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2022 English Open (snooker)

The 2022 English Open (officially the 2022 BetVictor English Open) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 12 to 18 December 2022 at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England.[1] The seventh ranking event of the 2022–23 season, it was the third tournament in the Home Nations Series, following the Northern Ireland Open and the Scottish Open and preceding the Welsh Open. It was the fourth of eight tournaments in the season's European Series. Qualifiers took place from 25 to 30 October at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, although matches involving the top 16 players in the world rankings were held over to be played at the final venue. Organised by the World Snooker Tour and sponsored by BetVictor, the tournament was broadcast by Eurosport in the UK and Europe. The winner received £80,000 from a total prize fund of £427,000.

2022 BetVictor English Open
Tournament information
Dates12–18 December 2022 (2022-12-12 – 2022-12-18)
VenueBrentwood Centre
CityBrentwood
CountryEngland
OrganisationWorld Snooker Tour
FormatRanking event
Total prize fund£427,000
Winner's share£80,000
Highest break Mark Williams (WAL) (147)
Final
Champion Mark Selby (ENG)
Runner-up Luca Brecel (BEL)
Score9–6
← 2021
2023 →

On the first day of the tournament, the WPBSA suspended Yan Bingtao from professional competition, making him the seventh player suspended from the tour since October amid a major match-fixing investigation.[2][3]

Neil Robertson was the defending champion, having defeated John Higgins 9–8 in the 2021 final.[4] However, he was beaten 4–6 by Mark Selby in the semi-finals, meaning that he lost at the semi-final stage in each of the season's first three Home Nations events.[5] Selby recorded his first win over Robertson in two years, after seven consecutive losses to him,[6] and reached his first ranking final since winning the 2021 World Championship.[7] He went on to win the event, defeating Luca Brecel 9–6 in the final to capture his 21st ranking title.[8] He became the first player to win the English Open twice, and the second player, after Judd Trump, to win four Home Nations tournaments.[9]

Mark Williams made the tournament's highest break, the third maximum break of his career, in the fourth frame of his quarter-final match against Robertson.[10] Aged 47 years and 270 days, he became the oldest player to make an officially recognised maximum break in professional competition.[11][12]

Prize fund

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The breakdown of prize money for this event is shown below:[13]

  • Winner: £80,000
  • Runner-up: £35,000
  • Semi-final: £17,500
  • Quarter-final: £11,000
  • Last 16: £7,500
  • Last 32: £4,500
  • Last 64: £3,000
  • Highest break: £5,000
  • Total: £427,000

Main draw

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Top half

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Last 64
Best of 7 frames		Last 32
Best of 7 frames		Last 16
Best of 7 frames		Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
 
                  
 
 
 
 
  Neil Robertson (AUS) (1)4
 
 
 
  Lei Peifan (CHN)3
 
  Neil Robertson (1)4
 
 
 
  Elliot Slessor0
 
  Elliot Slessor (ENG)w/o
 
 
 
  Chang Bingyu (CHN)w/d
 
  Neil Robertson (1)4
 
 
 
  Ryan Day (16)2
 
  Ryan Day (WAL) (16)4
 
 
 
  Hammad Miah (ENG)3
 
  Ryan Day (16)4
 
 
 
  Ricky Walden (17)3
 
  Ricky Walden (ENG) (17)4
 
 
 
  Liam Highfield (ENG)0
 
  Neil Robertson (1)5
 
 
 
  Mark Williams (8)3
 
  Peter Lines (ENG)1
 
 
 
  Marco Fu (HKG)4
 
  Marco Fu2
 
 
 
  Barry Hawkins (9)4
 
  Muhammad Asif (PAK)2
 
 
 
  Barry Hawkins (ENG) (9)4
 
  Barry Hawkins (9)2
 
 
 
  Mark Williams (8)4
 
  Louis Heathcote (ENG)3
 
 
 
  Matthew Selt (ENG) (25)4
 
  Matthew Selt (25)0
 
 
 
  Mark Williams (8)4
 
  Dominic Dale (WAL)2
 
 
 
  Mark Williams (WAL) (8)4
 
  Neil Robertson (1)4
 
 
 
  Mark Selby (4)6
 
  John Higgins (SCO) (5)4
 
 
 
  Mark King (ENG)1
 
  John Higgins (5)4
 
 
 
  Robert Milkins (28)3
 
  Robert Milkins (ENG) (28)4
 
 
 
  Julien Leclercq (BEL)1
 
  John Higgins (5)2
 
 
 
  Ali Carter (21)4
 
  Jack Lisowski (ENG) (12)4
 
 
 
  Stuart Carrington (ENG)0
 
  Jack Lisowski (12)2
 
 
 
  Ali Carter (21)4
 
  Ali Carter (ENG) (21)4
 
 
 
  Chen Zifan (CHN)0
 
  Ali Carter (21)3
 
 
 
   Mark Selby (4)5
 
  Michael White (WAL)1
 
 
 
  Anthony McGill (SCO) (20)4
 
  Anthony McGill (20)2
 
 
 
  Shaun Murphy (13)4
 
  Sam Craigie (ENG)1
 
 
 
  Shaun Murphy (ENG) (13)4
 
  Shaun Murphy (13)3
 
 
 
  Mark Selby (4)4
 
  Wu Yize (CHN)4
 
 
 
  Cao Yupeng (CHN)3
 
  Wu Yize1
 
 
 
  Mark Selby (4)4
 
  Joe O'Connor (ENG)2
 
 
  Mark Selby (ENG) (4)4
 

Bottom half

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Last 64
Best of 7 frames		Last 32
Best of 7 frames		Last 16
Best of 7 frames		Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
 
