33-year-old Scot was in the finals of the biggest tournament ranked for the first time after a year

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Ronnie O'Sullivan, despite failure in the quarter-finals only to increase further advantage over their pursuers on a temporary scale. Runner-up Stephen Maguire now behind schedule by more than 9,000 points. By the end of the season is still five tournaments that count for scale. Photo: EPA
For minor scandal took care of Peter Ebdon. In the second round he had in the last game a lot of resin to Jamie Chop, which was then won by 5: 4th Cope is one of the punches hit badly, but was saved by the 'random' Photo: EPA
33-year-old Scot was in the finals of the biggest tournament ranked for the first time after a year and a half, when in May 2007 in Sheffield, second world champion. This time in the final beat Ryan Daya 9: 7th Five years younger player from Wales was only the third time to the grand final, with a great desire to finally porte de paris lille win the first tournament for the Intensity Scale.
Higgins has quickly gained a large advantage Day started disastrous, as it is mainly in the early games made too many mistakes, Higgins has also had a lot of luck, because quite a few times completely missed the shot, but he had a lot of luck, as the white ball rule always so stopped, he had his opponent "to solve snooker". Therefore, neither it was not surprising that quickly fell behind by 2: 7th Then he woke up and patiently game fell to 7: 8th The final hand is once again had some resins, since Higgins immediately after breaking risk of long strokes and he gained too much priority to Day again returned.
Calendar season 2008/2009: - OP Northern Ireland (Ronnie O'Sullivan) - Shanghai (Ricky Walden) porte de paris lille - Grand Prix (John Higgins) - IP Bahrain (8th-15th 11) - OP Great Britain (13-21 . 12th) - IP Wales (16th-22nd 2) - OP China (30 3-5th 4) - SP in Sheffield (18 4-4 charger. 5)
The draw after each round of the tournament Grand Prix in comparison with last year experienced a lot of changes porte de paris lille since he moved from Aberdeen to Glasgow. The system has abandoned the preliminary group, the novelty was in itself draw. After the first round there were more institutions, which meant that anyone can be competed with each. Random draw so bring some interesting matches. In round 2 they both competed largest Scottish legend (Higgins and Stephen Hendry), but we also saw a repetition of the previous finals, where Ronnie O'Sullivan Marc fu revenge for last year's defeat.
Trump achieve career success The next feature of the tournament was extremely colorful cast of contestants. Look at the quarterfinals age of participants porte de paris lille was incredible. The youngest contestant was a 19-year-old Judd Trump, who is the classification of the semi-finals reached its by far the biggest success of his career.
O'Sullivan dropped against Trumpu Trump had in the first round Fortunately, since without a fight ranked ahead (his rival Graeme Dott was playing football broke his arm), then the 5: 2 semi-finalists last year shocked the SP's Joe Perry. What followed was by far the biggest scalp in his short career, as it is 5: 4 shocked the world and the first player three times world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. In the semifinals against the winner of the later Higgins porte de paris lille has left behind a 1: 4, as brave game tied at 4: 4, then Higgins got the rest of the game. Many experts also see the Trumpu new O'Sullivan (it is interesting that even in 14 years to reach the first perfect game - 147 points - and this record took exactly a rocket). After a few difficult porte de paris lille years among the elite, it seems that it is now only stabilized. His game is now the biggest drawback played with a white ball.
Davis is still not (too) that the oldest competitor in the quarterfinals was 51-year-old Steve Davis. Although it is six times world champion in the eighties far from the top, it is proved that in an ideal week may still be the best mixes mats and in an ideal scenario, 28 conquered the tournament may add some more. Last dates back to the year 1995.
In the fore coming new players last feature worth noting is the gradual succession of generations. Although snooker extremely unpredictable and makes a number of surprises (Ricky Walden, 35th player in the world, this season has already won a tournament porte de paris lille in Shanghai, porte de paris lille Dave Harrold, 28 player in the world, was in the finals porte de paris lille of the Northern Ireland), it is nevertheless a gradual generational change. Some iron names (in this we have in mind in particular Stephen Hendry, Peter Ebdon, G Dott, Mark Williams ...) is slowly saying goodbye to cities among the top 16 (which directly allow you to play on all tournaments), formed the new generation (Ryan Day, Ali Carter, Mark Selby, Ding Džunhui, Stephen Maguire porte de paris lille ...), who will increasingly dictate the very top, at the door of the top is already knocking the new youngsters porte de paris lille (Judd Trump, Jamie Cope, Liang Venbu ...), looking for its place among the elite.
All winners of the Grand Prix: 2008 John Higgins (Scotland) Regulations 2007 Marco Fu (China) Regulations 2006 Neil Robertson (Australia) 2005 John Higgins (Scotland) Regulations 2004 Ronnie O'Sullivan (England) 2003 Mark Williams (Walles) in 2002 Chris Small (Scotland) Regulations 2001 Stephen Lee (England) Regulations 2000 Mark Willi