2017 World Snooker Championship

2017 World Snooker Championship Betfred World Snooker Championship 2017
Tournament type:	World ranking tournament
Venue:	Crucible Theater , Sheffield , England
Opening:	April 15, 2017
Endgame:	April 30 / May 1, 2017
Winner:	Mark Selby
Finalist:	John Higgins
Highest Break:	146 ( Ronnie O'Sullivan )
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The 2017 Betfred World Snooker Championship was held from April 15 to May 1, 2017 at the Crucible Theater in Sheffield . It was part of the Snooker Main Tour and ended the 2016/17 season as the 19th ranking tournament .

The defending champion was world number one Mark Selby , who was ranked number 1. The 16 best players in the world rankings were automatically placed, all other professionals and qualifiers had to win a total of three qualifying games according to the Best of 19 mode in order to reach the main round. In the final, Mark Selby won against John Higgins with 18:15, making him the fourth player in the Crucible era (since 1977) to win the world title twice in a row. For Higgins it was the second defeat in his sixth final.

Anniversaries

2017 was an anniversary year for the snooker world championship in two ways. At the opening gala on the eve of the World Cup, not only was the 90th anniversary of the World Cup, which was first held in 1927 , celebrated. It was also the 40th anniversary of the Crucible Theater as a venue since 1977. This anniversary was used as an opportunity to announce the contract extension between the WPBSA and the Crucible for another ten years until the 50th anniversary in 2027.

Prize money

The total prize money distributed rose by a sixth from 1.5 to 1.75 million pounds . For a first round win there was 1,400 pounds more, the world champion got 45,000 pounds more than last year.

	Prize money
winner	£ 375,000
finalist	£ 160,000
Semi-finalist	£ 75,000
Quarter finalist	£ 37,500
Round of 16	£ 25,000
Last 32	£ 16,000
Last 48	£ 12,000
Last 80	£ 8,000
Highest Break (Qualification)	£ 1,000
Highest Break (Main Round / TV)	£ 10,000
All in all	£ 1,750,000
Jackpot bonus at the
Maximum break	£ 5,000

The Rolling 147 Price started again at £ 5,000 after Judd Trump made a maximum break at the China Open .

Main round

Tournament course

Round 1 and Round of 16

The highest wins in the first round were achieved by Mark Selby and Stephen Maguire . The defending champion and world number one Selby pulled away from Fergal O'Brien 8-0 before the Irishman could win his first frame. The match ended 10: 2 as did the Scottish duel between Maguire and Anthony McGill . Maguire had to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in many years because he had dropped out of the top 16 of the snooker world rankings, whereas McGill had made it into the top 16 for the first time and qualified directly. But the two were only equal until the 2: 2, then Maguire scored 447 points in a row across sessions without McGill making a point. After four first round defeats, Maguire made it to the last sixteen for the first time.

The biggest surprise at the beginning was the departure of Judd Trump , who had improved to second place in the world rankings thanks to two tournament victories and three other finals during the season. Trump won all four games up to the first session break, but his opponent Rory McLeod turned the first session 5: 4. After that, the match was evenly balanced until McLeod was two frames ahead at 8: 6. Trump, who apparently hindered a shoulder injury towards the end, could no longer compensate and lost 8:10. The second surprise at the start was Xiao Guodong's victory against Ryan Day , which was also very clear with 10: 4. Xiao won 4 frames and 5 frames in a row.

The schedule showed that the two surprise winners had to compete against the two most sovereign winners in round 2. Against Maguire and Selby they lost relatively significantly.

In addition to the three named, only one other seeded player lost to a qualifier: Graeme Dott won the first four frames of the match against world number tenth Allister Carter , the Englishman always lagged behind and lost 7:10. It was Carter's first first round loss at the Crucible in 11 years. Dott, who had reached the top 16 of a tournament for the first time this season, then also had to compete against a sovereign first round winner: Barry Hawkins had not given Tom Ford a chance at 10: 3 and also clearly defeated the Scots 13: 6.

The five newcomers to Crucible all lost their first round matches relatively significantly. Although Gary Wilson was able to turn a 5-1 against Ronnie O'Sullivan into a 5-6, O'Sullivan still achieved a controlled 10-7 win. Only the 8:10 result of the youngest participant Yan Bingtao against Shaun Murphy was even closer . However, the Englishman led during the entire match and the chase of the Chinese with the intermediate result of 5: 9 came too late. The two winners met in the round of 16 and it was O'Sullivan who set the direction from the start and clearly won 13: 7.

