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2003 Euro-Asia Masters Challenge – Event 1
The 2003 Euro-Asia Masters Challenge – Event 1 was an invitational professional non-ranking snooker held in Hong Kong in August 2003. Featuring eight players in two groups of four, James Wattana defeated Ken Doherty 6–4 in the final to win the £30,000 prize. Results Round-robin stage Group A * Mark Williams finished in the playoffs ahead of Jimmy White James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won ten ranking events. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his swift and attacking style of play, White has reached six World Snooker Championship finals ... due to winning their head to head match 2-0 Results: * Ding Junhui 2–0 Mark Williams * James Wattana 2–0 Ding Junhui * Jimmy White 2–0 Ding Junhui * Mark Williams 2–0 Jimmy White * James Wattana 2–1 Mark Williams * James Wattana 2–1 Jimmy White Group B Results: * Ken Doherty 2–0 Stephen Hendry * Ken Doherty 2–0 Shokat Ali * Ken Doherty 2–0 Marco Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euro-Asia Masters Challenge
The Euro-Asia Masters Challenge was an invitational professional non-Snooker world rankings, ranking snooker tournament which ran for three editions. History In August 2003, the tournament was first held as a two-legged event. Featuring eight players across the two legs, the first leg was played in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, with James Wattana defeating Ken Doherty in the final to win the £30,000 prize. Wattana defeated Stephen Hendry in 5–1 in the semi-final, with Doherty defeating Mark Williams (snooker player), Mark Williams by the same scoreline in the second semi-final. In the second leg played in Bangkok, Thailand, Doherty was victorious defeating Marco Fu in the final. Doherty defeated Ding Junhui 5–4 in his semi-final, while Fu had defeated Jimmy White 5–3 in the other semi. The tournament was revived in 2007, with the addition of a team tournament. In the singles event John Higgins defeating James Wattana in the final in Hong Kong to take the £25,000 prize. Winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Convention And Exhibition Centre
The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) is one of the two major convention and exhibition venues in Hong Kong, along with AsiaWorld–Expo. It is located in Wan Chai North, Hong Kong Island. Built along the Victoria Harbour, it is linked by covered walkways to nearby hotels and commercial buildings. The venue was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, in association with Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd. Larry Oltmanns led the design as the Design Partner with SOM. Construction The original building was built on reclaimed land off Gloucester Road in 1988. The glass curtain was the world's largest at the time, overlooking the Victoria Harbour on three sides. The second phase of the centre, located on an artificial island, was constructed from 1994 to 1997, and features a bird-like rooftop (also referred to as a turtle by some critics). The project took 48 months from reclamation to completion. The main constructor of the extension was a joint venture na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wan Chai
Wan Chai (Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: 灣仔) is located in the western part of Wan Chai District on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It is bounded by Canal Road, Hong Kong, Canal Road to the east, Arsenal Street to the west, and Bowen Road to the south. The area north of Gloucester Road, Hong Kong, Gloucester Road is often called Wan Chai North. Wan Chai is one of the busiest commercial areas in Hong Kong with offices of many small and medium-sized companies. Wan Chai North features office towers, parks, hotels and an international conference and exhibition centre. Wan Chai is also well known for its famous night life which has evolved over decades. As one of the first areas developed in Hong Kong, There are various landmarks and List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong, skyscrapers within the area, most notably the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Central Plaza (Hong Kong), Central Plaza and Hopewell Centre (Hong Kong), Hop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of one country, two systems. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages,. the territory is now one of the world's most signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker World Rankings
The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine their qualification and seeding for events on the World Snooker Tour and other tournaments, as well as their future professional status on the tour. First introduced in the 1976–77 snooker season, 1976–77 season, world rankings are maintained by the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA); Each player's world ranking is based on their performances, in terms of cumulative prize money earned in designated List of snooker tournaments#current ranking, ranking tournaments over the preceding two years. Every professional member of the WPBSA is assigned a ranking disregarding their activeness on the circuit. The List of world number one snooker players, current number one in world snooker rankings is Judd Trump from England, taken over from Northern Ireland's Mark Allen (snooker player), Mark Allen since 26 August 2024. Other forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wattana
James Wattana (; born January 17, 1970, as วัฒนา ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Wattana Pu-Ob-Orm'', then renamed รัชพล ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm'' in 2003) is a Thai former professional snooker player. A professional between 1989 and 2008, and from 2009 to 2020, Wattana reached his highest ranking position – world number 3 – for the 1994–95 season. He has won three ranking tournaments, the 1992 Strachan Open and the Thailand Open in 1994 and 1995, and has finished as the runner-up in a further five ranking events. He twice reached the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championship, in 1993 and 1997. When he was defeated in the semi-finals in 1993 by Jimmy White, it was only Wattana's second appearance in the final televised stages at the Crucible Theatre, his first being the previous year when he lost in the second round to the eventual winner Stephen Hendry. Having received two year invitational tour cards in 2014, 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Doherty
