World Open 2017

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World Open 2017
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Tournament type: World ranking tournament
Venue: Yushan , China
Opening: 18th September 2017
Endgame: September 24, 2017

Winner: China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui
Finalist: EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson
Highest Break: 143 ( Ricky Walden ) EnglandEngland
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The World Open 2017 was a snooker tournament of the main tour - season 2017/18 . They took place for the second time in a row in Yushan in the southeast of the People's Republic of China and were held from September 18 to 24.

The defending champion Allister Carter did not appear this year. The new winner was the Chinese Ding Junhui , who defeated Kyren Wilson 10: 3 in the final.

Prize money

The prize money has been increased by £ 182,000 compared to 2016, bringing it in line with the other two top Chinese tournaments, the China Championship and the International Championship . The winner alone got £ 60,000 more that year, with significant increases up to the round of 16. Only for the losers in the first round did the premium not increase.

Prize money
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
All in all £ 700,000

The Rolling 147 Prize for a maximum break was £ 30,000

Final round

The games of the final round were played in best-of-9 mode up to and including the quarter-finals . In the semifinals, Best of 11 was considered and the final was won by whoever was the first to win more than half of 19 frames (10 winning frames). As of this year, there was no longer a wildcard round, the four players nominated by the Chinese association went straight to the qualifying round.

  First round
best of 7 frames 		Second round
best of 7 frames 		Round of 16
best of 7 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 7 Frames 		Semi-final
best of 11 frames 		Final
Best of 19 frames
                                                         
1  EnglandEngland Mark Selby 2                    
64  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Lee Walker 5  
64  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Lee Walker 5
  32  EnglandEngland Robert Milkins 2  
32  EnglandEngland Robert Milkins 5
33  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Jones 1  
64  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Lee Walker 0
  16  ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 5  
16  ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 5    
113  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Duane Jones 2  
16  ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 5
  17th  ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 4th  
17th  ScotlandScotland Stephen Maguire 5
126  IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 2  
16  ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 4th
  25th  BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 5  
83  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cao Yupeng 5
A.  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ma Chunmao 0  
83  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cao Yupeng 5
  9  EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 4th  
56  EnglandEngland Alfie Burden 2
9  EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 5  
83  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cao Yupeng 4th
  25th  BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 5  
40  EnglandEngland Mike Dunn 1    
25th  BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 5  
25th  BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 5
  57  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Daniel Wells 4th  
57  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Daniel Wells 5
8th  EnglandEngland Shaun Murphy 3  
25th  BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 4th
  4th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 6th  
5  Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu 5
110  EnglandEngland Ian Burns 3  
5  Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu 3
  37  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 5  
28  ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 2
37  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 5  
37  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 3
  53  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hang 5  
12  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Wenbo 4th    
53  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hang 5  
53  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hang 5
  21st  EnglandEngland Ricky Walden 3  
21st  EnglandEngland Ricky Walden 5
44  EnglandEngland Andrew Higginson 1  
53  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hang 3
  4th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 5  
45  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yu Delu 4th
20th  EnglandEngland Joe Perry 5  
20th  EnglandEngland Joe Perry 5
  13  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 0  
52  EnglandEngland Gary Wilson 1
13  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 5  
20th  EnglandEngland Joe Perry 1
  4th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 5  
36  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiao Guodong 5    
29  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale 1  
36  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiao Guodong 0
  4th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 5  
61  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Anda 3
4th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 5  
4th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 10
11  EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 3
70  EnglandEngland Sam Craigie 4th
62  EnglandEngland John Astley 5  
62  EnglandEngland John Astley 2
  35  EnglandEngland Jimmy Robertson 5  
30th  EnglandEngland Tom Ford 3
35  EnglandEngland Jimmy Robertson 5  
35  EnglandEngland Jimmy Robertson 1
  14th  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 5  
14th  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 5    
51  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens 0  
14th  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 5
  88  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chen Zhe 0  
19th  EnglandEngland Mark King 3
88  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chen Zhe 5  
14th  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 1
  11  EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 5  
43  EnglandEngland Mark Joyce 3
22nd  EnglandEngland Michael Holt 5  
22nd  EnglandEngland Michael Holt 3
  11  EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 5  
54  IranIran Hossein Vafaei -
11  EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson kl.  
11  EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 5
  38  ThailandThailand Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 3  
38  ThailandThailand Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5    
A.  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Hu Hao 2  
38  ThailandThailand Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5
  59  EnglandEngland Chris Wakelin 2  
59  EnglandEngland Chris Wakelin 5
6th  EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins 4th  
11  EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 6th
10  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 5  
7th  AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 5
58  ThailandThailand Noppon Saengkham 1  
7th  AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 5
  26th  EnglandEngland Ben Woollaston 4th  
26th  EnglandEngland Ben Woollaston 5
96  ScotlandScotland Eden Sharav 4th  
7th  AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 4th
  10  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 5  
10  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 5    
55  EnglandEngland Oliver Lines 1  
10  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 5
  119  EnglandEngland Allan Taylor 2  
119  EnglandEngland Allan Taylor 5
67  Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Michael Georgiou 1  
10  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 5
  18th  EnglandEngland David Gilbert 1  
47  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Tian Pengfei 4th
18th  EnglandEngland David Gilbert 5  
18th  EnglandEngland David Gilbert 5
  15th  EnglandEngland Martin Gould 2  
50  EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 1
15th  EnglandEngland Martin Gould 5  
18th  EnglandEngland David Gilbert 5
  2  ScotlandScotland John Higgins 2  
34  EnglandEngland Matthew Selt 5    
79  EnglandEngland Elliot Slessor 2  
34  EnglandEngland Matthew Selt 4th
  2  ScotlandScotland John Higgins 5  
91  SwitzerlandSwitzerland Alexander Ursenbacher 0
2  ScotlandScotland John Higgins 5  

