European Tour 2013/2014 – Event 2 Explained

Tournament Name:	European Tour 2013/2014 Event 2
Venue:	Topsport Centrum
Location:	Rotterdam
Country:	Netherlands
Organisation:	World Snooker
Format:	Minor-ranking event
Total Prize Fund:	€125,000
Winners Share:	€25,000
Highest Break:	(142)
Score:	4–3
Previous:	AT1
Next:	ET3

The European Tour 2013/2014 – Event 2 (also known as the 2013 Rotterdam Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18 and 21 July 2013 at the Topsport Centrum in Rotterdam, Netherlands.^[1] This was the second ever professional snooker tournament in the Netherlands after the 1991 European Open.^[2]

Mark Williams won his 25th professional title by defeating Mark Selby 4–3 in the final.^[3]

Prize fund and ranking points

The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:^{[4] [5] [6]}

width=110px	!	width=110px align="right"	Prize fund !	width=110px align="right"	Ranking points^1
Winner	€25,000	2,000
Runner-up	€12,000	1,600
Semi-finalist	€6,000	1,280
Quarter-finalist	€4,000	1,000
Last 16	€2,300	760
Last 32	€1,200	560
Last 64	€700	360
Total	€125,000	–

• ¹ Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Main draw

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Preliminary rounds

Round 1

Best of 7 frames

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Sam Thistlewhite	4–3	Saqib Nasir
	0–4	Theodor den Hartog
Ton Berkhout	w/o–w/d	David Singh
Joe Steele	3–4	Wendy Jans
Mitchell Van Den Bergh	0–4	Dylan Craig
Jordan Brown	4–0	Zen Beechey
Alex Taubman	4–0	Olivier Vandenboheede
Adam Edge	4–1	Jean Pierre De Blaer
Kevin Van Hove	4–1	Bash Maqsood
Kashif Khan	0–4	Jasha Kiers
Gareth Green	4–0	Kishan Hirani
Sanderson Lam	4–3	Ian Glover
Leon Alewijnse	0–4	Matthew Day
Damian Wilks	4–0	Xander van Rossum
Kevin Chan	0–4	Jeff Cundy
Talip Yigitsoy	0–4	Jeroen Van Driel
Filipe Cardoso	0–4	Kevin Vandevoort
James Silverwood	w/d–w/o	Wan Chooi Tan
Daniel Ward	4–1	Ameer Baksh
Frans Veling	2–4	Jordan Geldard
Ryan Causton	4–3	Thomas Newcombe

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Manon Melief	0–4	Joe Roberts
Henry Roper	0–4	Marc Davis
Jurian Heusdens	4–0	Huib Kuilboer
Bas Verviers	0–4	Benji Buckley
Ron Florax	0–4	Alain Van Der Steen
	2–4	Mitchell Travis
Feylin Janssen	4–0	Toby van Diepen
Gosse Vledder	0–4	Phil Barnes
Rene Dikstra	1–4	Oliver Brown
	3–4	Shane Castle
Ben Harrison	4–2	Michael Wild
Emile Bastiaan Hendriksen	0–4	Ben Jones
	0–4	Mark Vincent
Nico Bouma	0–4	Jamie Bodle
Sander Tierolf	w/o–w/d	Craig Barber
Michael Georgiou	4–0	Albert Pronk
Sydney Wilson	4–1	Ross Higgins
Phil O'Kane	4–1	Raymond Huisman
Gareth Allen	4–0	Jarl Hinfelaar
Pascal Decloedt	0–4	Christopher Keogan

Round 2

Best of 7 frames

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Sam Harvey	4–3	Sam Thistlewhite
Fozan Masood	4–2	Theodor den Hartog
Florian Moederscheim	2–4	Ton Berkhout
Matthew Couch	4–1	Wendy Jans
Dylan Craig	4–2	Jordan Brown
Declan Weston	2–4	Alex Taubman
Martin Ball	4–1	Adam Edge
Kevin Van Hove	4–0	Jasha Kiers
Gareth Green	4–1	Sanderson Lam
Matthew Day	4–2	Damian Wilks
Mario Veltman	0–4	Jeff Cundy
Mark Owens	4–1	Jeroen Van Driel
Kevin Vandevoort	2–4	Wan Chooi Tan
Daniel Ward	4–0	Jordan Geldard
Sean Hopkin	0–4	Ryan Causton

