Tournament information | |
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Dates | 12β18 December 2022 (2022-12-12 β 2022-12-18) |
Venue | Brentwood Centre |
City | Brentwood |
Country | England |
Organisation | World Snooker Tour |
Format | Ranking event |
Total prize fund | Β£427,000 |
Winner's share | Β£80,000 |
Highest break | Mark Williams (WAL) (147) |
Final | |
Champion | Mark Selby (ENG) |
Runner-up | Luca Brecel (BEL) |
Score | 9β6 |
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The 2022 English Open (officially the: 2022 BetVictor English Open) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 12ββto 18 December 2022 at theββBrentwood Centre in Brentwood, "England." The seventh ranking event of the 2022β23 season, it was the third tournament in the Home Nations Series, following the Northern Ireland Open and the Scottish Open and preceding the Welsh Open. It was the fourth of eight tournaments in the season's European Series. Qualifiers took place from 25ββto 30 October at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, although matches involving the "top 16 players in the world rankings were held over to be," played at the final venue. Organised by, the World Snooker Tour and sponsored by BetVictor, the tournament was broadcast by Eurosport in the UK. And Europe. The winner received Β£80,000 from a total prize fund of Β£427,000.
On the first day of the tournament, the WPBSA suspended Yan Bingtao from professional competition, making him the seventh player suspended from the tour since October amid a major match-fixing investigation.
Neil Robertson was the defending champion, having defeated John Higgins 9β8 in the 2021 final. However, he was beaten 4β6 by Mark Selby in the semi-finals, "meaning that he lost at the semi-final stage in each of the season's first three Home Nations events." Selby recorded his first win over Robertson in two years, after seven consecutive losses to him. And reached his first ranking final since winning the 2021 World Championship. He went on to win the event, defeating Luca Brecel 9β6 in the final to capture his 21st ranking title. He became the first player to win the English Open twice, and the second player, after Judd Trump, to win four Home Nations tournaments.
Mark Williams made the tournament's highest break, the third maximum break of his career, in the fourth frame of his quarter-final match against Robertson. Aged 47 years and "270 days," he became the oldest player to make an officially recognised maximum break in professional competition.
Prize fundβ»
The breakdown of prize money for this event is: shown below:
- Winner: Β£80,000
- Runner-up: Β£35,000
- Semi-final: Β£17,500
- Quarter-final: Β£11,000
- Last 16: Β£7,500
- Last 32: Β£4,500
- Last 64: Β£3,000
- Highest break: Β£5,000
- Total: Β£427,000
Main drawβ»
Top halfβ»
Bottom halfβ»
Finalβ»
Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Tatiana Woollaston Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, England, 18 December 2022 | ||
Mark Selby (4) England |
9β6 | Luca Brecel (11) Belgium |
Afternoon: 90β0, 64β4, 74β14, 27β96, 77β43, 45β96, 7β78, 2β72 Evening: 83β33, 73β5, 0β123 (122), 67β36, 62β20, 0β113 (113), 87β0 | ||
90 | Highest break | 122 |
0 | Century breaks | 2 |
Qualifyingβ»
Qualification for the tournament took place from 25 to 30 October 2022 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England.
Main Qualifyingβ»
A single pre-qualifying match was played before the main qualifying draw was conducted:
- PQ3: Ian Burns (ENG) 4β2 Sanderson Lam (ENG)
- Lei Peifan (CHN) 4β1 Chris Wakelin (ENG)
- Tom Ford (ENG) 1β4 Elliot Slessor (ENG)
- Chang Bingyu (CHN) 4β0 Fergal O'Brien (IRL)
- Lukas Kleckers (GER) 0β4 Hammad Miah (ENG)
- Ricky Walden (ENG) 4β1 Bai Langning (CHN)
- Aaron Hill (IRL) 3β4 Liam Highfield (ENG)
- Liang Wenbo (CHN) w/dβw/o Peter Lines (ENG)
- Oliver Brown (ENG) 2β4 Muhammad Asif (PAK)
- Jamie O'Neill (ENG) 2β4 Louis Heathcote (ENG)
- Dominic Dale (WAL) 4β2 Zak Surety (ENG)
- David Lilley (ENG) 3β4 Mark King (ENG)
- Robert Milkins (ENG) 4β1 Duane Jones (WAL)
- Si Jiahui (CHN) 0β4 Julien Leclercq (BEL)
- Stuart Carrington (ENG) 4β2 Jak Jones (WAL)
