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2009 Jiangsu Classic

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Dates
  
4–7 June 2009

Country
  
China

Format
  
Non-ranking event

City
  
Wuxi

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium

The 2009 Wuzhou International Group Jiangsu Classic was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4–7 June 2009 at the Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium in Wuxi, China. The round-robin stage consisted of two groups of six players, ten top 16 players. The tournament was renamed the following year to Wuxi Classic.

Mark Selby made the 69th official maximum break during his last round robin match against Joe Perry. This was Selby's first official 147 break.

Mark Allen won his first professional title by defeating defending champion Ding Junhui 6–0.

Prize fund

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

  • Winner: £20,000
  • Runner-Up: £9,000
  • Semi-finalist: £8,000
  • 3rd place in Group: £4,000
  • 4th place in Group: £2,000
  • Appearance Fees for professionals: £2,500
  • Highest Break: £1,000
  • * 76–51, 0–63, (104) 125–0, (124) 128–1, (97)-0, (72)-0
    ** 4–110 (86), 64–55, 25–66 (61), (74) 83–1, 16–78 (72), 4–124 (88), 47–76

  • 147 Mark Selby
  • 132 Ryan Day
  • 124, 117, 104 Ding Junhui
  • 114 Shaun Murphy
  • 102 Stephen Hendry
  • References

    2009 Jiangsu Classic Wikipedia