2016 China Championship (snooker)

The 2016 Evergrande China Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 1–5 November 2016 in Guangzhou, China.[1]

Evergrande China Championship
Tournament information
Dates1–5 November 2016
VenueGuangzhou Gymnasium
CityGuangzhou
CountryChina
Organisation(s)WPBSA
FormatNon-ranking event
Total prize fund£650,000[1]
Winner's share£200,000
Highest break Shaun Murphy (144)
Final
Champion John Higgins
Runner-up Stuart Bingham
Score10–7
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It was the first staging of the tournament, and the plans were for it to become a full ranking event for the following three years, with the biggest prize pool for any event ever held outside the UK previously.[2]

John Higgins became the inaugural winner by beating Stuart Bingham 10–7 in the final.[3][4]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money from this year is shown below:

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stands at £TBD.

Seeding list

The top 10 snooker players on the ranking list after the Shanghai Masters, along with the top 4 players on the one year prize money ranking list were invited to participate in the event.[2][5] The remaining two players (Marco Fu and Liang Wenbo) were selected by the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association.[6] Mark Williams became eligible to participate after the withdrawal of world number 10 Ronnie O'Sullivan from the competition, as he was next in line to qualify through his official world ranking.[7]

Source:[8]

Seed Player Total Rankings[9] 1 Year Rankings[10]
01 Mark Selby 690,650 60,775
02 Stuart Bingham 516,534 34,775
03 Shaun Murphy 447,308 26,000
04 Judd Trump 409,166 19,000
05 John Higgins 408,725 22,750
06 Ding Junhui 376,925 91,500
07 Neil Robertson 359,582 58,500
08 Mark Allen 336,592 9,725
09 Ricky Walden 312,208 9,400
0w/d Ronnie O'Sullivan 302,333 8,000
010 Mark Williams 243,008 22,250
011 Ali Carter 226,200 105,150
012 Anthony McGill 197,375 73,525
013 Joe Perry 295,133 41,050
014 Michael Holt 149,683 38,150
Marco Fu Qualified via CBSA Wildcard
Liang Wenbo Qualified via CBSA Wildcard
  Player qualified via general ranking list.
  Player qualified via one-year ranking list.

Main draw

[11][12][13][14]

Last 16
Best of 11 frames 		Quarter-finals
Best of 11 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 17 frames 		Final
Best of 19 frames
            
1 Mark Selby 6
12 Anthony McGill 2
1 Mark Selby 5
8 Mark Allen 6
8 Mark Allen 6
9 Ricky Walden 4
8 Mark Allen 3
5 John Higgins 9
5 John Higgins 6
10 Mark Williams 4
5 John Higgins 6
11 Ali Carter 2
4 Judd Trump 4
11 Ali Carter 6
5 John Higgins 10
2 Stuart Bingham 7
3 Shaun Murphy 6
13 Joe Perry 4
3 Shaun Murphy 6
Marco Fu 2
6 Ding Junhui 3
Marco Fu 6
3 Shaun Murphy 8
2 Stuart Bingham 9
7 Neil Robertson 5
14 Michael Holt 6
14 Michael Holt 5
2 Stuart Bingham 6
2 Stuart Bingham 6
Liang Wenbo 2

Final
Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Zhou Ying.
Guangzhou Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China, 5 November 2016.[12][13][14]
John Higgins (5)
 Scotland		 10–7 Stuart Bingham (2)
 England
Afternoon: 77–37, 74–17, 72–1, 1–127 (102), 18–112 (112), 49–75 (52), 69–0, 70–58 (65, 58), 14–100 (50)
Evening: 28–55, 4–98 (98), 81–0 (56), 71–10 (65), 0–84 (84), 134–1 (134), 105–21 (100), 129–8 (101)
134 Highest break 112
3 Century breaks 2
6 50+ breaks 7

Century breaks

[15]

References
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