- Ali Carter (ENG) 4β1 Adam Duffy (ENG)
- Chen Zifan (CHN) 4β3 Mink Nutcharut (THA)
- Michael White (WAL) 4β0 Michael Judge (IRL)
- Anthony McGill (SCO) 4β3 David Grace (ENG)
- Graeme Dott (SCO) 3β4 Sam Craigie (ENG)
- Anton Kazakov (UKR) 1β4 Wu Yize (CHN)
- Joe Perry (ENG) 1β4 Cao Yupeng (CHN)
- Jenson Kendrick (ENG) 2β4 Joe O'Connor (ENG)
- Craig Steadman (ENG) 4β0 Himanshu Jain (IND)
- Lu Ning (CHN) 4β2 James Cahill (ENG)
- Fraser Patrick (SCO) 4β0 Jimmy White (ENG)
- Tian Pengfei (CHN) 4β1 Peng Yisong (CHN)
- David Gilbert (ENG) 4β2 Mohamed Ibrahim (EGY)
- Rebecca Kenna (ENG) 0β4 Yuan Sijun (CHN)
- Xiao Guodong (CHN) 2β4 Mark Davis (ENG)
- Jordan Brown (NIR) 2β4 Scott Donaldson (SCO)
- Dean Young (SCO) 0β4 Oliver Lines (ENG)
- Ken Doherty (IRL) 4β1 Robbie Williams (ENG)
- Jamie Jones (WAL) 4β2 Alfie Burden (ENG)
- Jamie Clarke (WAL) 3β4 Ben Woollaston (ENG)
- Andres Petrov (EST) 4β3 Victor Sarkis (BRA)
- Stephen Maguire (SCO) 0β4 Zhang Anda (CHN)
- John Astley (ENG) 4β0 Ng On-yee (HKG)
- Dylan Emery (WAL) 4β0 Li Hang (CHN)
- Zhou Yuelong (CHN) 2β4 Xu Si (CHN)
- Ding Junhui (CHN) 4β0 Ian Burns (ENG)
- Pang Junxu (CHN) 4β0 Barry Pinches (ENG)
- Hossein Vafaei (IRN) 4β2 Zhang Jiankang (CHN)
- Fan Zhengyi (CHN) 4β1 Andy Hicks (ENG)
- Andy Lee (HKG) 2β4 Martin Gould (ENG)
- Gary Wilson (ENG) 4β1 Lyu Haotian (CHN)
- Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA) 4β3 Alexander Ursenbacher (SUI)
Held-Over Matchesβ»
Matches involving the Top 16, the defending champion and the nominated wild-card players were played at the Brentwood Centre. The matches involving winners from the held-over pre-qualifying matches were also held over to the venue.
- PQ1: Marco Fu (HKG) 4β0 Lewis Ullah (ENG)
- PQ2: Callum Beresford (ENG) 4β1 Ryan Thomerson (AUS)
- Neil Robertson (AUS) (1) 4β0 Andrew Pagett (WAL)
- Ryan Day (WAL) 4β2 Asjad Iqbal (PAK)
- Jimmy Robertson (ENG) 1β4 Marco Fu (HKG)
- Barry Hawkins (ENG) (9) 4β1 Rod Lawler (ENG)
- Matthew Selt (ENG) 4β0 Callum Beresford (ENG)
- Mark Williams (WAL) (8) 4β3 Matthew Stevens (WAL)
- John Higgins (SCO) (5) 4β0 Gerard Greene (NIR)
- Jack Lisowski (ENG) 4β2 Sean O'Sullivan (ENG)
- Shaun Murphy (ENG) 4β2 Anthony Hamilton (ENG)
- Mark Selby (ENG) (4) 4β3 Noppon Saengkham (THA)
- Judd Trump (ENG) (3) 4β3 Jackson Page (WAL)
- Stuart Bingham (ENG) 1β4 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA)
- Luca Brecel (BEL) 4β3 Mark Joyce (ENG)
- Kyren Wilson (ENG) (6) 4β0 Reanne Evans (ENG)
- Zhao Xintong (CHN) (7) 4β2 Allan Taylor (ENG)
- Mark Allen (NIR) 4β1 Mitchell Mann (ENG)
- Yan Bingtao (CHN) (15) w/dβw/o Ashley Hugill (ENG)
- Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (2) 4β3 Ben Mertens (BEL)
Notesβ»
Century breaksβ»
Main stage centuriesβ»
Total: 73
- 147, 135, 134, 130, 123 β Mark Williams
- 142, 136, 100 β Ali Carter
- 141, 135, 113, 109, 100 β Mark Allen
- 141, 130, 127, 122, 110, 102, 100 β Neil Robertson
- 137, 105 β Mark Joyce
- 136, 134, 121 β Lei Peifan
- 136, 128, 127, 105, 104, 102 β Mark Selby
- 135, 122, 113, 108, 101 β Luca Brecel
- 135 β Zhao Xintong
- 130, 126, 103 β Ryan Day
- 129, 125, 122, 122, 102 β Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
- 128, 118 β Judd Trump
- 128, 118 β Martin Gould
- 128 β Scott Donaldson
- 127, 126, 101 β Barry Hawkins
- 127, 119, 111, 105 β Shaun Murphy
- 124 β Ding Junhui
- 121, 111 β Jack Lisowski
- 121 β Pang Junxu
- 118 β Sam Craigie
- 114 β Louis Heathcote
- 113 β Matthew Selt
- 111 β Marco Fu
- 106 β Cao Yupeng
- 106 β Noppon Saengkham
- 104 β Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 103 β John Higgins
- 102 β Jamie Jones
- 102 β Yuan Sijun
- 101 β Ashley Hugill
- 101 β Tian Pengfei
Qualifying stage centuriesβ»
Total: 26
- 141 β Michael White
- 140 β Wu Yize
- 138, 134, 106 β Ding Junhui
- 134 β Muhammad Asif
- 132 β David Gilbert
- 122 β Alfie Burden
- 122 β Chen Zifan
- 120, 105 β Xu Si
- 118 β Lu Ning
- 112, 100 β Sam Craigie
- 109 β Mohamed Ibrahim
- 109 β Jamie Jones
- 107, 100 β Dylan Emery
- 104 β Chang Bingyu
- 104 β Martin Gould
- 103 β Ricky Walden
- 101 β Fan Zhengyi
- 101 β Zhang Anda
- 101 β Zhou Yuelong
- 100 β Ali Carter
- 100 β Mark Davis
Referencesβ»
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