In addition to O'Sullivan, only one other player won in the round of 16 against a higher seed: Kyren Wilson defeated world number three Stuart Bingham with 13:10. Although he was unable to defend a 5-0 start at high altitude, he held a narrow lead throughout the match and in the end he asserted himself sovereignly. For the 2015 world champion, the defeat also meant a significant drop in the world rankings.

Mark Allen versus John Higgins was another expected second round match, with the Northern Irish having more trouble against Jimmy Robertson and only winning 10-8 through the last two frames. Against Higgins he just won the first session, but then the Scot took the lead and expanded it to a 13: 9 victory in the decisive phase.

The closest result at the start was Marco Fu's 10: 9 against Luca Brecel . The Belgian had already taken the lead 7-2 in the first session. Fu was able to fight his way back and managed to equalize to 8: 8. After Brecel's 9-8, it seemed like the race to catch up might have been in vain, but the Hong Kong player played on his greater experience and turned the result around with two high breaks. His round of 16 match against Neil Robertson was then also very close. No player was able to break away until 11:11, then the Australian lost two frames in a row and with it the match. In the last frame, he awarded the last black that Fu converted to 64:60.

The round of 16 match between Liang Wenbo and Ding Junhui was even closer . Both had few problems in lap 1. In a direct comparison, Ding had the better start and took the lead 4-1 and 6-2. At 9: 9 Liang managed to equalize for the first time and at 12:11 he was only missing a frame gain. But Ding did it with a 132 break. In the decider, the fourth in the world ranked followed up with a decisive break from the 70s and reached the quarter-finals with 13:12.

Quarter finals

In the quarter-finals, Mark Selby continued his sovereign performance. As in the previous rounds, Marco Fu got off to a bad start, but this time the Englishman gave him no chance to return and Fu only managed to gain a frame at 5: 1, 5: 2 and 11: 3. Selby was the only player to save a third session. A brief third take was made by John Higgins against Kyren Wilson. The aspiring 25-year-old Englishman was unlucky when the bitter orange broke on the tip of the cue early in the match. Higgins pulled away from 5: 3 and 9: 4 to 11: 5 after Session 2 and finally won 13: 6.

The other two matches were closer. Ding Junhui had the better start against Ronnie O'Sullivan, but the Englishman was able to equalize again to 5: 5. Then Ding got five frames in a row and although O'Sullivan was able to partially make up for that, the Chinese defended the remaining lead and won with 13:10. It was only the second victory of Ding over O'Sullivan in a ranking tournament after the Northern Ireland Trophy 2006. The fourth game denied Stephen Maguire and Barry Hawkins. The Scot, who had only delivered five frames by then, did not show consistent performance. At the end of the session, he was able to turn a 1: 4 into a 3: 5 and from a 4: 9 into a 7: 9, but when he finally achieved the 9: 9 equalization, it was Hawkins' turn again and used a weaker phase from Maguire to win 13: 9.

Semifinals

In the semifinals he then met John Higgins. For the fourth time in five years he had come this far. Although the Scot had not reached the semifinals since winning the title in 2011, it was the eighth time that the Crucible Arena was converted from two tables to one table. Although Hawkins slept through the start and was immediately 0: 4 behind, he was able to keep the game open until 3: 5 after the first session and 5: 7 at the break of the second session. But then the Scot increased to 11: 7 and then dominated the third session at will. Hawkins only won a single frame and Higgins reached the final at 17: 8, with only one frame remaining in the fourth session.

The encounter between Mark Selby and Ding Junhui, who had faced each other in the final the previous year, was very different. The Chinese won the first session 5: 3, in the second session the defending champion turned the result to 9: 7. After eight more frames it was 12:12. With two contested frames, Selby finally regained a lead of 2 frames, which he defended until the final score of 17:15.

Results

16 players were placed due to their world rankings. Your 16 first-round opponents had to prevail in the qualification beforehand. The games took place between April 15th and May 1st.

