2012 International Championship
The 2012 International Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 28 October and 4 November 2012 at the Sichuan International Tennis Center in Chengdu, China. It was the fourth ranking event of the 2012/2013 season, and the fifth ranking tournament in China. It was named as the "first overseas 'major'", as the tournament had the same level of ranking points as the UK Championship.
Judd Trump won the third ranking title of his career by defeating Neil Robertson 10–8 in the final. Trump also became the world number one as a result of reaching the final.Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
- Winner: £125,000
- Runner-up: £62,500
- Semi-final: £30,000
- Quarter-final: £17,500
- Last 16: £12,000
- Last 32: £7,000
- Last 48: £3,000
- Last 64: £1,500
- Non-televised highest break: £500
- Televised highest break: £2,000
- Total: £600,000
These matches were played in Chengdu on 28 and 29 October 2012.
Main draw
Final
Qualifying
These matches took place between 19 and 22 August 2012 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England.Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
- 143, 108 Andrew Higginson
- 136 Dominic Dale
- 134, 102 David Gilbert
- 132 Barry Hawkins
- 130, 121 Aditya Mehta
- 129 Tian Pengfei
- 125 Barry Pinches
- 123 Dechawat Poomjaeng
- 121 Daniel Wells
- 120, 114 Anthony McGill
- 119 Jamie Burnett
- 119 Marco Fu
- 117, 115, 113, 105 Pankaj Advani
- 117 Li Yan
- 113 Scott Donaldson
- 112 Andy Hicks
- 109 Ian Burns
- 108 Passakorn Suwannawat
- 104 Rod Lawler
- 104 Zhang Anda
- 103 Paul Davison
- 102, 102 Michael White
- 101 Liam Highfield
- 101 Jamie Jones
Televised stage centuries
- 142, 137, 118, 115, 100 Neil Robertson
- 138 Mark Davis
- 134 Lu Ning
- 132 Robert Milkins
- 129, 108, 103 Shaun Murphy
- 129 Aditya Mehta
- 128, 103 Ding Junhui
- 124, 121, 104 Mark Allen
- 119, 118, 107 Judd Trump
- 118, 102 Stephen Maguire
- 113 Ricky Walden
- 111 Zhao Xintong
- 110 Cao Yupeng
- 108 Dominic Dale
- 106 Peter Ebdon