European Tour 2012/2013 – Event 6
The Munich Open ( according to the main sponsor and as the arcades Munich Open called ) was a snooker tournament, which was held in 2012 and 2013. Last year the tournament was called the FFB Snooker Open, 2012.
The Munich Open were the last of the 13 singles tournaments in the Players Tour Championship 2012/13 and the last chance to qualify for the Tour Finals. Like last year, the tournament was divided into two, but with one change: The first two rounds end of November 2012 were held in England, the remaining 32 participants played in the first week of January 2013 the winner in Fürstenfeldbruck. In the previous year there were three rounds held in Sheffield and only the best 16 players had come to Germany. The mode with a top -32 final tournament had previously been practiced in Gdynia Open 2012.
132 players have registered for the tournament, but many top players remained the tournament away, including the interim World Ranking Leading Judd Trump and four other top-10 players.
It was won by Englishman Mark Selby, who had taken over one months earlier with his victory in the UK Championship number 1 in the rankings. Selby had won in Fürth and the other German tournament of the European Tour, Paul Hunter Classic.
The entire tournament including the final was played in best- of-seven - mode ( four winning frames).
Preliminary round
On 26 and 27 November 2012, the first part of the tournament was held in the Sheffield Snooker Academy. Eight players had to play a preliminary round to complete the C128 field of the first round. The 32 winners of the second round qualified for the final tournament. Of the various beaten top players left Shaun Murphy, Stuart Bingham and Ding Junhui already from an early stage.
Round 1 (Qualifying )
Round 2 (Top 128)
Round 3 ( top 64)
Finals
The remaining 32 players competed in the first week of January 2013 in the city hall of the event Forums Fürstenfeldbruck against each other. As of January 4 was played on two tournament tables, the finale was held at Epiphany.
Biggest surprise of the opening round was the resignation of Neil Robertson despite a 3-0 lead against the Norwegian Kurt Maflin. In addition to the World Ranking fifth was eliminated and the Sixth Stephen Maguire, who was the defending champion. Thus, the number one Mark Selby and the number 15 Graeme Dott were the top ranked player among the last 16 They prevailed against the remaining competition and contested the final, in the Selby prevailed 4-3.