2020 Scottish Open (snooker) explained

Tournament Name:	2020 Matchroom.live Scottish Open
Venue:	Marshall Arena
Location:	Milton Keynes
Country:	England
Organisation:	World Snooker Tour
Format:	Ranking event
Total Prize Fund:	£405,000
Winners Share:	£70,000
Highest Break:	(147)
Score:	9–3
Previous:	2019
Next:	2021

The 2020 Scottish Open (officially the 2020 Matchroom.live Scottish Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place on 7–13 December 2020 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England.^[1] It was the sixth ranking event of the 2020–21 season and the third event of the Home Nations Series.

Mark Selby was the defending champion after a 9–6 defeat of Jack Lisowski in the 2019 final.^[2] He successfully defended his title, winning against Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–3.^[3] This was Selby's 19th career ranking title, and he became the second player, after Judd Trump, to win three Home Nations Series titles.

Zhou Yuelong made his second career maximum break in the third frame of his first-round match with Peter Lines.^[4]

Prize fund

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

• Winner: £70,000
• Runner-up: £30,000
• Semi-final: £20,000
• Quarter-final: £10,000
• Last 16: £7,500
• Last 32: £4,000
• Last 64: £3,000
• Highest break: £5,000
• Total: £405,000

Tournament draw

Top half

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 8

Final

Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Leo Scullion Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, England, 13 December 2020.
Mark Selby (1)	9–3	Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)
Afternoon: 104–21,,,,,,, Evening: 129–0,,,
102	Highest break	72
1	Century breaks	0

Century breaks

A total of 86 century breaks were made by 45 players during the tournament.^[6]

• 147 Zhou Yuelong
• 140, 126 Liam Highfield
• 138, 132, 103, 102 Barry Hawkins
• 137, 101 Shaun Murphy
• 135, 129, 128, 123, 121, 102, 101, 100 Mark Selby
• 135, 129, 112, 110, 109, 105 Mark Allen
• 135, 126, 114, 114, 103, 101 Ding Junhui
• 134, 127, 123 Ronnie O'Sullivan
• 134, 127, 113, 100 Kyren Wilson
• 134 Lu Ning
• 134 Kurt Maflin
• 134 Matthew Stevens
• 133, 129 Liang Wenbo
• 131 Ashley Hugill
• 129, 104 Tian Pengfei

• 129 Stuart Bingham
• 128 Chris Wakelin
• 127 Noppon Saengkham
• 126, 121, 113, 108, 101 Michael Holt
• 126 Zhao Xintong
• 124 Jimmy Robertson
• 123 Dominic Dale
• 123 Zak Surety
• 122 Yuan Sijun
• 121 Steven Hallworth
• 120 Andy Hicks
• 117, 113 Ricky Walden
• 112 Alan McManus
• 110 Michael Collumb
• 109 Jak Jones

• 108, 106 Mark Joyce
• 107 Lyu Haotian
• 106 Jackson Page
• 105, 100 Jamie Jones
• 104, 104, 103 Judd Trump
• 104, 100 Mark Williams
• 104 Luo Honghao
• 103, 100 Robbie Williams
• 103 Ali Carter
• 102 Jamie Clarke
• 102 Jack Lisowski
• 102 Si Jiahui
• 102 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
• 101, 100 Li Hang
• 100 Igor Figueiredo

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2020/2021 Calendar December. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 10 August 2020. 6 December 2020. 7 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201207174635/http://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/?year=2020&month=12. dead.
2. Web site: Scottish Open snooker: Mark Selby beats Jack Lisowski 9-6 in Glasgow final. 16 December 2019. Sporting Life. 6 December 2020.
3. Web site: Selby Storms to Scottish Open Title. https://web.archive.org/web/20201213221659/https://wst.tv/selby-storms-to-scottish-open-title/. dead. December 13, 2020. World Snooker. 13 December 2020.
4. Web site: Zhou Makes MK Maximum. https://web.archive.org/web/20201207193322/https://wst.tv/zhou-makes-mk-maximum/. dead. December 7, 2020. 7 December 2020. WST. 7 December 2020.
5. Web site: Matchroom.Live Scottish Open . wst.tv . 6 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200111143736/https://wst.tv/tournaments/scottish-open-2019/ . dead . January 11, 2020 .
6. Web site: Scottish Open 2020 Centuries . livescores.worldsnookerdata.com . World Snooker . 7–13 December 2020 . 6 December 2020 . 21 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201221023907/http://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/Centuries/CenturyBreaks/14162/scottish-open-2020 . dead .