Northern Ireland Open
Northern Ireland Open
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| Tournament status | |||
| Ranking tournament: | since 2016 | ||
| Minor ranking tournament: | - | ||
| Invitation tournament: | - | ||
| Current tournament dates | |||
| Defending champion: |
 Judd Trump
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| Attendees: | 129 | ||
| Venue: | Waterfront Center, Belfast | ||
| Prize money (total): | £ 405,000 | ||
| Prize money (winner): | £ 70,000 | ||
| Frames in the final: | Best of 17 | ||
| Records | |||
| Most wins: |
Judd Trump (2 ×)
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| Highest Break: |
147 John Higgins (2016), Stuart Bingham (2019)
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The Northern Ireland Open is a ranking tournament of the Snooker Main Tour introduced in 2016 . The previous tournament was the Irish Open .
history
In April 2015, WPBSA Chairman Barry Hearn announced that the tournament would take place in Belfast from the 2016/17 season and that it would form the newly introduced Home Nations Series together with the English Open , Scottish Open and Welsh Open . The tournament moved from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom .
The trophy to be won is named Higgins Trophy in honor of Alex Higgins .
mode
All tournaments are major ranking tournaments of the Snooker Main Tour . The Northern Ireland Open starts with 128 players without a previous qualifying tournament. All professional players are allowed to start, in addition the Northern Irish Association may nominate four wildcard players. If more than 128 players have registered, qualifying matches will be played beforehand. If this number is not reached, then amateur players who had achieved the best placings in the overall ranking of the previous Q School (“Order of Merit”) may move up. Up to and including the last sixteen, the game will be played in the best of 7 mode , in the quarter-finals with the best of 9 , in the semi-finals with the best of 11 and in the final with the best of 17 .
| Prize money per individual tournament | |
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| winner | £ 70,000 |
| finalist | £ 30,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 20,000 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 10,000 |
| Round of 16 | £ 7,500 |
| Last 32 | £ 4,000 |
| Last 64 | £ 3,000 |
| Highest break | £ 5,000 |
| All in all | £ 405,000 |
Tournament statistics
| year | venue | winner | Result | finalist | sponsor | season |
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| Northern Ireland Open (ranked tournament) as part of the Home Nations Series | ||||||
| 2016 | Belfast - Titanic Exhibition Center |
Mark King
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9: 8 |
Barry Hawkins
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Coral | 2016/17 |
| 2017 | Belfast - Waterfront Center |
 Mark Williams
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9: 8 |
 Yan Bingtao
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Dafabet | 2017/18 |
| 2018 |
Judd Trump
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9: 7 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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BetVictor | 2018/19 | |
| 2019 |
Judd Trump
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9: 7 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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19.com | 2019/20 | |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Northern Ireland Open 2016.Retrieved October 18, 2016
- ↑ Shamoon Hafez: World Championship: Snooker tour to be revamped in 2016. In: bbc.com. BBC , April 29, 2015, accessed March 5, 2016 .
- ^ Hearn Announces New Five-Year Plan. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , April 29, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Rolf Kalb : Snooker - End of an Era: The European Tour is history (and still lives on). In: eurosport.de. Eurosport , February 29, 2016, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 2, 2016 .
- ↑ The Northern Ireland Open Cup is named after Alex Higgins. Worldsnooker.com, accessed October 19, 2016 .
- ↑ worldsnooker.com: Home Nations Snooker Events To Include Wild Cards. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , accessed October 14, 2016 .
- ↑ worldsnooker.com: Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2016/17 Season. (DOC; 69 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , June 3, 2016, accessed October 4, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.worldsnooker.com/tournaments/irish-open-2016/
