China Open (Snooker)
China Open
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| Tournament status | ||
| Ranking tournament: | 1999–2000, 2002, since 2005 | |
| Minor ranking tournament: | - | |
| Invitation tournament: | 1997 | |
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| Defending champion: |
 Neil Robertson
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| Attendees: | 128 | |
| Venue: | Peking University , Peking | |
| Prize money (total): | £ 1,000,000 | |
| Prize money (winner): | £ 225,000 | |
| Frames in the final: | Best of 21 | |
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| Most wins: |
 Mark Williams , Mark Selby (3 × each)
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| Highest Break: |
147 James Wattana (1997), Mehmet Husnu (Qual. 1998), Stephen Maguire (2008), Neil Robertson (2010), Judd Trump (2017), Ronnie O'Sullivan (2018) Stuart Bingham (2018, 2019)  
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The China Open , until 1999 China International , are a professional snooker tournament and therefore part of the Snooker Main Tour . The tournament was first launched in 1997 under the name China International as an invitation tournament and in 1999 was first given the status of a world ranking tournament and then a new name with the China Open .
During the twenty editions so far, eight maximum breaks have been played. Record winners of the tournament are the Welshman Mark Williams and the Englishman Mark Selby with three titles each.
history
The first edition of today's China Open took place in September 1997 under the name China International with a field of participants consisting of leading international players and local players as an invitation tournament in Beijing and was won by Steve Davis . At the end of the following season the first edition as a ranking tournament in Shanghai followed under the same name , with John Higgins defeating Bill Snaddon in a purely Scottish final . A year later, the tournament was held at the same location for the first time under the name China Open and was first won by Ronnie O'Sullivan , who was able to defend his title in Shenzhen in 2000 . 2001 the tournament got a place in March of the tournament calendar and was played again in Shanghai, with the Welshman Mark Williams won the tournament for the first time.
After the tournament was suspended for two years, it returned to the tournament calendar in 2005. As in previous years, wild cards were given to local players, with the tournament returning to Beijing . The tournament surprisingly won, Ding Junhui, one of the wildcard players, who defeated the Scots Stephen Hendry 9-5 in the final , with over 110 million people watching on Chinese television, triggering a snooker boom in China. From 2006 the tournament was held in Beijing University . Again Mark Williams won the final when he defeated John Higgins 9-8 in the final. A year later, the then reigning world champion Graeme Dott defeated Jamie Cope in the final before Dott's compatriot Stephen Maguire defeated Englishman Shaun Murphy 10: 9 in 2008 .
In 2009 John Higgins reached the final again, but lost it to Peter Ebdon . A year later, Mark Williams was able to win the tournament for the third time against Ding Junhui, which has not been outbid to this day; only Mark Selby won three editions in the following years. In 2011, Judd Trump was able to win the tournament against the same Mark Selby.
In 2012, Peter Ebdon and Stephen Maguire met in the final and the former won the tournament for the second time in the Decider . The following year, the Australian Neil Robertson won the tournament when he defeated Mark Selby in the final 10: 6. Robertson reached the final in 2014 as well, but had to admit defeat to Ding Junhui .
The 2015 edition, sponsored by Baic Motor , eventually won Mark Selby, who beat compatriot Gary Wilson 10-2 in the final. One year Judd Trump defeated Ricky Walden 10: 4 , before Mark Selby triumphed again in 2017 and 2018, drawing level with Mark Williams in terms of record winners. In 2019, Neil Robertson won the tournament for the second time when he defeated Jack Lisowski 11: 4.
In the history of the China Open, eight maximum breaks have been achieved so far . The first was James Wattana from Thailand in the first edition of the tournament in 1997 against Pang Wei Guo , in the qualification for the next edition Mehmet Husnu played the second maximum. Stephen Maguire was able to play two more maximum breaks in 2008 and Neil Robertson in 2010, before Judd Trump played another maximum break in 2017. In 2018, both Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stuart Bingham each played a maximum break, with Bingham also being successful in 2019.
The 2020 edition has been postponed to an indefinite date in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic .
winner
Web links
- Overview of the individual issues on CueTracker.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Chris Turner: China International / China Open / Shanghai Masters / Jiangsu / Wuxi Classic - World Ranking / Invitation Events. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2011, archived from the original on November 21, 2011 ; accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ^ Hector Nunns, David Hendon: Full History of Snooker. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Ron Florax: 2012 China Open. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Ron Florax: 2013 China Open. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Ron Florax: 2014 China Open. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Ron Florax: 2015 China Open. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Ron Florax: 2016 China Open. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Ron Florax: 2017 China Open. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Ron Florax: 2018 China Open. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Ron Florax: 2019 China Open. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ 2020 China Open - Statement from WPBSA and WST. World Snooker Tour resp. WPBSA , January 31, 2020, accessed February 1, 2020 .
