2017 Scottish Open (snooker)
Snooker tournament
The 2017 Scottish Open (officially the 2017 Dafabet Scottish Open ) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 11 to 17 December 2017 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow , Scotland .[ 1] 2017/2018 season and a part of the Home Nations Series .
Marco Fu was the defending champion, but he lost 4–3 to Xiao Guodong in the last 16.[ 2]
Neil Robertson won the tournament, coming from 4–8 down to win 9–8 in the final against Cao Yupeng .[ 3] maximum in the third frame of his first round match against Andrew Higginson .[ 4]
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[ 5]
Winner: £ 70,000
Runner-up: £30,000
Semi-final: £20,000
Quarter-final: £10,000
Last 16: £6,000
Last 32: £3,500
Last 64: £2,500
Highest break: £2,000
Total: £366,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £20,000
Main draw
Qualifying round
Ross Vallance 4 –2
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final
Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Leo Scullion .Emirates Arena , Glasgow , Scotland , 17 December 2017.
Neil Robertson Australia
9 –8
Cao Yupeng China
Afternoon: 21–118 (82), 72 –62 (Robertson 61, Cao 62)0–96 (72) , 29–75 (74) , 68 –347–119 (53, 66) , 37–72 (67) , 115 –18 (64, 50)Evening: 31–79 (72), 132 –0 (132)6–81 (81) , 0–108 (66) , 85 –6 (85)62 –1473 –3060 –5477 –16 (59)
132
Highest break
82
1
Century breaks
0
6
50+ breaks
10
Century breaks
A total of 73 century breaks were made during the competition.[ 6]
147 – Cao Yupeng 144, 138, 117, 113, 109, 108, 105 – John Higgins
144, 122, 114 – Noppon Saengkham
143, 138, 135, 132, 128, 124, 118, 117, 114, 113, 102 – Neil Robertson
140, 129, 102 – Judd Trump
136, 112, 103, 101 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
135, 122, 104 – Ding Junhui
130 – Liang Wenbo
129 – Tom Ford
127, 126 – Michael White
125, 117 – Ali Carter
124, 123 – David Grace
123, 106, 101 – Xiao Guodong
123 – Li Hang
123 – Mitchell Mann
122 – Chris Wakelin
119, 102, 101 – Yan Bingtao
119 – Oliver Lines
119 – Kyren Wilson
117, 107, 101 – Marco Fu
115 – Wang Yuchen
113 – Dominic Dale
113 – Ashley Hugill
112 – Joe Perry
110 – Ben Woollaston
108 – Jamie Jones
106 – Stuart Carrington
105 – Ricky Walden
104 – Zhou Yuelong
104 – Elliot Slessor
103 – Mark Joyce
103 – Xu Si
103 – Daniel Wells
103 – Gary Wilson
102 – Martin Gould
101 – Michael Holt
100 – Liam Highfield
100 – Craig Steadman
100 – Zhao Xintong
References
International Open Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow Ravenscraig Milton Keynes Llandudno
