Asian Players Tour Championship 2012/2013 – Event 2 Explained

Tournament Name:	Asian Players Tour Championship 2012/2013 Event 2
Venue:	Yixing Sports Centre
Location:	Yixing
Country:	China
Organisation:	World Snooker
Format:	Minor-ranking event
Total Prize Fund:	£50,000
Winners Share:	£10,000
Highest Break:	(137)
Score:	4–0
Previous:	PTC3
Next:	ET2

The Guotai Liquor Asian Players Tour Championship 2012/2013 – Event 2 was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 23 and 27 September 2012 at the Yixing Sports Centre in Yixing, China.^[1]

Stephen Lee won his ninth professional title by defeating Ding Junhui 4–0 in the final.^[2] This win also guaranteed Lee a place in this season's Players Tour Championship Grand Finals,^{[3] [4]} but he couldn't participate due to his suspension from professional snooker.^[5]

Prize fund and ranking points

The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:^{[6] [7] [8]}

width=110px	!	width=110px align="right"	Prize fund !	width=110px align="right"	Ranking points^1
Winner	£10,000	2,000
Runner-up	£5,000	1,600
Semi-finalist	£2,500	1,280
Quarter-finalist	£1,500	1,000
Last 16	£1,000	760
Last 32	£600	560
Last 64	£200	360
Total	£50,000	–

• ¹ Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Main draw

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Top half

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 8

Finals

Century breaks

^[12]

• 137 Matthew Stevens
• 113 Stephen Lee
• 111 Ricky Walden
• 110, 102 Xiao Guodong
• 107, 105, 102 Ding Junhui
• 104 Hossein Vafaei

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tournament Calendar 2012/2013 . Snooker.org . 4 June 2012.
2. Web site: Lee beats Ding to win Asian PTC2. Eurosport UK. 27 September 2012. https://archive.today/20130209204818/http://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/lee-beats-ding-win-asian-ptc2-083738238.html. 9 February 2013. dead.
3. Web site: Lee Takes Yixing Crown . worldsnooker.com . . 27 September 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121002001403/http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0%2C%2C13165~2931397%2C00.html . 2 October 2012 .
4. Web site: Lee's Chinese takeaway. This is Wiltshire.co.uk. 27 September 2012.
5. News: Hayes . Roy . Stephen Lee suspended from snooker over 'suspicious' betting patterns . 12 October 2012 . . 12 October 2012.
6. Web site: Asian Players Tour Championship 2012/2013 – Entry pack for event 2 . worldsnooker.com . . 18 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130406192250/http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/38/b7/0,,13165~177976,00.pdf . 6 April 2013 . dead .
7. Web site: Prize Money . worldsnooker.com . . 18 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130122235916/http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/AsianPTC1Article/0%2C%2C13165~2814913%2C00.html . 22 January 2013 .
8. Web site: The Tour Ranking Points Schedule 2012/2013 Season . worldsnooker.com . . DOC . 23 May 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130616122820/http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/67/b3/0,,13165~176999,00.doc . 16 June 2013 . dead .
9. Web site: Asian Players Tour Championship (APTC2) Draw and Format . worldsnooker.com . . 18 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130406160927/http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/7b/b8/0,,13165~178299,00.pdf . 6 April 2013 . live .
10. Web site: APTC2 results . worldsnooker.com . . 24 September 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130123042517/http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/AsianPTC2Article/0%2C%2C13165~2931399%2C00.html . 23 January 2013 .
11. Web site: Guotai Liquor Asian Players Tour Championship Event Two (2012). Snooker.org. 18 September 2012.
12. Web site: APTC Event 2 Century breaks. https://archive.today/20121202111125/https://www.facebook.com/sportstat/posts/385787751492824. dead. 2 December 2012. SportStat on Facebook. 28 September 2012.