China Open (snooker)

Template:Short description Template:ForTemplate:Expand German Template:Infobox Snooker tournament The China Open was a professional snooker tournament. It was one of a number of ranking tournaments and began in 1997. The final champion is Neil Robertson, who won the event in 2019.

History

The first international snooker tournament in China was the China International in September 1997, a non-ranking tournament for the top 16 players and local players. The following season the tournament became ranking and was held in March. Then the name of the event was changed to China Open and was held in December, so there were two events in 1999. After the 2002 tournament the event was abandoned.<ref name=cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The event was revived for the 2004/05 season. Local wild-card players were invited to play against the qualifiers. The three Chinese players on the tour were invited to play as wild-cards, rather than qualify the usual way. Ding Junhui was one of them, and he won the tournament, but as he entered as a wild-card, he received no prize money nor ranking points.<ref name=cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/>

The last edition of the tournament in 2019 took place at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, Chaoyang District, Beijing in early April, and it was usually the last ranking event before the World Championship. The 2020 edition was scheduled to take place, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused it to be cancelled: the subsequent restrictions meant it was not staged through 2021, 2022 and 2023. Despite the COVID restrictions ending in China, the tournament has not been restored to the calendar, with new events in Wuhan and Xi'an being staged in its place.

Winners

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Year	Winner	Runner-up	Final score	Host city	Season
China International (non-ranking)
1997	Template:Flagicon Steve Davis	Template:Flagicon Jimmy White	7–4	Beijing	1997/98
China International (ranking)
1999	Template:Flagicon John Higgins	Template:Flagicon Billy Snaddon	9–3	Shanghai	1998/99
China Open (ranking)
1999	Template:Flagicon Ronnie O'Sullivan	Template:Flagicon Stephen Lee	9–2	Shanghai	1999/00
2000	Template:Flagicon Ronnie O'Sullivan	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	9–3	Shenzhen	2000/01
2002	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	Template:Flagicon Anthony Hamilton	9–8	Shanghai	2001/02
2005	Template:Flagicon Ding Junhui	Template:Flagicon Stephen Hendry	9–5	Beijing	2004/05
2006	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	Template:Flagicon John Higgins	9–8		2005/06
2007	Template:Flagicon Graeme Dott	Template:Flagicon Jamie Cope	9–5		2006/07
2008	Template:Flagicon Stephen Maguire	Template:Flagicon Shaun Murphy	10–9		2007/08
2009	Template:Flagicon Peter Ebdon	Template:Flagicon John Higgins	10–8		2008/09
2010	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams	Template:Flagicon Ding Junhui	10–6		2009/10
2011	Template:Flagicon Judd Trump	Template:Flagicon Mark Selby	10–8		2010/11
2012<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Flagicon Peter Ebdon	Template:Flagicon Stephen Maguire		10–9	2011/12
2013<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Flagicon Neil Robertson	Template:Flagicon Mark Selby		10–6	2012/13
2014<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Flagicon Ding Junhui	Template:Flagicon Neil Robertson		10–5	2013/14
2015<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Flagicon Mark Selby	Template:Flagicon Gary Wilson		10–2	2014/15
2016<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Flagicon Judd Trump	Template:Flagicon Ricky Walden		10–4	2015/16
2017<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Flagicon Mark Selby	Template:Flagicon Mark Williams		10–8	2016/17
2018<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Flagicon Mark Selby	Template:Flagicon Barry Hawkins		11–3	2017/18
2019<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Flagicon Neil Robertson	Template:Flagicon Jack Lisowski		11–4	2018/19
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic				2019/20

Records

Statistics

• Highest break: 147
  • James Wattana (1997)
  • Stephen Maguire (2008)
  • Neil Robertson (2010)
  • Judd Trump (2017)
  • Stuart Bingham (2018)
  • Ronnie O'Sullivan (2018)
  • Stuart Bingham (2019)

Finalists

Rank	Name	Nationality	Winner	Template:Nobreak	Finals
1	Template:Sortname	Template:WAL	3	2	5
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	3	2	5
3	Template:Sortname	Template:CHN	2	1	3
	Template:Sortname	Template:AUS	2	1	3
5	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	2	0	2
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	2	0	2
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	2	0	2
8	Template:Sortname	Template:SCO	1	1	2
9	Template:Sortname	Template:SCO	1	0	1
10	Template:Sortname	Template:SCO	0	2	2
11	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	0	1	1
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	0	1	1
	Template:Sortname	Template:SCO	0	1	1
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	0	1	1
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	0	1	1
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	0	1	1
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	0	1	1
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	0	1	1
	Template:Sortname	Template:ENG	0	1	1

References

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