Venue EventCity Country England Format Ranking event | Location Manchester Established 2016 | |
Organisation(s) World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association | ||
The English Open is a professional ranking snooker tournament.
History
On April 29, 2015, World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn announced that the event called English Open will be held for the first time in 2016 in Manchester, England, as part of a new "Home Series" with the existing Welsh Open and new Northern Ireland Open and Scottish Open tournaments. The winner of the English Open is awarded the Davis Trophy which is named in honour of former World Champion Steve Davis.
The inaugural event took place between 10 and 16 October 2016, and was won by China's Liang Wenbo.
References
English Open (snooker) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA