2016 Six-red World Championship
| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 5–10 September 2016 |
| Venue | Bangkok Convention Center |
| City | Bangkok |
| Country | Thailand |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Winner's share | £45,000 |
| Highest break | 75 (x3) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Ding Junhui |
| Runner-up |  Stuart Bingham |
| Score | 8–7 |
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The 2016 SangSom Six-red World Championship was a six-red snooker tournament held between 5 and 10 September 2016 at the Bangkok Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand.[1] It featured 48 players from 16 different nations.[2]
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh was the defending champion, but he lost 2–6 in the last 16 round to Stephen Maguire. Ding Junhui won the title by beating Stuart Bingham 8–7 in the final. Bingham won the first frame of the final, but Ding then built a 3–1 lead. The match then went to 4-4. Ding later led 7-5 but did not pot any balls in the next two frames as Bingham levelled the match at 7-7. In the last frame, Ding made a clearance of 29 to win the match on the final black.[2]
Prize money
[edit]The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
- Winner: 2,500,000 baht
- Runner-up: 1,000,000 baht
- Semi-finalists: 500,000 baht
- Quarter-finalists: 250,000 baht
- Last 16: 125,000 baht
- Last 32: 62,500 baht
- Group stage: 31,250 baht
- Total: 8,000,000 baht
Round-robin stage
[edit]The top four players from each group qualified for the knock-out stage. All matches were best of 9 frames.
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Knockout stage
[edit]Final
[edit]| Final: Best of 15 frames. Referee: Bangkok Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand, 10 September 2016. | ||
| Ding Junhui China
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8–7 | Stuart Bingham England
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| 26–34, 57–14, 72–0 (72), 46–0, 0–70 (70), 67–0 (67), 25–35, 0–40, 56–0, 56–0, 0–65, 52–8, 0–39, 0–49, 33–29 | ||
| 72 | Highest break | 70 |
| 2 | 50+ breaks | 1 |
Maximum breaks
[edit](Note: A maximum break in six-red snooker is 75.)
References
[edit]- ^ "Tournament Calendar 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ a b c Hendon, David (October 2016). "Ding clinches six reds title on the final black". Snooker Scene. Everton's News Agency. p. 23.
- ^ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship, Group A (2016)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship, Group B (2016)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship, Group C (2016)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship, Group D (2016)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship, Group E (2016)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship, Group F (2016)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship, Group G (2016)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship, Group H (2016)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.