The 2021 Gibraltar Open (officially the 2021 BetVictor Gibraltar Open) was a professional

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tournament that took place from 1 to 7 March 2021 at the

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. It was the twelfth

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event of the

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, and the sixth and final event in the BetVictor European Series. The event was the sixth instalment of the

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tournament, first held in

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. It was organised by the

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and sponsored by

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. The defending champion was

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, who defeated

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4–3 in the 2020 final. Trump retained his title, defeating

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4–0 in the final and losing just three of the 31 frames he played in the tournament overall. It was Trump's fifth ranking title of the season and the 22nd of his professional career. In addition to the winner's prize of £50,000, Trump secured the £150,000 European Series bonus, awarded to the player who wins the most prize money across the series, for a second consecutive season. The event featured the return to the professional tour of seven-time world champion

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, who retired in 2012, but accepted a two-year invitational tour card to begin in the 2020–21 season.

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beat Hendry 4–1 in the first round of the tournament.

Prize fund

The breakdown of the tournament's prize money is shown below: * Winner: £50,000 * Runner-up: £20,000 * Semi-final: £6,000 * Quarter-final: £5,000 * Last 16: £4,000 * Last 32: £3,000 * Last 64: £2,000 * Highest break: £5,000 * Total: £251,000

Tournament draw

Below is the full draw for the event. Players in bold denote match winners.

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Final

Century breaks

A total of 80 century breaks were made during the tournament. * 145, 103 Jamie Jones * 142, 137, 130, 124

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* 140, 113

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* 140 Scott Donaldson * 138 Riley Parsons * 137, 126, 103

* 137

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* 134, 114 Jamie Clarke * 132, 115

Fraser Patrick Fraser Patrick (born 8 November 1985) is a Scottish former professional snooker player from Glasgow. Career Patrick started his professional career in 2002 by playing Challenge Tour, where he spent three seasons without success. In 2007 Patric ...

* 132, 105 Chen Zifan * 131, 128, 126, 124, 124, 106, 104, 101

* 130, 129, 103

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* 127, 115, 107

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* 126 Mark Allen * 125 Mitchell Mann * 124, 107 David Gilbert * 124 Luo Honghao * 123, 102 Soheil Vahedi * 121, 115, 113, 109, 101

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* 119, 102

* 119 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh * 118

Anthony McGill Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of retired snooker player Alan McManus. McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He ...

* 116

Ashley Hugill Ashley Hugill (born 28 September 1994 in York, Yorkshire) is an English former professional snooker player. Career Hugill came through the 2017 Q School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2017– ...

* 116 Elliot Slessor * 115, 109, 105

* 113 Anthony Hamilton * 112, 100 Luca Brecel * 109, 106 Liam Highfield * 108 Ricky Walden * 107, 105, 100 Ali Carter * 107

* 107 Lu Ning * 106, 102 Liang Wenbo * 105 Hossein Vafaei * 104

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* 104 Pang Junxu * 103 Oliver Lines * 103 Mark Williams * 102 Billy Castle * 101, 101 Jamie O'Neill * 101 Chang Bingyu * 101 Si Jiahui * 100 Martin Gould * 100 Sunny Akani

References

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