The 2017 European Masters (officially the 2007 888sport European Masters) was a professional

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tournament that took place from 2–8 October 2017 in

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. It was the sixth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season. It was the first full ranking event to be held in Belgium since the European Open was played in

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in 1994. Qualifying took place from 3–4 August in Preston.

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was the defending champion, having beaten

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9–8 in the 2016 final in

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. He successfully defended the title, defeating

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9–7 in this year's final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: * Winner: £75,000 * Runner-up: £35,000 * Semi-final: £17,500 * Quarter-final: £11,000 * Last 16: £6,000 * Last 32: £4,000 * Last 64: £2,000 * Televised highest break: £1,500 * Total: £366,500 The "rolling 147 prize" for a

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stood at £35,000

Main draw

Final

Qualifying

These matches were held between 3 and 4 August 2017 at the

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in Preston,

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. All matches were best of 7 frames. ;Notes

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

Total: 19 * 140

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* 130 Jimmy Robertson * 130

Noppon Saengkham Noppon Saengkham (; born 15 July 1992) is a Thai professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 2010, he has reached one ranking final (the 2023 Scottish Open) in which he finished as runner-up to Gary Wilson. Career Early years I ...

* 127, 100

Robert Milkins Robert Milkins (born 6 March 1976) is an English professional snooker player known for quick play. Milkins has been a member of snooker's main tour since regaining a tour card in 1998. Milkins reached a career high rank of 12 in 2014 and 2023, ...

* 119 Anthony Hamilton * 118

Jack Lisowski Jack Lisowski (born 25 June 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Churchdown, Gloucestershire. He turned professional in 2010 by finishing first in the 2009/2010 International Open Series, PIOS rankings. A left-handed player, he ...

* 116

Zhou Yuelong Zhou Yuelong (; born 24 January 1998) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open. Career Between 2 ...

* 112

Ben Woollaston Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. His sole professional title came at the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 3, third Players Tour Championship event in 2011. W ...

* 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

Thor Chuan Leong Thor Chuan Leong (; born 24 March 1988), better known on the main tour as Rory Thor, is a Malaysian professional snooker player. Career Thor, based in Penang, Malaysia represented his country at the 2006 & 2010 Asian Games and in the 201 ...

* 107

Michael Georgiou Michael Georgiou (born 18 January 1988) is a British-Greek Cypriots, Cypriot former professional snooker player from Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill. He is a practice partner of Igor Figueiredo and Hammad Miah, who practises at Whetstone Snooke ...

* 106

Neil Robertson Neil Alexander Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and former List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He ...

* 105 Mark Davis * 105

Andrew Higginson Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open. Career Early years After some succ ...

* 103 Ryan Day * 102 Joe Perry * 101

Cao Yupeng Cao Yupeng (; born 27 October 1990) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He won the 2011 Asian Under-21 Championship, thus qualifying for the professional main tour for the 2011–12 season. In his first season on the circuit, he reached ...

* 100

Matthew Selt Matthew Selt (born 7 March 1985) is an English professional snooker player. He qualified for the professional tour by finishing seventh in the Pontin's International Open Series in 2006/2007. Selt played in his first professional final in 2014 ...

Televised stage centuries

Total: 52 * 145, 141, 110, 102

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* 143

* 138, 138, 136, 112, 101

* 134, 129, 100

* 131, 127, 120, 116, 111, 109

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 ...

* 131, 109

John Higgins John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by num ...

* 130, 119, 116, 113, 107, 102, 101

* 129

Aditya Mehta Aditya Mehta (born 31 October 1985) is an Indian former professional snooker player. He participated on the World Snooker Tour for the 2007–08 season, and between 2011 and 2018. He reached a highest world ranking of 49. Mehta participated in ...

* 127

* 121, 116

* 115, 110, 107, 107, 106, 101, 100

* 113

Alfie Burden Alfred Burden (born 14 December 1976) is an English former professional snooker player from London. He first turned professional in 1994 and reached his highest world ranking of 38th in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons. His best results in ...

* 109 Jamie Jones * 108

Mei Xiwen Mei Xiwen (; born October 8, 1982) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. Career Mei made his debut on the Main Tour in the 2009/2010 season, as the ACBS Asian nomination, playing his first match at the 2009 Grand Prix. He lost 5� ...

* 105, 102, 101, 100 David Gilbert * 105

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* 103 Mark Davis * 102, 102, 101 Mark Williams * 102

Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player. He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players ...

References

External links

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