2014 Six-red World Championship The top four players from each group qualified for the knock-out stage. All matches were best of 9 frames. 2014 Six-red World Championship The 2014 Six-red World Championship (often styled the 2014 SangSom 6-red World Championship for sponsorship and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament held between 1 and 6 September 2014 at the Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Mark Selby was to take part in the tournament, but he was replaced by Andrew Pagett due to a stomach bug. Mark Davis was the defending champion, but lost 2–6 against Kritsanut Lertsattayatthorn in the last 16. Stephen Maguire
2016 World Snooker Championship frames were shared until Selby won the final two frames to win the match 17–15. The 32nd frame also lasted more than an hour. Ding Junhui was the first qualifier to contest the final since Judd Trump was beaten by John Higgins in 2011. The Chinese player also became the first Asian finalist at the Crucible, and the match drew a peak television audience of over 42 million in China on CCTV-5. In the first session of the final, Mark Selby took a 6–0 lead, before Ding won the last two frames of the session to leave Selby 6–2 ahead.