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Gary Steele	0–4	Joe Roberts
Hans Blanckaert	1–4	Marc Davis
Jerom Meeus	1–4	Jurian Heusdens
Bas Herberigs	1–4	Benji Buckley
Alain Van Der Steen	0–4	Mitchell Travis
Tomasz Skalski	4–0	Feylin Janssen
	2–4	Oliver Brown
Joris Maas	2–4	Shane Castle
Charlie Walters	2–4	Ben Harrison
Ben Jones	4–3	Mark Vincent
Reanne Evans	4–0	Jamie Bodle
Sander Tierolf	1–4	Michael Georgiou
Sydney Wilson	4–1	Phil O'Kane
	1–4	Christopher Keogan

Main rounds

Top half

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 8

Finals

Century breaks

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• 142 Matthew Selt
• 140, 129, 102 Ryan Day
• 140 Rod Lawler
• 137, 107 Martin Gould
• 137 Stuart Carrington
• 136, 132, 115, 111 Mark Selby
• 136, 116 Mark Williams
• 135 Jimmy Robertson
• 132, 100 Fergal O'Brien
• 131 Tom Ford
• 130 Stephen Maguire
• 125, 113 Judd Trump
• 125 Martin O'Donnell
• 123, 105 Ricky Walden
• 119 Hammad Miah

• 116, 104 Daniel Wells
• 116 Joe Perry
• 113 Gareth Allen
• 113 Jamie Cope
• 111 Robbie Williams
• 109, 104, 101 John Higgins
• 108, 104 Sam Baird
• 107, 104 Anthony McGill
• 106 David Gilbert
• 103 Sydney Wilson
• 100 Jeff Cundy
• 100 Michael Georgiou
• 100 Luca Brecel
• 100 Jamie O'Neill
• 100 Mark Joyce

External links

• 2013 Rotterdam Open – Pictures by Corné Kuijpers at Facebook

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tournament Calendar 2013/2014. Snooker.org. 21 May 2013.
2. Web site: Snooker Goes Dutch!. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 11 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131129202136/http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0%2C%2C13165~3163812%2C00.html. 29 November 2013. 1 May 2013. dead.
3. Web site: Rotterdam Open: Mark Williams beats Mark Selby in final to end title drought. Sky Sports. 21 July 2013.
4. Web site: European Open 2013/2014 Entry pack for the Rotterdam Open (ET2) . worldsnooker.com . . 21 June 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105043554/http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/93/bc/0,,13165~179347,00.pdf . 5 November 2013 . dead .
5. Web site: Prize Money Breakdowns 2013/14. 1 May 2013. worldsnooker.com. World Snooker. 30 May 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131012082213/http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0%2C%2C13165~3194469%2C00.html. 12 October 2013. dead.
6. Web site: The Tour Ranking Points Schedule 2013/2014 Season . worldsnooker.com . . 9 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130928172152/http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/5d/bc/0,,13165~179293,00.pdf . 28 September 2013 . dead .
7. Web site: Rotterdam Open (ET2) draw . . 21 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150605002118/http://3a43ed9bbf8e4c3a0092-e5ae3e47d460213726cd286f2f322a12.r38.cf3.rackcdn.com/9b79ebf7-cbde-470c-8024-9e723eb66b3d.pdf . 5 June 2015 . dead .
8. Web site: Rotterdam Open (ET2) format . worldsnooker.com . . 17 July 2013 . https://www.webcitation.org/6IBMJfNl1?url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/86/bd/0,,13165~179590,00.pdf . 17 July 2013 . dead .
9. Web site: European Tour Event Two (2013). Snooker.org. 21 June 2013.
10. Web site: Rotterdam Open (ET2) century breaks . worldsnookerdata.com . . 21 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130721043652/http://livescores.worldsnookerdata.com/CenturyBreakList/Tournament/13385 . 21 July 2013 . dead .
11. Web site: 2013 European Tour – Event 2 – Tournament Ranking. CueTracker – Snooker Database. 22 July 2013. 16 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140116132224/http://www.cuetracker.net/pages/rankings.php?tournament=953. dead.