	Round of the last 32 Best of 19 Frames Sessions (9/10)					Round of 16 Best of 25 Frames Sessions (8/8/9)					Quarterfinals Best of 25 Frames Sessions (8/8/9)					Semi-final Best of 33 Frames Sessions (8/8/8/9)					Final Best of 35 Frames Sessions (8/9/8/10)
	1	Mark Selby	10
	45	Fergal O'Brien	2
						1	Mark Selby	13
						44	Xiao Guodong	6th
	16	Ryan Day	4th
	44	Xiao Guodong	10
											1	Mark Selby	13
											8th	Marco Fu	3
	9	Neil Robertson	10
	72	Noppon Saengkham	4th
						9	Neil Robertson	11
						8th	Marco Fu	13
	8th	Marco Fu	10
	30th	Luca Brecel	9
																1	Mark Selby	17th
																4th	Ding Junhui	15th
	5	Shaun Murphy	10
	63	Yan Bingtao	8th
						5	Shaun Murphy	7th
						12	Ronnie O'Sullivan	13
	12	Ronnie O'Sullivan	10
	59	Gary Wilson	7th
											12	Ronnie O'Sullivan	10
											4th	Ding Junhui	13
	13	Liang Wenbo	10
	48	Stuart Carrington	7th
						13	Liang Wenbo	12
						4th	Ding Junhui	13
	4th	Ding Junhui	10
	37	Zhou Yuelong	5
																					1	Mark Selby	18th
																					6th	John Higgins	15th
	3	Stuart Bingham	10
	42	Peter Ebdon	5
						3	Stuart Bingham	10
						14th	Kyren Wilson	13
	14th	Kyren Wilson	10
	51	David Grace	6th
											14th	Kyren Wilson	6th
											6th	John Higgins	13
	11	Mark Allen	10
	39	Jimmy Robertson	8th
						11	Mark Allen	9
						6th	John Higgins	13
	6th	John Higgins	10
	18th	Martin Gould	6th
																6th	John Higgins	17th
																7th	Barry Hawkins	8th
	7th	Barry Hawkins	10
	32	Tom Ford	3
						7th	Barry Hawkins	13
						29	Graeme Dott	6th
	10	Allister Carter	7th
	29	Graeme Dott	10
											7th	Barry Hawkins	13
											24	Stephen Maguire	9
	15th	Anthony McGill	2
	24	Stephen Maguire	10
						24	Stephen Maguire	13
						54	Rory McLeod	3
	2	Judd Trump	8th
	54	Rory McLeod	10

final

At the 2007 World Cup , Higgins and Selby had faced each other before. At that time, the Scot lived up to his role as a favorite and won his second of four titles. This time he was an outsider and at almost 42 years the oldest finalist in 35 years ( Ray Reardon was in the final in 1982 at 49 years old). Favorite Selby also took the lead 2-1, but then Higgins managed a break of 141 points, the highest score ever achieved in a World Cup final and previously only achieved by Ronnie O'Sullivan. This gave him a boost and he won all four frames by the end of the session. In the seventh game he benefited from a mistake by Selby and was able to steal the frame on black. The evening session did not go well for the Englishman either, he won a frame twice, but Higgins got the two following, so that the 6: 2 turned into an interim 10: 4. Then the reigning world champion seemed to be on track and with three frames in a row, one of them with a century break, he was able to achieve a tolerable 7:10 at the end of the first day.

On the second day, Selby picked up where he had left off, while his Scottish opponent no longer reached the previous day's level. After shortening to 9:10, Higgins managed to win the afternoon session's only game. Then Selby got all four remaining frames and made 9:11 a 13:11. He started the last session with another point gain and extended the lead to 16:12 by the break of the session. That meant he was only two frames away from victory. Higgins fought his way to 16:15 with his second Century and a contested 31st frame, but with a Century break and another game-deciding break, Selby won the next two frames and thus the world title.

Selby achieved several records with his victory. In the recent history of snooker since 1977, only Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan had been able to defend their world championship title. The three and final opponent John Higgins had four or more world titles, Selby now followed in fifth as the only triple world champion. The World Cup victory was the fifth title win for him in a season, which had only been achieved by Stephen Hendry and Ding Junhui before. By that season, Hendry also held the one-season prize money record of £ 740,000. Selby earned £ 932,000 in the 2016/17 season including the record £ 375,000 for the world title. With this prize money, Higgins would have surpassed Hendry's record if he had won.

