The 2015 World Grand Prix (officially the 2015 888.com World Grand Prix) was a professional non-
ranking
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snooker
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tournament that took place between 16 and 22 March 2015 at the
Venue Cymru
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Victoria Palace
The site lies at the edge of ''Ty'n-y-ffrith'', the 'house in th ...
in
Llandudno
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,
Wales
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.
Judd Trump
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won the inaugural event by defeating
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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10–7 in the final.
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
*Winner:
£100,000
*Runner-up: £35,000
*Semi-final: £20,000
*Quarter-final: £10,000
*Last 16: £5,000
*Last 32: £2,500
*Highest break: £5,000
*Total: £300,000
Seeding list
The top 32 players on a one-year ranking system running from the
2014 World Snooker Championship
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to the
2015 Gdynia Open qualified for the tournament.
Main draw
Final
Century breaks
Total: 17
* 142, 140, 121
Judd Trump
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and the current List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is currently in ...
* 139
Joe Perry
* 136
Peter Ebdon
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* 122, 108, 106
Stephen Maguire
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* 121
Neil Robertson
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* 115
Rod Lawler
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After turning professional in 1990, Lawler has reached one ranking tourna ...
* 113, 111
Martin Gould
Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English former professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He has appeared in four ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters.
Career
Gould began ...
* 110
Mark Selby
Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player. Ranked List of world number one snooker players, world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 24 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the all ...
* 109, 102
Mark Davis
* 105
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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* 101
Stuart Bingham
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Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his pro ...
References
{{Snooker season 2014/2015
World Grand Prix (snooker)
World Grand Prix, 2015
World Grand Prix
World Grand Prix
Snooker competitions in Wales
Llandudno