Players Championship 2019

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Coral Players Championship 2019

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Tournament type: World ranking tournament
Attendees: 16
Venue: Preston Guild Hall,
Preston , England
Opening: 4th March 2019
Endgame: March 10, 2019

Winner: EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
Finalist: AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson
Highest Break: 140 ( Neil Robertson ) AustraliaAustralia
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The Coral Players Championship 2019 was a snooker tournament of the 2018/19 snooker season , which was held from March 4 to 10, 2019 in Preston , England . The qualification took place across all tournaments of the season played up to then: The top 16 of the one-year ranking from the Riga Masters 2018 to the Snooker Shoot-Out 2019 were eligible to start.

For the first time the Players Championship was part of a tournament series called Coral Cup , which was sponsored by the betting company Coral . Before that, the World Grand Prix was held with the top 32 of the season ranking, followed by the newly introduced Tour Championship , the top 8 final.

Last year's winner Ronnie O'Sullivan was the first to defend this title.

In the last frame of the final against Neil Robertson , O'Sullivan became the first player in snooker history to score the 1000th century break of his career.

Prize money

The prize pool of £ 380,000 and the distribution were unchanged from last year.

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 £ 5,000  .

Tournament schedule

All rounds except for the final were played in best-of-11 mode. Best of 19 was played in the final.

  Round of 16
best of 11 frames 		  Quarterfinals
Best of 11 frames 		  Semi-final
best of 11 frames 		  Final
Best of 19 frames
                                     
1 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 6th                  
16 ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 2  
1 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 6th
  9 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 4th  
9 EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 6th
 
8th EnglandEngland David Gilbert 4th  
1 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 0
  5 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th  
5 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th      
 
12 EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins 4th  
5 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 6th
  13 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 4th  
13 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 6th
 
4th EnglandEngland Mark Selby 4th  
5 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 10
  3 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 4th
3 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 6th            
 
14th EnglandEngland Joe Perry 3  
3 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 6th
  6th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 4th  
11 EnglandEngland Ali Carter 2
 
6th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 6th  
3 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 6th
  2 EnglandEngland Judd Trump 4th  
7th EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 4th      
 
10 EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 6th  
10 EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 5
  2 EnglandEngland Judd Trump 6th  
15th EnglandEngland Jimmy Robertson 0
 
2 EnglandEngland Judd Trump 6th  

final

In the last frame of the finale, Ronnie O'Sullivan played the 1000th century of his career. He narrowly missed the premium for the highest break with 134 points because after punching the black ball in the corner pocket, the white ball fell into a center pocket and O'Sullivan committed a foul. Therefore, the seven points for the punched black ball were not credited to him, but to his opponent Neil Robertson . Since he had scored a 140 break in his semi-final game, the award for the highest break of the tournament went to him.

Final: Best of 19 Frames
Referee: Terry Camilleri Preston Guild Hall,  Preston , England , March 10, 2019 MaltaMalta
Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland 10 : 4 AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson
Session 1: 73 : 1 (67), 118 : 0 (52, 66), 70 : 9 (70), 90 : 25 (65), 50: 71 (O'Sullivan 50, Robertson 65), 116 : 7 ( 116), 71 : 14 (56), 29: 78 (78), 105 : 6 (105)
Session 2: 0: 120 (120), 90 : 5 (90), 0: 71 , 80 : 24, 134 : 7 (134)
134 Highest break 120
3 Century breaks 1
11 50+ breaks 3

Century breaks

Eight players played a total of 24 Centurys. Ronnie O'Sullivan played the 1000th century of his career in the last frame of the finale.

AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 140, 120, 107, 101
EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 134, 116 (2 ×), 106, 105, 101
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark J. Williams 131, 118
EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 121, 110
EnglandEngland Mark Selby 121
EnglandEngland Judd Trump 115, 113, 106, 105, 104, 100
EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins 110, 104
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 108

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  2. ↑ Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2018/2019 Season. (PDF; 108 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, July 18, 2018, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Coral Players Championship Line Up Confirmed. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, February 25, 2019, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  4. ^ Coral Players Championship (2019). In: snooker.org. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ronnie O'Sullivan - The Millennial Man. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , March 10, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Centuries on World Snooker.Retrieved March 10, 2019