2017 World Cup (snooker)


The 2017 Little Swan World Cup was a professional non-ranking team snooker tournament that took place from 3 to 9 July 2017 at the Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium in Wuxi, China. It was the 15th edition of the event, and was televised live by Eurosport Player and repeated on Eurosport 1.
The China A pair of Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo won the event, beating the English pair of Judd Trump and Barry Hawkins 4–3 in the final, winning the last three frames. Ding Junhui made a break of 59 in the deciding frame against Judd Trump.

Teams and players

SeedNationPlayer 1Player 2
1 BZhou YuelongYan Bingtao
2John HigginsAnthony McGill
3Judd TrumpBarry Hawkins
4 ADing JunhuiLiang Wenbo
5Marco FuAu Chi-wai
6Neil RobertsonKurt Dunham
7Mark AllenJoe Swail
8Mark WilliamsRyan Day
Fergal O'BrienKen Doherty
Kurt MaflinChristopher Watts
Thepchaiya Un-NoohNoppon Saengkham
Luca BrecelJeff Jacobs
Aditya MehtaBrijesh Damani
Igor FigueiredoItaro Santos
Alex BorgDuncan Bezzina
Hossein VafaeiSoheil Vahedi
Thor Chuan LeongMoh Keen Hoo
Lukas KleckersSimon Lichtenberg
Hamza AkbarShahram Changezi
Michael GeorgiouAntonis Poullos
Alexander UrsenbacherDarren Paris
Hatem YassenBasem Eltahhan
Eden SharavShachar Ruberg
Robin HullHeikki Niva

Prize fund

The 2017 World Cup used the same format as that used in 2015. There were 24 national teams, with two players competing for each side, and the initial round divided the entrants into four groups of six. During the Group Stage, every national team played a best-of-five frame match against each of the other sides in their pool. All matches consisted of five frames, two singles, a doubles frame, and two reverse singles. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Knockout Stages, the order being determined by total frames won. If there is a tie in either of the first two places the following rules determine the positions. If two teams are equal, the winner of the match between the two teams will be ranked higher. If three or more teams are tied, a sudden-death blue ball shoot-out will be played. Teams tied for position 3 to 6 will remained tied and share the prize money for those positions.
During the Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, and Championship Final, the eight qualifying team were paired off in a head-to-head knockout. The format for these matches was a best-of-seven frame competition with the contest coming to an end as soon as one team had won four frames. These encounters were scheduled as two singles, a doubles frame, two reverse singles, another doubles frame, and a winner-take-all singles if necessary.

Group stage

Group A

PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints
185251961319
21 B5251510515
35251510515
45251015−510
5525817−98
6525817−98

China B finished above Brazil because they won the match between the two teams.

Group B

PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints
1525178917
24 A525178917
355251510515
45251015−510
55251015−510
6525619−136

Belgium finished above China A because they won the match between the two teams.

Group C

PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints
13'5252231922
2'525169716
365251213−112
4525916−79
5525817−98
6525817−98

Group D

PlaceSeedTeamGamesFramesFrames wonFrames lostDifferencePoints
1'5251871118
27'525169716
325251411314
45251312113
55251015−510
6525421−174

Knock-out stage

Final

Century breaks

There were 14 century breaks made in the tournament.