|
2009 General Cup International
The 2009 General Cup was an invitational professional snooker tournament that took place between 13–17 July 2009 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong. Ricky Walden won in the final 6–2 against Liang Wenbo. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: *Winner: $20,000 *Runner-up: $10,000 *Semi-final: $7,500 *Players 5–7: $5,000 *Highest break: $5,000 *Maximum break: $100,000 Group stage Group 1 * Liang Wenbo 4–2 Chan Wai Kei * Ricky Walden 4–3 Chan Wai Kei * Ricky Walden 1–4 Liang Wenbo Group 2 * Marco Fu 4–2 Li Yan * Tian Pengfei 2–4 Li Yan * Marco Fu 1–4 Tian Pengfei Preliminary round * Zhang Anda 2–4 Li Yan Knock-out stage Final Century breaks *116, 104 Liang Wenbo *111, 104 Ricky Walden *105, 100 Li Yan References {{DEFAULTSORT:General Cup International, 2009 2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Cup
The General Cup was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament which was held sporadically from 2004 until 2015 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong. History Established in 2004 under the "General Cup International" name, the tournament was contested only intermittently, with the last event held in 2015. The field comprised mostly professional players and several top Far Eastern amateurs, except in 2013 only professionals were invited. In 2014, there were eight professionals and a wildcard player. In the early rounds, the field of competition is divided into groups with the players in each group playing each other in a round-robin format, followed by knock-out stages. The final champion is Marco Fu Marco Fu Ka-chun, MH, JP (, born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open and the 2016 Scottish Open. He .... Winners References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century, the game is played with twenty-two balls, comprising a , fifteen red balls, and six other balls—a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black—collectively called the colours. Using a cue stick, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the white to other balls in a predefined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and for each time the opposing player or team commits a . An individual of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points. A snooker ends when a player reaches a predetermined number of frames. Snooker gained its identity in 1875 when army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, stationed in Ootacamund, Madras, and Jabalpur, devised a set of rules ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Cup International
The General Cup was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament which was held sporadically from 2004 until 2015 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong. History Established in 2004 under the "General Cup International" name, the tournament was contested only intermittently, with the last event held in 2015. The field comprised mostly professional players and several top Far Eastern amateurs, except in 2013 only professionals were invited. In 2014, there were eight professionals and a wildcard player. In the early rounds, the field of competition is divided into groups with the players in each group playing each other in a round-robin format, followed by knock-out stages. The final champion is Marco Fu Marco Fu Ka-chun, MH, JP (, born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open and the 2016 Scottish Open. He .... Winners References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Fu
Marco Fu Ka-chun, MH, JP (, born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open and the 2016 Scottish Open. He has been a runner-up at two Triple Crown events, at the 2008 UK Championship and the 2011 Masters. In addition, Fu has reached the semi-finals of the World Championship twice—in 2006 and in 2016. Fu reached a career-high ranking of fifth in the world in 2017. He turned professional in 1998 and has remained on the World Snooker Tour to-date. Despite not competing in events during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fu was given an invitational place to remain on the tour during the 2021–22 snooker season. As a prolific break-builder, Fu has compiled over 500 century breaks in professional competition, including five maximum breaks. A cultural icon in Hong Kong, Fu presented a 10-episode chat show called ' on ViuTV. Career Early career Marco F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Yan (snooker Player)
Li Yan (born September 17, 1992) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China. Career Early career Li received a wild card for the 2008 Shanghai Masters, losing 1–5 to Anthony Hamilton. At the 2009 Shanghai Masters, he defeated Gerard Greene 5–4, before losing to Ryan Day in the last 32. 2011/2012 season Li qualified for the 2011/2012 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the second Q School event. As a new player on the tour Li would need to win four matches in order to reach the main stage of the ranking tournaments. He accomplished this in qualifying for the second biggest tournament on the snooker calendar, the UK Championship, with wins over Stuart Carrington, Andy Hicks, Jack Lisowski and Fergal O'Brien. He faced former world champion Shaun Murphy in the first round of the event and was beaten 3–6. He could not qualify for another tournament for the remainder of the season but did play in all 12 of the PTC even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tian Pengfei
Tian Pengfei (, born 16 August 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed on the World Snooker Tour for two seasons until he dropped off in 2008. He won the Beijing International Challenge, and returned to the Main Tour the following year. Career Tian first competed on the Main Tour in the 2006–07 season, dropping off the tour in the following season. During the season, Tian also received a one-year ban from China's cue sports administration, following an investigation into allegations that he had sexually abused and beaten his fellow team-mate, Zhou Mengmeng, at the Doha Asian Games in 2006, in which she subsequently gave a formal apology regarding this. As a wild card, Tian defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–3 in the last 32 of the 2010 China Open at the Students University Stadium in Beijing. In an astonishing fini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chan Wai Kei (snooker Player)
