| Tournament Name: | China Open |
| Venue: | Beijing University Students' Gymnasium |
| Location: | Beijing |
| Country: | China |
| Organisation: | World Snooker |
| Format: | Ranking event |
| Total Prize Fund: | £510,000 |
| Winners Share: | £85,000 |
| Highest Break: | (147) |
| Score: | 10–8 |
| Previous: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2018 |
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 18th and penultimate ranking event of the 2016–17 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.
Mark Selby defeated Mark Williams 10–8 in the final to win his second China Open title and 11th career ranking title overall.[1] [2]
Trump made the 130th official maximum break and the third of his career in the fifth frame of his 5–3 win over Tian Pengfei in the third round.[3]
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break: £30,000.
These matches were played in Beijing on 27 March 2017.
| Match | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WC1 | w/d–w/o | |||
| WC2 | 5–1 | |||
| WC3 | 5–1 | |||
| WC4 | 4–5 |
| Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Jan Verhaas. Beijing University Students' Gymnasium, Beijing, China, 2 April 2017. | |||
| Mark Williams | 8–10 | Mark Selby | |
| Afternoon: 9–122 (54),,,,,,,, Evеning: 75–1 (68),,,,,,,, | |||
| 124 | Highest break | 124 | |
| 2 | Century breaks | 3 | |
| 6 | 50+ breaks | 8 | |
These matches were played from 24 to 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.[5]
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| Judd Trump | Jason Weston | ||||
| 2–5 | Ashley Hugill | ||||
| 3–5 | Eden Sharav | ||||
| 2–5 | Ross Muir | ||||
| Anthony McGill | 5–1 | Peter Lines | |||
 Tian Pengfei | 5–1 | Ian Preece | |||
| Martin Gould | 5–2 | Lee Walker | |||
| Robbie Williams | 5–1 | Jamie Curtis-Barrett | |||
| 5–2 | Elliot Slessor | ||||
| 3–5 | Andy Hicks | ||||
| Rory McLeod | 5–2 | Daniel Womersley | |||
| Liang Wenbo | |||||
 Kurt Maflin | 5–1 | Adam Duffy | |||
| Ben Woollaston | 5–1 |  Igor Figueiredo | |||
| 4–5 | Hossein Vafaei | ||||
| Joe Perry | 5–0 | David John | |||
| Shaun Murphy | 5–1 | Sydney Wilson | |||
| 3–5 | Allan Taylor | ||||
| Graeme Dott | 5–3 | Jak Jones | |||
| Gary Wilson | 5–2 | Duane Jones | |||
| Ali Carter |  Hamza Akbar | ||||
| Stuart Carrington | 5–1 | Wang Yuchen | |||
| Michael White | 5–4 |  Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn | |||
| Yu Delu | 5–0 | Hammad Miah | |||
| 4–5 | Jimmy White | ||||
| Michael Holt | 5–4 | Liam Highfield | |||
| 3–5 | Zhang Anda | ||||
| Mark Williams | 5–3 | Zhao Xintong | |||
| 2–5 | Rhys Clark | ||||
| Mark Davis | 5–0 | Yan Bingtao | |||
| Ian Burns | 5–1 |  Thor Chuan Leong | |||
| John Higgins | 5–0 | Darryl Hill |
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| Stuart Bingham | 5–4 | James Wattana | |||
| 2–5 | Scott Donaldson | ||||
| Robert Milkins | 5–3 | Mei Xiwen | |||
| 3–5 | Noppon Saengkham | ||||
| Kyren Wilson | 5–2 |  Michael Georgiou | |||
| Xiao Guodong | 5–3 | John Astley | |||
| Mark King | 5–1 | Marc Davis | |||
| 2–5 | Sanderson Lam | ||||
| Mark Joyce | 5–4 | Mitchell Mann | |||
| 2–5 | Fraser Patrick | ||||
| 4–5 | Gareth Allen | ||||
| Ronnie O'Sullivan | 5–3 | James Cahill | |||
| Zhou Yuelong | 5–4 | Michael Wild | |||
| Matthew Selt | 5–0 | Craig Steadman | |||
| 3–5 | Paul Davison | ||||
| Ding Junhui | |||||
| 3–5 | Daniel Wells | ||||
| 2–5 | Jamie Cope | ||||
| Alan McManus | 5–1 | Chen Zhe | |||
| Matthew Stevens | 5–3 |  Josh Boileau | |||
| 2–5 |  Aditya Mehta | ||||
| Li Hang | 5–3 | Fang Xiongman | |||
| Stephen Maguire | 5–0 | Boonyarit Keattikun | |||
| Fergal O'Brien | 5–3 | Nigel Bond | |||
| Andrew Higginson | 5–1 | Christopher Keogan | |||
| David Gilbert | 5–1 |  Kurt Dunham | |||
| 1–5 |  Alex Borg | ||||
| Ricky Walden | 5–1 | Zhang Yong | |||
| Jimmy Robertson | 5–3 | Cao Yupeng | |||
| 4–5 | Martin O'Donnell | ||||
| Alfie Burden | 5–2 | Sunny Akani | |||
| Mark Selby |  Adam Stefanów |
Total: 54[6]
Total: 22[7]