Final: Best of 35 Frames Referee: Jan Verhaas Crucible Theater ,  Sheffield , England , April 30th - May 1st 2017
Mark Selby	18 : 15	John Higgins
1st session: 76 : 34 (76), 7: 50 , 121 : 8 (62, 58), 0: 141 (141), 40: 99 (63), 1: 126 (95), 54: 59 (58 ), 33: 68 2nd session: 86 : 0 (86), 8: 60 , 44: 74 , 69 : 22, 1: 68 , 0: 76 (76), 81 : 9 (81), 121 : 12 ( 121), 96 : 17 3rd session: 76 : 1, 53 : 2, 29: 107 (78), 63 : 40, 68 : 19 (67), 82 : 0 (58), 72 : 0 (72) 4th .Session: 72 : 22, 36: 74 , 76 : 1 (71), 134 : 4 (54, 70), 34: 88 (88), 0: 119 (111), 47: 75 , 132 : 0 (131 ), 80 : 19 (75)
131	Highest break	141
2	Century breaks	2
14th	50+ breaks	8th

qualification

The top 16 of the world rankings were set for the main tournament, their 16 challengers were determined through qualification. The three qualifying rounds took place from April 5 to 12, 2017 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Center in Sheffield . All games were played in best-of-19 mode .

The biggest surprise of the first qualifying round was the elimination of Ricky Walden , number 22 in the snooker world rankings , against Hammad Miah . With Robert Milkins , another top 32 player was eliminated, he was defeated by the current U21 European champion Alexander Ursenbacher from Switzerland, the only German-speaking representative who had already been on the Main Tour until 2015. Another ex-pro who made the second round was Peter Lines . He defeated the only Thai in the top 64 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh . Of the non-professionals, apart from these two, only Reanne Evans made progress. The women's world champion had just failed in the first round in 2015 , this time she won her first match at a WPBSA world championship against Robin Hull .

Gary Wilson and Josh Boileau fought a grueling match . With a maximum break and two centuries, the Englishman took the lead 7-2 after the first session. Then the Irishman fought his way back and reached the 9: 9 balance. Wilson eventually won with another century break. He made his second round match similarly exciting. This time he struggled in the first session and was 4: 5 behind. From a 5: 6 he made a 9: 6 with three century and a 64 break and finally won 10: 7. Round 3 he did not win with his Centurys, although he scored an eighth break with more than 100 points, but he still won confidently 10: 3 against the favorite top 32 player Michael White . Gary Wilson moved into the Crucible for the first time in his career.

In round 2 Wilson had beaten one of the remaining amateurs with Peter Lines. Reanne Evans also failed in round 2. After the opening success, she quickly fell 6-0 down in her second match against Lee Walker and lost 6:10. She had to postpone her plan to be the first woman in the main draw for another year. Walker then met Noppon Saengkham , who had beaten number 25 in the world Anthony Hamilton 10: 9 in a hard-fought match . The Thai decided the third round encounter late when he made a 9: 7 from 6: 7 with two Centurys. The game ended 10-8 and Saengkham became the second debutant at the Crucible.

Only one amateur made it into the final qualifying round: Alexander Ursenbacher had defeated Scott Donaldson 10: 9 in round 2 . In round 3 he met an even younger player with Yan Bingtao . After trailing 1: 6, the Swiss made it 3: 6 from the first session, but then lost a lot with 4:10. At 17 years and 58 days, the Chinese was the second youngest player after Luca Brecel 2012 to reach the World Cup finals. His compatriot Zhou Yuelong had to fight more against Ben Woollaston and was another Crucible debutant after a 10-9 win.

The biggest surprise in Round 2 was the elimination of Joe Perry , number 19 in the world rankings, against Akani Songsermsawad . The Thai made a 4: 6 with an intermediate sprint to 9: 6, but then needed four more attempts to win the 10: 9. In round 3 he could only keep up against David Grace until 3: 3 and then lost all further frames. The 10-3 win made the Englishman the fifth and final player to reach the World Cup finals for the first time in his career.

