2011 World Snooker Championship

• Winner gets 10,000 points.
• Finalist - 8000
• Semifinalists - 6400
• Quarter Finalists - 5000
• 1/8 final participants - 3800
• Participants of the 1/16 final - 1400/2800 (for “seeded” / for qualified)
• Losing in the 4th qualification round - 1150/2300
• Losing in the 3rd qualifying round - 900/1800
• Losing in the 2nd qualifying round - 650/1300
• Losing in the 1st qualifying round - 400/800

Players who lose in the preliminary rounds of qualification and players who are not participants in the main tour are not awarded points.

• Winner: £ 250,000
• Finalist: £ 125,000
• Semifinalists: £ 52,000
• Quarter-finalists: £ 24,050
• 1/8 finals: £ 16,000
• 1/16 finals: £ 12,000
• Last 48 Members: £ 8,200
• Last 64 Members: £ 4,600
• Highest qualification break: £ 1,000
• The highest break in the main stage of the tournament: £ 10,000
• Total Prize Pool: £ 1,111,000 ^[3]

• Mark Selby in the 1/8 final game against Stephen Hendry broke two records at once, which until now belonged to Hendry himself: firstly, he made 6 century breaks in one match - the highest figure in the history of Crucible (Stephen made 5 hundred episodes in World Cup Final 1997 ); secondly, Selby brought the number of centre-breaks for one season to 53 and thus blocked Hendry's achievement of 52 hundred ( 1995/96 season ). In addition, in the same match, Mark won the frame from a position in which he needed 4 snookers, which is a rather rare event.
• Ronnie O'Sullivan in the match 1 / 16th made his 100th Century Break at the World Championships.
• In the final stage of the championship, 2 tournament debutants played: Jimmy Robertson and Andrew Pagett . Both of them lost in the 16th.
• For the first time in a long time, there was no separate prize for the maximum break in the championship. Now for the performance of the maximum was provided only a standard reward for the highest series.
• Mark Williams for the first time since 2003 reached the semifinals of the championship.
• Ding Junhui for the first time in his career overcame the 1/8 finals of the tournament. He reached the quarter-finals, beating Stuart Binham with a score of 13:12, after a lag of 9:12. Dean later reached the semi-finals, becoming only the third player from Asia to achieve such a result.
• Judd Trump became the youngest participant in the finals since 1990 .
• John Higgins won the final frame of the finals after he needed snooker.
• The highest break of the main stage of the tournament - only 138 points - was the lowest since 1987 .
• 35-year-old Higgins, having won this tournament, became the oldest champion in the past 25 years.

Main Event

Below are the results and data of the final (television) stage of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the names of the players indicate their seeding number in the tournament (a total of 16 “seeded” players and 16 players who made their way out of the qualification participate in the World Cup).

The draw for the 1/16 final was held on March 21 at Wembley Arena.

Qualification

Qualification for the tournament was held from March 3 to 13, 2011 at the English Institute of Sports in Sheffield ^[4] . In the first and second round (preliminary qualification, matches up to 5 wins), amateur snooker players played (among them the majority of ex-professionals), in the third (matches up to 10 wins) - the winners of the 2nd round and the mainstream snooker players having lowest sowing. In the main stage of qualification (4-7 rounds), the winners of the 3rd round and the participants of the main tour participated in the current official rating, taking 17th place and below.

Rounds 1-3

Rounds 4-7

• Tournament Data at snooker.org
• List of Century Breaks at World Snooker
• Tournament format and tournament grid at World Snooker