Indian Open 2019
Indian Open 2019
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Attendees: | 128 |
| Venue: | Grand Hyatt Hotel, Kochi , India |
| Opening: | February 27, 2019 |
| Endgame: | 3rd March 2019
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| Winner: |
 Matthew Selt
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| Finalist: |
 Lü Haotian
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| Highest Break: |
147 ( Zhou Yuelong )
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← 2017
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The Indian Open 2019 was a snooker tournament of the main tour - 2018/19 season , which took place from February 27 to March 3, 2019 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Kochi , India . The tournament was originally scheduled to take place from September 18-22, 2018, but was postponed due to the flooding in Kerala in August 2018.
Many top players did not register because of the low value of the tournament, including the top 3 Mark Selby , Ronnie O'Sullivan and World Champion Mark Williams .
In the first round, the Chinese Zhou Yuelong managed the 150th maximum break . It was the season's 11th 147 break and Zhou's first.
The winner was the Englishman Matthew Selt , who won the final 5: 3 against the Chinese Lü Haotian and thus took his first rankings title. Selt had previously defeated defending champion John Higgins from Scotland in the semi-finals .
Prize money
There was no change in the prize money compared to the previous year. This made it one of the five smaller tournaments of the season.
| Prize money | |
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| winner | £ 50,000 |
| finalist | £ 25,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 15,000 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 10,000 |
| Round of 16 | £ 6,000 |
| Last 32 | £ 4,000 |
| Last 64 | £ 2,000 |
| Highest break | £ 2,000 |
| All in all | £ 323,000 |
The Rolling 147 Prize for a maximum break stood at £ 10,000 and was awarded to Zhou Yuelong .
Final round
The games of the final round were played in best-of-7 mode up to and including the semi-finals . Only in the final was the Best of 9 mode , which means that the player who won 5 frames first won.
A = amateur player (not on the main tour during this season; qualification via the Q-School-Order-of-Merit)
WC = wildcard player of the Indian association
kl. = without a fight
final
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Final: Best of 9 Frames Referee: Colin Humphries Grand Hyatt Hotel, Kochi , India , March 3, 2019 |
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Matthew Selt
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5 : 3 |
Lü Haotian
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| 57 : 48, 89 : 6 (84), 0: 115 (115), 12: 78 (56), 21: 72 (66), 102 : 0 (102), 67 : 49, 96 : 41 (72) | ||
| 102 | Highest break | 115 |
| 1 | Century breaks | 1 |
| 3 | 50+ breaks | 3 |
qualification
The qualification took place on August 15 and 16, 2018 in Preston in the north-west of England . The town's Guild Hall hosted most of the qualifying round matches with 128 players. 110 professionals had registered for the tournament, 6 amateurs received a wildcard from the Indian association. The remaining places were given to the best players in the Order of Merit from the previous Q School .
6 games, including those of defending champion John Higgins and the wildcard games, were played in India just before the main tournament began. All games were played in best-of-7 mode . The number 3 and 4 seeded Neil Robertson and Mark Allen were originally supposed to play their qualifying games in Kochi, but both of them canceled the tournament.
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A = amateur player (not on the main tour during this season; qualification via the Q-School-Order-of-Merit)
WC = wildcard player of the Indian association
kl. = without a fight
Century breaks
Final round
During the tournament, 21 players played a total of 32 century breaks .
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qualification
11 players scored 11 breaks of 100 or more points in the qualifying round. Pakistani Hamza Akbar achieved the highest century break with 135 points .
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- ↑ Century-Break was achieved in Kochi.
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- ↑ a b Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2018/2019 Season. (PDF; 108 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 18, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 .
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- ^ Indian Open (2019). In: snooker.org. Accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Indian Open 2019 - Centuries. In: worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Indian Open 2018 Qualifiers - Centuries. In: worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ 2019 Indian Open - Centuries. In: CueTracker.net. Accessed March 3, 2019 .
