Talk:2004 World Snooker Championship

Qualifying

FYI

Qualifying for the 2004 World Snooker Championship at Pontins,Prestatyn:

Amateurs and Non-Tour Professionals preliminary rounds on 11th January: 1st preliminary round: P McLoughlin beat D Singh 5-3; J Tatton wo W Saidler; P Weiguo beat F Fitzgerald 5-1; N Craycraft beat R Kampe 5-4; L Roberts beat A Bassiri 5-1; S Wilkes beat L Dodd 5-3; A Osbourne beat A Potikyan 5-2; R Fry beat E Hame 5-1; L Richardson beat J McGouran 5-1; J Pegram beat G Martyn 5-1; P Mumford beat LP Bovis 5-4; E Cooper beat H Le 5-1; R King beat D Sheehan 5-0; W Townsend beat J Welsh 5-4; J Mills beat P Stockwell 5-2 2nd preliminary round: J Tatton beat P McLoughlin 5-4; P Weiguo beat N Craycraft 5-1; S Wilkes beat L Roberts 5-4; R Fry beat A Osbourne 5-2; L Richardson beat A Milliard 5-3; J Pegram beat P Mumford 5-0; R King beat E Cooper 5-4; W Townsend beat J Mills 5-3

Challenge Tour players pre-qualifying rounds on 12th – 17th January: 1st pre-qualifying round: L Richardson beat E Evans 5-3; C Bingham beat R Fry 5-3; J Tatton beat JB Johannesson 5-3; A Mahoney beat P Weiguo 5-2; W Townsend beat A Ridley 5-4; R King beat P Harper 5-1; S Ormerod beat J Pegram 5-3; Del Smith beat S Wilkes 5-4

2nd pre-qualifying round: L Richardson beat R Michael 5-3; T Knowles beat C Harrison 5-2; I Wells beat J Cundy 5-4; D Hall beat K Townsend 5-0; R Murphy beat K Johal 5-4; G Pantall beat J Torpey 5-4; M Gray beat G O’Connor 5-0; C Bingham beat M Aldridge 5-2; A Bolsover beat J Hood 5-1; S James beat M Tucker 5-2; N Sangnil beat D Clarke 5-3; I Hurdman beat MA Aziz 5-0; M Street beat B Hancorn 5-3; C Norbury beat S Rowlings 5-1; B Woollaston beat I Martin 5-2; S O’Neill beat A Lee 5-1; J Tatton beat L Spick 5-3; S Judd beat S Kershaw 5-2; E Barker beat R Donkin 5-3; K Broughton beat R Van Rijsbergen 5-4; PS Davison beat Aaron Mahoney 5-3; B Salmon beat J Whitty 5-3; A Pagett beat H Abernethy 5-2; J Reynolds beat B Jansen 5-0; D Coles beat D Mills 5-4; J Jogia beat R James 5-0; P Roscoe beat M Selt 5-2; A Borg beat F Patrick 5-3; W Townsend beat J Tyrkko 5-2; C Taylor beat R Stolk 5-4; C Roper beat Alex Davies 5-2; M Hallett beat D Rathbone 5-3; T Shaw beat R Stephen 5-3; G Lees beat S Roper 5-3; J Astley beat N Selman 5-1; M Allen beat D Craggs 5-1; J Robertson beat D Lavery 5-1; C Smith beat D Grimwood 5-3; C Steadman beat D John 5-4; S Lanigan beat A Kenny 5-0; G Wilson beat P Seaton 5-0; K Chand beat A Walker 5-3; J McBain beat K Burrows 5-0; L De Griffa beat M Chandra 5-3; R Goggins beat W Holroyd 5-3; D Donovan beat S Suwannasingh 5-1; H Subah beat S Vaswani 5-4; T English beat M Carrington 5-0; Jin Long beat L Starkey 5-0; D McGlinchey beat E Munro 5-3; M Joyce wo J Weston scr; T Mustafa beat J Croxton 5-0; M Barnes beat A Sohanpal 5-4; Adam Davies beat A Atkinson 5-1; M Shehab beat S Mazrocis 5-0; L Farebrother beat R King 5-2; B Cruickshanks beat S Prest 5-4; J O’Neill beat B Fitzgerald 5-4; K Palajin beat G Lomax 5-4; C MacGillivray beat C West 5-1; G Coppack beat P Horne 5-1; G Conquest wo P Advani; S Ormerod beat S Harrison 5-4; D McDonnell beat Del Smith 5-1

