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2011 World Cup (snooker)

Field	Value
tournament_name	World Cup
logo	PTT-EGAT Snooker World Cup poster.jpg
dates
venue	Bangkok Convention Centre
location	Bangkok
country	Thailand
organisation	WPBSA
format	Non-ranking team event
Total prize fund	$700,000
winners_share	$200,000
highest_break	139
winner	China
Ding Junhui
Liang Wenbo
runner_up	Northern Ireland
Mark Allen
Gerard Greene
score	4–2
previous	[1996](1996-world-cup-snooker)
next	[2015](2015-world-cup-snooker)

Ding Junhui Liang Wenbo Mark Allen Gerard Greene

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:

Singles (Player 1 vs. Player 1)
Singles (Player 2 vs. Player 2)
Doubles (alternate visits)
Reverse singles (Player 1 vs. Player 2)
Reverse singles (Player 2 vs. Player 1)

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:

Singles (Player 1 vs. Player 1)
Singles (Player 2 vs. Player 2)
Doubles (alternate visits)
Reverse singles (Player 1 vs. Player 2)
Reverse singles (Player 2 vs. Player 1)
Doubles (alternate visits)
Singles (players nominated by captain).

Teams and seeding

Rank	Country	Player 1	Player 2
1		Mark Williams	Matthew Stevens
2		John Higgins	Stephen Maguire
3		Mark Selby	Ali Carter
4		Ding Junhui	Liang Wenbo
5		Neil Robertson	Steve Mifsud
6		Mark Allen	Gerard Greene
7		Marco Fu	Fung Kwok Wai
8	Republic of Ireland	Ken Doherty	Fergal O'Brien
	THA	James Wattana	Dechawat Poomjaeng
	THA	Passakorn Suwannawat	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
		Patrick Einsle	Lasse Münstermann
		Fabio Luersen	Noel Rodrigues
		Bjorn Haneveer	Luca Brecel
		Sahid Aftab	Muhammad Sajjad
		Aditya Mehta	Pankaj Advani
	AFG	Mohammad Rais Senzahi	Saleh Mohammad
		Mohammed Shehab	Mohammed Al Joaker
		Kacper Filipiak	Krzysztof Wróbel
		Tony Drago	Alex Borg
		Wael Talat	Yasser El-Sherbini

Round robin stage

Group A

POS	Seed	Team	MP	MW	ML	FW	FL	PTS
1	1	****	4	4	0	14	6	14
2	8	Republic of Ireland	4	2	2	11	9	11
3			4	2	2	10	10	10
4			4	1	3	9	11	9
5			4	1	3	6	14	6

Muhammad Sajjad	6–119	Fergal O'Brien	Yasser El-Sherbini	60–28	Patrick Einsle

Muhammad Sajjad	63–47	Patrick Einsle	Matthew Stevens	67–41	Yasser El-Sherbini

Yasser El-Sherbini	13–55	Ken Doherty	Matthew Stevens	14–58	Patrick Einsle

Matthew Stevens	15–61	Sahid Aftab	Lasse Münstermann	45–74	Ken Doherty

Yasser El-Sherbini	22–72	Sahid Aftab	Matthew Stevens	6–62	Ken Doherty

Group B

POS	Seed	Team	MP	MW	ML	FW	FL	PTS
1	4	****	4	4	0	13	7	13
2	5	****	4	3	1	13	7	13
3			4	2	2	12	8	12
4		A	4	1	3	8	12	8
5			4	0	4	4	16	4

Dechawat Poomjaeng	60–79	Neil Robertson	Ding Junhui	120–8	Alex Borg

Alex Borg	7–63	Neil Robertson	Dechawat Poomjaeng	70–21	Mohammed Shehab

Dechawat Poomjaeng	66–59	Tony Drago	Liang Wenbo	78–43	Mohammed Shehab

Mohammed Al Joaker	13–106	Tony Drago	Liang Wenbo	42–74	Neil Robertson

Mohammed Al Joaker	45–63	Neil Robertson	James Wattana	0–95	Ding Junhui

Group C

POS	Seed	Team	MP	MW	ML	FW	FL	PTS
1	3	****	4	4	0	14	6	14
2	6	****	4	3	1	13	7	13
3			4	2	2	9	11	9
4			4	0	4	8	12	8
5			4	1	3	6	14	6

Noel Rodrigues	8–59	Luca Brecel	Aditya Mehta	71–32	Gerard Greene

Pankaj Advani	64–58	Bjorn Haneveer	Ali Carter	69–7	Fabio Luersen

Noel Rodrigues	82–13	Mark Allen	Ali Carter	6–67	Bjorn Haneveer

Luca Brecel	128–1	Mark Allen	Ali Carter	57–5	Aditya Mehta

Noel Rodrigues	97–29	Aditya Mehta	Ali Carter	64–14	Mark Allen

Group D

POS	Seed	Team	MP	MW	ML	FW	FL	PTS
1	2	****	4	4	0	13	7	13
2	7	****	4	2	2	11	9	11
3		B	4	2	2	10	10	10
4		AFG	4	1	3	9	11	9
5			4	1	3	7	13	7

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	82–37	Saleh Mohammad	Marco Fu	60–29	Krzysztof Wróbel

Stephen Maguire	36–70	Kacper Filipiak	Saleh Mohammad	0–75	Marco Fu

Stephen Maguire	53–51	Mohammad Rais Senzahi	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	27–64	Marco Fu

Krzysztof Wróbel	52–74	Mohammad Rais Senzahi	Stephen Maguire	86–0	Passakorn Suwannawat

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	82–21	Kacper Filipiak	Stephen Maguire	17–63	Marco Fu

Knock-out stage

Quarter-finals

Mark Williams/Matthew Stevens	77–39	Steve Mifsud/Neil Robertson

Mark Selby	2–75	Marco Fu	John Higgins	27–86	Mark Allen

Semi-finals

			Marco Fu	0–102	Mark Allen

Final

Ding Junhui/Liang Wenbo	89–0	Gerard Greene/Mark Allen

Century breaks

There were 12 century breaks in the tournament.

THA B – 139 Passakorn Suwannawat
NIR – 128, 108 Mark Allen, 109 Gerard Greene, – 110 (Mark Allen & Gerard Greene) Doubles Frame alternate shots
SCO – 125 Stephen Maguire
CHN – 120 Ding Junhui
IRL – 111 Ken Doherty, 101 Fergal O'Brien
ENG – 102 Mark Selby
MLT – 100 Tony Drago
BEL – 100 Luca Brecel

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