2017 China Open (snooker)
The 2017 China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place between 27 March and 2 April 2017 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China. It was the eighteenth and penultimate ranking event of the 2016/2017 season. The tournament was broadcast in Europe on Eurosport and Eurosport Player.
Judd Trump was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarter-finals to Hossein Vafaei.
Judd Trump made the 130th official maximum break and the third of his career in the fifth frame of his 5–3 win over in the third round.
Mark Selby defeated Mark Williams 10–8 in the final to win his second China Open title and 11th career ranking title overall.Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
- Winner: £85,000
- Runner-up: £35,000
- Semi-final: £21,000
- Quarter-final: £12,500
- Last 16: £8,000
- Last 32: £6,500
- Last 64: £4,000
- Televised highest break: £2,000
- Total: £510,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break: £30,000.Wildcard round
These matches were played in Beijing on 27 March 2017.
Match | | Score | |
WC1 | Robbie Williams | w/d–w/o | Fan Zhengyi |
WC2 | Jimmy White | 5–1 | Li Yuan |
WC3 | Li Hang | 5–1 | Luo Honghao |
WC4 | Alex Borg | 4–5 | Niu Zhuang |
Main draw
Final
Qualifying
These matches were played from 24–27 January 2017 at the Guild Hall in Preston, England, except for 4 matches which were held over and played in Beijing on 27 March 2017. All matches were best of 9 frames.Televised stage centuries
Total: 54
- 147, 135, 122, 108, 105, 102 Judd Trump
- 140 Zhang Anda
- 138, 127, 123, 109 Ding Junhui
- 137, 108 Mark Joyce
- 136, 126, 124, 113, 109, 104, 101, 100 Mark Selby
- 135, 118, 101 Michael White
- 133, 124 Martin O'Donnell
- 132, 106 Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 131 David Gilbert
- 130, 101 Kyren Wilson
- 129, 114, 100 Stephen Maguire
- 125 Ricky Walden
- 124, 106, 103 Mark Williams
- 123 Gary Wilson
- 120 Xiao Guodong
- 114 Martin Gould
- 113, 104, 101, 101 Shaun Murphy
- 109 Aditya Mehta
- 108 Rory McLeod
- 106, 100 Hossein Vafaei
- 106 Rhys Clark
- 105 Andrew Higginson
- 103, 100 Ben Woollaston
- 103 Daniel Wells
Qualifying stage centuries
Total: 22