Players Championship 2018

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Players Championship 2018
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Tournament type: World ranking tournament
Attendees: 16
Venue: Venue Cymru,
Llandudno , Wales
Opening: 19th March 2018
Endgame: March 25, 2018

Winner: EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
Finalist: EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy
Highest Break: 143 ( Ronnie O'Sullivan ) EnglandEngland
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The Players Championship 2018 was a snooker tournament of the 2017/18 snooker season , which took place from 19 to 25 March 2018 in Llandudno in North Wales . The tournament took place at the same location for the second time in a row. The qualification took place across all tournaments of the season played up to then: The top 16 of the one-year rankings from the Riga Masters 2017 to the Gibraltar Open 2018 were eligible to start.

The defending champion was the Englishman Judd Trump . He lost in the semifinals to Ronnie O'Sullivan , who subsequently also won the tournament. O'Sullivan defeated Shaun Murphy 10-4 in the final .

Prize money

The prize money remained unchanged. While last year's £ 125,000 was the third highest prize money for a tournament winner, the tournament fell behind four Chinese tournaments this season.

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

The Rolling 147 Prize for a maximum break was £ 30,000.

Tournament schedule

All rounds except for the final were played in best-of-11 mode. In the previous year, the first two rounds were still Best of 9. In the final, Best of 19 was played.

  Round of 16
best of 11 frames 		  Quarterfinals
Best of 11 frames 		  Semi-final
best of 11 frames 		  Final
Best of 19 frames
                                     
1 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th                  
16 ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 1  
1 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th
  8th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 3  
8th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 6th
 
9 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 2  
1 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th
  4th EnglandEngland Judd Trump 5  
5 BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 2      
 
12 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 6th  
12 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 1
  4th EnglandEngland Judd Trump 6th  
4th EnglandEngland Judd Trump 6th
 
13 ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 4th  
1 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 10
  6th EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 4th
3 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 0            
 
14th ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 6th  
14th ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 5
  6th EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 6th  
6th EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 6th
 
11 EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 3  
6th EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 6th
  2 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 3  
7th EnglandEngland Mark Selby 3      
 
10 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 6th  
10 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 3
  2 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 6th  
2 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 6th
 
15th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Bingtao 2  

final

Final: Best of 19 Frames
Referee: Jan Scheers Venue Cymru,  Llandudno , Wales , United Kingdom , 25th March 2018 BelgiumBelgium
Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland 10 : 4 EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy
Afternoon session: 39: 93 (93), 67 : 55 (54 O'Sullivan), 80 : 67 (50 O'Sullivan, 55 Murphy), 76 : 9, 30: 86 (61), 65 : 50 (65), 92 : 14, 70 : 0 (69), 0: 77 (77);
Evening session: 92 : 43 (92), 0: 137 (137), 98 : 7 (54), 121 : 9 (76), 90 : 23 (85)
92 Highest break 137
- Century breaks 1
8th 50+ breaks 5

Century breaks

There were 27 breaks of 100 or more points played in the four rounds. Three players got 5 Centurys each, the highest break of 143 points was achieved by tournament winner Ronnie O'Sullivan in the semifinals.

EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 143, 134, 121, 106, 100
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark J. Williams 141, 127, 124
EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 137, 133 (2 ×), 115, 105
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 133, 107
BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 130
ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 129, 102
EnglandEngland Judd Trump 128, 123, 117, 109, 100
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 119
AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 107, 103
ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 107

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  1. ↑ Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2017/2018 Season. (PDF; 88 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 11, 2017, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ladbrokes Players Championship (2018). Snooker.org, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Centuries. Archived from the original on March 29, 2018 ; accessed on February 25, 2019 .