3rd pre-qualifying round: T Knowles beat L Richardson 5-1; D Hall beat I Wells 5-2; G Pantall beat R Murphy 5-0; M Gray beat C Bingham 5-1; S James beat A Bolsover 5-2; N Sangnil beat I Hurdman 5-2; M Street beat C Norbury 5-4; B Woollaston beat S O’Neill 5-3; S Judd beat J Tatton 5-3; E Barker beat K Broughton 5-3; B Salmon beat PS Davison 5-3; J Reynolds beat A Pagett 5-1; J Jogia beat D Coles 5-0; P Roscoe beat A Borg 5-2; W Townsend beat C Taylor 5-3; M Hallett beat C Roper 5-4; T Shaw beat G Lees 5-2; J Astley beat M Allen 5-3; J Robertson beat C Smith 5-2; S Laingan beat C Steadman 5-4; K Chand beat G Wilson 5-4; J McBain beat L De Griffa 5-0; R Goggins beat D Donovan 5-2; T English beat H Subah 5-0; Jin Long beat Dermot McGlinchey 5-4; M Joyce beat T Mustafa 5-1; Adam Davies beat M Barnes 5-3; L Farebrother beat M Shehab 5-1; J O’Neill beat B Cruickshanks 5-1; C MacGillivray beat K Palajin 5-2; G Coppack beat G Conquest 5-0; D McDonnell beat S Ormerod 5-1

4th pre-qualifying round: D Hall beat T Knowles 5-3; M Gray beat G Pantall 5-1; S James beat N Sangnil 5-3; B Woollaston beat M Street 5-1; E Barker beat S Judd 5-2; B Salmon beat J Reynolds 5-3; P Roscoe beat J Jogia 5-3; M Hallett beat W Townsend 5-3; J Astley beat T Shaw 5-3; J Robertson beat S Lanigan 5-2; K Chand beat J McBain 5-0; R Goggins beat T English 5-4; Jin Long beat M Joyce 5-2; Adam Davies beat L Farebrother 5-0; C MacGillivray beat J O’Neill 5-0; G Coppack beat D McDonnell 5-3

Final pre-qualifying round: D Hall beat M Gray 5-3; S James beat B Woollaston 5-1; B Salmon beat E Barker 5-1; M Hallett beat P Roscoe 5-4; J Astley beat J Robertson 5-3; R Goggins beat K Chand 5-0; Adam Davies beat Jin Long 5-2; C MacGillivray beat G Coppack 5-2

Qualifying rounds on 11th – 20th February: 1st qualifying round: B Salmon beat C Melling 10-9; I Preece beat J Astley 10-8; M Hallett beat J Leadbetter 10-6; M Husnu beat C MacGillivray 10-2; J Delaney beat R Goggins 10-6; A Rosa beat S James 10-6; Adam Davies beat D Hall 10-8

2nd qualifying round: T Ford beat M Gould 10-8; C Butler beat B Salmon 10-9; L Simmonds beat M Couch 10-8; I Preece beat J Johnson 9-0 (retired); L Walker beat M Hallett 10-6; G Thomson beat L Fisher 10-2; P Lines beat I Brumby 10-4; D Gilbert beat M Wild 10-6; R McLeod beat M Husnu 10-7; J Prince beat D Walker 10-5; J Delaney beat A Higginson 10-4; N Robertson beat M Dziewaltowski 10-8; S Bedford beat I Sargeant 10-5; L Song beat W Brown 10-5; L Fernandez beat P Sweeny 10-9; M Rhodes beat Terry Murphy 10-9; K Poomjang beat P Williams 10-9; G Hardiman baet B Snaddon 10-6; M Pal beat A Neck 10-0; C Gilcreest beat S Bennie 10-7; R Day beat A Rosa 10-7; T Jones beat Adam Davies 10-3; J Ferguson beat C Giagnacovo 10-9; R Walden beat S Croft 10-0; J Meara beat A Norman 10-8; A Gunnell beat S Mifsud 10-5; D Junhui beat A Mahitthi 10-6; P Davies beat A Robidoux 10-4; S Saenlah beat B Jones 10-8; P Wykes beat K Maflin 10-4; S Mann beat J Cope 10-8; S MacKenzie beat J Younger 10-3

