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Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regulation (full-size) table is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m). It is played using a cue, one white ball (the cue ball), 15 red balls (worth 1 point each) and 6 balls of different colours A player (or team) wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent(s), using the cue ball to pot the red and coloured balls. A match consists of a previously agreed-upon number of frames. Snooker is particularly popular in many of the English-speaking and Commonwealth countries, and in China, with the top professional players attaining multi-million pound career earnings from the game.
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World Snooker Championship 2007
The 2007 888.com World Snooker Championship began on 21 April and ran until 7 May 2007 (with the final continuing into the early hours of 8 May) at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Graeme Dott was the defending champion. John Higgins is the current World Snooker Champion.
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Stephen Hendry
Stephen Hendry, MBE (born January 13, 1969 in South Queensferry, Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional snooker player, whose achievements make him one of the most successful players of the modern era. He spent a record eight consecutive years at no. 1 in the world rankings, has won the World Snooker Championship a record seven times, and was the youngest World Champion at the age of 21. He holds numerous snooker world records, including most modern World Championship wins, most total ranking titles, most years as World No.1, most consecutive wins of a single tournament, most total tournament wins in one season, longest consecutive winning streak, most 147s compiled in competitive play, most centuries compiled in one match, most centuries compiled in one tournament, most career centuries, most total wins of snooker's three main events (the Triple Crown titles) and highest total prize money earned by a single player.
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- ...that modern billiard & snooker chalk (pictured), which is not actually chalk but a compound of silica and corundum, was invented by player William A. Spinks and a chemist friend in 1897?
- ...that Jan Verhaas is the only non-UK citizen that refereed World Snooker Championship final match?
- May 5, 2008: Ronnie O'Sullivan wins the World Snooker Championship 2008, his 3rd world title, defeating Ali Carter 18-8 in the final.
- Mar 30, 2008: Stephen Maguire beats Shaun Murphy 10-9 to clinch the China Open.
- Feb 17, 2008: Mark Selby beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 9-8 to claim the Welsh Open and his first ranking title.
- Feb 10, 2008: Shaun Murphy beat Ken Doherty 9-3 to win Malta Cup.
- Dec 16, 2007: Ronnie O'Sullivan wins 2007 UK Snooker Championship, his first ranking event in over two years.
- Dec 15, 2007: Ronnie O'Sullivan completes his eighth maximum break of 147 in a deciding frame against Mark Selby.
- Nov 11, 2007: Stephen Maguire beat Fergal O'Brien 9-5 to win Northern Ireland Trophy.
- Nov 8, 2007: Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled his seventh 147 maximum break in the match against Ali Carter.
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