2008 World Professional Billiards Championship
The 2008 World Professional Billiards Championship, the top international professional competition in English billiards, was held at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England, between Wednesday, 23 July and Saturday 27 July 2008. The 16 players were divided into four groups of four, with the top two in each group advancing into the knock-out round.
Mike Russell won his 9th World Professional Billiards Championship title after beating Geet Sethi 1821–1342 in the final.
Read more about 2008 World Professional Billiards Championship: Knock-out Round
Famous quotes containing the words world, professional and/or billiards:
“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“So wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness from the peculiar state of his disposition; and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand causes for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient to amuse him.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)