The 2005 China Open was a professional

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tournament that took place from 26 March to 3 April 2005 at the Haidian Stadium in

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. It was the penultimate ranking event of the 2004–05 season, preceding the 2005 World Championship. The event was last held in

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, where Mark Williams won the tournament by defeating Anthony Hamilton 9–8.

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won in the final 9–5 against

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. Ding became the second youngest player after

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to capture a ranking title. Along with several other Chinese players, Ding gave up his normal tournament entry position in order to accept an offer to enter the tournament as a wild-card player and thus he did not receive either prize money or ranking points for his tournament win.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Winner: £30,000
Runner-up: £15,000
Semi-final: £7,500
Quarter-final: £5,600
Last 16: £4,000
Last 32: £2,500
Last 48: £1,625
Last 64: £1,100
Stage one highest break: £500
Stage two highest break: £2,000 Stage one

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: £1,000
Stage two maximum break: £20,000

Wildcard round

Main draw

* Steve Davis conceded match due to illness

Final

Qualifying

Qualifying for the tournament took place at Pontin's in

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between January 25–28, 2005.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

*139, 108 Anthony Hamilton *130, 117, 105

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*127, 101 Darren Morgan *125 Gerard Greene *120 Mark Davis *119

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*117

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*114, 105, 102

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*112 Ali Carter *111 Sean O'Neill *108 Gary Wilkinson *105 Paul Davison *104, 101 Nigel Bond *103

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*100 Ryan Day

Televised stage centuries

* 140

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* 139, 103 Michael Holt * 138, 113

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* 135, 129, 126, 117, 107

* 135 Ricky Walden * 135 Stephen Lee * 134 Quinten Hann * 123 Kobkit Palajin * 122 Barry Pinches * 117, 114, 102, 101 Mark Williams * 114, 112, 109, 108

* 113

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* 104

References

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