Chan Wai Kei ( zh, c=陳慧琪, j=can4 wai3 kei4; born 19 March 1981), also known as Vicky Chan, is a sailor from Hong Kong who won a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in the mistral class. She also competed in the windsurfing Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing g ... event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing in 9th position. References External links * * * 1981 births Living people Hong Kong windsurfers Female windsurfers Hong Kong female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Hong Kong Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Asian Games silver medalists for Hong Kong Asian Games medalists in sailing Sailors at the 2006 Asian Games Sailors at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Place of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximum Break
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven) is the highest possible in a single of snooker. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 with 15 for 120 points, followed by all six for a further 27 points. Compiling a maximum break is regarded as a particularly significant achievement in the game of snooker, and may be compared to a nine-dart finish in darts or a 300 game in ten-pin bowling. The first officially recognised maximum break was made by Joe Davis in a 1955 exhibition match in London. At the Classic in January 1982, Steve Davis achieved the first recognised maximum in professional competition, which was also the first maximum to occur during a televised match. The following year, Cliff Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum at the World Snooker Championship. At the UK Championship in December 2013, Mark Selby compiled the 100th recognised maximum break in professional competition. Ronnie O'Sullivan hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 General Cup International
The 2011 General Cup was a professional non-Snooker world rankings, ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4–7 July 2011 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong. Stephen Lee (snooker player), Stephen Lee won in the final 7–6 against Ricky Walden. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: *Winner: Hong Kong dollar, $50,000 *Runner-up: $25,000 *2nd in group: $15,000 *3rd in group: $8,000 *Century break: $2,000 *Highest break (>100): $20,000 *Highest break (<100): $10,000 *Maximum break: $147,000 Round robin stage Group A * Tom Ford 5–3 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh * Stephen Lee 5–3 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh * Stephen Lee 5–0 Tom FordGroup B * Marco Fu 5–1 Noppadol Sangnil * Ricky Walden 5–0 Noppadol Sangnil * Ricky Walden 5–4 Marco FuFinal Century ...
|
General Snooker Club
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77489?rskey=dCKrg4&result=1 (accessed May 11, 2021) The term ''general'' is used in two ways: as the generic title for all grades of general officer and as a specific rank. It originates in the 16th century, as a shortening of '' captain general'', which rank was taken from Middle French ''capitaine général''. The adjective ''general'' had been affixed to officer designations since the late medieval period to indicate relative superiority or an extended jurisdiction. Today, the title of ''general'' is known in some countries as a four-star rank. However, different countries use different systems of stars or other insignia for senior ranks. It has a NATO r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 General Cup International
The 2004 General Cup was a professional non- ranking snooker tournament that took place between 11–16 September 2004 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong. Issara Kachaiwong defeated Dominic Dale 6–3 in the final. __TOC__ Group stage Group A * Pang Weiguo 4–2 Atthasit Mahitthi * Pang Weiguo 3–4 Gary Wilson * Pang Weiguo 4–1 Au Chi Wai * Atthasit Mahitthi 4–1 Gary Wilson * Atthasit Mahitthi 4–3 Au Chi Wai * Gary Wilson 4–2 Au Chi Wai Group B *Mark Allen 4–1 Fung Kwok Wai *Mark Allen 4–2 Mei Xi Wen *Mark Allen 4–1 Liew Kit Fatt *Fung Kwok Wai 4–2 Mei Xi Wen *Fung Kwok Wai 4–1 Liew Kit Fatt *Mei Xi Wen 4–1 Liew Kit Fatt Group C *Cai Jian Zhong 4–2 Issara Kachaiwong *Cai Jian Zhong 4–3 Chan Wai Kei *Cai Jian Zhong 4–3 Pankaj Advani *Issara Kachaiwong 4–2 Chan Wai Kei *Issara Kachaiwong 4–2 Pankaj Advani *Chan Wai Kei 4–3 Pankaj Advani Group D *Dominic Dale 4–2 Chan Kwok Ming *Dominic Dale 4–2 Ooi Chin Kay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liang Wenbo
Liang Wenbo (; born 25 March 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player based at the Oracle Snooker Club, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. Liang, who plays left-handed, has reached one Triple Crown final, made three Masters appearances, and won one ranking title at the inaugural English Open in 2016. He twice won the World Cup for China along with teammate Ding Junhui. Liang has made three maximum breaks in his career, and reached an all-time high of 11th in the world rankings. Liang was suspended from professional competition from 2 April until 1 August 2022 for bringing the sport into disrepute, following a domestic assault conviction. He was suspended again on 27 October 2022, and the WPBSA subsequently disclosed that he is among seven Chinese players currently being investigated for match-fixing. Career Amateur years As an amateur, Liang's major feats were as follows: * 2003 IBSF World Snooker Championship, men's division, quarter-finalist * 2004 IBSF World Snook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
