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2008 Grand Prix (snooker)

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Dates
  
11–19 October 2008

City
  
Glasgow

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
S.E.C.C.

Country
  
Scotland

Format
  
Ranking event

The 2008 Royal London Watches Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 11–19 October 2008 at the S.E.C.C. in Glasgow, Scotland.

Contents

John Higgins won his first ranking event for 18 months by defeating Ryan Day 9–7 in the final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Main draw

Matches on Sunday 12 October were played on a roll on/roll off basis. Play started at the allocated time each day with a 15-minute interval between matches. The third and fourth match did not start before 3pm. The evening session did not start before the time indicated on the format.

The draw for round one was made on completion of the qualifiers on 26 September 2008. The draw from round two up to and including the semi-finals was made on a random basis. The order of play and table numbers for all matches up to the semi-finals were determined once the draw for that round was made and published by the tournament director.

All matches up to and including the quarter-finals were best of 9 frames, semi-finals were best of 11 frames and the final was best of 17 frames. (Seedings in parentheses. All times are BST.)

Qualifying rounds

These matches took place from 22 to 25 September 2008 at the Pontin's Centre, Prestatyn, Wales.

References

2008 Grand Prix (snooker) Wikipedia