The 2015 World Seniors Championship (Known for sponsorship reasons as the Betway World Seniors Championship) was a snooker tournament that took place between 2–3 March 2015 at the Circus Arena in Blackpool,

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. The Circus Arena played host to the tournament for the first time, having previously being held at the Mountbatten Centre in

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. The age limit of the event was reduced from 45 to 40 years, allowing players such as Mark Williams,

Peter Ebdon Peter David Ebdon (born 27 August 1970) is an English former snooker player. The winner of the 2002 World Snooker Championship, Ebdon won nine world ranking events, placing twelfth on the all-time list of ranking tournament winners. In addit ...

Dominic Dale Dominic Dale (born Christopher Dale on 29 December 1971) is a Welsh professional snooker player and snooker commentator and presenter for the BBC and Eurosport. Career Dale was born in Coventry, England. He won the Welsh Amateur Championship, ...

and

Fergal O'Brien Fergal O'Brien (born 8 March 1972) is an Irish professional snooker player who plays on the main professional tour since 1991. Ranked within the world's top 64 players from 1994 to 2022, he has reached his highest position of 9th in the 2000 ...

to enter. Players had to be aged 40 or above at the end of the 2015 World Championship (4 May 2015).

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was the defending champion, but he lost 0–2 against Fergal O'Brien in the quarter-finals. Mark Williams won his 26th professional title by defeating Fergal O'Brien 2–1 in the final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: * Winner: £18,000 * Runner-up: £8,000 * Semi-finalist: £4,000 * Quarter-finalist: £2,000 * Last 16: £1,000 * Total: £50,000

Main draw

The draw for the last 16 was made on 3 December 2014 at the Barbican Centre in

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during the

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. All former World Seniors Champions and World Snooker Champions, who registered for the event, were seeded through to the final stages in Blackpool. There were three century breaks during the tournament. Mark Williams made a 140 break against Darryn Walker and

made a 110 and 105 break against

Final

Qualifying

These matches were played on 20 and 21 December 2014 at the Robin Park Arena, Sports and Tennis Centre in

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. There were two century breaks during the qualifying.

made a 129 break against Peter Delaney and Rory McLeod made a 104 break against Andrew Milliard.

Centuries

Main stage centuries

* 140 Mark Williams * 110, 105

Qualifying stage centuries

* 129

References

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