Snooker tournament
The 2005 Royal London Watches Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 8 and 16 October 2005 at the Guild Hall in Preston, England.
John Higgins won in the final 9–2 against Ronnie O'Sullivan. In the final, Higgins set two records: His century breaks in the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth frames marked the first time a player had ever recorded centuries in four consecutive frames in a match during a ranking tournament.[1] He scored 494 points without reply,[2] the greatest number in any professional snooker tournament, until Ding Junhui made 495 points without reply against Stephen Hendry in the league stage of the 2007 Premier League.[3]
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[4]
Main draw
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Final
Qualifying
Qualifying for the tournament took place between 27 and 28 September 2005 at Pontin's in Prestatyn, Wales. All matches were best of 9 frames.[6]
Century breaks
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Qualifying stage centuries
Televised stage centuries
References
- ^ "John Higgins: 'The Wizard of Wishaw'". stv.tv. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- ^ Chowdhury, Saj (8 May 2007). "Reborn Higgins joins the greats". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- ^ Everton, Clive (3 May 2008). "I've never been so outplayed, admits humiliated Hendry as O'Sullivan makes final with 'perfection'". London: guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- ^ "Preisgeld Grand Prix 2005". Brownball.de. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Grand Prix 2005". Snooker.org. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- ^ a b c "2005 Grand Prix". Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 15 April 2006.
- ^ "2005 Grand Prix results". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 31 December 2005. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ "Grand Prix". Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
