Tournament Name: | General Cup |
Venue: | General Snooker Club |
Country: | Hong Kong |
Format: | Non-ranking event |
Winners Share: | $120,000 |
Highest Break: | Marco Fu (136) Martin Gould (136) |
Winner: | Marco Fu |
Runner Up: | Mark Williams |
Score: | 7–3 |
Previous: | 2014 |
Next: | Last |
The 2015 General Cup was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 21 November 2015 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong.[1] [2]
Ali Carter was the defending champion but he withdrew from the tournament. Kyren Wilson withdrew as well and they were replaced by Michael Holt and Mark Davis.
Zhang Anda won the General Cup Qualifying Event. Anda beat Cao Yupeng 5–4 in the final. This was an invitational event with the winner receiving the final place in the General Cup.
Marco Fu beat Mark Williams 7–3 in the final, making 3 centuries while doing so.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
The top two players from both groups will qualify for the knock-out stage. All group matches being held between 16 and 19 November 2015 and is the best of 7 frames.
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1 | Michael White | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 2 | |||||||||
2 | Zhang Anda | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 2 | |||||||||
3 | Joe Perry | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | –1 | 1 | |||||||||
4 | Martin Gould | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | –6 | 1 |
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1 | Marco Fu | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 2 | |||||||||
2 | Mark Williams | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 2 | |||||||||
3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | –3 | 1 | ||||||||||
4 | Mark Davis | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | –3 | 1 |
Final: Best of 13 frames. Referee: Stanley Cheung. General Snooker Club, Hong Kong, 21 November 2015. | |||
Mark Williams | 3–7 | Marco Fu | |
3–60, 55–74, 102–17 (72),,,,,,, | |||
82 | Highest break | 136 | |
0 | Century breaks | 3 | |
3 | 50+ breaks | 3 |