With by far the greatest crucible experience of all qualifiers, the two ex-world champions Graeme Dott and Peter Ebdon made it into the finals again: For the Scot it was the 18th qualification, the 46-year-old Ebdon even reached the 24th time the round of the last 32. There he is also the oldest player, followed by Rory McLeod and Fergal O'Brien , who were also successful in qualifying , who were 46 and 45 years old in March, respectively.

With Mark Williams , another top player and ex-world champion was eliminated from the qualification. He was relatively clearly defeated by Stuart Carrington with 7:10. The decisive frame between Fergal O'Brien and David Gilbert, to 10: 9 in round 3 of the qualification, was the longest frame in snooker history with 2 hours 3 minutes 41 seconds.

Round 1

game Player 1 Result Player 2 1 (17)  Mark Williams  7th10 : 710  Zhao Xintong  (83) 2 (80)  Liam Highfield  210 : 210  Andres Petrov  (A) 3 (48)  Stuart Carrington  210 : 210  Alex Borg  (103) 4th (49)  Andrew Higginson  8th10 : 810  Michael Georgiou  (85) 5 (32)  Tom Ford  210 : 210  Jamie Bodle  (A) 6th (65)  Chris Wakelin  510 : 510  Elliot Slessor  (109) 7th (33)  Matthew Selt  4th10 : 410  David John  (123) 8th (64)  Hossein Vafaei  110 : 110  Hatem Yaseen 9 (57)  Robin Hull  108 108th  Reanne Evans  (AF) 10 (40)  Matthew Stevens  108 108th  Lee Walker  (89) 11 (72)  Noppon Saengkham  510 : 510  Jak Jones  (93) 12 (25)  Anthony Hamilton  510 : 510  Craig Steadman  (101) 13 (56)  Li Hang  910 : 910  Fraser Patrick  (99) 14th (41)  Mike Dunn  6th10 : 610  Andy Hicks  (A) 15th (73)  Nigel Bond  110 : 110  Ng On Yee  (AF) 16 (24)  Stephen Maguire  7th10 : 710  Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn  (113) 17th (21)  Mark King  4th10 : 410  Paul Davison  (86) 18th (76)  Zhang Anda  107: 107th  Fang Xiongman  (114) 19th (44)  Xiao Guodong  210 : 210  Tyler Rees  (A) 20th (53)  Sam Baird  210 : 210  Ross Vallance  (A) 21st (28)  Ben Woollaston  4th10 : 410  Chris Totten  (A) 22nd (69)  Ken Doherty  4th10 : 410  Jason Weston  (122) 23 (37)  Zhou Yuelong  510 : 510  Christopher Keogan  (117) 24 (60)  Ian Burns  107: 107th  Ian Preece  (111) 25th (61)  Alfie Burden  6th10 : 610  Adam Duffy  (108) 26th (36)  Jamie Jones  010 : 010  Jamie Curtis-Barrett  (120) 27 (68)  Dechawat Poomjaeng  7th10 : 710  Chen Zhe  (119) 28 (29)  Graeme Dott  310 : 310  Allan Taylor  (82) 29 (52)  Tian Pengfei  4th10 : 410  Zhang Yong  (92) 30th (45)  Fergal O'Brien  6th10 : 610  Gerard Greene  (A) 31 (77)  Rhys Clark  110 : 110  Wayne Townsend  (A) 32 (20)  David Gilbert  kl.  Patrick Wallace  (A)

