The 2018
English Open (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018
BetVictor English Open) was a professional
ranking snooker
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tournament, that took place from 15 to 21 October 2018 in
Crawley, West Sussex, England. It was the sixth ranking event of the
2018/2019 season and a part of the
Home Nations Series.
The defending champion was
Ronnie O'Sullivan, who defeated
Kyren Wilson in the
2017 event. However, O'Sullivan would lose to
Mark Davis 1–6 in the semi-final. O'Sullivan was highly critical of the venue stating "The worst part was not the smell of urine..."This is about as bad as I've ever seen. It's a bit of a hellhole....I don't know what this gaff is, but I've just done an interview and all I can smell is urine."
Stuart Bingham won his fifth professional
ranking title with a 9–7 victory against
Mark Davis, who had reached his first ever ranking final at the age of 46, playing in his 28th season on the professional tour. Bingham became the first player to win two Home Nations Series events.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made the second
maximum break of his career in the opening frame of his 4–1 first round win against
Soheil Vahedi. On the following day Ronnie O'Sullivan made the 15th maximum break of his career in the final frame of the second round whitewash of
Allan Taylor. This was the fourth time that two maximums were made at the main stage of a ranking tournament, and the third time in just over half a year.
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: £15,000
Tournament 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
Total: 81
*
147, 135, 118, 104
Ronnie O'Sullivan
*
147, 112
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
* 141, 136, 132, 121, 105
Ryan Day
* 140
Zhou Yuelong
* 138, 131, 109, 102
Stuart Bingham
* 137
Marco Fu
* 136, 136, 107, 104, 102
Mark Davis
* 136, 128, 100
Luo Honghao
* 136, 116, 100
Tian Pengfei
* 135
Elliot Slessor
* 133
Sunny Akani
* 131, 101
Ben Woollaston
* 129, 101
Sam Craigie
* 129
Mike Dunn
* 126, 109, 108, 107, 104
Judd Trump
* 122
Jak Jones
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Jones was born in Cwmbran, Wales. He became a professional in 2010 at the age of 16, by winning the 2010 European Under 19 Snooker Championship in Malta.
Career Professio ...
* 121, 106, 106
Barry Hawkins
* 121
Ashley Carty
* 121
Allan Taylor
* 120, 100
Sam Baird
* 116, 109
Mark Williams
* 116, 103
Ali Carter
* 116
Robert Milkins
* 115
Thor Chuan Leong
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Career
Thor, based in Penang, Malaysia represented his country at the 2006 & 2010 Asian Games and in the 2013 ...
* 114, 102, 100, 100
Noppon Saengkham
* 113
Liam Highfield
* 113
Zhang Anda
* 112, 102, 100
Neil Robertson
* 112
Liang Wenbo
Liang Wenbo (; born 25 March 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player based at the Oracle Snooker Club, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. Liang, who plays left-handed, has reached one Triple Crown final, made three Masters appearances, and ...
* 109, 109
Martin Gould
* 109
Luca Brecel
* 108, 101
David Gilbert
* 108
Paul Davison
* 107
Anthony McGill
* 106, 100
Mark Selby
* 105
Ricky Walden
* 105
John Higgins
* 104
Stuart Carrington
* 102
Yan Bingtao
* 102
Stephen Maguire
* 102
Mei Xiwen
* 101
Matthew Selt
* 100
Jack Lisowski
References
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Home Nations Series
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