A = amateur player (not on the Main Tour this season; qualification via the Q-School-Order-of-Merit)
kl. = without a fight

final

Final: Best of 19 Frames
Referee: Xie Yixin Yushan Number One Middle School,  Yushan , China , September 24, 2017 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 10 : 3 EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson
Afternoon: 88 : 28, 1: 71 (64), 61 : 16, 75 : 8 (67), 93 : 7 (93), 70 : 43 (58), 70 : 23, 0: 104 (104), 8 : 79 (66)
evening: 67 : 14 (67), 107 : 6 (69), 71 : 14 (71), 67 : 61 (thing 54)
93 Highest break 104
- Century breaks 1
7th 50+ breaks 3

qualification

The qualifying round was from 6 to 9 August 2017 in the Guildhall in the English city of Preston played. Seven games took place later: World champion Mark Selby and the two top Chinese players Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo only played their games on September 18 in Yushan, as did the four wildcard players. All games were played in best-of-9 mode .

game Player 1 Result Player 2
1 (1)  Mark Selby EnglandEngland 25 : 25 ThailandThailand Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn  (82)
2 (64)  Lee Walker WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 15 : 15 EnglandEngland Paul Davison  (87)
3 (32)  Robert Milkins EnglandEngland 4th5 : 45 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jak Jones  (71)
4th (33)  Jamie Jones WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 25 : 25 IrelandIreland Josh Boileau  (81)
5 (16)  Anthony McGill ScotlandScotland 4th5 : 45 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhao Xintong  (68)
6th (49)  Kurt Maflin NorwayNorway 53: 53 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Duane Jones  (113)
7th (17)  Stephen Maguire ScotlandScotland 15 : 15 AustraliaAustralia Matthew Bolton  (98)
8th (48)  Robbie Williams EnglandEngland 53: 53 IrelandIreland Ken Doherty  (126)
9 (41)  David Grace EnglandEngland 50: 50 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cao Yupeng  (83)
10 (24)  Michael White WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 51: 51 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ma Chunmao  (toilet)
11 (56)  Alfie Burden EnglandEngland 15 : 15 EnglandEngland Craig Steadman  (75)
12 (9)  Stuart Bingham EnglandEngland 15 : 15 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Mei Xiwen  (65)
13 (40)  Mike Dunn EnglandEngland 05 : 05 IranIran Soheil Vahedi  (99)
14th (25)  Luca Brecel BelgiumBelgium 4th5 : 45 ScotlandScotland Ross Muir  (116)
15th (57)  Daniel Wells WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 35 : 35 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Gerard Greene  (95)
16 (8)  Shaun Murphy EnglandEngland 15 : 15 MaltaMalta Alex Borg  (77)
17th (5)  Marco Fu Hong KongHong Kong 35 : 35 EnglandEngland Sean O'Sullivan  (115)
18th (60)  Scott Donaldson ScotlandScotland 50: 50 EnglandEngland Ian Burns  (110)
19th (28)  Graeme Dott ScotlandScotland kl. PakistanPakistan Hamza Akbar  (106)
20th (37)  Peter Ebdon EnglandEngland 4th5 : 45 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Niu Zhuang  (104)
21st (12)  Liang Wenbo China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 4th5 : 45 ThailandThailand Akani Songsermsawad  (100)
22nd (53)  Li Hang China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 35 : 35 FinlandFinland Robin Hull  (93)
23 (21)  Ricky Walden EnglandEngland 25 : 25 EnglandEngland Jamie Curtis-Barrett  (85)
24 (44)  Andrew Higginson EnglandEngland 15 : 15 EnglandEngland Martin O'Donnell  (117)
25th (45)  Yu Delu China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 25 : 25 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Yong  (108)
26th (20)  Joe Perry EnglandEngland 25 : 25 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ian Preece  (73)
27 (52)  Gary Wilson EnglandEngland 15 : 15 EnglandEngland Nigel Bond  (94)
