Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 1 Explained

Tournament Name:Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011
Event 1
Venue:Stadthalle
Location:Fürth
Country:Germany
Organisation:World Snooker
Format:Minor-ranking event
Total Prize Fund:50,000
Winners Share:€10,000
Highest Break: (143)
Score:4–3
Previous:PTC4
Next:EPTC2

The Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 1 (also known as the 2010 Paul Hunter Classic) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 26 and 29 August 2010 in Fürth, Germany.[1]

Judd Trump won in the final 4–3 against Anthony Hamilton.[2]

Prize fund and ranking points

The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:[3] [4]
A non ranking EPTC Plate Trophy was added to European PTC's for player that went out early to get a trophy and money that would not count towards the rankings.

width=110px!width=110px align="right"Prize fund !width=110px align="right"Ranking points1
Winner 10,000 2,000
Runner-up €5,000 1,600
Semi-finalist €2,500 1,280
Quarter-finalist €1,400 1,000
Last 16 €1,000 760
Last 32 €500 560
Last 64 €200 360
Plate Winner €1,500
Plate Runner-up €500
Total €50,000

Main draw

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Preliminary rounds

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Round 1

Best of 7 frames

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Tomasz Skalski 4–0 Bernd Friedrich
Phil Barnes 4–1 Dominik Scherübl
Julian Treiber 0–4 Fabian Grube
Chris McBreen 4–0 Serge Lievens
Tonnie Kok 4–0 Thomas Schneeberger
Mirko Groß 4–0 Oliver Kremp
Wladimir Ponomarenko 4–0 Ralf Hemmerlingx
Rolf Schmidt 1–4 Lam Hui-wah
Oliver Metzger 0–4 Stefan Gerst
Wilhelm Braunwald 4–0 Nicole Breitenstein
Marko Wölki w/o–w/d Tian Pengfei
Helmut Miss 0–4 Xander van Rossum
Lee Farebrother w/d–w/o Thomas Cesal
Willem Monfils Tom Egger
Soner Sari 4–2 Markus Milde
Wolfgang Brandmeier 4–1 Stefan Schenk
Dirk Fieron 0–4 Uwe Seyler
Michael Eheim 2–4 Andreas Hartung
Dieter Meier 4–0 Hendrik Henschke
Stevo Vucicevic w/d–w/o Roy Stolk
Christof Biniarsch 4–2 Jarl Hinfelaar
Thomas Valentin 0–4 Jamie Walker
Lothar Kempgens 0–4 Lasse Münstermann
Robert Sax 4–0 Hans-Jürgen Bins
Sascha Breuer 4–0 Martin Rösler
4–0 Ole Steiner
Robert Haimerl 0–4
Christian Gnamm w/d–w/o Robert Drahn
Chris Norbury Andy Lee
Druta Lorin Ionut 0–4 Tiziano Guerra
Michael Seidel 4–0 Samir Önder
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Ronny Buchholz 1–4 Jörg Petersen
Roberto Abart 0–4 Sam Harvey
Deniz Anar 4–2 Johannes Oswald
Robert Feß 4–3 Walther Christian
James Silverwood w/d-w/o Anja Vucicevic
Alex Taubman 4–1 Zen Beechey
Werner Pilz 0–4 Gerrit bij de Leij
Andreas Pesch 4–0 Elisabeth Bins
Aram Raken 2–4 Patrick Fuchs
Ronny Pawlitza w/d-w/o Christian Hauburg
Kevin Lämmermann 2–4 Jean Luca Nüßgen
Michael Betzinger 4–0 Andrei Cristian Vintu
Julian Gärtner 1–4 Jürgen Kesseler
Michael Heeger 0–4 Maurice Le Duc
Markus Hertle w/o-w/d Tony Knowles
Mario Wehrmann 4–0 Michael Bach
Thomas Hoeltschl 3–4 Jörg Schneidewindt
Rene van Rijsberger Austin Moles
Oliver Brown 4–2 Dirk Hochheim
Ali Kirim 4–0 Rüdiger Nickel
Diana Schuler 4–3 Daniel Dieudonne
Ronni Beniesch 4–2 Bernd Strnad
Kilian Baur-Pantoulier 3–4 Norbert Hofheinz
Falk Hollenwäger 3–4 Sanjin Kusan
Hao Lac Hanh 4–3 Klaus Wuscher
Ralf Günzel 0–4
Hans Blankaert 0–4 Gareth Allen
Christopher Henry 4–0 Laurin Winters
Miro Popovic 4–0 Fabian Meulner
4–1 Coen Fool
Thomas Lüthi 4–3 Gerhard Mader

