The 2016 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2016 Coral Northern Ireland Open) was a professional

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tournament that took place between 14 and 20 November 2016 at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in

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. It was the ninth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season. This was the inaugural Northern Ireland Open event, being held as part of a new Home Nations Series introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the existing Welsh Open and new English Open and Scottish Open tournaments. The winner of the Northern Ireland Open is awarded the Alex Higgins Trophy which is named in honour of Northern Irish two-time world champion Alex Higgins. Mark King won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Barry Hawkins 9–8 in the final. John Higgins made the 123rd official maximum break in the fifth frame of his last 64 match against Sam Craigie. It was Higgins' eighth professional maximum.

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 maximum break 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, 137, 130, 107 John Higgins * 142 Fergal O'Brien * 141, 133, 131, 126, 117, 108 Ronnie O'Sullivan * 139 Mark Williams * 138, 134, 124 Anthony Hamilton * 137, 130, 117, 104 Michael White * 133 Dominic Dale * 131 Chen Zhe * 130, 121 Yan Bingtao * 126, 117, 113 Barry Hawkins * 126 Kurt Dunham * 125, 108 Rhys Clark * 125 Alfie Burden * 125 James Cahill * 121 David Gilbert * 120 Peter Ebdon * 119, 112, 101 Kurt Maflin * 119 Hossein Vafaei * 118 Marco Fu * 118 Alan McManus * 117 Luca Brecel * 116, 109 Ricky Walden * 113, 109, 100

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* 112 Michael Georgiou * 110, 100 Mark King * 110

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* 110 Tom Ford * 109 Mark Allen * 106 Scott Donaldson * 106 Sam Baird * 104 Sam Craigie * 104 Yu Delu * 103 Jamie Curtis-Barrett * 102 Jordan Brown * 102 Ken Doherty * 102 Liang Wenbo * 101

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* 102 Stephen Maguire * 100 Jack Lisowski * 100 Eden Sharav

References

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