2015 World Cup (snooker)


The 2015 Nongfu Spring World Cup was a professional non-ranking team snooker tournament that took place from 15 to 21 June 2015 at the Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium in Wuxi, China. It was the 14th edition of the event, and it was televised live by Eurosport.

Teams and players

SeedNationPlayer 1Player 2
1 ADing JunhuiXiao Guodong
2Mark SelbyStuart Bingham
3Neil RobertsonVinnie Calabrese
4Marco FuAu Chi-wai
5John HigginsStephen Maguire
6Mark WilliamsMichael White
7Ken DohertyFergal O'Brien
8Kurt MaflinAnita Maflin
Marvin Lim Chun KiatKK Chan
Hossein VafaeiEhsan Heydari Nezhad
Hamza AkbarMuhammad Sajjad
BZhou YuelongYan Bingtao
Aditya MehtaPankaj Advani
Rory ThorMohd Reza Hassan
Ahmed SaifAli Alobaidaly
Dechawat PoomjaengThepchaiya Un-Nooh
Tony DragoAlex Borg
Igor FigueiredoItaro Santos
Mateusz BaranowskiAdam Stefanow
Khalid AlkamaliMohamed Shehab
Andreas PlonerPaul Schopf
Luca BrecelTomasz Skalski
Gerard GreeneJoe Swail
Lukas KleckersFelix Frede

Prize fund

The 2015 World Cup consisted of 24 national teams, with two players competing for each side, and the initial round divided the entrants into four pools of six sides apiece. During the Group Stage, every national team played a best-of-five match against each of the other sides in their pool. Three victories were required to secure a head-to-head team win, but all five individual contests needed to be played, similar to the Davis Cup and Fed Cup formats in professional tennis. All matches were scheduled to include two singles contests, a doubles encounter, and two reverse singles showdowns. The top two teams from each bracket advanced to the Knockout Stages.
During the Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, and Championship Final, the remaining national sides were paired off a head-to-head knockout bracket. The format for these head-to-head matches was a sudden death best-of-seven competition, similar to professional sporting events like baseball's World Series and basketball's NBA Finals, with the contest coming to an end as soon as one team accumulated four individual victories. These encounters were scheduled as two singles showdowns, a doubles match, two reverse singles contests, another doubles encounter, and a winner-take-all singles showdown if necessary. The side that won the Final were named champions.

Group round

Group A

PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints
11 A5252141721
25251961319
3525169716
4525817−98
58525718−117
6525421−174

Group B

PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints
1'525178917
25'525169716
345251411314
45251312113
55251015−510
6525520−155

Group C

PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints
16'5252051520
23'5251411314
35251312113
45251312113
5525817−98
6525718−117

Group D

PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints
1 B5251961319
2525169716
32525169716
475251411314
5525718−117
6525322−193

Final round

Final

Century breaks

There were 10 century breaks in the tournament.