Scottish Open 2017
Scottish Open 2017
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Attendees: | 129 |
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Emirates Arena , Glasgow , Scotland |
| Opening: | December 11, 2017 |
| Endgame: | 17th December 2017
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| Winner: |
 Neil Robertson
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| Finalist: |
 Cao Yupeng
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| Highest Break: |
147 ( Cao Yupeng )
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The Dafabet Scottish Open in 2017 were a world ranking tournament at the Snooker - season 2017/18 , the to 17 December 2017 in of 11 Emirates Arena of the Scottish city Glasgow took place. Last year it took place in the same venue. The Scottish Open was the third tournament in the Home Nations series , which was introduced in 2016 , after the English Open and the Northern Ireland Open .
Last year, Marco Fu from Hong Kong won the tournament. This time he made it to the last sixteen. The finals reached Neil Robertson and Cao Yupeng . The Australian won 9: 8 and took his first Home Nations title and his 13th victory in a ranking tournament.
Prize money
The prize money for all four tournaments in the Home Nations series remained unchanged.
| Prize money | |
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| winner | £ 70,000 |
| finalist | £ 30,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 20,000 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 10,000 |
| Round of 16 | £ 6,000 |
| Last 32 | £ 3,500 |
| Last 64 | £ 2,500 |
| Highest break | £ 2,000 |
| All in all | £ 366,000 |
The Rolling 147 Prize for a maximum break was £ 20,000 . Along with the £ 2,000 for the highest break, that prize went to Cao Yupeng , who scored the first 147-point break of his professional career in the first round of his game against Andrew Higginson .
Tournament results
127 professionals had registered for the tournament. The Scottish Association was also allowed to give wild cards to two local players. Since only one place was left, the two - Ross Vallance and Robert Carlisle - had to play an elimination game at the beginning of the tournament, which Vallence won. Up to the round of 16, four winning frames ( Best of 7 mode ) were played.
Pre-qualification
First round to round of 16Upper half 1
Upper half 2
Upper half 3
Upper half 4
Lower half 1
Lower half 2
aAfter Luca Brecel's cancellation due to illness , Jackson Page was given the vacated place as the best-placed player in the Q-School rankings, as in the UK Championship . This means that the rule that was only introduced at the end of August was applied to the third tournament in a row.
Lower half 3
Lower half 4
A = amateur player (qualified via the Q-School-Order-of-Merit) Quarter-finals to finalsFrom the quarter-finals onwards, the number of winning frames increased gradually. The winner of the final was whoever had won 9 frames first (Best of 17).
finalCao Yupeng was the surprise in the final. Prior to this season, he had never made it past the quarter-finals of a ranking tournament in six years on the Main Tour. After the semi-finals at the European Masters two months earlier, he improved again at the Scottish Open. Neil Robertson, on the other hand, had a weaker phase of his career behind him and had just dropped out of the top 16 in the world rankings , but had recently played more successfully again. But for now, Cao picked up where he left off in the semifinals against Judd Trump . He took the lead 3: 1 and 5: 3, with 7 breaks of more than 50 points. In the evening the series continued and he expanded the lead to 8: 4. So close to the win, the mid-session break came at the wrong time. From then on, the Chinese played nervously and gave away numerous balls that he had previously punched. Robertson also had a hard time with higher breaks, but despite the tension he proved to be more nervous and caught up frame by frame. The 16th frame was characteristic of the course, in which Cao had the chance to win the frame and thus the tournament twice, on pink and on black, but both times got stuck in his pocket and thus enabled the Australian to equalize to 8: 8. Encouraged by the race to catch up, he then seized the opportunity in the decision-making frame and scored a break of 59 points, which then brought him the 9: 8 win with the fifth frame win in a row.
Century breaksDuring the tournament, a total of 63 Centuries were played by 39 players. Cao Yupeng achieved the first maximum break of his career in round 1 . After Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo , he was only the third player from China to do this. It was the 134th official 147-point break in snooker. With 11 century breaks in the tournament, Neil Robertson repeated the performance of Marco Fu from the previous year.
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