Shanghai Masters 2015
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Shanghai Masters 2015
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | Shanghai Grand Stage, Shanghai , People's Republic of China |
| Opening: | September 14, 2015 |
| Endgame: | 20th September 2015
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| Winner: |
 Kyren Wilson
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| Highest Break: | 140 ( Luca Brecel )
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The Shanghai Masters 2015 was a snooker tournament as part of the Snooker Main Tour of the 2015/16 season , which was held from September 14th to 20th, 2015 on the Grand Stage of the indoor stadium in Shanghai ( People's Republic of China ).
The defending champion was reigning world champion Stuart Bingham , who this time reached the semi-finals. The surprise winner was the qualifier Kyren Wilson , who defeated his English compatriot Judd Trump 10: 9 in his first professional final.
Prize money
There was £ 30,000 more this season than last year. The additional money went exclusively to the players who were eliminated in qualifying rounds 2 to 4, in the final round of the last 32 the prize money remained unchanged.
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| winner | £ 85,000 |
| finalist | £ 35,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 19,500 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 12,000 |
| Round of 16 | £ 8,000 |
| Last 32 | £ 6,000 |
| Last 48 | 3000 pounds |
| Last 64 | £ 2000 |
| Last 96 | £ 500 |
| All in all | £ 480,000 |
Wildcard round
The favorites clearly prevailed in seven wildcard matches, only Jamie Jones lost to Fang Xiongman . For him it was the greatest success of his career. Two years earlier he had not been able to use the wildcard in the same tournament. Since 2012, Fang also played on the Asia tour .
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Final round
In round 1, the 16 best players in the world rankings were seeded without Ronnie O'Sullivan , who had not started , eight other players had qualified directly, the remaining eight via the wildcard round. With the world number one Mark Selby and the number 10 Ricky Walden , however, two top players canceled after the start of the tournament. Selby had a death in the family, with Walden the reason for rejection was more gratifying: he became a father for the first time.
The biggest surprise of the first round was the elimination of world number three Neil Robertson against Jamie Cope , the lowest-placed player after amateur Fang Xiongman . For the Australian it was already the second opening defeat of the season at the second world ranking tournament. Kyren Wilson's success against Joe Perry was also unexpected.
Wilson then also won in the round of 16. There came the end for Shaun Murphy for the next top 8 player. Judd Trump only managed to advance with the black ball in the decisive frame against Matthew Selt . In the quarter-finals, the top seeded world champion Stuart Bingham had to make the decision, which he clearly won against Martin Gould . Kyren Wilson, who had only reached a quarter-finals of a world ranking tournament two years earlier at the same tournament, faced local hero Ding Junhui , who had advanced to third place in the provisional world rankings. Nevertheless, the Englishman never fell behind in frames and was ultimately able to just win the decision frame.
In the semifinals, Judd Trump then prevailed relatively confidently against Bingham. And Kyren Wilson continued his great success and defeated Mark Allen 6-1. Despite the clear final result, it was a hard-fought match in which the Northern Irishman took the lead more or less clearly in all frames. Wilson turned the result six times, twice he won with black and once he required a foul from everyone.
kl. - got on without a fight
final
In his first Main Tour final, Kyren Wilson took the lead first. The frame gains alternated up to 2: 2, in the second part of the afternoon session he managed to pull away to 6: 3. Judd Trump's efforts to catch up were dampened with the loss of the first evening frame, but then he reported back with the only century break of the final. After the 8: 4 by Wilson, Trump finally managed a series of three wins and the connection to 8: 7. The next contested frame brought Wilson only one frame closer to victory, but with two high breaks Trump managed to equalize for the first time since the fourth frame. In frame 18, Wilson had bad luck that he punched two red balls at once and thus made sure that he needed snooker. In an exciting tactical game he forced his opponent to 13 foul points, but then came under pressure himself and still lost. In the decision-making frame he kept his nerve again and even scored his own highest break of the final with 75 points, making him the winner of the tournament with a 10: 9. Kyren Wilson had won a professional tournament for the first time. Judd Trump, on the other hand, lost a final of the Shanghai Masters for the second time after 2012 with 9:10.
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Final: Best of 19 Frames Referee: Brendan Moore Shanghai Grand Stage, Shanghai , People's Republic of China , September 20, 2015 |
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Judd Trump
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Kyren Wilson
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Afternoon games: 1:62, 81 : 0 (81), 24: 71 , 74 : 0 (72), 42: 68 , 41: 71 (71), 60 : 13, 22: 76 (58), 40: 78 ( 62) Evening games: 33: 75 , 121 : 0 (115), 46: 83 (68), 86 : 7 (76), 58 : 45 (50), 70 : 29, 22: 80 , 90 : 0 (89) , 79 : 40 (60), 0: 78 (75) |
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| 115 | Highest break | 75 |
| 1 | Century breaks | - |
| 7th | 50+ breaks | 5 |
qualification
The qualifiers took place from August 5th to 9th, 2015 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley , England . All 96 games were played in best-of-nine mode.
A = amateur player (not on the main tour during the 2015/16 season; qualification via the Q-School-Order-of-Merit)
kl. = without a fight
Century breaks
Main round
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qualification
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- ↑ Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2015/16 Season. (PDF; 28 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , June 12, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Profile of Shanghai Masters 2015 on CueTracker (as of September 17, 2015)
- ↑ a b Shanghai Masters Draw. (PDF; 99 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , August 10, 2015, accessed on August 13, 2015 .
- ^ Mark Selby and Ricky Walden withdraw from Shanghai Masters. In: bbc.com. British Broadcasting Corporation , September 16, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Shanghai Masters (2015). Snooker.org, accessed September 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Kyren's Shanghai Surprise. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed September 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Shanghai Masters 2015 - Qualifying. (PDF; 35 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Shanghai Masters Qualifiers Draw. (PDF; 196 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ^ Shanghai Masters - Century Breaks. (No longer available online.) In: livescores.worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , archived from the original on September 16, 2015 ; accessed on September 14, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Shanghai Masters Qualifiers. Centuries. (No longer available online.) In: livescores.worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , archived from the original on September 17, 2015 ; accessed on August 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
