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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in Milton Keynes,

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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

Gibraltar Open The Gibraltar Open was a ranking snooker tournament. In 2015 it was part of the Players Tour Championship. The tournament started in 2015 and was staged at the Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar. Robert Milkins Robert Milkins (born 6 M ...

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 Kyren Wilson 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

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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

Mark Selby Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player, who is a four-time World Snooker Champion. Ranked world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 21 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the a ...

* 140, 113

Shaun Murphy Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy is noted for his straight cue action and his long potting. Born in Harlow, Essex and ra ...

* 140

Scott Donaldson Scott Donaldson (born 19 March 1994) is a Scottish professional snooker player. Donaldson turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Snooker Championship and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 ...

* 138 Riley Parsons * 137, 126, 103

* 137

Chris Wakelin Chris Wakelin (born 16 March 1992) is an English professional snooker player from Rugby, Warwickshire. He practices in Bar 8 in Rugby. Career Early career Wakelin started playing snooker aged 8, when his parents Mark and Angie bought him his ...

* 134, 114 Jamie Clarke * 132, 115 Fraser Patrick * 132, 105 Chen Zifan * 131, 128, 126, 124, 124, 106, 104, 101

* 130, 129, 103 Barry Hawkins * 127, 115, 107

Stuart Carrington Stuart Carrington (born 14 May 1990) is an English professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Steven Hallworth and Ian Glover in Grimsby. In May 2011, Carrington qualified for the 2011–12 professional Main Tour as one of fo ...

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

Xiao Guodong Xiao Guodong (, born 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. Career 2007–2010 Xiao appeared as a wildcard in the 2007 China Open, and beat t ...

* 119, 102

* 119

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 player ...

* 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 wo ...

* 116 Ashley Hugill * 116 Elliot Slessor * 115, 109, 105 Kyren Wilson * 113 Anthony Hamilton * 112, 100

Luca Brecel Luca Brecel (born 8 March 1995) is a Belgian professional snooker player. He won the European Under-19 title at the age of 14 and went on to break Stephen Hendry's record as the youngest player ever to compete at the Crucible Theatre. He made hi ...

* 109, 106 Liam Highfield * 108

Ricky Walden Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester. Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...

* 107, 105, 100

Ali Carter Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been the World Championship runner-up, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won four ranking titles and briefly reached num ...

* 107

* 107 Lu Ning * 106, 102

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 ...

* 105

Hossein Vafaei Hossein Vafaei ( fa, حسین وفایی ایوری; born 15 October 1994) is an Iranian professional snooker player. He is the first professional player from Iran. He won his first professional title at the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Mar ...

* 104

Tom Ford Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2005, having previously served as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Ford wrote and dire ...

* 104 Pang Junxu * 103 Oliver Lines * 103 Mark Williams * 102

Billy Castle Billy Joe Castle (born 14 July 1992 in Marchwood, Hampshire) is an English professional snooker player. Career In May 2017, Castle came through Q-School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2017� ...

* 101, 101 Jamie O'Neill * 101 Chang Bingyu * 101 Si Jiahui * 100

Martin Gould Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English 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 his profe ...

* 100 Sunny Akani

References

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