2014 World Snooker Championship 2014 World Snooker Championship The 2014 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2014 Dafabet World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 19 April to 5 May 2014 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 38th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible and was the last ranking event of the 2013/2014 season. The event was sponsored by Dafabet for the first time. Mark Selby won his first world title by defeating defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan 18–14. This was
Mark Selby to the final of the China Open and he took the final three frames against Mark Williams to claim his fourth ranking event title of the season 10–8. No one came close to Selby as he progressed through to the semi-finals of the World Championship, which included a 13–3 thrashing of Marco Fu in the quarter-finals with a session to spare. He next faced Ding Junhui who closed the gap to 16–15, after Selby had been 16–13 ahead. Selby won the 32nd frame to reach his third world final in four years. Selby had an incredible run of winning 12