2020 Northern Ireland Open
Snooker tournament
The 2020 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2020 Matchroom.live Northern Ireland Open ) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 16 to 22 November 2020 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes , England.[ 1] 2020–21 season and a part of the Home Nations Series . It was the fifth edition of the Northern Ireland Open .
For the third consecutive edition of the tournament, Judd Trump defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–7 in final, winning his 19th ranking title.[ 2] Stephen Hendry won the UK Championship from 1994 to 1996. He is also the first to win four Home Nations Series titles, and the second, after Mark Selby , to win two Home Nations events in a single season. During this tournament, he made the fifth maximum break of his career in the third frame of his second-round match with Gao Yang .[ 3]
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £ 70,000
Runner-up: £30,000
Semi-final: £20,000
Quarter-final: £10,000
Last 16: £7,500
Last 32: £4,000
Last 64: £3,000
Highest break: £5,000
Total: £405,000
Main draw
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: Marcel Eckardt .Marshall Arena , Milton Keynes , England, 22 November 2020.
Judd Trump (1)England
9 –7
Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)England
Afternoon: 69 –55, 77 –4741–64 , 86 –3570 –4313–70 , 128 –0 (128)7–130 (130) Evening: 89 –55, 81 –5141–81 , 37–72 , 115 –0 (115)7–93 , 0–74 , 89 –32
128
Highest break
130
2
Century breaks
1
Century breaks
A total of 68 century breaks were made during the competition.[ 4]
147 , 128, 127, 115, 112, 109, 105, 103, 101 – Judd Trump 144, 130 – John Higgins
142 – Anthony McGill
141 – Ashley Carty
137, 125, 103 – Yan Bingtao
135, 135, 127, 112 – Kurt Maflin
135 – Kyren Wilson
134, 130, 118, 101 – Ben Woollaston
134, 109, 109, 100 – Zhao Xintong
133 – Luca Brecel
133 – Chang Bingyu
133 – Mark Williams
130, 125, 111 – Mark Allen
130, 125, 106, 103, 102, 100 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
130 – Stuart Bingham
127, 116 – Patrick Wallace
122 – Lee Walker
121, 107, 100 – Ding Junhui
121, 106 – Liang Wenbo
117, 101 – Martin Gould
114 – Lu Ning
113, 107 – Ryan Day
109 – Andy Hicks
108, 103, 101, 100 – Ali Carter
104 – David Grace
104 – Barry Hawkins
104 – Robert Milkins
103 – Stephen Maguire
102 – Alex Borg
102 – Liam Highfield
101, 101 – Ken Doherty
References
