2023 Six-red World Championship
| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 6–11 March 2023 |
| Venue | Thammasat University Convention Centre |
| City | Pathum Thani |
| Country | Thailand |
| Organisation | World Snooker Tour |
| Format | Six-red snooker |
| Total prize fund | 11,000,000 baht |
| Winner's share | 4,200,000 baht |
| Highest break |  Matthew Selt (ENG) (80) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Ding Junhui (CHN) |
| Runner-up |  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA) |
| Score | 8–6 |
← 2019 | |
The 2023 Pathum Thani Six-red World Championship was a non-ranking six-red snooker tournament held from 6 to 11 March 2023 at the Thammasat University Convention Centre in Pathum Thani, Thailand. The event was originally scheduled for September 2022, but was postponed until March 2023.[1] A qualification round was played prior to the tournament with four players qualifying to the 32 player field.[2]
Stephen Maguire was the defending champion, having won the previous championship in September 2019, but he was eliminated in the group stage.[3] Ding Junhui won the event for the second time, beating Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 8–6 in the final.[4]
Prize fund
[edit]A breakdown of the prize money awarded is shown below.[5]
- Winner = £100,800
- Runner-up = £31,200
- Semi-final = £18,000
- Quarter-final = £9,000
- Last 16 = £3,600
Results
[edit]Group stage
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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
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| Last 16 Best of 11 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 11 frames | Semi-finals Best of 13 frames | Final Best of 15 frames | |||||||||||
| Zhang Anda | 6 | |||||||||||||
| James Wattana | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Zhang Anda | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Dechawat Poomjaeng | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | 7 | |||||||||||||
 Hossein Vafaei | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Hossein Vafaei | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Noppon Saengkham | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Hossein Vafaei | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Judd Trump | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Judd Trump | 6 | |||||||||||||
 Mark Williams | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Ding Junhui | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Chris Wakelin | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Tom Ford | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Tom Ford | 6 | |||||||||||||
 John Higgins | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Joe Perry | 2 | |||||||||||||
| John Higgins | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Tom Ford | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Ding Junhui | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Stuart Bingham | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Ricky Walden | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Stuart Bingham | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Ding Junhui | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Ronnie O'Sullivan | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Ding Junhui | 6 | |||||||||||||
Final
[edit]| Final: Best of 15 frames. Referee: Tawich Kongdee Thammasat University Convention Centre, Pathum Thani, Thailand, 11 March 2023 | ||
| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Thailand
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6–8 | Ding Junhui China
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| Frame scores: 0–72 (72), 0–71 (71), 53–1 (52), 34–20, 2–35, 0–46, 1–40, 34–12, 40–12, 10–37, 29–34, 35–25, 41–17, 1–38 | ||
| 52 | Highest Break | 72 |
| 1 | 50+ Breaks | 2 |
Qualifying
[edit]Qualifying for the event took place from 7 to 9 January 2023 at the Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Four players qualified for the final stage in Thailand, one from each quarter of the draw.[8] Eight players received byes to Round 2.[citation needed] Ricky Walden later got an automatic place in the main event draw as a top 16 player pulled out.[9]
First quarter
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Second quarter
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Third quarter
[edit]Fourth quarter
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Maximum breaks
[edit](Note: A maximum break in six-red is 75)
Main stage
[edit]- Matthew Selt (80)
Qualifying stage
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Six-red World Championship postponed". World Snooker Tour. 30 August 2022. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022.
- ^ "Six-red World Championship". World Snooker Tour. 9 December 2022. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022.
- ^ "Six-red World Championship". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ "Ding Beats Un-Nooh In Six Red Final". World Snooker Tour. 11 March 2023. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023.
- ^ https://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?event=1402 [bare URL]
- ^ "Ford joins Six-red World Championship field". World Snooker Tour. 28 February 2023. Archived from the original on 24 February 2023.
- ^ "Six Red World Championship Last 16 Draw". World Snooker Tour. 9 March 2023. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023.
- ^ "Six-red World Championship qualifiers draw". World Snooker Tour. 22 December 2022. Archived from the original on 22 December 2022.
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