28 (13)  Ryan Day WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 35 : 35 EnglandEngland Rod Lawler  (109)
29 (36)  Xiao Guodong China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 35 : 35 GermanyGermany Lukas Kleckers  (92)
30th (29)  Dominic Dale WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 05 : 05 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jackson Page  (A)
31 (61)  Zhang Anda China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 25 : 25 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yuan Sijun  (105)
32 (4)  Ding Junhui China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 15 : 15 EnglandEngland Hammad Miah  (66)
game Player 1 Result Player 2
33 (3)  Judd Trump EnglandEngland 50: 50 EnglandEngland Sam craigie  (70)
34 (62)  John Astley EnglandEngland 15 : 15 ScotlandScotland Chris Totten  (101)
35 (30)  Tom Ford EnglandEngland 15 : 15 ThailandThailand Boonyarit Keattikun  (86)
36 (35)  Jimmy Robertson EnglandEngland 25 : 25 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Luo Honghao  (toilet)
37 (14)  Mark Williams WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 05 : 05 EnglandEngland Christopher Keogan  (84)
38 (51)  Matthew Stevens WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 05 : 05 AustraliaAustralia Kurt Dunham  (89)
39 (19)  Mark King EnglandEngland 25 : 25 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Yuan  (103)
40 (46)  Sam Baird EnglandEngland 53: 53 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chen Zhe  (88)
41 (43)  Mark Joyce EnglandEngland 35 : 35 IndiaIndia Aditya Mehta  (72)
42 (22)  Michael Holt EnglandEngland 15 : 15 EnglandEngland Billy joe castle  (107)
43 (54)  Hossein Vafaei IranIran 4th5 : 45 EnglandEngland Ashley Hugill  (111)
44 (11)  Kyren Wilson EnglandEngland 15 : 15 MalaysiaMalaysia Thor Chuan Leong  (78)
45 (38)  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh ThailandThailand 15 : 15 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Fang Xiongman  (76)
46 (27)  Alan McManus ScotlandScotland 50: 50 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Hu Hao  (toilet)
47 (59)  Chris Wakelin EnglandEngland 4th5 : 45 ThailandThailand James Wattana  (125)
48 (6)  Barry Hawkins EnglandEngland 05 : 05 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg David John  (90)
49 (7)  Neil Robertson AustraliaAustralia 15 : 15 EnglandEngland Sanderson Lam  (114)
50 (58)  Noppon Saengkham ThailandThailand 35 : 35 EnglandEngland Adam Duffy  (80)
51 (26)  Ben Woollaston EnglandEngland 05 : 05 EnglandEngland Peter Lines  (118)
52 (39)  Rory McLeod EnglandEngland 54: 54th ScotlandScotland Eden Sharav  (96)
53 (10)  Mark Allen Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland 15 : 15 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Yuchen  (74)
54 (55)  Oliver Lines EnglandEngland 25 : 25 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chen Zifan  (97)
55 (23)  Anthony Hamilton EnglandEngland 54: 54th EnglandEngland Allan Taylor  (119)
56 (42)  Fergal O'Brien IrelandIreland 50: 50 Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Michael Georgiou  (67)
57 (47)  Tian Pengfei China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 15 : 15 EnglandEngland Jimmy White  (127)
58 (18)  David Gilbert EnglandEngland 15 : 15 ScotlandScotland Rhys Clark  (112)
59 (50)  Jack Lisowski EnglandEngland 4th5 : 45 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xu Si  (102)
60 (15)  Martin Gould EnglandEngland 15 : 15 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Fan Zhengyi  (toilet)
61 (34)  Matthew Selt EnglandEngland 25 : 25 EnglandEngland Mitchell Man  (69)
62 (31)  Mark Davis EnglandEngland 54: 54th EnglandEngland Elliot Slessor  (79)
63 (63)  Liam Highfield EnglandEngland 53: 53 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Alexander Ursenbacher  (91)
64 (2)  John Higgins ScotlandScotland 25 : 25 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail  (120)

