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2015 General Cup

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Dates
  
16–21 November 2015

Country
  
Hong Kong

Winner's share
  
$120,000

Venue
  
General Snooker Club

Format
  
Non-ranking event

Highest break
  
Marco Fu (136) Martin Gould (136)

The 2015 General Cup was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 21 November 2015 at the General Snooker Club in Hong Kong.

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Ali Carter was the defending champion but he withdrew from the tournament. Kyren Wilson withdrew as well and they were replaced by Michael Holt and Mark Davis.

Zhang Anda won the General Cup Qualifying Event. Anda beat Cao Yupeng 5-4 in the final.This was an invitational event with the winner receiving the final place in the General Cup.

Marco Fu beat Mark Williams 7–3 in the final, making 3 centuries while doing so.

Prize fund

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

  • Winner: $120,000
  • Runner-up: $60,000
  • Semi-final: $40,000
  • Third in group: $25,000
  • Fourth in group: $20,000
  • Per century break: $2,000
  • Highest break: $20,000
  • Round robin stage

    The top two players from both groups will qualify for the knock-out stage. All group matches being held between 16 and 19 November 2015 and is the best of 7 frames.

    Century breaks

  • 136, 128, 124, 119, 111, 101 Marco Fu
  • 136, 135 Martin Gould
  • 109, 107, 104 Mark Davis
  • 108 Michael White
  • References

    2015 General Cup Wikipedia