game Player 1 Result Player 2 33 (19)  Joe Perry  310 : 310  Zack Richardson  (A) 34 (78)  Mei Xiwen  105: 105  Akani Songsermsawad  (81) 35 (46)  Mark Joyce  310 : 310  Jordan Brown  (A) 36 (51)  David Grace  6th10 : 610  Thor Chuan Leong  (104) 37 (30)  Luca Brecel  4th10 : 410  Sean O'Sullivan  (84) 38 (67)  Joe Swail  8th10 : 810  Sanderson Lam  (90) 39 (35)  Dominic Dale  210 : 210  Boonyarit Keattikun  (118) 40 (62)  Daniel Wells  7th10 : 710  Adam Stefanów  (A) 41 (59)  Gary Wilson  910 : 910  Josh Boileau  (112) 42 (38)  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh  109: 109  Peter Lines  (A) 43 (70)  Ross Muir  7th10 : 710  Gareth Allen  (105) 44 (27)  Michael White  310 : 310  Aditya Mehta  (96) 45 (54)  Rory McLeod  7th10 : 710  Darryl Hill  (98) 46 (43)  Kurt Maflin  106: 106th  Sydney Wilson  (110) 47 (75)  Martin O'Donnell  910 : 910  Jackson Page  (A) 48 (22)  Ricky Walden  107: 107th  Hammad Miah  (102) 49 (23)  Michael Holt  210 : 210  Hamza Akbar  (107) 50 (74)  Jamie Cope  105: 105  Eden Sharav  (87) 51 (42)  Peter Ebdon  310 : 310  Michael Wild  (115) 52 (55)  Jack Lisowski  7th10 : 710  Jimmy White  (91) 53 (26)  Alan McManus  110 : 110  Kurt Dunham  (121) 54 (71)  Rod Lawler  510 : 510  Xu Si  (A) 55 (39)  Jimmy Robertson  8th10 : 810  Cao Yupeng  (116) 56 (58)  Oliver Lines  6th10 : 610  Duane Jones  (95) 57 (63)  Yan Bingtao  8th10 : 810  Sam craigie  (94) 58 (34)  Mark Davis  310 : 310  Mitchell Man  (88) 59 (66)  Scott Donaldson  210 : 210  Wang Yuchen  (97) 60 (31)  Robert Milkins  106: 106th  Alexander Ursenbacher  (A) 61 (50)  Robbie Williams  110 : 110  James Cahill  (100) 62 (47)  Yu Delu  010 : 010  Itaro Santos 63 (79)  John Astley  7th10 : 710  Igor Figueiredo  (106) 64 (18)  Martin Gould  210 : 210  James Wattana  (ITC)

round 2

game Player 1 Result Player 2 65 (17)  Mark Williams  910 : 910  Liam Highfield  (80) 66 (48)  Stuart Carrington  6th10 : 610  Andrew Higginson  (49) 67 (32)  Tom Ford  6th10 : 610  Chris Wakelin  (65) 68 (33)  Matthew Selt  106: 106th  Hossein Vafaei  (64) 69 (AF)  Reanne Evans  106: 106th  Lee Walker  (89) 70 (72)  Noppon Saengkham  910 : 910  Anthony Hamilton  (25) 71 (56)  Li Hang  4th10 : 410  Mike Dunn  (41) 72 (73)  Nigel Bond  103: 103  Stephen Maguire  (24) 73 (21)  Mark King  4th10 : 410  Fang Xiongman  (114) 74 (44)  Xiao Guodong  4th10 : 410  Sam Baird  (53) 75 (28)  Ben Woollaston  4th10 : 410  Ken Doherty  (69) 76 (37)  Zhou Yuelong  8th10 : 810  Ian Preece  (111) 77 (61)  Alfie Burden  108 108th  Jamie Jones  (36) 78 (68)  Dechawat Poomjaeng  104: 104th  Graeme Dott  (29) 79 (52)  Tian Pengfei  109: 109  Fergal O'Brien  (45) 80 (77)  Rhys Clark  106: 106th  David Gilbert  (20)

game Player 1 Result Player 2 81 (19)  Joe Perry  109: 109  Akani Songsermsawad  (81) 82 (46)  Mark Joyce  106: 106th  David Grace  (51) 83 (30)  Luca Brecel  8th10 : 810  Joe Swail  (67) 84 (35)  Dominic Dale  6th10 : 610  Daniel Wells  (62) 85 (59)  Gary Wilson  7th10 : 710  Peter Lines  (A) 86 (70)  Ross Muir  104: 104th  Michael White  (27) 87 (54)  Rory McLeod  7th10 : 710  Sydney Wilson  (110) 88 (75)  Martin O'Donnell  107: 107th  Hammad Miah  (102) 89 (23)  Michael Holt  4th10 : 410  Eden Sharav  (87) 90 (42)  Peter Ebdon  910 : 910  Jack Lisowski  (55) 91 (26)  Alan McManus  105: 105  Rod Lawler  (71) 92 (39)  Jimmy Robertson  4th10 : 410  Oliver Lines  (58) 93 (63)  Yan Bingtao  7th10 : 710  Mark Davis  (34) 94 (66)  Scott Donaldson  109: 109  Alexander Ursenbacher  (A) 95 (50)  Robbie Williams  107: 107th  Yu Delu  (47) 96 (79)  John Astley  106: 106th  Martin Gould  (18)

