Antwerp Open
| Tournament status | ||
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| Ranking tournament: | - | |
| Minor ranking tournament: | 2011-2013 | |
| Invitation tournament: | - | |
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| Venue: | Lotto Arena , Antwerp | |
| Prize money (total): | £ 125,000 | |
| Prize money (winner): | £ 25,000 | |
| Frames in the final: | Best of 7 | |
| Records | ||
| Most wins: |
 Mark Allen Mark Selby Judd Trump (1 × each)
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| Highest Break: |
147 Judd Trump 2013
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The Antwerp Open was a professional snooker tournament that was held three times in the early 2010s as part of the Players Tour Championship with limited influence on the world rankings ( minor ranking tournament ). The tournament was on all three issues in the Lotto Arena in Belgium Antwerp discharged. Record winners are, in alphabetical order, the Northern Irishman Mark Allen and the Englishman Mark Selby and Judd Trump , each with one title. With a maximum break , Trump also played the highest break in tournament history in 2013.
history
The first edition of the Antwerp Open took place in mid-November 2011, i.e. during the 2011/12 season , in the Lotto Arena in Antwerp . The tournament was sponsored by Acuerate and was the ninth event in the Players Tour Championship , a series of minor ranking tournaments with amateur participation. As with the other PTC events, an amateur qualification was played out before the main round; the participating professional players were set for the main round. A total of 128 players took part in the main round, the winner of which was played in the knockout system . In the final, Judd Trump defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-3 to claim the £ 8,600 prize . The highest break was played by Nigel Bond with 137 points.
The 2012 edition took place in mid-October as part of the 2012/13 season and was the third event of the European Tour , the European partial series of the Players Tour Championship . The previous year's sponsor stayed with the tournament. The finals reached Mark Allen and Mark Selby ; Allen prevailed 4-1 and won € 12,000. The highest break was played by Stuart Bingham with his 142 break.
In 2013 the Antwerp Open was held again, this time again in mid-November and again as part of the Players Tour Championship . Again Mark Selby reached the final and won it 4: 3 against Ronnie O'Sullivan , with which the prize money for the winner worth € 25,000 went to him. Judd Trump played the highest break of the edition and at the same time in tournament history with his maximum break .
winner
| year | venue | winner | Result | finalist | sponsor | season |
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| Antwerp Open - minor ranking tournament | ||||||
| 2011 | Antwerp - Lotto Arena |
Judd Trump
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4: 3 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Acuerate | 2011/12 |
| 2012 |
Mark Allen
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4: 1 |
Mark Selby
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2012/13 | ||
| 2013 |
Mark Selby
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4: 3 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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- | 2013/14 | |
Web links
- Partial overview of the expenses in the snooker database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermund Årdalen: Players Tour Championship Event Nine. snooker.org, accessed June 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Mark Allen wins Antwerp Open 2012. SnookerPRO, October 21, 2012, accessed on June 11, 2020 (English).
- ^ Prize Money. (No longer available online.) In: origin-www.worldsnooker.com. World Snooker , August 21, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 11, 2020 (English).
- ^ Century Breaks. (No longer available online.) In: livescores.worlsnookerdata.com. World Snooker , archived from the original on October 21, 2012 ; accessed on June 11, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Antwerp Open 2013. SnookerPRO, 2013, accessed on June 11, 2020 (English).
