2013 International Championship
Snooker tournament
The 2013 International Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 October and 3 November 2013 at the Chengdu Eastern Music Park in Chengdu , China . It was the fifth ranking event of the 2013/2014 season .[ 1]
Judd Trump was the defending champion,[ 2] [ 3] but he lost 5–6 against Alan McManus in the last 64.
Ding Junhui won his ninth ranking title by defeating Marco Fu 10–9 in the final. Ding became the first player to win three consecutive ranking titles since Stephen Hendry in 1993.[ 4] This was also the third consecutive all-Asian ranking final, after Ding defeating Xiao Guodong at the Shanghai Masters and Aditya Mehta at the Indian Open .[ 5]
Prize fund
The total prize money of the event was raised to £625,000 from the previous year's £600,000. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[ 6]
Winner: £ 125,000
Runner-up: £65,000
Semi-final: £30,000
Quarter-final: £17,500
Last 16: £12,000
Last 32: £7,000
Last 64: £3,000
Non-televised highest break: £0
Televised highest break: £1,000
Total: £625,000
Wildcard round
These matches were played in Chengdu on 27 October 2013.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
Main draw
[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
Final
Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Zheng Weili .[ 12] Chengdu Eastern Music Park , Chengdu , China , 3 November 2013.[ 11] [ 13]
Marco Fu Hong Kong
9–10
Ding Junhui China
Afternoon: 61 –52, 128 –0 (128), 4–133 (108) , 62 –12 , 4–92 (92) , 0–138 (138) , 2–127 (127) , 0–126 (126) , 93 –22Evening: 0–108 (108), 65 –20, 105 –0 (105) , 76 –6 (71) , 0–95 (65) , 105 –9 (81) , 8–60 , 71 –47 , 5–64 (58) , 0–99 (91)
128
Highest break
138
2
Century breaks
5
4
50+ breaks
9
Qualifying
These matches took place on 1 and 2 October 2013 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley , England .[ 14] [ 15] [ 16] All matches were best of 11 frames.[ 17]
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
[ 18]
Televised stage centuries
[ 19]
143, 128, 117, 100, 100, 100 – Neil Robertson
143 – Mark Davis
138, 131, 127, 126, 121, 110, 110, 108, 108 – Ding Junhui
137 – Craig Steadman
134, 115, 107, 105, 103, 103, 102 – Joe Perry
134 – Peter Ebdon
128, 116, 112, 105, 103 – Marco Fu
127 – Matthew Selt
126, 121 – Graeme Dott
126 – Stephen Maguire
125 – Shaun Murphy
123, 111 – Mark Allen
123, 103 – Fergal O'Brien
122 – Kyren Wilson
121, 120 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
118, 111 – Liang Wenbo
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