| Tournament Name: | European Tour 2015/2016 Event 3 |
| Venue: | RWE-Sporthalle |
| Location: | Mülheim |
| Country: | Germany |
| Organisation: | World Snooker |
| Format: | Minor-ranking event |
| Total Prize Fund: | €125,000 |
| Winners Share: | €25,000 |
| Highest Break: | (141) |
| Score: | 4–2 |
| Previous: | ET2 |
| Next: | AT1 |
The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 3 (also known as the 2015 Ruhr Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 7–11 October 2015 in Mülheim, Germany.[1]
Shaun Murphy was the defending champion,[2] but he lost 1–4 to Tian Pengfei in the last 16.
Barry Pinches and Alan McManus played what was, at the time, snooker's longest ever official frame. In the sixth frame of their first round meeting they battled for 100 minutes and 24 seconds.[3]
The breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below:[4]
| width=110px | ! | width=110px align="right" | Prize fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | €25,000 | ||
| Runner-up | €12,000 | ||
| Semi-finalist | €6,000 | ||
| Quarter-finalist | €4,000 | ||
| Last 16 | €2,300 | ||
| Last 32 | €1,200 | ||
| Last 64 | €700 | ||
| Total | €125,000 |
Best of 7 frames
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Schneider | 1–4 | Ben Jones | |||
| Chris Jones | 4–1 |  Arsen Balishyan | |||
 Alain Van Der Steen | 4–3 | Daan Leysen | |||
| Sascha Lippe | 4–2 | Hans Blanckaert | |||
| Fozan Masood | 4–1 | Jean Luca Nüßgen | |||
 Daniel O’Regan | 0–4 |  Kacper Filipiak | |||
| Michael Collumb | 4–0 | Joerg Petersen | |||
| Aleksandr Kurgankov | 0–4 |  Andreas Ploner | |||
 Özyurt Aksoy | 1–4 | Thomas Hein | |||
| James Silverwood | 4–0 | Maxim Maximov | |||
| Damian Wilks | 4–2 | Adam King | |||
| Fabian Tost | 0–4 | Ryan Causton | |||
| Thomas Barton | 3–4 | Jurian Heusdens | |||
| Johny Moermans | 4–0 | Sebastian Zittermann | |||
 Umar Ali Shaikh | 1–4 | Miro Popovic | |||
| 1–4 | Brandon Sargeant | ||||
| Nico Elton | 4–0 | Conor McCormack | |||
 Alex Borg | 4–0 | Adam Longley | |||
| Albert Pronk | 0–4 | Mateusz Baranowski | |||
| Patrick Whelan | 4–0 | Pedro Chacon | |||
| Joshua Baddeley | 4–1 | Julian Maschmeier | |||
| Steve Lambrechts | 0–4 | Hammad Miah | |||
| Nick Jennings | 4–2 | Lewis Gillen | |||
| Joe Steele | 1–4 | Dean Sheridan | |||
| Charlie Walters | Krzysztof Drazkiewicz | ||||
| Luke Garland | w/d–w/o | Elliot Slessor | |||
| Maris Volajs | 4–0 | Dirk Oppenhoff |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomasz Skalski | 1–4 | Ashley Hugill | |||
| Dirk Lycops | 0–4 | Frans Veling | |||
| 0–4 | Gary Thomson | ||||
| Alexander van den Doel | 0–4 | Sam Craigie | |||
| Deitmar Juschka | 0–4 | Adam Edge | |||
| Sam Thistlewhite | 4–0 | Markus Fischer | |||
| Kevin Chan | 1–4 | Joe O'Connor | |||
| Mark Vincent | 3–4 | Mohammed Rangzib | |||
 Daniel Salis | 1–4 | Habib Shalchian | |||
| Richard Beckham | 4–2 | Ismail Türker | |||
| Julian Mills | 4–0 | Julia Litschke | |||
| Manon Melief | 0–4 | Brendan O'Donoghue | |||
| Christopher Keogan | 4–1 | Matthew Glasby | |||
| Robin Otto | 4–2 | Joe Roberts | |||
| Zack Richardson | 3–4 | Adam Duffy | |||
| Felix Frede | 4–0 | Rolf Mahr | |||
| Andrej Burdel | 0–4 | Michael Schnabel | |||
| Ashley Carty | 4–0 | Kemal Ueruen | |||
| Jamie Clarke | w/o–w/d |  Zhao Xintong | |||
| Paul Schopf | 3–4 | Gary Lees | |||
| Michael Heeger | 4–0 | Pascal Fischer | |||
| Christopher Harrison | 4–3 | Lee Brookes | |||
| Mark Owens | 4–1 | Jan Eisenstein | |||
| Ross Higgins | 4–0 | Oktay Yildiz | |||
| Krzysztof Kubicki | 1–4 | Josh Boileau | |||
| Lieven Vanthournout | 2–4 | Phuntsok Jaegers | |||
| Robert Czupryniak | w/o–w/d | Bartosz Olchowka |
Best of 7 frames
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| Ben Jones | 4–2 | Chris Jones | |||
| Michael Williams | 3–4 | Alain Vandersteen | |||
| Thomas Rees | 0–4 | Sascha Lippe | |||
| Luc Blancke | 1–4 | Fozan Masood | |||
| Joshua Cooper | 0–4 | Kacper Filipiak | |||
| Michael Collumb | 4–0 | Andreas Ploner | |||
| Callum Lloyd | 4–0 | Thomas Hein | |||
| James Silverwood | 0–4 | Damian Wilks | |||
| Kishan Hirani | 4–0 | Ryan Causton | |||
| Jurian Heusdens | 4–1 | Johny Moermans | |||
| Dennis Deroose | 4–1 | Miro Popovic | |||
| Alexander Ursenbacher | 4–2 | Brandon Sargeant | |||
| Jake Nicholson | 1–4 | Nico Elton | |||
| Marvin Losi | 1–4 | Alex Borg | |||
| Mateusz Baranowski | 4–0 | Patrick Whelan | |||
| 3–4 | Joshua Baddeley | ||||
| Hammad Miah | 4–2 | Nick Jennings | |||
| Wan Chooi Tan | 1–4 | Dean Sheridan | |||
| Charlie Walters | 2–4 | Elliot Slessor |
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| Rafal Szymanek | 0–4 | Maris Volajs | |||
| Jeff Jacobs | 0–4 | Ashley Hugill | |||
| Charlie Sweeney | 4–2 | Frans Veling | |||
| Oliver Brown | 4–1 | Gary Thomson | |||
| Sam Craigie | 4–0 | Adam Edge | |||
| Alex Taubman | 1–4 | Sam Thistlewhite | |||
| Inge Vermeulen | 0–4 | Joe O'Connor | |||
| Mohammed Rangzib | 4–0 | Habib Shalchian | |||
| Richard Beckham | 2–4 | Julian Mills | |||
 Stephane Ochoiski | 0–4 | Brendan O'Donoghue | |||
| Brian Cini | 4–1 | Christopher Keogan | |||
| Robin Otto | 2–4 | Adam Duffy | |||
| Felix Frede | 4–3 | Michael Schnabel | |||
| Ashley Carty | 4–0 | Jamie Clarke | |||
| Gary Lees | 4–1 | Michael Heeger | |||
| Phil O'Kane | 4–2 | Christopher Harrison | |||
| Mark Owens | 2–4 | Ross Higgins | |||
| Josh Boileau | 4–1 | Phuntsok Jaegers | |||
| Volker Grigo | w/d–w/o | Robert Czupryniak |
Best of 7 frames
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| Ben Jones | 2–4 | Alain Vandersteen | |||
| Sascha Lippe | 4–1 | Fozan Masood | |||
| 3–4 | Michael Collumb | ||||
| Callum Lloyd | 2–4 | Damian Wilks | |||
| Kishan Hirani | 4–3 | Jurian Heusdens | |||
| Dennis Deroose | 0–4 | Alexander Ursenbacher | |||
| Nico Elton | 1–4 | Alex Borg | |||
| Mateusz Baranowski | 4–3 | Joshua Baddeley | |||
| Hammad Miah | 4–0 | Dean Sheridan | |||
| Elliot Slessor | 4–0 | Maris Volajs |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley Hugill | 4–2 | Charlie Sweeney | |||
| 1–4 | Sam Craigie | ||||
| Sam Thistlewhite | 4–3 | Joe O'Connor | |||
| Mohammed Rangzib | 4–2 | Julian Mills | |||
| Brendan O'Donoghue | 4–2 | Brian Cini | |||
| Adam Duffy | 4–1 | Felix Frede | |||
| Ashley Carty | 4–0 | Gary Lees | |||
| Phil O'Kane | 3–4 | Ross Higgins | |||
| Josh Boileau | 4–1 | Robert Czupryniak |