The 2008 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 19 April and 5 May 2008 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 32nd consecutive yea
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The 2007 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament. It was held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 31st consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was
2008 World Snooker Championship
…four-round qualification tournament to meet a further sixteen seeded players. John Higgins was the defending champion who had won his second championship the previous year, defeating Mark Selby in the final 18–13. At the 2008 event, Higgins lost in the second round 9–13 to Ryan Day. Ronnie O'Sullivan won the tournament…
Graeme Dott (pictured in 2014) was the defending champion, but he lost to Ian McCulloch 7–10 in the first round, succumbing to what has been called the 'Crucible curse'.
Mark Allen (pictured in 2015) was the only debutant to win his first-round match, a 10–7 defeat of the 1997 champion and third seed Ken Doherty.
The 1991 champion John Parrott (pictured in 2008) was defeated 8–13 by Shaun Murphy in the second round and never played at the final stages of the World Snooker Championship again.
Stephen Maguire (pictured in 2012), playing Anthony Hamilton in his first-ever appearance in the quarter-finals of the World Championship, produced four century breaks for a 13–7 win.