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2012 World Open (snooker)

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Venue
  
Haikou Stadium

Country
  
China

Format
  
Ranking event

City
  
Haikou

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

2012 World Open (snooker)

Dates
  
27 February–4 March 2012

The 2012 Star Xing Pai Haikou World Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 February – 4 March 2012 at the Haikou Stadium in Haikou, China. It was the first time that the tournament was held outside the United Kingdom. It was televised on ITV4

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Marco Fu made the 86th official maximum break during his round 4 qualifying match against Matthew Selt. This was Fu's second 147 break.

Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but lost 2–5 against Stephen Lee in the second round.

Mark Allen won his first ranking title by defeating Stephen Lee 10–1 in the final.

Prize fund

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

Wildcard round

These matches were played in Haikou on 27 February 2012.

Qualifying

These matches were held between 11 and 14 January 2012 at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England.

  • 138, 120, 109 Stephen Lee
  • 136, 133 John Higgins
  • 136, 106 Neil Robertson
  • 135, 101, 101 Michael Holt
  • 131, 115 Shaun Murphy
  • 127, 123, 112, 105, 104, 104, 103, 101, 100, 100, 100 Mark Allen
  • 117, 112, 109, 108, 105, 102 Mark Selby
  • 117, 106, 102 Robert Milkins
  • 111, 104 Judd Trump
  • 100 Tom Ford
  • References

    2012 World Open (snooker) Wikipedia