Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 7 Explained

Tournament Name:	Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 Event 7
Venue:	South West Snooker Academy
Location:	Gloucester
Country:	England
Organisation:	World Snooker
Format:	Minor-ranking event
Total Prize Fund:	£50,000
Winners Share:	£10,000
Highest Break:	(141)
Score:	4–2
Previous:	PTC6
Next:	PTC8

The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 7 (also known as the 2011 Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy^[1]) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 5–9 October 2011 at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester, England.

Ronnie O'Sullivan won the 47th professional title of his career by defeating Matthew Stevens 4–2 in the final.^[2] O'Sullivan also became the first player to win two PTC titles in the same season.^[3]

Prize fund and ranking points

The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:^[4] ^[5]

width=110px	!	width=110px align="right"	Prize fund !	width=110px align="right"	Ranking points¹
Winner	£10,000	2,000
Runner-up	£5,000	1,600
Semi-finalist	£2,500	1,280
Quarter-finalist	£1,500	1,000
Last 16	£1,000	760
Last 32	£600	560
Last 64	£200	360
Total	£50,000	–

¹ Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Main draw

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Preliminary rounds

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Round 1

Best of 7 frames

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Jordan Winbourne	4–3	Jamie Curtis-Barrett
Geoff Williams	4–0	Hasan Khan
Shaun Wilkes	1–4	Chris Norbury
David Bailey	3–4	Liam Monk
Douglas Hogan		Sydney Wilson
	3–4	John Sutton
Callum Lloyd	0–4	Patrick Wallace
	2–4	Reanne Evans
Robert Tickner	0–4	Duane Jones
	2–4	Jamie Clarke
Ashley Wright	4–3	Steve Ventham
	0–4	Mitchell Mann
Jamie Walker	2–4	Alex Taubman
Lewis Mayes	w/d–w/o	Danny Brindle
Ricky Norris	2–4	Oliver Brown
Martin O'Donnell	4–2	Ross Summers
Jonathan Birch	w/d–w/o	Michael Wasley
Jim Buck	3–4	Adam Bobat
David Gray	4–2	Del Smith
Ryan Causton	4–1	Lee Page
Joe Delaney	4–0	Christopher Keogan
Marc Harman	1–4	Zak Surety
Jamie O' Neill	4–1	Joel Walker
Kyren Wilson	4–2	Chen Zhe
Ian Glover	4–1	Bash Maqsood
James Hill	3–4	James Cahill
Marek Slomianowski	0–4	Gareth Allen

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Ian Stark	1–4	Martin Ball
Mike Finn	4–3	Phil O'Kane
George Marter	0–4	Nick Jennings
Darren Bond	4–2	George Pragnall
Ben Harrison	4–3	Stephen Craigie
Greg Batten		Richard King
	1–4	James McGouran
Marc Davis	w/o–w/d	David Birley
Michael Wild	4–0	Najmur Khan
	1–4	Billy Joe Castle
Tom Maxfield	w/o–w/d	Ross Jones
Thomas Emes	1–4	Zhang Anda
Andrew Milliard	2–4	Sean O'Sullivan
Justin Astley	4–0	John Woods
Allan Taylor	4–3	Kishan Hirani
Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon	4–2	Terry Challenger
Dale Pope	0–4	Matthew Day
Marvin Lim	4–0	Kashif Khan
Ian Burns	4–0	Mitchell Travis
Sam Harvey	4–0	Hans Blanckaert
Brent Kolbeck	w/d–w/o	James Welsh
	w/d–w/o	Gary Weeks
Brian Morgan	4–1	Rees Carter
Jake Nicholson	4–1	Lee Farebrother
Adam Nash	2–4	Tommy Ang
James Brown	4–1	Nikolas Charalambous

Round 2

Best of 7 frames

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	2–4	Jordan Winbourne
Geoff Williams	1–4	Chris Norbury
Ali Bassiri	0–4	Liam Monk
	0–4	John Sutton
Patrick Wallace	4–2	Reanne Evans
	1–4	Duane Jones
	2–4	Ashley Wright
David Singh	1–4	Mitchell Mann
Alex Taubman	4–2	Danny Brindle
	0–4	Martin O'Donnell
	2–4	Michael Wasley
	2–4	David Gray
Gary Wilson	4–3	Ryan Causton
Joe Delaney	4–0	Zak Surety
	3–4	Kyren Wilson
Sachin Plaha	0–4	Ian Glover

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Ryan Thomerson	4–1	James Cahill
Gareth Allen	4–0	Martin Ball
	0–4	Nick Jennings
	3–4	Ben Harrison
Jak Jones	4–1	Greg Batten
James McGouran	4–1	Marc Davis
	0–4	Billy Joe Castle
Tom Maxfield	2–4	Zhang Anda
	1–4	Justin Astley
Allan Taylor	4–3	Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
Matthew Day	4–3	Marvin Lim
	2–4	Ian Burns
Sam Harvey	4–1	James Welsh
Gary Weeks	1–4	Brian Morgan
Eden Sharav	4–1	Jake Nicholson
Tommy Ang	3–4	James Brown