2014 Champion of Champions
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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 Arena in Coventry, England.
Ronnie O'Sullivan successfully defended his title beating Judd Trump 10–7 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 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 and 2014 Championship League. 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.
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.
The following 16 players qualified for the tournament:
Main draw
| 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 | England Ronnie O'Sullivan | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| England Stuart Bingham | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | England Ronnie O'Sullivan | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Group 1 (5 November) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hong Kong Marco Fu | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| England Shaun Murphy | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hong Kong Marco Fu | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | England Ronnie O'Sullivan | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | China Ding Junhui | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| England Barry Hawkins | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Scotland John Higgins | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| England Barry Hawkins | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group 4 (3 November) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | China Ding Junhui | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | China Ding Junhui | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Wales Dominic Dale | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | England Ronnie O'Sullivan | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| England Judd Trump | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Australia Neil Robertson | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| England Ali Carter | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Australia Neil Robertson | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Group 3 (7 November) | |||||||||||||||||||
| England Ricky Walden | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| England Ricky Walden | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Ireland Mark Allen | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Australia Neil Robertson | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| England Judd Trump | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| England Judd Trump | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Scotland Stephen Maguire | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| England Judd Trump | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group 2 (4 November) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | England Mark Selby | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | England Mark Selby | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| England Steve Davis | 1 |
Final
| Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore. Ricoh Arena, Coventry, England, 9 November 2014. | ||
| Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) England | 10–7 | Judd Trump England |
| 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 |
Century breaks
- 139, 137, 134, 125, 115, 109, 105, 103 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 134, 117, 111, 106 – Neil Robertson
- 119, 106, 102, 100 – Judd Trump
- 112 – Barry Hawkins
- 111, 105 – Ding Junhui
- 107 – Stuart Bingham