winning the second session 7–1. After the third session, Higgins led 16–8, having won that session 5–3. The second frame of the fourth session was Higgins's 1000th frame in the Crucible Theatre. The fourth and final session lasted only three frames before John Higgins defeated Shaun Murphy 18–9. In doing so, Higgins became only the ninth player to lift the trophy more than twice, and only the sixth player to have won more than two titles in the modern era (Ray Reardon, John Spencer, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan being the others). By winning the title two weeks before his 34th birthday, Higgins became the oldest World Snooker Champion since 36-year-old Dennis Taylor in 1985. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Winner: £250,000 Runner-up: £125,000 Semi-final: £52,000 Quarter-final: £24,050 Last 16: £16,000 Last 32: £12,000 Last 48: £8,200 Last 64: £4,600 Stage one highest break: £1,000 Stage two highest break: £10,000 Stage one maximum break: £5,000 Stage two maximum break: £147,000 Total: £1,111,000 Main draw Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers). The draw for the televised stage of the World Snooker Championship was made on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 at 9:45a.m. GMT on Radio Sheffield. {{32TeamBracket-Info|paramstyle=numbered | RD1 = First roundBest of 19 frames | RD2 = Second roundBest of 25 frames | RD3 = Quarter-finalsBest of 25 frames | RD4 = Semi-finalsBest of 33 frames | RD5 = FinalBest of 35 frames |18 April| Ronnie O'Sullivan (1)|10| Stuart Bingham|5 |19 & 20 April| Mark Allen (16)|10 | Martin Gould |6 |21 April| Peter Ebdon (9)|5| Nigel Bond|10 |22 April| Ryan Day (8)|10| Stephen Lee |4 |22 & 23 April| John Higgins (5)|10| Michael Holt |5 |20 & 21 April| Joe Perry (12)|6| Jamie Cope |10 |18 & 19 April| Graeme Dott (13)|10| Barry Hawkins |8 |19 & 20 April| Mark Selby (4)|10| Ricky Walden |6 |21 & 22 April| Shaun Murphy (3)|10| Andrew Higginson |8 |20 April| Marco Fu (14)|10 | Joe Swail |4 |20 & 21 April| Ding Junhui (11)|10| Liang Wenbo|8 |18 & 19 April| Stephen Hendry (6)|10| Mark Williams |7 |18 & 19 April| Ali Carter (7)|10 | Gerard Greene |5 |21 & 22 April| Neil Robertson (10)|10| Steve Davis |2 |18 & 19