Tournament Name: | 2017 OPPO International Championship |
Venue: | Baihu Media Broadcasting Centre |
Location: | Daqing |
Country: | China |
Organisation: | World Snooker |
Format: | Ranking event |
Total Prize Fund: | £750,000 |
Winners Share: | £150,000 |
Highest Break: | (147) |
Score: | 10–7 |
Previous: | 2016 |
Next: | 2018 |
The 2017 International Championship (officially the 2017 OPPO International Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 29 October to 5 November 2017 in Daqing, China.[1] It was the eighth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.
Qualifying for the tournament took place between 26 and 30 September 2017 in Preston.
Mark Selby was the defending champion, having beaten Ding Junhui 10–1 in the 2016 final. Selby retained his title by beating Mark Allen 10–7 in the final of this year's edition.[2]
Kyren Wilson made the 133rd official maximum break in the 10th frame of his last 32 match against Martin Gould. It was Wilson's first professional maximum break.[3]
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[4]
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £5,000
Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Jan Verhaas. Baihu Media Broadcasting Centre, Daqing, China, 5 November 2017. | |||
Mark Selby | 10–7 | Mark Allen | |
Afternoon: 72–3 (67),,,,,,,, Evening: 76–0, 83–0 (62),,,,,, | |||
90 | Highest break | 137 | |
0 | Century breaks | 2 | |
8 | 50+ breaks | 6 |
These matches were held between 26 September and 29 September 2017 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. Matches involving top players Mark Selby, John Higgins, Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo were held-over to the main venue, as well as matches involving Chinese players who participated in 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games: Zhou Yuelong, Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao and Lyu Haotian. These were played on 29 October 2017 in China. All matches were best of 11 frames.
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Mark Selby | 6–1 | Ashley Hugill | |||
2–6 | Cao Yupeng | ||||
Tom Ford | 6–5 | Scott Donaldson | |||
4–6 | Ian Preece | ||||
Ryan Day | 6–1 | Chen Zifan | |||
Kurt Maflin | 6–2 | Joe Swail | |||
Mark Williams | 6–1 | Boonyarit Keattikun | |||
Yu Delu | 6–2 | Lyu Haotian | |||
5–6 | Sam Craigie | ||||
Joe Perry | 6–3 | Paul Davison | |||
Robbie Williams | 6–5 | Zhang Anda | |||
Stuart Bingham | 6–1 | Sean O'Sullivan | |||
Matthew Selt | 6–5 | Alexander Ursenbacher | |||
Michael Holt | 6–1 | Leo Fernandez | |||
Gary Wilson | 6–3 | Thor Chuan Leong | |||
Neil Robertson | 6–2 | Craig Steadman | |||
Shaun Murphy | 6–0 | Matthew Bolton | |||
1–6 | Mei Xiwen | ||||
Alan McManus | 6–2 | Rod Lawler | |||
5–6 | Zhang Yong | ||||
Ali Carter | 6–0 | Jamie Curtis-Barrett | |||
Andrew Higginson | 6–2 | Josh Boileau | |||
Stephen Maguire | 6–3 | Alex Borg | |||
3–6 | John Astley | ||||
David Grace | 6–2 | Xu Si | |||
Martin Gould | 6–4 | Mitchell Mann | |||
Tian Pengfei | 6–3 | James Wattana | |||
Kyren Wilson | 6–2 | Rhys Clark | |||
Robert Milkins | 6–4 | Yuan Sijun | |||
Graeme Dott | 6–2 | Nigel Bond | |||
Oliver Lines | 6–1 | Hamza Akbar | |||
Ding Junhui | 6–3 | Chen Zhe |
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Judd Trump | 6–0 | Chris Totten | |||
4–6 | Ian Burns | ||||
2–6 | Robin Hull | ||||
Jimmy Robertson | 6–3 | Michael Georgiou | |||
Liang Wenbo | 6–2 | Adam Duffy | |||
5–6 | Lee Walker | ||||
David Gilbert | 6–1 | Liam Highfield | |||
Li Hang | 6–5 | Soheil Vahedi | |||
Rory McLeod | 6–4 | Ross Muir | |||
Mark King | 6–4 | Christopher Keogan | |||
2–6 | Zhao Xintong | ||||
Mark Allen | 6–3 | Peter Lines | |||
0–6 | Martin O'Donnell | ||||
Sanderson Lam | |||||
Hossein Vafaei | 6–4 | Duane Jones | |||
4–6 | Sunny Akani | ||||
Barry Hawkins | 6–3 | Hammad Miah | |||
Jack Lisowski | 6–2 | Lukas Kleckers | |||
3–6 | Eden Sharav | ||||
Xiao Guodong | 6–1 | Jimmy White | |||
Ronnie O'Sullivan | 6–0 | Gerard Greene | |||
Yan Bingtao | 6–5 | Wang Yuchen | |||
Ricky Walden | 6–5 | Billy Joe Castle | |||
Peter Ebdon | 6–4 | Fang Xiongman | |||
Mark Joyce | 6–4 | Kurt Dunham | |||
Anthony McGill | 6–3 | Aditya Mehta | |||
4–6 | Li Yuan | ||||
Luca Brecel | 6–0 | Allan Taylor | |||
Dominic Dale | 6–2 | Jackson Page | |||
Ben Woollaston | 6–2 | Jak Jones | |||
4–6 | Niu Zhuang | ||||
John Higgins | 6–1 | Elliot Slessor |
Total: 39
Total: 75