Shanghai Masters 2017
Shanghai Masters 2017
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | Shanghai , China |
| Opening: | November 13, 2017 |
| Endgame: | 18th November 2017
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| Winner: |
 Ronnie O'Sullivan
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| Finalist: |
Judd Trump
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| Highest Break: | 144 ( Ronnie O'Sullivan )
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The Shanghai Masters 2017 was a snooker tournament as part of the Snooker Main Tour , which was held from November 13th to 18th at the Shanghai Indoor Stadium in China .
The defending champion was Ding Junhui , but he had to cancel at short notice due to conjunctivitis. The two-time tournament winner was replaced by Ronnie O'Sullivan , who also won for the second time in Shanghai. He defeated Judd Trump in the final 10: 3. With his 30th ranking victory, O'Sullivan took second place on the all-time list of the best.
The eleventh edition of the Shanghai Masters was the last as a ranking tournament. In 2018 the tournament was continued as an invitation tournament.
Prize money
This year, the prize money was brought into line with that of the other Chinese world ranking tournaments. It rose just under half from £ 463,000 to £ 700,000 . This increased the individual premiums considerably, for example the winner received £ 150,000 instead of £ 85,000. And the entry bonus doubled from £ 2,000 to £ 4,000. Due to the switch to a single qualifying round, only 64 instead of 96 players will receive a bonus.
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| winner | £ 150,000 |
| finalist | £ 75,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 32,000 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 18,000 |
| Round of 16 | £ 12,000 |
| Last 32 | £ 7,000 |
| Last 64 | £ 4,000 |
| Highest break | £ 3,000 |
| All in all | £ 700,000 |
The Rolling 147 Prize for a maximum break was £ 5000.
Final round
For the first time, 64 instead of 32 players played in the first round in Shanghai. For the first time, the top 16 in the world rankings were not automatically placed for the main tournament, but also had to qualify, the 5 of them not surviving. With Stuart Bingham , another top players turned out he had been temporarily banned by the World Association for its game bets.
kl. = without a fight
final
Both players were in the final of the Shanghai Masters for the third time and played against each other in the Grand Hall for the first time. Judd Trump had won four of the five previous rounds to zero and only given three frames in the semifinals. In the final he didn't get into the game at all and Ronnie O'Sullivan pulled away frame by frame. He was already leading 7-0 before Trump maintained a residual hope for the evening session with two game wins. But in the evening O'Sullivan started immediately with a century break and a possible catch-up by Trump was stopped again at the score of 3: 8 when he forgave the frame ball and O'Sullivan stole the 12th frame with the last black. Then he finished to 10: 3 and after 2009 got his second tournament title and his 30th world rankings title overall.
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Final: Best of 19 Frames Referee: Peggy Li Shanghai Indoor Stadium , Shanghai , China , November 18, 2017  |
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Judd Trump
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3: 10 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Afternoon session: 15: 77 , 0: 95 (92), 31: 49 , 0: 93 (76), 9: 81 (81), 42: 101 (56), 48: 70 (70), 102 : 17 (102 ), 62 : 45 evening session: 0: 108 (108), 67 : 33 (64), 63: 65 (63 JT), 42: 68 |
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| 102 | Highest break | 108 |
| 1 | Century breaks | 1 |
| 3 | 50+ breaks | 6th |
qualification
In that year, the old qualification system was also abolished at the Shanghai Masters, which consisted of four rounds with graduation according to world rankings. Instead, as in all other corresponding tournaments, all professionals had to compete in an elimination game to participate in the top 64 final tournament. However, 127 professionals had registered for the tournament and because the Chinese association was also allowed to provide four wildcard players, a pre-qualification had to be scheduled for the first time this season so that 128 players remained for the actual qualifying round.
The qualification took place from 11th to 13th October 2017 at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan near Manchester . A number of games did not take place until the start of the main tournament in Shanghai. The wildcard round and the qualifying games that depend on it have also been moved to China, as have the games of defending champion Ding Junhui , the second top Chinese player Liang Wenbo and the top two in the world rankings, Mark Selby and John Higgins . All games were played in best-of-9 mode .
Wildcard round
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Qualifying round
WC = wildcard player
kl. = without a fight
Century breaks
Main round
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qualification
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swell
- ^ Snooker's Shanghai Masters Continues Rich History. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , October 8, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2017/2018 Season. (PDF; 88 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 11, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Shanghai Masters 2017: Prize money, previous champions and all information. In: eurosport.de. Retrieved on November 16, 2017 (German).
- ↑ a b c Shanghai Masters (2017). In: snooker.org. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Shanghai Masters 2017 Qualifiers Draw. (PDF; 339 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , October 5, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Shanghai Masters 2017. (PDF; 156 kB) Qualifiers - Provisional Format of Play. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , October 9, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 .
Web links
- Homepage of the Shanghai Masters (Chinese)
