2016 English Open (snooker)
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The 2016 English Open (officially the 2016 BetVictor English Open) was a professional
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tournament that took place between 10 and 16 October 2016 at the EventCity in
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, England. It was the seventh ranking event of the 2016/2017 season. This was the inaugural English Open event, being held as part of a new
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introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the existing Welsh Open and new Northern Ireland Open and Scottish Open tournaments. The winner of the English Open is awarded the Davis Trophy which is named in honour of six-time world champion
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. Liang Wenbo captured his only ranking title by beating
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9–6 in the final. As a result, he qualified for the Champion of Champions in November. Alfie Burden made the 122nd official
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in the sixth frame of his first round match against Daniel Wells. It was Burden's first professional maximum break.


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: £6,000 * Last 32: £3,500 * Last 64: £2,500 * Highest break: £2,000 * Total: £366,000 The "rolling 147 prize" for a
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stood at £10,000.


Main draw


Top half


Section 1


Section 2


Section 3


Section 4


Bottom half


Section 5


Section 6


Section 7


Section 8


Finals


Final


Century breaks

* 147 Alfie Burden * 140 Li Hang * 139, 125, 121, 102 Neil Robertson * 138, 136, 136, 134, 106 Liang Wenbo * 138 Ali Carter * 138 Mark Williams * 136 Tian Pengfei * 135, 106, 102 Xiao Guodong * 134, 132, 120
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* 134 Joe Perry * 132 Mark Allen * 130, 107 Zhao Xintong * 130, 106 Chris Wakelin * 130 Zhang Anda * 126, 117, 110 Stephen Maguire * 126 Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn * 125 Mark Joyce * 122
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* 121 Ian Preece * 118, 103
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* 116, 116 Stuart Bingham * 116, 115 Ricky Walden * 115 Martin Gould * 114, 103 John Higgins * 114 Barry Hawkins * 113 Zhou Yuelong * 112 Scott Donaldson * 111, 102 David Gilbert * 111 Duane Jones * 110
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* 108, 106 Ding Junhui * 108
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* 107 Ben Woollaston * 107
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* 105 Michael Holt * 105 Ross Muir * 104 Allan Taylor * 103, 100 Marco Fu * 101 Rory McLeod * 100 Ryan Day * 100 Rod Lawler


References

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