Majstrovstvá sveta 2021

Majstrovstvá sveta 2021

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The 2021 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2021 Betfred World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 17 April to 3 May 2021 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 45th consecutive year the World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible Theatre and the 15th and final ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season. It was organised by the World Snooker Tour. The event was sponsored by sports betting company Betfred and broadcast by the BBC, Eurosport and Matchroom Sport. It featured a total prize fund of £2,395,000 of which the winner received £500,000.

Qualifying for the tournament took place between 5 and 14 April 2021 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. There were 128 participants in the qualifying rounds, consisting of a mix of professional and invited amateur players. The main stage of the tournament featured 32 players: the top 16 players from the snooker world rankings and an additional 16 players from the qualifying rounds. Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, having won his sixth world title at the previous year's event, where he defeated Kyren Wilson 18–8 in the final. O'Sullivan lost in the second round to Anthony McGill 12–13. Mark Selby defeated Shaun Murphy 18–15 in the final to win his fourth world title and the 20th ranking title of his career. There were a record 108 century breaks made at the Crucible, with an additional 106 made in qualifying rounds. The tournament's highest break was 144 by Murphy in the second round.

Majstrovstvá sveta v snookri 2021 sa konali od 17. apríla do 3. mája 2021 v aréne Crucible Theatre v Sheffielde v Anglicku. Organizovala ich Svetová snookrová asociácia (WPBSA) a boli 42. vydaním Majstrovstiev sveta, ktoré sa hrali v Crucible Theatre od roku 1977.

Ôsmym nasadeným bol úradujúci majster Ronnie O'Sullivan, ktorý získal šiesty titul v roku 2020. O'Sullivan porazil vo štvrťfinále Kyrena Wilsona 13:10, v semifinále Marka Selbyho 17:16, no v 40. finále kariéry prehral so šestkou Markom Williamsom 18:21.

Williams získal svoj tretí titul majstra sveta, pričom predchádzajúce dva tituly získal v rokoch 2000 a 2003. Vo svojich 46 rokoch sa stal najstarším hráčom, ktorý vyhral turnaj od Raya Reardona v roku 1978. Dosiahol tiež úspech ako prvý hráč, ktorý získal tri tituly majstra sveta vo svojich štyridsiatych rokoch.