2011 China Open (snooker)
The China Open 2011, a snooker tournament in the Main Tour Snooker Season 2010 /11, which was held in Beijing from 28 March to 3 April 2011.
Judd Trump beat Mark Selby in the final of 10:8 and was able to win the first ranking tournament of his career. The defending champion Mark Williams already retired on the first lap with 4:5 against Stephen Lee.
Purse
Winner: £ 60,000 Finalist: £ 30,000 Semi-finalists: £ 15,000 Quarter-finalists: £ 8,000 Eighth finalists: £ 5,925 Last 32: £ 4000 Last 48: £ 2200 Last 64: £ 1500
Highest preliminaries Breakfast: £ 400 Highest finals break: £ 2000
Total: £ 325,000
Wildcard Round
The Games of the Wildcard round were played on 28 and 29 March. It sat almost all the favorites through, only Ken Doherty had a convincing aufspielenden Li Hang nothing to oppose and got clear. For the Chinese, who played from 2008 to 2010 already on the main tour, it was after 2007, the second time that he qualified for the main round of the China Open. The starting for Norway Englishman Kurt Maflin managed by defeating the wildcard players Cao Yupeng for the first time to make it into the last 32 of a Main Tour tournament.
Final round
The big surprise of the first round was the elimination of the defending champion and world number two Mark Williams v Stephen Lee. Also, Stephen Maguire, before even a finalist in the Welsh Open, retired early. Positively surprised the wildcard Li Hang players, who just won against Graeme Dott and his best result achieved so far. Judd Trump, who had already knocked on the door of the top 16 players, and Ryan Day against an index located lately out of shape Ronnie O'Sullivan were also able to prevail against seeded players. Biggest surprise of the second round was the end of world champion Neil Robertson against Peter Ebdon. But in the quarterfinals He had then no chance against the always better coming into play youngster Judd Trump. With John Higgins also the last of the top 3 seeded players failed to Shaun Murphy. In the upper half of the set list, the remaining favorites Mark Selby and Ding Junhui prevailed. In their semi-final the match was up to 3:3 balanced, to be qualified with Selby won three frames in a row for the final. In the other semifinal Murphy was unable to repeat the success against Higgins. A punchy playing and safely punching Judd Trump won safely with 6:1.
Final
For the 21 -year-old Judd Trump took so long for the first final of his career in front of cameras on the main tour. Nevertheless, he showed little nervousness. In the fairly balanced match he was able to repeatedly submit and Selby always had to fight for the compensation. He succeeded, after a 6:8 residue, even to 8:8. After that, it was Trump, who, each with a '57 -Break the missing two tight frames secured the tournament victory and won his first title at a world ranking tournament.
Qualification
The qualifying matches took place from 24 to 27 February 2011 in Sheffield instead.
Century- Breaks
Qualifying round
Final round