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2009 Beijing International Challenge

snooker tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4034978 ↗
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The 2009 Beijing International Challenge (also known as the 2009 BTV Cup) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 7–12 July 2009 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China.

Liang Wenbo won his first professional title by beating Stephen Maguire 7–6.

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The public source identifies “2009 Beijing International Challenge” as snooker tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Beijing, International and Challenge.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Beijing, International and Challenge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2009 Beijing International Challenge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.