Players Tour Championship 2015/16 - Grand Finals
Players Championship Grand Finals 2016
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | Event City, Manchester |
| Opening: | March 22, 2016 |
| Endgame: | March 27, 2016
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| Winner: |
 Mark Allen
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| Highest Break: | 143 ( Ding Junhui )
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The Players Championship Grand Finals 2016 was a snooker tournament of the Snooker Main Tour of the 2015/16 season . They formed the conclusion of the Players Tour Championship 2015/16 , which this season consisted of six tournaments in Europe and one tournament in Asia. The 32 best players in the tour rankings competed at Event City in Manchester from March 22nd to 27th, 2016 .
Northern Irishman Mark Allen won the tournament by beating England's Ricky Walden 10: 6 in the final .
Last year's winner Joe Perry never got past the last 32 in the six tournaments of the European Tour and missed the final qualification.
Prize money
The prize money increased by £ 50,000 from 2015. There was between £ 1,500 and £ 2,500 more in the first three rounds and the premiums for the top four places remained unchanged.
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| winner | £ 100,000 |
| finalist | £ 38,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 20,000 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 12,500 |
| Round of 16 | £ 7,000 |
| Last 32 | 4000 pounds |
| Highest break | £ 2000 |
| All in all | £ 350,000 |
Tournament results
The top 24 of the European Order of Merit (the prize money ranking list of the 6 European PTC tournaments), the finalists of the Asian PTC tournament and the top 6 (excluding the already qualified players) of the combined Order of Merit (the prize money ranking list of the 6 European and the an Asian PTC tournament), qualified for the final tournament. In previous years, all games, including the final, like all PTC tournaments, were played in Best-of-7 mode . This time this only applies up to the quarter-finals; 6 win frames are required for victory in the semi-finals and 10 win frames in the final. This also extends the tournament by one day.
The opening round took place on March 22nd and 23rd, the second and quarter finals on March 24th and 25th. The two semi-finals were then played on Saturday, the final on Sunday.
In the week before the tournament, the world number one Mark Selby announced that he would not take part in the tournament. Matthew Selt got his starting place .
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Final: Best of 19 Frames Referee: Colin Humphries Event City, Manchester, England, March 27, 2016  |
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Mark Allen
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10 : 6 |
Ricky Walden
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Afternoon session: 74 : 0 (59), 0: 89 (85), 8: 86 , 0: 107 (85), 73 : 6 (51), 96 : 44 (80), 71 : 44, 73 : 33 (68 ), 78 : 35 (64) evening session: 83 : 11 (52), 1: 68 (62), 0: 92 (92), 51: 59 , 72 : 38, 87 : 28 (61), 100 : 0 ( 67) |
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| 80 | Highest break | 92 |
| - | Century breaks | - |
| 8th | 50+ breaks | 4th |
Century breaks
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swell
- ↑ worldsnooker.com: Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2015/16 Season. (PDF; 92 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , June 12, 2015, accessed on March 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Combined Order of Merit - Players Tour Championship 2015/2016. Snooker.org, March 1, 2015, accessed March 6, 2015 . / Asian Order of Merit - Players Tour Championship 2014/2015. Snooker.org, January 24, 2015, accessed March 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Players Championship March 22-27, 2016 - Provisional Format. (PDF; 13 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , March 3, 2016, accessed on March 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Players Championship Draw. (PDF; 79 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , March 2, 2016, accessed on March 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Ladbrokes Players Championship Grand Final (2016). Snooker.org, accessed March 27, 2016 .
- ↑ 2016 Players Championship Grand Final. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Selby Withdraws From Two Ranking Events. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , March 18, 2016, accessed March 20, 2016 .
- ↑ 2016 Players Championship Grand Final - Centuries. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed March 27, 2016 .