China Championship 2017
China Championship 2017
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | Guangzhou Sports Institute, Guangzhou , China |
| Opening: | 16th August 2017 |
| Endgame: | 22nd August 2017
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| Winner: |
 Luca Brecel
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| Finalist: |
 Shaun Murphy
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| Highest Break: | 144 ( Thepchaiya Un-Nooh )
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The China Championship 2017 was a snooker tournament of the Main Tour - 2017/18 season , which was held from August 16 to 22 in the People's Republic of China . It was the second edition of the China Championship , which had been added to the tournament calendar the previous year. In 2016 it was held as an invitation tournament for 16 top players, this year it became a full ranking tournament for all snooker professionals. Defending champion was the Scot John Higgins , who was eliminated in round 2. The Belgian Luca Brecel won the tournament and with it his first Main Tour title. He defeated the Englishman Shaun Murphy in the final 10: 5.
Prize money
The total prize money has been increased again by £ 50,000 compared to the previous year . But as there were significantly more participants, the prize for the winner dropped from £ 200,000 to £ 150,000. Still, this remained the third highest amount of any Main Tour tournament.
| Prize money | |
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| winner | £ 150,000 |
| finalist | £ 75,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 32,000 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 18,000 |
| Round of 16 | £ 12,000 |
| Last 32 | £ 7,000 |
| Last 64 | £ 4,000 |
| All in all | £ 700,000 |
The Rolling 147 Prize for a maximum break was £ 15,000
Final round
The games of the final round were played in best-of-9 mode up to and including the quarter-finals. The semi-finals were decided over a maximum of 11 and the final over a maximum of 19 frames.
ITC = Invitiational Tour Card
final
In the finals, the 7-time title holder at world rankings tournaments Shaun Murphy met Luca Brecel , who had only been in a big final at the German Masters 2016 and lost. Murphy got off to a better start and took a 3-1 lead with a Century and two other high breaks until the break in the first session. After the break, however, the frames became more competitive and Luca Brecel almost always benefited from it. The Englishman was only able to secure the ninth frame on the finish line and limit the damage with an intermediate score of 4: 5. In the evening session, however, the process continued. The 22-year-old Belgian secured the first two frames point by point and only in the third frame Murphy came to a smooth break and reduced it to 5: 7. A small preliminary decision was then the next frame. The Englishman seemed on the road to victory and missed the decisive ball. Brecel cleared the table and won with a difficult black man along the board by one point. With this sense of achievement he went into the break. Then Murphy tried in vain to get back into the game, but even with a longer duel for foul points he could not embarrass the Belgian. Brecel made his points unimpressed and won his first Main Tour title 10: 5.
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Final: Best of 9 Frames Referee: Deng Shihao Guangzhou Sports Institute, Guangzhou , China , August 22, 2017  |
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Shaun Murphy
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5: 10 |
Luca Brecel
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Afternoon games : 68 : 2 (55), 78 : 31 (68), 15: 68 (64), 107 : 0 (107), 49: 63 , 19: 56 , 53: 77 (53 Murphy), 5: 78 ( 78) 58 : 54 evening games : 0: 66 , 30: 62 , 109 : 1 (77), 52: 53 , 30: 70 , 37: 61 |
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| 107 | Highest break | 78 |
| 1 | Century breaks | - |
| 5 | 50+ breaks | 2 |
qualification
The qualifying round was from 3 to 6 June 2017 in the Guildhall in the English city of Preston played. The Chinese federation still gave four wild cards to domestic amateur players, but unlike in previous years there was no additional wild card round. The four players got places directly in the qualifying round. These four games (game 1, 6, 34 and 59) were played in China at the start of the main tournament. The two best Chinese players and defending champion John Higgins also played their qualifying matches (games 32, 44 and 64) there. All games were played in best-of-9 mode.
WC = wildcard player
ITC = Invitiational Tour Card
kl. = without a fight
Century breaks
In the main tournament, 24 players achieved a total of 39 century breaks .
Main round
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qualification
30 breaks of 100 or more points were scored in the Preston qualification.
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- ↑ a b c Kaspersky Riga Masters And China Championship Draws. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 23, 2017, accessed May 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2017/2018 Season. (PDF; 87.7 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 11, 2017, accessed August 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Riga Masters 2017 and China Championship 2017. (PDF; 174 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 11, 2017, accessed May 14, 2017 .
- ↑ China Championship 2017 Qualifiers Draw. (PDF; 271 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 11, 2017, accessed May 14, 2017 .
- ↑ China Championship (2017). In: snooker.org. Retrieved May 14, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b China Championship 2017 Qualifiers - Centuries. (No longer available online.) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , archived from the original on June 9, 2017 ; accessed on June 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
