| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 4–7 June 2009 |
| Venue | Wuxi Sports Center |
| City | Wuxi |
| Country | China |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Non-ranking event |
| Winner's share | £20,000 |
| Highest break |  Mark Selby (147) |
| Final | |
| Champion | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Mark Allen |
| Runner-up |  Ding Junhui |
| Score | 6–0 |
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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 Sports Center in Wuxi, China. The round-robin stage consisted of two groups of six players, ten top 16 players.[1] 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.[2]
Mark Allen won his first professional title by defeating defending champion Ding Junhui 6–0.[3]
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[4]
- 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
Round robin stage
Group 1
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(breaks above 50 shown between brackets)
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Group 2
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(breaks above 50 shown between brackets)
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* Shaun Murphy topped the group ahead of Marco Fu due to winning their head to head match 2-0
Knock-out stages
| Semi-finals Best of 9 frames | Final Best of 11 frames | ||||||||
| Ding Junhui*
| 5 | ||||||||
 Marco Fu
| 1 | ||||||||
| Ding Junhui
| 0 | ||||||||
| Mark Allen
| 6 | ||||||||
| Shaun Murphy
| 2 | ||||||||
| Mark Allen**
| 5 | ||||||||
* 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
Final
| Final: Best of 11 frames Wuxi Sports Center, Wuxi, China, 7 June 2009.[4] | ||
| Ding Junhui China |
0–6 | Mark Allen Northern Ireland |
| 0–105 (64), 8–81 (71), 19–102 (74), 41–63, 32–68, 14–67 (58) | ||
| 37 | Highest break | 74 |
| 0 | Century breaks | 0 |
| 0 | 50+ breaks | 4 |
Century breaks
- 147 – Mark Selby[5]
- 132 – Ryan Day
- 124, 117, 104 – Ding Junhui
- 114 – Shaun Murphy
- 102 – Stephen Hendry
More
- ↑ "Jiangsu Classic Draw". Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ↑ Turner, Chris. "Maximum Breaks". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ↑ "Allen Soars To Jiangsu". World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Global Snooker: Results and information". Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
- ↑ "Selby Joins Maximum Club". World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 17 April 2010.