                  
 
 
 
 
  Judd Trump (ENG) (3)4
 
 
 
  Craig Steadman (ENG)1
 
  Judd Trump (3)4
 
 
 
  Fraser Patrick0
 
  Lu Ning (CHN)w/d
 
 
 
  Fraser Patrick (SCO)w/o
 
  Judd Trump (3)4
 
 
 
  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh2
 
  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (THA)4
 
 
 
  Tian Pengfei (CHN)1
 
  Thepchaiya Un-Nooh4
 
 
 
  Yuan Sijun1
 
  David Gilbert (ENG) (19)1
 
 
 
  Yuan Sijun (CHN)4
 
  Judd Trump (3)1
 
 
 
  Luca Brecel (11)5
 
  Mark Davis (ENG)2
 
 
 
  Scott Donaldson (SCO)4
 
  Scott Donaldson1
 
 
 
  Luca Brecel (11)4
 
  Oliver Lines (ENG)2
 
 
 
  Luca Brecel (BEL) (11)4
 
  Luca Brecel (11)4
 
 
 
  Jamie Jones (27)2
 
  Ken Doherty (IRL)2
 
 
 
  Jamie Jones (WAL) (27)4
 
  Jamie Jones (27)4
 
 
 
  Kyren Wilson (6)1
 
  Ben Woollaston (ENG)0
 
 
 
  Kyren Wilson (ENG) (6)4
 
  Luca Brecel (11)6
 
 
 
  Mark Allen (10)2
 
  Zhao Xintong (CHN) (7)4
 
 
 
  Andres Petrov (EST)0
 
  Zhao Xintong (7)0
 
 
 
  John Astley4
 
  Zhang Anda (CHN)1
 
 
 
  John Astley (ENG)4
 
  John Astley1
 
 
 
  Mark Allen (10)4
 
  Mark Allen (NIR) (10)4
 
 
 
  Dylan Emery (WAL)1
 
  Mark Allen (10)4
 
 
 
  Ding Junhui3
 
  Xu Si (CHN)1
 
 
 
  Ding Junhui (CHN)4
 
  Mark Allen (10)5
 
 
 
  Ashley Hugill0
 
  Pang Junxu (CHN)4
 
 
 
  Hossein Vafaei (IRN) (18)2
 
  Pang Junxu2
 
 
 
  Ashley Hugill4
 
  Fan Zhengyi (CHN)3
 
 
 
  Ashley Hugill (ENG)4
 
  Ashley Hugill4
 
 
 
  Martin Gould1
 
  Martin Gould (ENG)4
 
 
 
  Gary Wilson (ENG) (31)2
 
  Martin Gould4
 
 
 
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)1
 
  Dechawat Poomjaeng (THA)2
 
 
  Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (2)4
 

Final

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Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Tatiana Woollaston
Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, England, 18 December 2022
Mark Selby (4)
  England 		9–6 Luca Brecel (11)
  Belgium
Afternoon: 90–0, 64–4, 74–14, 27–96, 77–43, 45–96, 7–78, 2–72
Evening: 83–33, 73–5, 0–123 (122), 67–36, 62–20, 0–113 (113), 87–0
90 Highest break 122
0 Century breaks 2

Qualifying

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Qualification for the tournament took place from 25 to 30 October 2022 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England.[1][14]

Main Qualifying

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A single pre-qualifying match was played before the main qualifying draw was conducted:

Held-Over Matches

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Matches involving the Top 16, the defending champion and the nominated wild-card players were played at the Brentwood Centre. The matches involving winners from the held-over pre-qualifying matches were also held over to the venue.

  • PQ1:   Marco Fu (HKG) 4–0   Lewis Ullah (ENG)
  • PQ2:   Callum Beresford (ENG) 4–1   Ryan Thomerson (AUS)

Notes

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Century breaks

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Main stage centuries

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Total: 73[15]

Qualifying stage centuries

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Total: 26[16]

References

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  1. ^ a b BetVictor English Open - World Snooker. wst.tv. 2022-10-09.
  2. ^ "Yan Bingtao Becomes Seventh Player To Be Suspended In Snooker Match-Fixing Probe". The Sportsman. 2022-12-12. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  3. ^ "Yan suspended from tour amid match-fixing probe". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  4. ^ "Robertson beats Higgins 9-8 in final". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  5. ^ "Snooker results: Mark Selby rallies to beat Neil Robertson 6-4 at English Open". www.sportinglife.com. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
  6. ^ "Selby Ends Losing Streak Against Robertson". World Snooker Tour. 17 December 2022. Archived from the original on December 17, 2022.
  7. ^ "Selby to face Brecel in English Open final". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
  8. ^ "Selby Ends Barren Streak With English Title". World Snooker Tour. 18 December 2022. Archived from the original on December 18, 2022.
  9. ^ Davies, Jonathan (18 December 2022). "Mark Selby beats Luca Brecel to end title drought at English Open". livesnooker.com.
  10. ^ "Williams Makes 147 In Brentwood". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on December 16, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  11. ^ "Williams becomes oldest player to make 147 break". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  12. ^ "Neil Robertson Makes Semi-Final Of English Open Despite Mark Williams' 147". The Sportsman. 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  13. ^ "2022–23 Season Prize Money Breakdown" (PDF). WST. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2022.
  14. ^ BetVictor English Open 2022 Qualifiers
  15. ^ "BetVictor English Open 2022 | Centuries". World Snooker Tour. 12–18 December 2022. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  16. ^ "BetVictor English Open 2022 Qualifiers | Centuries". World Snooker Tour. 25–30 October 2022. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
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