City Chengdu Organisation(s) WPBSA | Country China Format Ranking event | |
Dates 27 October–3 November 2013 Venue Chengdu Eastern Music Park | ||
The 2013 International Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 October and 3 November 2013 at the Chengdu Eastern Music Park in Chengdu, China. It was the fifth ranking event of the 2013/2014 season.
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Judd Trump was the defending champion, but he lost 5–6 against Alan McManus in the last 64.
Ding Junhui won his ninth ranking title by defeating Marco Fu 10–9 in the final. Ding became the first player to win three consecutive ranking titles since Stephen Hendry in 1993. This was also the third consecutive all-Asian ranking final, after Ding defeating Xiao Guodong at the Shanghai Masters and Aditya Mehta at the Indian Open.
Prize fund
The total prize money of the event was raised to £625,000 from the previous year's £600,000. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Wildcard round
These matches were played in Chengdu on 27 October 2013.
Qualifying
These matches took place on 1 and 2 October 2013 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. All matches were best of 11 frames.