Dates 21 April–7 May 2001 City Sheffield Organisation(s) WPBSA | Venue Crucible Theatre Country England Format Ranking event | |
The 2001 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2001 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between the 21 April and 7 May 2001 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
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Mark Williams was the defending champion, but he lost in the second round 12–13 against Joe Swail and became another first-time champion who fell to the Crucible curse and could not defend his first World title.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his first World title by defeating John Higgins 18–14 in the final. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.
Tournament summary
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Main draw
Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).
Qualifying
The qualifying matches were held between 20 February and 4 March 2001 at the Newport Centre in Newport, Wales.
Century breaks
There were 53 century breaks in the Championship. The highest break of the tournament was 140 made by Joe Swail.