World Grand Prix (Snooker)
World Grand Prix
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| Tournament status | ||
| Ranking tournament: | since 2016 | |
| Minor ranking tournament: | - | |
| Invitation tournament: | 2015 | |
| Current tournament dates | ||
| Defending champion: |
 Neil Robertson
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| Attendees: | 32 | |
| Venue: | The Centaur, Cheltenham | |
| Prize money (total): | £ 380,000 | |
| Prize money (winner): | £ 100,000 | |
| Frames in the final: | Best of 19 | |
| Records | ||
| Most wins: |
 Judd Trump (2 ×)
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| Highest Break: | 145 Judd Trump (2017)
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The World Grand Prix is a professional snooker tournament that is one of the tournaments of the Snooker Main Tour .
history
The World Grand Prix was launched in 2015. The best 32 players of a certain ranking are allowed to start in the tournament: While the results of the last 2 years are used for the calculation for the snooker world ranking, only the tournaments of the current season are evaluated for the World Grand Prix. (In 2015 the previous World Cup was also included in the evaluation.) The amount of the prize money won in the period in question is decisive for the placement.
In the first year, the tournament was an invitation-only tournament, as was usual in tournaments with a limited number of participants. However, since 2016 it has been a world ranking tournament that is included in the calculation of the world ranking list. As of 2015, a total of £ 300,000 in prizes has been distributed with each participant receiving a minimum of £ 2500 and the tournament winner receiving £ 100,000.
In the first two years, the tournament was held in the North Welsh seaside resort of Llandudno . It was the third from last tournament of the season and took place in March. In 2017, the tournament moved to the Guild Hall in the northern English city of Preston , which became famous for hosting the UK Championship in the 1980s and 1990s , and was brought forward one month.
After two years in the North West, the tournament moved to the South West of England to Cheltenham in 2019 . The new sponsor Coral also installed a new tournament series, of which the World Grand Prix is the prelude. The other events of the Coral Cup are the Players Championship and the Tour Championship . At the World Grand Prix, the top 32 of the 1-year ranking list are eligible to start, at the following tournaments only the top 16 and top 8.
Unlike most ranking tournaments, the World Grand Prix is not produced by the BBC or Eurosport , but by the private broadcaster ITV4 .
winner
| year | venue | winner | Result | finalist | Main sponsor | season |
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| 2015 | Llandudno - Venue Cymru |
Judd Trump
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10: 7 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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888.com | 2014/15 |
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| 2016 | Llandudno - Venue Cymru |
Shaun Murphy
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10: 9 |
Stuart Bingham
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Ladbrokes | 2015/16 |
| 2017 | Preston - Guild Hall |
Barry Hawkins
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10: 7 |
 Ryan Day
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2016/17 | |
| 2018 |
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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10: 3 |
 Ding Junhui
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2017/18 | ||
| 2019 | Cheltenham - The Centaur |
Judd Trump
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10: 6 |
Ali Carter
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Coral | 2018/19 |
| 2020 |
Neil Robertson
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10: 8 |
 Graeme Dott
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2019/20 | ||
Prize money
| year | total | winner |
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| 2015 | £ 300,000 | £ 100,000 |
| 2016 | £ 300,000 | £ 100,000 |
| 2017 | £ 375,000 | £ 100,000 |
| 2018 | £ 375,000 | £ 100,000 |
| 2019 | £ 375,000 | £ 100,000 |
| 2020 | £ 380,000 | £ 100,000 |
swell
- ↑ World Grand Prix Snooker: Guild Hall could return to snooker circuit , BBC, February 8, 2017
- ↑ Cheltenham To Stage Snooker's World Grand Prix. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , May 18, 2018, accessed February 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b 888.com To Sponsor World Grand Prix , World Snooker, March 11, 2015 ( Memento from March 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Blake Welton: World Grand Prix Snooker: What are the prices on offer for the North Wales event? Daily Post , March 1, 2015, accessed March 5, 2015 .
- ↑ 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 3, 2016 .
- ↑ worldsnooker.com: Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2016/17 Season. (PDF; 145 kB) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , June 3, 2016, accessed on February 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Indicative Price Money Rankings Schedule 2017/18 Season. (PDF) In: WorldSnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , July 11, 2017, accessed August 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2018/2019 Season. (PDF; 108 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 18, 2018, accessed February 3, 2019 .
- ↑ 2019-2020 Season Summary. (PDF; 144 kB) In: wst.tv. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , September 19, 2019, accessed February 2, 2020 .
Web links
- World Grand Prix at World Snooker (English)
- World Grand Prix at Cuetracker (tournament statistics)
