Tournament Name: | 2003 Regal Scottish Open |
Venue: | Royal Highland Centre |
Location: | Edinburgh |
Country: | Scotland |
Organisation: | WPBSA |
Format: | Ranking event |
Total Prize Fund: | £597,200 |
Winners Share: | £82,500 |
Highest Break: | (142) |
Score: | 9–7 |
Previous: | 2002 |
Next: | 2004 |
The 2003 Scottish Open (officially the 2003 Regal Scottish Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 5–13 April 2003 at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the seventh and penultimate ranking event of the 2002/2003 season.
David Gray won his first ranking title by defeating Mark Selby 9–7 in the final. This was Gray's only ranking final victory, and was Selby's first appearance in a ranking final. The defending champion, Stephen Lee, was defeated in the quarter-finals by John Higgins.
This was the final tournament held under the Scottish Open name, being re-branded the following season as the Players Championship before being discontinued.[1] The tournament would be revived under the Scottish Open name in 2016.[2] __TOC__
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[3] Winner: £82,500
Runner-up: £42,500
Semi-final: £21,250
Quarter-final: £11,700
Last 16: £9,600
Last 32: £7,800
Last 48: £4,000
Last 64: £3,150Last 80: £2,150
Last 96: £1,450
Stage one highest break: £1,800
Stage two highest break: £7,500
Stage one maximum break: £5,000
Stage two maximum break: £20,000
Total: £597,200
Final: Best of 17 frames. Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 13 April 2003. | |||
David Gray (19) | 9–7 | Mark Selby (53) | |
Afternoon: 73–32 (65),,,,,,, Evening: 9–102, 24–67,,,,,, | |||
65 | Highest break | 60 | |
0 | Century breaks | 0 | |
3 | 50+ breaks | 1 |
Best of 9 frames
4–5 | Leo Fernandez | ||
1–5 | Colm Gilcreest | ||
Andrew Higginson | 5–3 | James Reynolds | |
Jeff Cundy | 5–2 | Jamie Cope | |
Paul Davison | 5–1 | Ricky Walden | |
Rory McLeod | 5–2 | Bob Chaperon | |
Ryan Day | 5–0 | Matthew Selt | |
3–5 | Hugh Abernethy | ||
3–5 | David John | ||
Rod Lawler | 5–1 | Manan Chandra | |
Adrian Gunnell | 5–2 | Jason Weston | |
w/d–w/o | David Gilbert | ||
0–5 | Munraj Pal | ||
4–5 | Simon Bedford | ||
Lee Walker | w/o–w/d | Eddie Manning | |
1–5 | Lee Spick |
Shaun Murphy | 5–2 | Atthasit Mahitthi | |
4–5 | Kwan Poomjang | ||
John Read | 5–1 | Mario Wehrman | |
Jason Prince | 5–2 | Peter Roscoe | |
Paul Wykes | 5–1 | Jin Long | |
Sean Storey | 5–2 | David Donovan | |
Phaitoon Phonbun | 5–3 | Pang Weiguo | |
Wayne Brown | 5–2 | Stefan Mazrocis | |
Kristján Helgason | w/o–w/d | Matthew Farrant | |
2–5 | Darren Clarke | ||
4–5 | Johl Younger | ||
Antony Bolsover | 5–3 | Jimmy Robertson | |
3–5 | Mark Gray | ||
Martin Dziewialtowski | 5–4 | David McLellan | |
0–5 | Nick Pearce | ||
Troy Shaw | 5–2 | Justin Astley |