Round 2

Best of 7 frames

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Tomasz Skalski 4–1 Phil Barnes
Fabian Grube 1–4 Chris McBreen
Tonnie Kok 4–0 Mirko Groß
Wladimir Ponomarenko 4–1 Lam Hui-wah
Stefan Gerst 4–0 Wilhelm Braunwald
Marko Wölki 0–4 Xander van Rossum
Thomas Cesal 3–4 Willem Monfils
Soner Sari 4–1 Wolfgang Brandmeier
Gerald Götz 3–4 Uwe Seyler
Andreas Hartung 1–4 Dieter Meier
Roy Stolk 4–1 Christof Biniarsch
Jamie Walker 0–4 Lasse Münstermann
Robert Sax 4–2 Sascha Breuer
Naresh Samarawickrama 4–0 Gerhard Engelschalk
Robert Drahn 0–4 Chris Norbury
Tiziano Guerra 1–4 Michael Seidel
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Jörg Petersen 3–4 Sam Harvey
Deniz Anar 4–3 Robert Feß
Anja Vucicevic 0–4 Alex Taubman
Gerrit bij de Leij 4–0 Andreas Pesch
Patrick Fuchs 4–1 Christian Hauburg
Jean Luca Nüßgen 0–4 Michael Betzinger
Jürgen Kesseler 1–4 Maurice Le Duc
Markus Hertle 2–4 Mario Wehrmann
Jörg Schneidewindt 1–4 Rene van Rijsberger
Oliver Brown 4–0 Ali Kirim
Diana Schuler 4–0 Ronni Beniesch
Rogier van der Kamp 4–0 Norbert Hofheinz
Sanjin Kusan 4–0 Hao Lac Hanh
0–4 Gareth Allen
Christopher Henry 4–1 Miro Popovic
Florian Moederscheim 4–0 Thomas Lüthi

Main rounds

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Top half

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 8

Finals

Final

Final: Best of 7 frames.
Stadthalle, Fürth, Germany, 29 August 2010.
Judd Trump
4–3Anthony Hamilton
98–0, 0–89, 27–68 (68),,,,
97Highest break68
0Century breaks0
350+ breaks1

Century breaks

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: PTC helps form Snooker's 'brave new world'. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 21 May 2010. 22 May 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100527164800/http://www.worldsnooker.com/PTC1_news%28Player_Tour_Championship_Helps_Form_Snooker%26rsquo%3Bs_%26lsquo%3BBrave_New_World%26rsquo%3B%29-2211.htm?tid=166. 27 May 2010.
  2. Web site: Top Trump. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 3 December 2010. 7 June 2012.
  3. Web site: Prize Money and Ranking Points. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 23 June 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20100829232327/http://www.worldsnooker.com/eptc1_money.htm?tid=187. 29 August 2010.
  4. Web site: The Tour Provisional Ranking Points Schedule 2010/2011 Season. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. DOC. 27 December 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100821055932/http://www.worldsnooker.com/files/Tour%20Points%20Schedule.doc. 21 August 2010.
  5. Web site: Euro PTC1. Snooker.org. 26 February 2011.
  6. Web site: Draw EPTC1. Snooker Stars. 29 April 2011.
  7. News: Euro Players Tour Championship – Event 1 – Qualifying Stages. Global Snooker. 23 August 2010. 23 August 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120614153843/http://www.global-snooker.com/professional-tournaments-eptc-1-paul-hunter-classic-2010-qualifying-results.asp. 14 June 2012.
  8. News: Euro Players Tour Championship – Event 1. Global Snooker. 23 August 2010. 23 August 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100829051918/http://www.global-snooker.com/professional-tournaments-eptc-1-paul-hunter-classic-2010-results.asp. 29 August 2010.
  9. Web site: 2010 Paul Hunter Classic results. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 23 June 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20101206221950/http://www.worldsnooker.com/phc_results.htm. 6 December 2010.
  10. News: 2010 PTC Results. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.
  11. News: 2010 PTC Centuries. Global Snooker. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120609231242/http://www.global-snooker.com/2010-PTC-Centuries.asp. 9 June 2012.