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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 3–9 November 2014 (2014-11-03 – 2014-11-09) |
| Venue | Ricoh Arena |
| City | Coventry |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | Matchroom Sport |
| Format | Non-ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £270,000 |
| Winner's share | £100,000 |
| Highest break |  Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (139) |
| Final | |
| Champion | Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) |
| Runner-up | Judd Trump (ENG) |
| Score | 10–7 |
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The 2014 Champion of Champions (officially the 2014 Dafabet Champion of Champions) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3 and 9 November 2014 at the Ricoh ArenainCoventry, England.[1]
Ronnie O'Sullivan successfully defended his title beating Judd Trump 10–7 in the final.[2][3]
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[4]
Players qualified for the event by winning important tournaments since the previous Champion of Champions. Entry was guaranteed for the defending champion, winners of rankings events and winners of the following non-rankings events: 2014 Masters, 2014 Championship League, 2015 World Grand Prix and 2014 Players Championship Grand Final. Remaining places were then allocated to winners of European Tour events (in the order they were played) and then to winners of Asian Tour events and then, winners of the 2014 Six-red World Championship, 2014 Snooker Shoot-Out and 2013 World Seniors Championship.[5]
Only 13 different players won one the 24 qualifying tournaments. The remaining three places were allocated to the three highest ranked players who had not already qualified, based on the world rankings after the 2014 Bulgarian Open.[6]
The following 16 players qualified for the tournament:[7]
| Group semi-finals (last 16) Best of 7 frames | Group finals (quarter-finals) Best of 11 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 19 frames | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stuart Bingham
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
| 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Group 1 (5 November) | |||||||||||||||||||
 Marco Fu
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shaun Murphy
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Marco Fu
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
| 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 |  Ding Junhui
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Barry Hawkins
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
 John Higgins
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Barry Hawkins
| 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group 4 (3 November) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Ding Junhui
| 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Ding Junhui
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
 Dominic Dale
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
| 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Judd Trump
| 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 |  Neil Robertson
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ali Carter
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Neil Robertson
| 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Group 3 (7 November) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ricky Walden
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ricky Walden
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Mark Allen
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Neil Robertson
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Judd Trump
| 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Judd Trump
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stephen Maguire
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Judd Trump
| 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group 2 (4 November) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mark Selby
| 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mark Selby
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Steve Davis
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore. Ricoh Arena, Coventry, England, 9 November 2014.[28][29] | ||
| Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) England
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10–7 | Judd Trump England
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| Afternoon: 137–0 (137), 82–0 (78), 25–100, 63–73, 137–0 (50, 87), 80–0 (80), 34–89 (58), 139–0 (139), 134–0 (134) Evening: 70–61 (70, 56), 114–23 (70), 9–113 (102), 0–100 (100), 0–70 (69), 0–90 (90), 82–46 (63), 109–0 (109) | ||
| 139 | Highest break | 102 |
| 4 | Century breaks | 2 |
| 11 | 50+ breaks | 6 |
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