Kenneth Joseph Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player who also works as a commentator and pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. From Ranelagh in Dublin, he is the sport's only World Snooker Championship, world champion from the Republic of Ireland, having won the title in 1997, and one of only five players from outside the United Kingdom to have won the title in the modern era. He was the first player to have won the world amateur and world professional title; Doherty was previously world U-21 champion. After moving from Dublin to London to pursue his snooker career, Doherty won the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the IBSF World Snooker Championship, World Amateur Championship in 1989. He turned professional the following year and reached the first of his 17 Snooker world rankings, ranking finals at the 1992 Grand Prix (snooker), 1992 Grand Prix, losing 9–10 to Jimmy White. He won the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Euro-Asia Masters Challenge – Event 2
The 2003 Euro-Asia Masters Challenge – Event 2 was an invitational professional non-Snooker world rankings, ranking snooker held in Thailand in August 2003. Following on from the 2003 Euro-Asia Masters Challenge – Event 1, first leg played immediately before it, this edition also featured the same format of eight players in two groups of four. Ken Doherty defeated Marco Fu 5–2 in the final to win the £30,000 prize. Results Round-robin stage Group A Results: * Mark Williams 2–0 Stephen Hendry * Ding Junhui 2–0 Marco Fu * Ding Junhui 2–0 Mark Williams * Marco Fu 2–0 Mark Williams * Stephen Hendry 2–0 Ding Junhui * Marco Fu 2–1 Stephen Hendry Group B Results: * Jimmy White 2–0 James Wattana * James Wattana 2–0 Shokat Ali * Ken Doherty 2–0 James Wattana * Shokat Ali 2–0 Ken Doherty * Jimmy White 2–1 Shokat Ali * Ken Doherty 2–1 Jimmy White Knock-out stage References {{DEFAULTSORT:2003 Euro-Asia Masters Challenge - Event 2 Euro-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers British Raj, stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century, the game is played with 22 balls, comprising a white , 15 red balls and six other balls—a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black—collectively called ''. Using a snooker cue, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the cue ball to other balls in a predefined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and for each committed by the opposing player or team. An individual of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points, and a snooker ends when a player wins a predetermined number of frames. In 1875, army officer Neville Chamberlain (police officer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Williams (snooker Player)
Mark James Williams (born 21March 1975) is a Welsh professional snooker player who is a three-time World Champion, winning the title in 2000, 2003 and 2018. He has been ranked the world number one player three times (May 2000 May 2002, May 2003 May 2004 and May 2011 September 2011). His most successful season to date was 200203, when he won snooker's Triple Crown—the UK Championship, the Masters and the World Championship—making him only the third player, after Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry, to have won all three events in the same season. He is the first, and to date, the only player to win all three versions of the professional world championship: the World Snooker Championship, the Six-red World Championship and the World Seniors Championship. Williams became a professional player in 1992. He has won 26 ranking tournaments, including two UK Championships (1999 and 2002), placing him sixth on the all-time list of ranking titles. He has also won the Masters tourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy White
James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won ten ranking events. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his swift and attacking style of play, White has reached six World Snooker Championship finals during his career but finished runner-up on each occasion. He has won two of snooker's Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown events, the 1984 Masters (snooker), 1984 Masters and the 1992 UK Championship. White is a record four-time World Seniors Championship, World Seniors Champion, winning in 2010 World Seniors Championship, 2010, 2019 World Seniors Championship, 2019, 2020 World Seniors Championship, 2020 and 2023 World Seniors Championship, 2023. White won the English Amateur Championship in 1979 and he turned professional in 1980. He reached his first World Championship final in 1984 World Snooker Championship, 1984 and won his first ranking event at 1986 Classic (snooker), The Classic in 1986. White reached five consecutive world fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ding Junhui
Ding Junhui (; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 15 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (2005 UK Championship, 2005, 2009 UK Championship, 2009, 2019 UK Championship, 2019), and in 2014, became the first Asian world number one. He has twice reached the final of the Masters (snooker), Masters, winning once in 2011 Masters (snooker), 2011. In 2016, he became the first Asian player to reach the final of the 2016 World Snooker Championship, World Championship. Ding began playing snooker at age nine and rose to international prominence in 2002 after winning the ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship, Asian Under-21 Championship and the ACBS Asian Snooker Championship, Asian Championship. At age 15, he became the youngest winner of the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, IBSF World Under-21 Championship. In 2003, Ding turned pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
