2020 Warld Snooker Championship
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The 2020 Warld Snooker Championship (an aw referred tae as the 2020 Betfred Warld Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) wis a professional snooker tournament that teuk place frae 31 Julie tae 16 August 2020 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It wis the 44th consecutive year that the Warld Snooker Championship wis held at the Crucible, an it wis the final ranking event o the 2019–20 snooker season. The tournament wis oreeginally scheduled tae tak place frae 18 Apryle tae 4 May 2020, but the qualifyin stage and televised roonds war postponed as a result o the COVID-19 pandemic. The event wis ane o the first tae allou live audiences syne the outbrak o the pandemic, but on the first day it wis annoonced that the event wad be played behind closed doors for subsequent days; houiver, a leemitit nummer of spectators war later allowed in for the final twa days o the championship.
Tournament information | |
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Dates | 31 July – 16 August 2020 |
Venue | Crucible Theatre |
Ceety | Sheffield |
Kintra | England |
Organisation(s) | Warld Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, Warld Snooker Tour |
Format | Ranking event |
Tot prize fund | £2,395,000 |
Winner's share | £500,000 |
Feenal | |
Champion | Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) |
Rinner-up | Kyren Wilson (ENG) |
Score | 18–8 |
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The tournament wis organised bi the Warld Professional Billiards an Snooker Association an the Warld Snooker Tour, and wis broadcast bi the BBC, Eurosport and Matchroom Sport. The event haed a tot prize fund of £2,395,000, wi the winner receiving £500,000. Qualifyin for the tournament wis due tae be held atween 8 and 15 Apryle 2020 at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield, but this wis an aw postponed. Qualifyin insteid teuk place frae 21 tae 28 Julie at the oreeginally planned venue. Thare war 128 participants in the qualifyin roonds, wi a mix of professional and invited amateur players; 16 players reached the main stage o the tournament whaur thay played the tap 16 players in the snooker warld rankings. The event wis sponsored bi sports betting company Betfred.
Judd Trump wis the defendin champion, haein won his maiden warld title at the previous year's event, defeatin John Higgins 18–9 in the final. He lost in the quarter-final stage tae Kyren Wilson, acomin the 18t player tae faw tae the Crucible curse. Ronnie O'Sullivan won his saxt warld title, defeatin Wilson 18–8 in the final. This wis O'Sullivan's 37th ranking event win of his career, the heichest of ony player. Higgins made a maximum brak in the 12t frame of his seicont-roond loss tae Kurt Maflin. This wis Higgins' tenth career maximum brak and his first at the Warld Championship; aged 45, he became the auldest player tae mak a maximum in a professional competeetion.