby5214140
Dave Harold521315−2
Joe Delaney501020−10

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Shaun Murphy541911+8
Marco Fu541914+5
Stuart Pettman531613+3
Stuart Bingham5213130
Ding Junhui521314−1
Ben Woollaston50520−15

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Ali Carter55204+16
Marcus Campbell541614+2
Michael Holt531514+1
Anthony Hamilton521413+1
Fergal O'Brien511018−8
Graeme Dott50820−12

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Ricky Walden541810+8
Michael Judge541814+4
Mark Allen5315150
Mark Williams521417−3
Ken Doherty511317−4
Ian McCulloch511419−5

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Stephen Maguire54179+8
Barry Hawkins531613+3
Stephen Hendry531716+1
Rory McLeod531615+1
Paul Davies521318−5
Jamie Cope501220−8

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John Higgins55206+14
Ryan Day531710+7
Nigel Bond521214−2
Mark King521113−2
Tian Pengfei521217−5
Andrew Norman51719−12

Final

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.

Group 1A

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Mark Davis752515+10
Mark Joyce742517+8
Jimmy White7421210
Robert Milkins742022−2
Jimmy Robertson732322+1
Supoj Saenla731820−2
Alex Davies731524−9
Scott MacKenzie722026−6

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Tom Ford762510+15
Jimmy Michie742214+8
Tony Drago742019+1
James McBain7418180
Andrew Higginson732017+3
James Wattana731719−2
Gareth Coppack72922−13
Michael White711426−12

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Joe Delaney752516+9
Ben Woollaston752319+4
Barry Pinches741915+4
David Gilbert742017+3
Issara Kachaiwong731922−3
David Gray731923−4
Leo Fernandez721723−6
Lee Spick721724−7

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Stuart Pettman772812+16
Liu Song752316+7
Andy Hicks742217+5
Xiao Guodong731920−1
Jamie Burnett732023−3
Mike Dunn731723−6
Kurt Maflin722021−1
Ashley Wright71926−17

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Fergal O'Brien762612+14
Michael Judge762513+12
Joe Jogia742118+3
David Roe742118+3
Matthew Selt7320200
Rodney Goggins721722−5
Drew Henry721325−12
Kevin Van Hove711126−15

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Ricky Walden762516+9
Marcus Campbell752312+11
Robin Hull742319+4
Munraj Pal742320+3
Martin Gould742119+2
David Morris732421+3
Steve Mifsud711327−14
John Parrott71826−18

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Paul Davies752511+14
Tian Pengfei752420+4
Fraser Patrick742120+1
Ian Preece7317170
Lee Walker731719−2
Alan McManus731923-4
Adrian Gunnell731422−8
Liu Chuang721823−5

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Andrew Norman762512+13
Rory McLeod752314+9
Liang Wenbo752219+3
Patrick Wallace742219+3
Alfred Burden731517−2
Judd Trump731922−3
Rod Lawler711925−6
Jamie O'Neill711727−10

Qualifying stage centuries