China Open 2019 (Snooker)
China Open 2019
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Attendees: | 128 |
| Venue: | Beijing University Students' High School, Beijing , China |
| Opening: | April 1, 2019 |
| Endgame: | April 7, 2019
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| Winner: |
 Neil Robertson
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| Finalist: |
 Jack Lisowski
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| Highest Break: |
147 ( Stuart Bingham )
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The China Open 2019 was a snooker tournament of the 2018/19 season that was held from April 1st to 7th in the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in the Chinese capital Beijing . It was the 20th edition of the most traditional tournament in China.
Mark Selby had won the tournament for the past two years . This time he did not survive the qualification. Right before the tournament, he had already lost his long-standing leadership in the world snooker rankings. Neil Robertson won the tournament for the second time after 2013. In the final he defeated Jack Lisowski 11: 4. It was his third ranking tournament win of the season and his 16th win overall.
Prize money
After the big increase last year, the prize money remained unchanged this year at the round grand total of £ 1 million .
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| winner | £ 225,000 |
| finalist | £ 90,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 45,000 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 27,000 |
| Round of 16 | £ 18,000 |
| Last 32 | £ 11,000 |
| Last 64 | £ 5,000 |
| Highest break | £ 7,000 |
| All in all | £ 1,000,000 |
The Rolling 147 Prize for a maximum break stood at £ 20,000 and was awarded to Stuart Bingham .
Final round
Most of the top players did not reach the higher rounds. The new world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan had skipped the tournament anyway, Mark Allen had previously canceled and defending champion Mark Selby did not survive the qualification. In round one, the rest of the top 8 were eliminated except for Kyren Wilson , who ended up in the next round. Neil Robertson was number 9, the highest seeded player in the round of 16. However, the surprise winners were usually eliminated a lap or two later, only Rod Lawler and Lu Ning also made it to lap three. Besides the two, Sam Craigie made it into the last sixteen as a player outside the top 64. Of the three, only Craigie got one more round before he clearly lost to Neil Robertson in the quarter-finals. The Australian won 6-0 twice in a row and had only given up 5 frames in total by the semi-finals. His opponent Luca Brecel had also made it through the first four rounds with confidence and lost one more frame. It is different in the lower half of the tableau. Jack Lisowski always needed one more frame from round to round and only made it to the semi-finals against Stuart Bingham in the decider. His opponent Scott Donaldson also had to go into the decision frame once and had given in at least three frames in every match. As competitive as the games of the two were up to then, their meeting was so clear. Although it was already the fifth semifinal for Donaldson, he did not get into the game at all and was clearly 1: 8 behind after the first session. There was no rearing in the evening and so the Scot missed the finals for the fifth time with 1:10. The second semi-final was completely different. Up to 7: 7 the score was even, Luca Brecel had slight advantages, but Neil Robertson did not let him go. Then the Belgian could not maintain the high level and the experienced Australian secured three frames in a row to a 10: 7 victory.
final
The final was the opportunity to take revenge for Jack Lisowski for the defeat at the Riga Masters final at the start of the season. But it was also the first big final for the Englishman after he had reached and lost the final three times in smaller tournaments. Neil Robertson , on the other hand, had not only won the Riga Masters this season but also the Welsh Open , but also lost three finals, most recently in the previous Tour Championship .
The Australian had the better start and secured the first two frames with two game-decisive breaks. Lisowski did not find his way into the game and so it was 4-0 at the first break. After the break he fought for his first frame, but Robertson continued to make consistent use of mistakes and opportunities and with further high breaks he won again 4 frames in a row. With another contested victory in the 10th frame, Lisowski was able to make the result a little more bearable at the end of the session. Still, the 8-2 deficit was a big mortgage and Robertson left no doubts in the evening either. By winning the first two frames he was only one frame ahead of the win and after Lisowski was able to make two more results, the Australian secured the 11: 4 victory with the 15th frame. For the first time in his career he won three tournaments in one season, two of them against Lisowski. The Englishman, however, had to wait for his first tournament win as a professional.
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Final: Best of 21 Frames Referee: Wang Wei Beijing University Students' Gymnasium, Beijing , China , April 7, 2019  |
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Neil Robertson
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11 : 4 |
Jack Lisowski
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Afternoon session: 86 : 32 (86), 141 : 0 (141), 66 : 13, 109 : 23, 13: 62 , 78 : 30 (74), 100 : 0 (100), 75 : 16 (65), 66 : 47, 60: 77 (Robertson 52) evening session: 133 : 0 (91), 76 : 14 (50), 60: 74 (Robertson 60, Lisowski 55), 6: 73 , 79 : 1 (79) |
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| 141 | Highest break | 55 |
| 2 | Century breaks | - |
| 10 | 50+ breaks | 1 |
qualification
The field of professionals who competed was supplemented by four wildcard players from the Chinese Association as well as two amateurs who had qualified for the remaining places through their performance at last year's Q School via the Order of Merit .
For the first time a qualification took place in the small town of Cannock , north of Birmingham . From February 18 to 20, 2019, most of the games were played in the Chase Leisure Center , 8 of the 64 games were postponed and only took place at the beginning of the main tournament in Beijing. This concerned the two top players in the world rankings Mark Selby and Mark Williams and the two best Chinese players Ding Junhui and Xiao Guodong as well as the four wildcard games.
The Best of 11 game mode (6 winning frames), which was introduced last year, was also valid for all qualifying games this year.
WC = wildcard player of the Chinese association
A = amateur player (not on the Main Tour this season; qualification via the Q-School-Order-of-Merit)
kl. = without a fight
Century breaks
qualification
27 players scored a century or two in their qualifier . There were a total of 35 breaks of 100 or more points.
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Main round
Stuart Bingham played the 5th maximum break of his career in Round 2 . He and the tournament winner Neil Robertson each achieved 8 century breaks in the main tournament. 78 breaks of 100 or more points were achieved by the players in Beijing, 33 players were successful in this regard.
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- ↑ a b Cannock To Host Top Snooker Stars. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , January 28, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2018/2019 Season. (PDF; 105 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 18, 2018, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b China Open (2019). In: snooker.org. Accessed April 7, 2019 .
- ↑ China Open 2019 Qualifiers Draw. (PDF; 380 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , February 11, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ China Open 2019. (PDF; 93 kB) Qualifying - Provisional Format of Play. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , February 11, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ China Open 2019. Centuries. In: livescores.worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed April 7, 2019 .
