2015 World Grand Prix Explained

Tournament Name:	2015 888.com World Grand Prix
Venue:	Venue Cymru
Location:	Llandudno
Country:	Wales
Organisation:	WPBSA
Format:	Non-ranking event
Total Prize Fund:	£300,000
Winners Share:	£100,000
Highest Break:	Judd Trump (142)
Winner:	Judd Trump
Runner Up:	Ronnie O'Sullivan
Score:	10–7
Next:	2016

The 2015 World Grand Prix (officially the 2015 888.com World Grand Prix) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 22 March 2015 at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales.^{[1] [2]}

Judd Trump won the inaugural event by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10–7 in the final.^{[3] [4]}

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^{[5] [6]}

• Winner: £100,000
• Runner-up: £35,000
• Semi-final: £20,000
• Quarter-final: £10,000
• Last 16: £5,000
• Last 32: £2,500

• Highest break: £5,000
• Total: £300,000

Seeding list

The top 32 players on a one-year ranking system running from the 2014 World Snooker Championship to the 2015 Gdynia Open qualified for the tournament.^{[7] [8] [9]}

Rank	Player	Total points
1	Mark Selby	429,166
2	Ronnie O'Sullivan	305,250
3	Neil Robertson	217,360
4	Judd Trump	191,916
5	Ricky Walden	188,227
6	Stuart Bingham	176,545
7	Mark Allen	163,500
8	Shaun Murphy	150,083
9	Stephen Maguire	115,700
10	John Higgins	103,450
11	Barry Hawkins	102,000
12	Mark Williams	99,400
13	Joe Perry	94,833
14	Marco Fu	85,266
15	Robert Milkins	79,444
16	Martin Gould	76,834
17	Alan McManus	70,001
18	Michael White	63,333
19	Mark Davis	61,127
20	Ben Woollaston	60,699
21	Ryan Day	59,582
22	Matthew Selt	55,900
23	Graeme Dott	55,033
24	Xiao Guodong	52,295
25	Peter Ebdon	51,917
26	Liang Wenbo	51 251
27	Anthony McGill	49,167
28	Ding Junhui	48,500
29	Dominic Dale	47,583
30	Luca Brecel	45,332
31	Rod Lawler	42,499
32	Michael Holt	42,083

Main draw

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Final

Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Olivier Marteel. Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales, 22 March 2015.
Judd Trump (4)	10–7	Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)
Afternoon: 67–54, 14–90 (90),,,,,,, Evening: 0–100 (96),,,,,,,
142	Highest break	105
1	Century breaks	1
4	50+ breaks	6

Century breaks

Total: 17^[13]

• 142, 140, 121 Judd Trump
• 139 Joe Perry
• 136 Peter Ebdon
• 122, 108, 106 Stephen Maguire
• 121 Neil Robertson
• 115 Rod Lawler
• 113, 111 Martin Gould
• 110 Mark Selby
• 109, 102 Mark Davis
• 105 Ronnie O'Sullivan
• 101 Stuart Bingham

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tournament Calendar 2014/2015. Snooker.org. 3 March 2015.
2. Web site: 888.com To Sponsor World Grand Prix . worldsnooker.com . . 11 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150315205041/http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0%2C%2C13165~4552569%2C00.html . 15 March 2015 . 27 April 2016 . dead .
3. News: Goulding. Neil. Trump leaves Rocket struggling on fumes to take Grand Prix. Herald Scotland. Newsquest. 22 March 2015. 22 March 2015.
4. Web site: Hendon. Dave. Trump outlasts O'Sullivan to triumph at World Grand Prix. Inside Snooker. 22 March 2015. 22 March 2015.
5. Web site: Kalb . Rolf . World Grand Prix – Turnier-Info: World Grand Prix . . 10 March 2015 . 11 March 2015 . German . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152413/https://de.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/world-grand-prix-turnier-info-world-grand-prix-155811549--spt.html . 2 April 2015 . dead . dmy-all .
6. Web site: Welton. Blake. World Grand Prix Snooker: What are the prizes on offer for the North Wales event?. Daily Post. Trinity Mirror. 1 March 2015. 16 March 2015.
7. Web site: Top Class Snooker Heading To Llandudno. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 25 June 2014. 3 March 2015.
8. Web site: Llandudno Line-up Set In Gdynia. wpbsa.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 1 March 2015. 3 March 2015.
9. Web site: World Grand Prix Rankings (2015). Snooker.org. 3 March 2015. 16 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150216005416/http://snooker.org/res/index.asp?template=43&season=2014. dead.
10. Web site: World Grand Prix Draw. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 3 March 2015. 2 March 2015.
11. Web site: World Grand Prix 2015 Provisional Format. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 3 March 2015.
12. Web site: 888.com World Grand Prix (2015). Snooker.org. 3 March 2015.
13. Web site: World Grand Prix: century breaks. worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 7 March 2015. 19 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150319194249/http://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/CenturyBreakList/Tournament/13812. dead.