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
Mark Selby father died of cancer when Mark was 16, two months before he joined the main professional tour. Selby showed potential as a teenager, but did not consistently shine until his twenties. He began his career on the UK Tour in 1998, at the time the second-level professional tour. He reached his first ranking final aged 19, the Scottish Open in 2003, where he finished runner-up to David Gray, losing 9–7 in the final. Before that, he had also already reached the semi-finals of the 2002 China Open, despite leaving his hotel room at 2 a.m. instead of 2 p.m. for