Round 3

game Player 1 Result Player 2 97 (17)  Mark Williams  107: 107th  Stuart Carrington  (48) 98 (32)  Tom Ford  8th10 : 810  Hossein Vafaei  (64) 99 (89)  Lee Walker  108 108th  Noppon Saengkham  (72) 100 (56)  Li Hang  105: 105  Stephen Maguire  (24) 101 (21)  Mark King  104: 104th  Xiao Guodong  (44) 102 (28)  Ben Woollaston  109: 109  Zhou Yuelong  (37) 103 (36)  Jamie Jones  108 108th  Graeme Dott  (29) 104 (45)  Fergal O'Brien  910 : 910  David Gilbert  (20)

game Player 1 Result Player 2 105 (81)  Akani Songsermsawad  103: 103  David Grace  (51) 106 (30)  Luca Brecel  510 : 510  Dominic Dale  (35) 107 (59)  Gary Wilson  310 : 310  Michael White  (27) 108 (54)  Rory McLeod  7th10 : 710  Hammad Miah  (102) 109 (23)  Michael Holt  109: 109  Peter Ebdon  (42) 110 (71)  Rod Lawler  106: 106th  Jimmy Robertson  (39) 111 (63)  Yan Bingtao  4th10 : 410  Alexander Ursenbacher  (A) 112 (47)  Yu Delu  107: 107th  Martin Gould  (18)

Century breaks

In the final round, 74 Centuries were played and 84 more in the qualification. Gary Wilson scored the 131st maximum break there .

Main round

Ronnie O'Sullivan 146 , 128, 124, 122, 111, 104 Mark Selby 143, 139, 132, 131, 128, 121, 101, 100 John Higgins 141, 135, 129, 127, 124, 120 (2 ×), 111 Ding Junhui 139, 136, 132 (2 ×), 128 (2 ×), 120, 117 (2 ×), 113, 111, 110, 103 Stuart Bingham 137, 122 Stephen Maguire 135, 114 Barry Hawkins 132, 126, 115 Xiao Guodong 131 Liang Wenbo 130 Mark Allen 129, 116, 105, 102, 100 (2 ×) Ryan Day 125 Stuart Carrington 124, 107, 101

Marco Fu 118, 115, 109, 105 Shaun Murphy 118, 112, 109 Neil Robertson 113, 105 Ali Carter 111, 104 Kyren Wilson 110 Yan Bingtao 109 Luca Brecel 109 Martin Gould 108, 100 Graeme Dott 105 David Grace 104 Gary Wilson 103, 100

qualification

Gary Wilson 147 , 130, 113, 109, 107, 102 (2 ×), 101 Michael White 144, 104 Joe Perry 140, 103 Sam Craigie 140 Xiao Guodong 137, 128, 111 David Grace 137, 107, 103 Jack Lisowski 137 Martin Gould 136, 129, 108 Hossein Vafaei 135, 104 Yu Delu 135, 102 Noppon Saengkham 134, 122 Jamie Jones 133, 105 Peter Lines 133 Liam Highfield 132 Stephen Maguire 131, 129, 104 Chris Wakelin 131, 106 Zhou Yuelong 131 Fergal O'Brien 130, 100 Ben Woollaston 129 Mark Davis 128, 115, 100 Anthony Hamilton 127 Tian Pengfei 127 Sanderson Lam 125, 109 Paul Davison 123 Dominic Dale 122, 121, 120, 106 Jimmy White 122

Akani Songsermsawad 120, 105 Peter Ebdon 119 Robin Hull 118 Yan Bingtao 117, 105 Alexander Ursenbacher 114 Mark Williams 112 Mei Xiwen 112 Zhang Anda 111, 102 Ken Doherty 108 Michael Wild 108 Jamie Cope 107 Li Hang 107 Robert Milkins 107 Jimmy Robertson 106 Tom Ford 105 David Gilbert 105 Robbie Williams 105 Stuart Carrington 104 Michael Georgiou 103 Alan McManus 103 Nigel Bond 102 Michael Holt 101 (2 ×) Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn 101 Sydney Wilson 101 Luca Brecel 100

swell

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