3rd qualifying round: C Butler beat T Ford 10-4; I Preece beat L Simmonds 10-5; L Walker beat G Thomson 10-6; P Lines beat D Gilbert 10-6; R McLeod beat J Prince 10-3; N Robertson beat J Delaney 10-2; S Bedford beat L Song 10-6; L Fernandez beat M Rhodes 10-5; G Hardiman beat K Poomjang 10-7; M Pal beat C Gilcreest 10-5; R Day beat T Jones 10-0; R Walden beat J Ferguson 10-4; A Gunnell beat J Meara 10-5; D Junhui beat P Davies 10-5; P Wykes beat S Saenlah 10-8; S Mann beat S MacKenzie 10-2

4th qualifying round: D Morgan beat C Butler 10-8; D Finbow beat I Preece 10-9; L Walker beat A Burden 10-7; P Lines beat N Walker 10-4; R McLeod beat B Haneveer 10-5; N Robertson beat R Lawler 10-4; A Hicks beat S Bedford 10-7; L Fernandez beat S Storey 10-8; S Ali beat G Hardiman 10-4; N Dyson beat M Pal 10-9; R Day beat M Dunn 10-7; D Roe beat R Walden 10-5; A Gunnell beat J Michie 10-5; D Junhui beat M Campbell 10-3; P Wallace beat P Wykes 10-4; Shaun Murphy beat S Mann 10-5

5th qualifying round: J Wattana beat D Morgan 10-1; B Morgan beat D Finbow 10-9; L Walker beat B Hawkins 10-8; N Bond beat P Lines 10-6; R McLeod beat S Bingham 10-6; S Maguire beat N Robertson 10-6; A Hicks beat J Burnett 10-4; L Fernandez beat G Greene 10-9; M Holt beat S Ali 10-6; N Dyson beat Gary Wilkinson 10-4; R Day beat M Davis 10-6; M Judge beat D Roe 10-9; A Gunnell beat F O’Brien 10-7; B Pinches beat D Junhui 10-7; P Wallace beat J Birch 10-5; S Pettman beat Shaun Murphy 10-7

Final qualifying round on 18th – 19th March: Final qualifying round: J Wattana beat D Harold 10-8; J Swail beat B Morgan 10-3; L Walker beat M Selby 10-2; I McCulloch beat N Bond 10-7; R Milkins beat R McLeod 10-1; S Maguire wo R Hull; A Hicks beat A Davies 10-8; D Dale beat L Fernandez 10-8; A Hamilton beat M Holt 10-9; A Carter beat N Dyson 10-6; R Day beat D Henry 10-7; J Parrott beat M Judge 10-9; M King beat A Gunnell 10-8; B Pinches beat T Drago 10-2; C Small beat P Wallace 10-7; S Pettman beat M Fu 10-7

For snooker stats,results,player records,etc. (up to 2004 when it came out at any rate) of this type,I cannon recommend highly enough the Cuesport Book of Professional Snooker by Eric N Hayton. Get your hands on a copy if you've got an interest in this subject!

It's not where I got all this information from - I already had it having pieced together an archive of my own,on and off,on computer starting in about 1994 or 1995. I'd been thinking of putting something out there online just to plug any gaps for anyone who was interested in this kind of stuff when the aforementioned book came out and did it instead!

188.29.8.15 (talk) 10:33, 2 May 2013 (UTC) Ralph

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Some qualifying info

From "Mike Hallett's two narrow escpaes on road from Prestatyn to Sheffield", Snooker Scene, February 2004 pp.32 to 33

• Former Russian Pyramids champion Ashot Potikyan losrt 2-5 to Adam Osborne in the first round.
• Mike Hallet came from 1-4 down against Craig Roper in the 3rd round of the first stage, and from 0-4 against Pete Roscoe in the fifth round, winning both matches 5-4.
• Three-time semi-finalist Tony Knowles beat Lee Richardson 5-1 in round three but lost 3-5 to David Hall in round 4.
• 1991 semi-finalist Steve James won four matches to progress from phase 1.
• Northern Ireland amatuer champion Mark Allen was beaten 5-3 by Justin Astley in round 3

From "Embassy World Championship Qualifying", Snooker Scene, March 2004 pp.9 to 13

• Mike Hallett, a quarter-finalist in 1987 and 1989, won five matches in total before losing to Lee Walker.
• Steve James led Adrian Rosa 5-3, but Rosa then won 7 of the next 8 frames.
• Ryan Day made a break of 145 against Rosa, and 140 against Tony Jones.
• 17-year-old Ding Junhui made two century breaks in each of his first three matches.

