2023 English Open (snooker)

The 2023 English Open (officially the 2023 BetVictor English Open) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament that will take place from 2 to 8 October 2023 at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England. The fourth ranking event of the 2023–24 season, it follows the 2023 British Open and precedes the 2023 Wuhan Open. It is the first of four tournaments in the season's Home Nations Series, preceding the 2023 Northern Ireland Open, the 2023 Scottish Open, and the 2024 Welsh Open. It is also the third of eight tournaments in the season's European Series.The winner will receive £80,000 from a total prize fund of £427,000 and earn a place in the 2023 Champion of Champions invitational event.

Qualifiers took place from 6 to 8 September at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, although matches involving the top 16 players in the world rankings were held over to be played at the final venue.

Mark Selby is the defending champion, having defeated Luca Brecel 9–6 in the 2022 final.

Format

All matches are played as the best of seven until the quarter-finals, which are best of 9. The semi-finals are best of 11 and the final is a best-of-17-frame match played over two .

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this event is shown below:

* Winner: £80,000
* Runner-up: £35,000
* Semi-final: £17,500
* Quarter-final: £11,000
* Last 16: £7,500
* Last 32: £4,500
* Last 64: £3,000
* Highest break: £5,000

* Total: £427,000

Summary

Qualifying round

Qualifying for the event took place between 6 and 8 September at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England. Top-32 players Stuart Bingham⁽²²⁾, Noppon Saengkham⁽²³⁾, and Joe Perry⁽²⁴⁾ were beaten by Jenson Kendrick, Dylan Emery, and Mark Davis respectively. Kendrick's victory was his first win on the professional tour. Eighteen-year-old Liam Pullen defeated the USA's Ahmed Aly Elsayed 4–0 to win his first match at a ranking event. Stephen Maguire made breaks of 130 and 131 as he came from behind three times to defeat Daniel Wells in a deciding frame. The reigning women's world champion Baipat Siripaporn led Pakistani player Muhammad Asif 3–1. She had chances to win the match in the fifth and sixth frames, but Asif leveled the scores at 3–3 and then won the decider. Swiss player Alexander Ursenbacher led 2023 World Championship semi-finalist Si Jiahui 3–1, but Si took three consecutive frames to win the match 4–3. Iranian player Hossein Vafaei made breaks of 99, 81, 84, and 79 as he whitewashed Scotland's Liam Graham 4–0.

James Cahill made the highest break in the Leicester qualifiers, a 140 in his match against Thai player Manasawin Phetmalaikul. This was also Cahill's highest break to date in professional competition. He won the match 4–2, making another century in the final frame. Matthew Selt defeated Alfie Burden 4–2. Burden lost the second frame on the after Selt's . Former world champions Stephen Hendry and Ken Doherty were whitewashed by Fergal O’Brien and Jackson Page respectively. Former world seniors champion David Lilley defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4–1. Allan Taylor came from 52 points behind in the deciding frame to defeat 2023 World Championship quarter-finalist Jak Jones 4–3.

Qualifying

Qualification for the tournament took place from 6 to 8 September at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, although matches involving the top 16 players in the world rankings will be held over to be played at the final venue. Superscripted numbers in parentheses are the top 32 players' seedings, whilst players in bold denote match winners.

Brentwood

One pre-qualifying match between two English wildcards will be played in Brentwood on 2 October:
* v

Held over matches to be played in Brentwood on 2 October are as follows:

*⁽⁴⁾ v
*⁽¹⁵⁾ v
*⁽¹⁶⁾ v
*⁽¹²⁾ v
*⁽³⁾ v
*⁽⁹⁾ v
*⁽¹⁴⁾ v
*⁽¹⁾ v
*⁽⁶⁾ v
*⁽¹¹⁾ v
*⁽²⁾ v
*⁽⁷⁾ v
*⁽¹⁰⁾ v
*⁽⁵⁾ v
*⁽⁸⁾ v
*⁽¹³⁾ v

One held over match will be played on 3 October:
* v The winner of the match between Ryan Davies and Bradley Cowdroy

Leicester

The qualifying matches played in Leicester were as follows:

6 September

* 4–2
* 0–4
*⁽³⁰⁾ 4–3
*⁽²⁷⁾ 4–2
* 1–4
* 0–4
*⁽¹⁸⁾ 4–3
*⁽³¹⁾ 4–1
* 1–4
*⁽¹⁷⁾ 4–0
* 2–4
* 0–4
*⁽²⁴⁾ 1–4
*⁽²⁸⁾ 4–0
* 3–4
* 3–4

7 September

* 4–1
* 0–4
* 3–4
* 4–0
* 1–4
* 0–4
* 0–4
*⁽²⁶⁾ 4–1
*⁽³²⁾ 4–3
* 4–3
*⁽¹⁹⁾ 4–1
* 0–4
*⁽²⁵⁾ 4–1
*⁽²⁹⁾ 4–2
* 1–4
* 0–4

8 September

*⁽²¹⁾ 4–3
* 0–4
* 4–1
* 3–4
* 4–2
*⁽²⁰⁾ 4–0
*⁽²³⁾ 2–4
* 1–4
* 1–4
* 4–0
* 4–1
* 2–4
*⁽²²⁾ 1–4
* 2–4
* 4–1

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

A total of 14 century breaks were made during the qualifying stage of the tournament.

* 140, 111 James Cahill
* 135 Graeme Dott
* 131, 130 Stephen Maguire
* 121 Ricky Walden
* 116 Andrew Higginson
* 110 Liam Highfield
* 105, 103 David Gilbert
* 102 Peng Yisong
* 102 Gary Wilson
* 101 Zhang Anda
* 100 Noppon Saengkham

References

External links

World Snooker Tour – Home

World Snooker – Live Scores

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