China Championship 2016

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Evergrande China Championship 2016
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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Venue: Guangzhou Sports Venue (No. 2),
Guangzhou , China
Opening: November 1, 2016
Endgame: 5th November 2016

Winner: ScotlandScotland John Higgins
Finalist: EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham
Highest Break: 144 ( Shaun Murphy ) EnglandEngland
 
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The Evergrande China Championship 2016 was an invitation-only snooker tournament that was held from November 1st to 5th, 2016 in the city of Guangzhou in the southeast of the People's Republic of China . The tournament was added to the calendar for the 2016/17 snooker season in mid-September . The China Championship has been set up once as an invitation tournament and is to become a regular world ranking tournament from next season.

The winner was John Higgins from Scotland , who defeated Stuart Bingham 10: 7 in the final.

Prize money

The £ 200,000 for the winner was the largest ever cash prize for a snooker tournament outside the UK.

Prize money
winner £ 200,000
finalist £ 100,000
Semi-finalist £ 50,000
Quarter finalist £ 30,000
Round of 16 £ 15,000
All in all £ 650,000

Attendees

The following were invited:

Tournament schedule

The tournament lasted 5 days, with two games per session and two sessions per day. The best of 17 mode was already played in the semi-finals . It was the third tournament after the World Cup and the International Championship in which the semi-finals were no longer decided in one session.

  Round of 16
best of 11 frames 		  Quarterfinals
Best of 11 frames 		  Semi-final
best of 17 frames 		  Final
Best of 19 frames
                                     
1 EnglandEngland Mark Selby 6th                  
12 ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 2  
1 EnglandEngland Mark Selby 5
  8th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 6th  
8th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 6th
 
9 EnglandEngland Ricky Walden 4th  
8th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 3
  5 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 9  
5 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 6th      
 
17th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 4th  
5 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 6th
  11 EnglandEngland Allister Carter 2  
4th EnglandEngland Judd Trump 4th
 
11 EnglandEngland Allister Carter 6th  
5 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 10
  2 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 7th
3 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 6th            
 
13 EnglandEngland Joe Perry 4th  
3 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 6th
  16 Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu 2  
6th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 3
 
16 Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu 6th  
3 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 8th
  2 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 9  
7th AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 5      
 
14th EnglandEngland Michael Holt 6th  
14th EnglandEngland Michael Holt 5
  2 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 6th  
2 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 6th
 
15th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Wenbo 2  

final

Winner John Higgins
Final: Best of 19 Frames
Referee: Zhou Ying Guangzhou Sports Venue (No. 2),  Guangzhou , China , November 5, 2016 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
John Higgins ScotlandScotland 10 : 7 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham
Afternoon games: 77 : 37, 74 : 17, 72 : 1, 1: 127 (102), 18: 112 (112), 49: 75 (52), 69 : 0, 70 : 58 (65 JH, 58 SB), 14: 100 (50)
evening games: 28: 55 , 4: 98 (98), 81 : 0 (56), 71 : 10 (65), 0: 84 (84), 134 : 1 (134), 105 : 21 (100), 129 : 8 (101)
134 Highest break 112
3 Century breaks 2
6th 50+ breaks 7th
Finalist Stuart Bingham

Century breaks

EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 144, 129, 121, 101
EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 141, 122, 118, 114, 112, 104, 102
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 140, 131, 114, 106, 100
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 134, 131, 123, 101, 100
EnglandEngland Mark Selby 127

swell

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