From Yates, Phil "Parrott qualifies for 21st consecutive Crucible", Snooker Scene, April 2004 pp.9 to 12

• Parrott qualified for the Crucible, where he had appeared every year since 1983.
• Robin Hul withdrew - a vestibular disorder made him dizzy when playing.
• Day's break of 145 against rosa (see above) was the highest in qualifying, earning him £2,000

From the Joe Johnson article:

• Trailing 0‍–‍9, Johnson conceded to Ian Preece..

References

ore to follow... Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 00:05, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much, BennyOnTheLoose. Alavense (talk) 08:22, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Alavense - I sent you copies by email. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:46, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Got them! Thank you very much, BennyOnTheLoose. I will try my best at writing a qualifying section when I get some time. Kind regards, Alavense (talk) 15:53, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:2004 World Snooker Championship/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Alavense (talk · contribs) 06:00, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Alavense, nice work on these snooker tournament articles. Also pinging co-nominator @Lee Vilenski I'll review this. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Prose (Criteria 1a, 1b, 4) clock

Sources clock

Spot check (Criteria 2b, 2c, 2d) clock

Spot check numbers based on this version. The checks will not be entirely random – I will check the texts which I think will most likely have source-text integrity issues.

[17a]: N doesn't support "higher-ranked players being seeded and given byes to the later rounds" and "The event featured a 32-player main draw". Ideally a secondary source would be used IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[18a]: N primary source containing the results of the tournament, which doesn't support several of the statements. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[22a]: N doesn't support "The first stage, for amateurs and non-Tour professionals" IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[29a]: Y, though "clinched" is editorializing IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[33a]: Y

[40]: N doesn't support "Day and Maguire were the only debutants at the Crucible and both lost in the opening round". The statement gives WP:SYNTH vibes. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[42a]: N doesn't support "he had won his first ranking tournament defeating White in the European Open final" IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[49a]: Y

[78]: Y

[79]: N doesn't support "and then won two more to put himself only two behind at the end of the first session". It also doesn't support the WP:EDITORIALised "only" in "only needed two frames". IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunately this spot check highlighted several issues. With more than half the checks having issues, I think this will need a full source-text integrity check before we can be confident no issues remain. As this article contains a lot of refs, that will take quite a long time, so it would be best done outside of the GA review. It's unfortunate because this article on first glace appears to be pretty much there on all the other criteria. I won't fail this yet as I would like to give the nominators a chance to respond and possibly discuss a path forward for this article. I will happily review if the TSI issues get fixed and this gets renominated. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Copyvio (Criterion 2d) clock

Earwig finds nothing. I'll check further on the spot check.

Scope (Criteria 3a, 3b) clock

I think the "Background" section should be cut in half or even more. Most the information is only tangentially related to the subject of this article (relating to the World Snooker Championship generally rather than the 2004 edition). Only information that is important to understand the information on the 2004 edition, and information specifically about the 2004 edition, should remain, or the section is going into unnecessary detail.

Information can be moved to World Snooker Championship if it isn't there already, and a section hatnote (Template:Further information), linking to World Snooker Championship#History can be added. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Media clock

It's unfortunate that there's no images of this specific event. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Tags (Criterion 6a) Y

All the images are own works published by experienced contributors on Commons. It's unlikely any are copyvios.

Captions (Criterion 6b) clock

Barry Pinches (pictured in 2016), who had never played in the second round before, led seven-time champion Stephen Hendry 11‍–‍9, but ended up losing 12‍–‍13.: The connective "but" does not separate independent clauses, so it should not have a comma before it. Alter the sentence by removing the comma or adding a "he" after the "but" for correct grammar. WP:CINS is a good essay explaining this. I'll fix any further instances of this issue myself. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Suggestions (not needed for GA promotion)

Suggest archiving all links to prevent link rot IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, It is a wonderful world. Thank you very much for taking the time to review the article. All the suggestions are noted and I will work on them. I also think, however, that it would be best to work on these outside the GA review, so please feel free to close it. Thanks again, Alavense (talk) 08:05, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

No worries @Alavense. I would love to see this article get to GA, so let me know if you renominate and I'll try to give it a prompt review. IAWW (talk) 08:12, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

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GA

Hi Alavense, sorry for the delay, but I've gone ahead and made changes to address the comments in the GAN above. Would you be up for a re-nom? Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:56, 31 December 2025 (UTC)