English Open (Snooker)

English Open
Tournament status
Ranking tournament:	since 2016
Minor ranking tournament:	-
Invitation tournament:	-
Current tournament dates
Defending champion:	Mark Selby
Attendees:	128
Venue:	K2, Crawley
Prize money (total):	£ 405,000
Prize money (winner):	£ 70,000
Frames in the final:	Best of 17
Records
Most wins:	Liang Wenbo Ronnie O'Sullivan Stuart Bingham Mark Selby  (1 × each)
Highest Break:	147 ( Maximum Break ) Alfie Burden (2016), Liang Wenbo (2017), Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (2018), Ronnie O'Sullivan (2018), Tom Ford (2019)
Venue (s) on the map
Manchester Barnsley Crawley England

The English Open is a snooker ranking tournament of the Snooker Main Tour .

history

On April 29, 2015, Barry Hearn , Chairman of World Snooker , announced a new tournament series for the 2016-17 season called the Home Nations Series . The four tournaments in the four British parts of the country began with the newly created English Open . The first venue was EventCity in Manchester . The Welsh Open followed later in the season, followed by the new Northern Ireland Open and Scottish Open .

The trophy to be won is called the Steve Davis Trophy and is named after the former world snooker champion Steve Davis .

While the other Home Nations tournaments kept a fixed venue, the 2017 English Open moved to Barnsley .

winner

year	venue	winner	Result	finalist	Main sponsor	season
English Open - Ranking tournament status
2016	Manchester - EventCity	Liang Wenbo	9: 6	Judd Trump	Coral	2016/17
2017	Barnsley - Barnsley Metrodome	Ronnie O'Sullivan	9: 2	Kyren Wilson	Dafabet	2017/18
2018	Crawley K2	Stuart Bingham	9: 7	Mark Davis	BetVictor	2018/19
2019		Mark Selby	9: 1	David Gilbert	19.com	2019/20

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Championship: Snooker tour will be modified in 2016. Accessed October 10, 2016
2. ↑ Barry Hearn Announces New Five-Year Plan. Accessed October 10, 2016
3. ↑ English Open Cup named after Steve Davis.Retrieved October 10, 2016