A = amateur player (not on the Main Tour this season; qualification via the Q-School-Order-of-Merit)
kl. = without a fight

Century breaks

qualification

EnglandEngland Jimmy Robertson 142 1
ThailandThailand Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 138
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Jones 131
FinlandFinland Robin Hull 131
EnglandEngland Barry Hawkins 129
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiao Guodong 126
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cao Yupeng 120
ThailandThailand Akani Songsermsawad 119 1 , 101 1
ThailandThailand James Wattana 116
EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 113
EnglandEngland Robert Milkins 112
EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 112
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens 110
EnglandEngland Oliver Lines 109
EnglandEngland Tom Ford 107
BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 106
EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 105
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ryan Day 104
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Anda 102
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chen Zhe 102
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Fang Xiongman 101
EnglandEngland Alfie Burden 100
Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu 100
ThailandThailand Noppon Saengkham 100
1 scored in the catch-up games on September 18

Main round

China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hang 143, 127, 118, 102
ThailandThailand Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 142 (2 ×)
ScotlandScotland Anthony McGill 137
Hong KongHong Kong Marco Fu 136
EnglandEngland Kyren Wilson 135, 127 (2 ×), 113, 104, 102
EnglandEngland David Gilbert 132, 130
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Duane Jones 132
EnglandEngland Michael Holt 129
EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 129
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui 128, 121, 110, 108
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 126, 125
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 126, 121, 108
EnglandEngland John Astley 123, 110
BelgiumBelgium Luca Brecel 117, 105
EnglandEngland Robert Milkins 117
EnglandEngland Elliot Slessor 117
EnglandEngland Joe Perry 114
EnglandEngland Chris Wakelin 114
ScotlandScotland Eden Sharav 112
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Mark Allen 105, 103
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Tian Pengfei 105
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yu Delu 105
EnglandEngland Stuart Bingham 105
AustraliaAustralia Neil Robertson 103, 100
EnglandEngland Matthew Selt 103

swell

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