2014 Six-red World Championship 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 won in the final 8–7 against Ricky Walden. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Mark Selby Order of Merit and therefore qualified to the last 16 of the Finals. He beat Ding Junhui in the Finals in Galway before losing 0–4 to eventual winner Stephen Lee in the quarter-finals. Selby reached the quarter-finals of the German Masters and then got to the final of the Welsh Open, where he lost 6–9 to Ding. Another semi-final followed in the World Open and despite seeing a 5–2 lead slip to a 5–6 defeat against Mark Allen, he looked to be in form at just the right time in the season. However, Selby was forced to withdraw from the