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2013 Indian Open

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Dates
  
14–18 October 2013

City
  
New Delhi

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Le Meridien Hotel

Country
  
India

Format
  
Ranking event

The 2013 Indian Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament held between 14–18 October 2013 at the Le Meridien Hotel in New Delhi, India. It was the first ranking event held in India, and the fourth ranking event of the 2013/2014 season.

Contents

Ding Junhui won his eighth ranking title by defeating Aditya Mehta 5–0 in the final. Ding became the first player to win two consecutive ranking titles in the same season since Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2002/2003, who won the 2003 European Open and the 2003 Irish Masters. At the tournament Mehta became the first Indian player to reach the final of a ranking event.

Prize fund

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

Wildcard round

These matches were played in New Delhi on 14 October 2013. The Indian wildcard players were selected through a qualifying tournament.

Qualifying

These matches were held on 11 and 12 August 2013 at the Doncaster Dome in Doncaster, England. All matches were best of 7 frames.

References

2013 Indian Open Wikipedia