Players Tour Championship 2010/11

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The Players Tour Championship 2010/11 was a series of snooker tournaments that were first played in the 2010/11 snooker season . Compared to the other world ranking tournaments of the Snooker Main Tour there were fewer points to be won for the snooker world ranking list . However, the eight most successful participants who had not already qualified for the following season via the snooker world rankings qualified directly for the 2011/12 snooker season .

It was also a Pro-Am tournament series, in which Main Tour players and amateurs played.

Tournament overview

# date competition venue winner finalist Result
1 June 24th to June 27th 2010 PTC Event 1 EnglandEngland Sheffield WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 4-0
2 July 9 to July 11, 2010 PTC Event 2 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Mark Selby EnglandEngland Barry Pinches 4: 3
3 August 6 to August 8, 2010 PTC Event 3 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Tom Ford EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 4-0
4th August 14th to August 16th, 2010 PTC Event 4 EnglandEngland Sheffield EnglandEngland Barry Pinches EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 4: 3
5 August 27 to August 29, 2010 EPTC Event 1 - Paul Hunter Classic 2010 GermanyGermany Fuerth EnglandEngland Judd Trump EnglandEngland Anthony Hamilton 4: 3
6th October 1 to October 3, 2010 EPTC Event 2 - Brugge Open 2010 BelgiumBelgium Bruges EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy EnglandEngland Matthew Couch 4: 2
7th October 8 to October 10, 2010 PTC Event 5 EnglandEngland Sheffield China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Jones 4: 1
8th October 15 to October 17, 2010 PTC Event 6 EnglandEngland Sheffield WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale EnglandEngland Martin Gould 4: 3
9 October 21 to October 24, 2010 EPTC Event 3 - Rhein-Main Masters 2010 GermanyGermany Ruesselsheim ScotlandScotland Marcus Campbell China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Wenbo 4-0
10 October 28 to October 31, 2010 EPTC Event 4 - MIUS Cup 2010 EnglandEngland Gloucester EnglandEngland Stephen Lee ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 4: 2
11 November 12th to November 14th, 2010 EPTC Event 5 - Ruhr Championship 2010 GermanyGermany Hamm ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 4: 2
12 November 19 to November 21, 2010 EPTC Event 6 - Prague Classic 2010 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague EnglandEngland Michael Holt ScotlandScotland John Higgins 4: 3
final March 17 to March 20, 2011 Grand Finals IrelandIreland Dublin EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy EnglandEngland Martin Gould 4-0

Prize money list

After all 12 pre-tournaments :

space player Total prize money Participation
PTC EPTC Total
1. EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 23,200 6th 6th 12
2. EnglandEngland Mark Selby 21,300 6th 6th 12
3. EnglandEngland Barry Pinches 19,100 6th 6th 12
4th ScotlandScotland Marcus Campbell 17,700 6th 6th 12
5. EnglandEngland Judd Trump 17,600 6th 6th 12
6th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 17,100 5 4th 9
7th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale 16,800 6th 6th 12
8th. EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 16,200 6th 6th 12
9. EnglandEngland Tom Ford 15,000 6th 6th 12
10. ScotlandScotland John Higgins 15,000 0 2 2
11. ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 14,400 6th 4th 10
12. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 11,800 2 3 5
13. EnglandEngland Michael Holt 10,900 6th 6th 12
14th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Wenbo 10,700 4th 4th 8th
15th EnglandEngland Martin Gould 10,600 6th 6th 12
16. Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu 10.100 5 4th 9
17th EnglandEngland Ricky Walden 10.100 6th 6th 12
18th EnglandEngland Anthony Hamilton 9,900 6th 5 11
19th EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 9,800 6th 6th 12
20th EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 9,600 6th 6th 12
21st WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Jones 9,400 6th 6th 12
22nd EnglandEngland Andrew Higginson 8,700 6th 6th 12
23. EnglandEngland Mark Davis 8,300 6th 6th 12
24. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens 8,300 6th 6th 12
25th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Gerard Greene 7,700 6th 6th 12
26th EnglandEngland Joe Jogia 7,500 6th 5 11
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88 GermanyGermany Patrick Einsle 1,200 6th 6th 12
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118. GermanyGermany Let Münstermann 400 4th 5 9
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124. GermanyGermany Ralph Enax 200 0 1 1
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126. GermanyGermany Michael Heeger 200 0 3 3
127. GermanyGermany Jürgen Kesseler 200 0 4th 4th
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134. GermanyGermany Habib Shalchian 200 0 1 1


Not eligible to participate in the final tournament, as not enough pre-tournaments were taken.
Amateur player ( not on the Snooker Main Tour in the 2010/11 season ).

Qualification for the Main Tour

The following players qualified for the Main Tour of the 2011/12 snooker season outside of the top 64.

space player Prize money Order
of Merit
1 EnglandEngland Matthew Couch 6,100 35
2 EnglandEngland Liam Highfield 5,200 40
3 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Andrew Pagett 4,800 42
4th BelgiumBelgium Bjorn Haneveer 4,600 45
5 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Michael White 4,000 51
6th EnglandEngland Paul Davison 3,600 54
7th EnglandEngland Ben Woollaston 3,600 55
8th BrazilBrazil Igor Figueiredo 2,800 63

Footnotes

  1. ↑ EPTC4 - Location Change ( Memento from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Prize money list (PDF; 255 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . November 22, 2010. Archived from the original on June 6, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ Order of Merit - Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 . Snooker.org. Retrieved November 21, 2010.