The 2013 Champion of Champions (officially the 2013 888casino Champion of Champions) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held between 19 and 24 November 2013 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. This was the first time that 888casino sponsored the event, which was broadcast live on ITV4.
The event was last held in 1980, when Doug Mountjoy won in the final 10–8 against John Virgo.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his 52nd professional title by defeating Stuart Bingham 10–8 in the final.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Winner: £100,000 Runner-up: £50,000 Semi-finals: £20,000 Group runner-up: £10,000 Group semi-finals: £5,000 Total: £270,000
Players Players qualified for the event by winning important tournaments from the start of the 2012-13 season to the 2013 Indian Open. The important events included all rankings events and winners the following non-rankings events: 2012 Premier League Snooker, 2013 Masters and 2013 Championship League. With only 14 different players winning one of the qualifying events, the remaining two places were allocated to the highest ranked players who had not already qualified.
The following 16 players qualified for the tournament:
Seed Player Qualified as 1 Winner of 2013 World Snooker Championship 2 Mark Selby Winner of 2012 UK Championship and 2013 Masters 3 Judd Trump Winner of 2012 International Championship 4 Neil Robertson Winner of 2013 China Open and 2013 Wuxi Classic 5 Mark Allen Winner of 2013 World Open 6 Ricky Walden Winner of 2012 Wuxi Classic 7 John Higgins Winner of 2012 Shanghai Masters 8 Ding Junhui 9 Barry Hawkins Winner of 2012 Australian Goldfields Open 10 Stephen Maguire Winner of 2013 Welsh Open 11 Stuart Bingham Winner of 2012 Premier League Snooker 12 Ali Carter Winner of 2013 German Masters 13 Martin Gould Winner of 2013 Championship League 14 Marco Fu Winner of 2013 Australian Goldfields Open 15 Shaun Murphy World ranking of 4. Highest ranked player after the 2013 Shanghai Masters 16 Mark Davis World ranking of 13. Highest ranked player after the 2013 Indian Open
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Paul Collier.Ricoh Arena, Coventry, England, 24 November 2013. Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) 10–8 Stuart Bingham (11) Afternoon: 26–109 (109), , , , , , , , Evening: 99–1 (93), , , , , , , , 130 Highest break 109 1 Century breaks 2 7 50+ breaks 6
Century breaks
130, 130, 119, 103, 101 Ronnie O'Sullivan 129, 125, 119, 113, 112, 105 Neil Robertson 127, 112 Ali Carter 125 Stephen Maguire 117, 113, 103 Mark Selby 111, 109, 109 Stuart Bingham 104 Ding Junhui 102 Martin Gould
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