2018 Scottish Open (snooker)
Snooker tournament
The 2018 Scottish Open (officially the 2018 BetVictor Scottish Open ) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 10 to 16 December 2018 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow , Scotland .[ 1] It is the tenth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season and a part of the Home Nations Series .
Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 2–4 to Ross Muir in the second round. The tournament was won by Mark Allen who beat Shaun Murphy in the final. Allen led 6–3, but then Murphy won four frames in a row to take a 7–6 lead. Allen, however, won the next three frames to win 9–7.[ 2]
John Higgins made the ninth maximum break of his career in the third frame of his second-round victory over Gerard Greene .[ 3]
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[ 4]
Winner: £ 70,000
Runner-up: £30,000
Semi-final: £20,000
Quarter-final: £10,000
Last 16: £6,000
Last 32: £3,500
Last 64: £2,500
Highest break: £2,000
Total: £366,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break : £20,000
Tournament draw
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final
Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Greg Coniglio Emirates Arena , Glasgow , Scotland, 16 December 2018.
Shaun Murphy (8) England
7–9
Mark Allen (6) Northern Ireland
Afternoon: 0–110 (110), 69 –5 , 60–64 , 72 –52 , 66 –44 , 4–82 , 52–75 , 4–83 Evening: 7–68 , 108 –0, 77 –0 , 128 –0 (115) , 57 –44 , 1–73 , 0–134 (134) , 36–83
115
Highest break
134
1
Century breaks
2
Century breaks
Total: 70
147 , 104 – John Higgins
141, 124, 122, 115, 101 – Shaun Murphy
139 – Lu Ning
138 – Zhou Yuelong
136, 122, 102 – Ali Carter
136, 101 – Yan Bingtao
136 – Nigel Bond
135 – Jimmy Robertson
134, 129, 126, 110, 106 – Mark Allen
134, 111, 105 – Ding Junhui
134 – Gerard Greene
133, 104, 102, 100 – Ryan Day
133, 103 – Marco Fu
130 – Eden Sharav
130 – Yuan Sijun
127, 119, 119, 117, 102, 101, 101 – Judd Trump
127 – Zhang Anda
122, 115, 108, 108 – Stuart Carrington
122, 108 – Joe Perry
121 – Mark Davis
119 – Matthew Stevens
115, 112 – James Cahill
114 – Ross Muir
113 – Jack Lisowski
110, 105 – Kyren Wilson
110 – Gary Wilson
109 – Duane Jones
107 – Tom Ford
107 – Joe Swail
106 – Ricky Walden
105 – Ian Burns
102 – Alfie Burden
101, 101 – Zhao Xintong
101 – Elliot Slessor
100 – Luca Brecel
100 – David Gilbert
100 – Mark King
100 – Alan McManus
100 – Robbie Williams
References
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