2005 China Open (snooker)


The 2005 China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 26 March – 3 April 2005 at the Haidian Stadium in Beijing, China. This was the penultimate ranking event of the 2004/2005 season, preceding the 2005 World Championship.
The event was last held in 2002, where Mark Williams won the tournament by defeating Anthony Hamilton 9–8.
Ding Junhui won in the final 9–5 against Stephen Hendry. Ding became the second youngest player after Ronnie O'Sullivan to capture a ranking title. Along with several other Chinese players, Ding gave up his normal tournament entry position in order to accept an offer to enter the tournament as a wild-card player and thus he did not receive either prize money or ranking points for his tournament win.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £30,000

Runner-up: £15,000

Semi-final: £7,500

Quarter-final: £5,600

Last 16: £4,000

Last 32: £2,500

Last 48: £1,625

Last 64: £1,100

Stage one highest break: £500

Stage two highest break: £2,000
Stage one maximum break: £1,000

Stage two maximum break: £20,000

Wildcard round

MatchScore
WC1 Dave Harold5–3 Xiao Guodong
WC2 Gerard Greene1–5 Kobkit Palajin
WC3 Stuart Bingham5–1 Cao Kaisheng
WC4 Mark Davis2–5 Ding Junhui
WC5 Quinten Hann5–1 Guo Hua
WC6 Jimmy Michie3–5 Habib Subah
WC7 Barry Pinches5–3 Yang Qingtian
WC8 Ali Carter5–1 Cao Xinlong

MatchScore
WC9 Robert Milkins5–3 Liu Song
WC10 Ryan Day5–3 Jin Long
WC11 Michael Holt5–3 Cai Jianzhong
WC12 Ricky Walden5–2 Pang Weiguo
WC13 Tom Ford5–3 Zheng Peng
WC14 Anthony Hamilton5–1 Zang Dongtao
WC15 Adrian Gunnell5–1 Zhang Kai
WC16 Nigel Bond4–5 Liang Wenbo

Main draw

Qualifying

Qualifying for the tournament took place at Pontin's in Prestatyn, Wales between January 25–28, 2005.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries