Tournament Name: | European Tour 2015/2016 Event 4 |
Venue: | Universiada Hall |
Location: | Sofia |
Country: | Bulgaria |
Organisation: | World Snooker |
Format: | Minor-ranking event |
Total Prize Fund: | €125,000 |
Winners Share: | €25,000 |
Highest Break: | (138) |
Score: | 4–0 |
Previous: | AT1 |
Next: | ET5 |
The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 4 (also known as the 2015 Victoria Bulgarian Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament held between 4–8 November 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.[1] [2]
The first two days consisted of preliminary rounds. 31 players qualified through these rounds to reach the last-128 stage of the tournament. Days 3 and 4 consist edof 3 rounds; the top half of the draw playing on day 3 and bottom half on day 4. The remaining 16 players played to a conclusion on day 5. All matches were the best of 7 frames.[3]
Mark Allen beat Ryan Day 4–0 in the final. It was his fifth European Tour victory but his first win since August 2014 when he won the 2014 Paul Hunter Classic. The victory gave him entry to the 2015 Champion of Champions which was played the following week.[4]
The breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below:
Prize fund | ||
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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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2–4 | Oliver Brown | ||||
Alex Taubman | 4–0 | Terence Davidson | |||
Jin Foulger | 2–4 | Adam Edge | |||
Freddie Blunden | 1–4 | Tomasz Skalski | |||
Mihai Vladu | 1–4 | Felix Frede | |||
Dana Amir | 0–4 | Brandon Sargeant | |||
Lewis Gillen | 4–1 | Viktor Iliev | |||
Damian Wilks | 1–4 | Alexander Ursenbacher | |||
Brendan O'Donoghue | 4–1 | Jeremy Lee | |||
Krasimir Kameshev | 1–4 | Jurian Heusdens | |||
Andreas Ploner | 4–0 | Daniel Mladenov | |||
Joe Steele | 4–1 | Adam Longley | |||
Mateusz Baranowski | 4–3 | Ben Jones | |||
Peter Devlin | 4–0 | Razvan Sdrobis | |||
Ferdous Bhuyian | 3–4 | Robbie Purdham | |||
Ashley Hugill | 4–1 | Jake Nicholson | |||
Phil O'Kane | 4–1 | Kyriacos Kyriacou | |||
Nikolai Vlashev | 0–4 | Sam Betts | |||
Joe O'Connor | |||||
Conor McCormack | w/d–w/o | Marcin Nitschke | |||
Nicholas Roberts | 4–0 | Veselin Lazarov | |||
Andrei Orzan | 1–4 | Josh Boileau | |||
Nikola Kemilev | 4–1 | Rodion Judin | |||
Mark Owens | 4–3 | Kishan Hirani |
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Elliot Slessor | 4–0 | Anastasis Ioannou | |||
Sam Thistlewhite | 4–1 | Sashko Dimitrov | |||
Corina Maracine | 0–4 | Michael Williams | |||
Paul Croitoru | 0–4 | Jamie Clarke | |||
Nikolai Hristov | 1–4 | Adam Duffy | |||
Bratislav Krustev | 4–1 | Salim Otti | |||
David Davidkov | 4–0 | Alkinoos Triantos | |||
Daniel O’Regan | 2–4 | Dessie Sheehan | |||
Adam King | w/o–n/s | Aleksandr Kurgankov | |||
Sam Craigie | 4–0 | Alex Borg | |||
3–4 | Jeff Jacobs | ||||
Simon Lichtenberg | 4–1 | Jonathan Mabey | |||
2–4 | Joe Roberts | ||||
Michael Collumb | 2–4 | Lukas Kleckers | |||
Richard Beckham | 4–2 | Charlie Walters | |||
Dimitar Mehandjiiski | 0–4 | Robin Otto | |||
Nico Elton | 4–1 | Matthew Glasby | |||
Spasian Spasov | 4–0 | Gheorghe Margarit | |||
Teodor Chomovski | 4–0 | Monica Manolache | |||
Joshua Cooper | 4–0 | Ivan Kupov | |||
Marko Vukovic | n/s–w/o | Hammad Miah | |||
Ryan Causton | 4–1 | Brian Cini | |||
Patrick Whelan | 2–4 | Marc J Davis | |||
Christopher Keogan | 4–1 | Hans Blanckaert |
Best of 7 frames
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Oliver Brown | 4–0 | Alex Taubman | |||
Adam Edge | 3–4 | Tomasz Skalski | |||
Felix Frede | 4–0 | Julian Petrov | |||
3–4 | Lewis Gillen | ||||
1–4 | Brendan O'Donoghue | ||||
Jurian Heusdens | 4–0 | Viktor Gaidov | |||
Andreas Ploner | 4–1 | Daniel Schneider | |||
Joe Steele | 0–4 | Mateusz Baranowski | |||
Peter Devlin | 4–2 | Thomas Rees | |||
Robbie Purdham | 0–4 | Ashley Hugill | |||
Phil O'Kane | 4–3 | Radu Vilau | |||
Sam Betts | 0–4 | Joe O'Connor | |||
Marcin Nitschke | 4–0 | Nicholas Roberts | |||
Josh Boileau | 4–1 | Chris Jones | |||
Nikola Kemilev | 0–4 | Mark Owens | |||
Elliot Slessor | 4–0 | Georgi Georgiev |
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Sam Thistlewhite | 2–4 | Michael Williams | |||
Jamie Clarke | 4–0 | Chris Mason | |||
Adam Duffy | 4–1 | Ross Higgins | |||
Bratislav Krustev | 4–0 | David Davidkov | |||
0–4 | Adam King | ||||
Sam Craigie | 4–1 | Rares Sinca | |||
Jeff Jacobs | 1–4 | Simon Lichtenberg | |||
Joe Roberts | 4–1 | Lukas Kleckers | |||
Richard Beckham | 4–0 | Hristo Sirakov | |||
Robin Otto | 0–4 | Nico Elton | |||
Spasian Spasov | 0–4 | George Pragnall | |||
Teodor Chomovski | 1–4 | John Parkin | |||
Joshua Cooper | 1–4 | Hammad Miah | |||
Ryan Causton | 4–1 | Stefan Simeonovski | |||
Marc J Davis | 2–4 | Christopher Keogan |