2011 World Cup (snooker)


The 2011 PTT-EGAT World Cup was a professional non-ranking team snooker tournament that took place from 11 to 17 July 2011 at the Bangkok Convention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. It was the 13th edition of the event, and it was televised live by Eurosport.
The tournament was last held 1996 in Thailand, where Scotland consisting of Stephen Hendry, John Higgins and Alan McManus defeated Ireland, represented by Ken Doherty, Fergal O'Brien and Michael Judge, 10–7 in the final.
Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo won the first title for China by defeating Northern Ireland, represented by Mark Allen and Gerard Greene, 4–2 in the final.

Prize fund

  • Winner: $200,000
  • Runner-Up: $100,000
  • Semi-final: $60,000
  • Quarter-final: $30,000
  • Third in group: $15,000
  • Fourth in group: $12,500
  • Fifth in group: $7,500
  • Highest break, round robin stage: $5,000
  • Highest break, knock-out stage: $15,000
  • Total: $700,000

Format

Twenty teams of two players each participated in the tournament. The top eight nations were seeded. As the host nation, Thailand was represented by two teams. The teams were drawn into four groups of five. The top two teams in each group have gone through to the quarter-finals. Each match included singles and doubles frames.

Round robin stage

Each match consisted of five frames and all frames were played. Each player played one frame against each player in the other team plus one doubles frame.
Frames were played in following order:
  1. Singles
  2. Singles
  3. Doubles
  4. Reverse singles
  5. Reverse singles
One point was awarded in the group for every frame won. If two teams were tied on the same number of points following the group stage then the winner of the match between those two teams was ranked higher in the group. Players were not permitted to play consecutive frames in singles matches.

Knock-out stage

Matches were played over the best of 7 frames with a singles frame to determine winner if match was tied at 3 frames each. Players were not permitted to play consecutive frames in singles matches.
Frames were played in following order:
  1. Singles
  2. Singles
  3. Doubles
  4. Reverse singles
  5. Reverse singles
  6. Doubles
  7. Singles.

Teams and seeding

RankCountryPlayer 1Player 2
1Mark WilliamsMatthew Stevens
2John HigginsStephen Maguire
3Mark SelbyAli Carter
4Ding JunhuiLiang Wenbo
5Neil RobertsonSteve Mifsud
6Mark AllenGerard Greene
7Marco FuFung Kwok Wai
8Republic of Ireland

Round robin stage

Group A

POSSeedTeamMPMWMLFWFLPTS
1144014614
28'''PAKGEREGY

Group B

POSSeedTeamMPMWMLFWFLPTS
14'44013713
25'43113713
342212812
4 A4138128
54044164

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Group C

POSSeedTeamMPMWMLFWFLPTS
13'44014614
26'43113713
34229119
44048128
54136146

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Group D

POSSeedTeamMPMWMLFWFLPTS
12'44013713
27'42211911
3 B422101010
4POL

Knock-out stage

Quarter-finals

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Century breaks

There were 12 century breaks in the tournament. B – 139 Passakorn Suwannawat' – 128, 108 Mark Allen, 109 Gerard Greene, – 110 Doubles Frame alternate shots