Players Championship 2017

Players Championship 2017
Tournament type:	World ranking tournament
Venue:	Venue Cymru, Llandudno , Wales
Opening:	March 6, 2017
Endgame:	March 12, 2017
Winner:	Judd Trump
Finalist:	Marco Fu
Highest Break:	136 ( Judd Trump )
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The Ladbrokes Players Championship 2017 was a snooker tournament of the 2016/17 snooker season , which took place from 6 to 12 March 2017 in Llandudno in North Wales . After the Players Tour Championship with its final tournament was discontinued, this tournament was added to the Main Tour tournament calendar with a new mode and name as a replacement. The qualification took place through all world ranking tournaments of the season played up to then: The top 16 of the one-year ranking from the Riga Masters 2016 to the Gibraltar Open 2017 were eligible to start.

Prize money

£ 125,000 was the third highest cash prize for the 2017 world ranking tournament winner.

	Prize money
winner	£ 125,000
finalist	£ 50,000
Semi-finalist	£ 30,000
Quarter finalist	£ 15,000
Round of 16	£ 10,000
Highest break	£ 5,000
All in all	£ 380,000
optional additional bonus
Maximum break	£ 25,000

The amount of the premium for a maximum break results from the "Rolling 147 Prize". It starts at £ 5000 and is increased by £ 5000 for the following ranked tournament if no maximum break has been played. The bonus was £ 25,000 because no maximum break was played at the Gibraltar Open 2017.

Tournament schedule

The first round was played on the first three days, with two games taking place in parallel per session. From the quarter-finals onwards there was only one table per session. The two semi-finals were played in the evening sessions on Friday and Saturday.

	Round of 16 best of 9 frames					Quarterfinals Best of 9 Frames					Semi-final best of 11 frames					Final Best of 19 frames
	1	Mark Selby	5
	16	Ryan Day	4th
						1	Mark Selby	2
						8th	Marco Fu	5
	8th	Marco Fu	5
	9	Anthony McGill	1
											8th	Marco Fu	6th
											5	Ding Junhui	5
	5	Ding Junhui	5
	12	John Higgins	4th
						5	Ding Junhui	5
						13	Anthony Hamilton	2
	4th	Stuart Bingham	1
	13	Anthony Hamilton	5
																8th	Marco Fu	8th
																2	Judd Trump	10
	3	Barry Hawkins	0
	14th	Neil Robertson	5
						14th	Neil Robertson	3
						6th	Allister Carter	5
	6th	Allister Carter	5
	11	Shaun Murphy	4th
											6th	Allister Carter	4th
											2	Judd Trump	6th
	7th	Ronnie O'Sullivan	5
	10	Liang Wenbo	1
						7th	Ronnie O'Sullivan	3
						2	Judd Trump	5
	2	Judd Trump	5
	15th	Mark King	2

final

Final: Best of 19 Frames Referee: Brendan Moore Venue Cymru,  Llandudno , Wales , United Kingdom , March 12, 2017
Marco Fu	8 10	Judd Trump
Afternoon session: 0: 89 (83), 69 : 26 (53), 73 : 9 (73), 8: 78 , 82 : 0 (67), 87 : 8, 83 : 0 (83), 0: 136 (136 ), 0: 115 (115) evening session: 34: 90 , 24: 110 (110), 0: 92 (63), 9: 77 (76), 66 : 33, 63 : 52 (52), 0: 102 ( 102), 69:22 (58), 0: 102 (53)
83	Highest break	136
-	Century breaks	4th
6th	50+ breaks	8th

Century breaks

Final score

Judd Trump 136 , 132, 115, 113, 110, 102, 101 Anthony Hamilton 131, 105 Neil Robertson 123 Ronnie O'Sullivan 118, 109, 101 Allister Carter 115, 107 Shaun Murphy 110 Ding Junhui 107 Marco Fu 106

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Kalb : Players Championship 2017: All information about the big meeting of the season's best. Eurosport , accessed March 6, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} worldsnooker.com: 1 year list after the 2017 Jojobet.com Gibraltar Open. (PDF; 262 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , accessed on March 7, 2017 . 
3. ↑ worldsnooker.com: Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2016/17 Season. (DOC; 69 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , June 3, 2016, accessed on February 8, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Players Championship 2017 - Provisional Format. (PDF; 108 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , March 6, 2017, accessed on March 6, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Results Evergrande China Championship (2016). Snooker.org, accessed March 11, 2017 . 
6. ↑ worldsnooker.com: Players Championship - Century Breaks. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , archived from the original on May 18, 2017 ; accessed on March 4, 2019 .