The 2017 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2017 Dafabet Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking
snooker
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tournament that took place between 20 and 26 November 2017 in the
Waterfront Hall in
Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the tenth
ranking event of the
2017/2018 season and a part of the
Home Nations Series. It was the second edition of the
Northern Ireland Open.
Mark King was the defending champion, but he was beaten 1–4 in the third round by
Yan Bingtao. Yan went on to reach the final, becoming the youngest ever finalist of a ranking event. He faced
Mark Williams, who won the 19th ranking title of his career by beating Yan 9–8. Williams had come from 7–8 behind to win, and denied Yan becoming the youngest ever winner of a ranking event.
Ronnie O'Sullivan still holds that record for the
1993 UK Championship
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.
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
* Winner:
£70,000
* Runner-up: £30,000
* Semi-final: £20,000
* Quarter-final: £10,000
* Last 16: £6,000
* Last 32: £3,500
* Last 64: £2,500
* Highest break: £2,000
* Total: £366,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a
maximum break stood at £10,000
Main draw
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final
Century breaks
Total: 53
* 142, 135, 107
John Higgins
* 140, 120
Kurt Maflin
* 138, 129
Stephen Maguire
* 138
Ben Woollaston
* 137, 114, 113
Yan Bingtao
* 137
Lukas Kleckers
* 134
Dominic Dale
* 134
Ryan Day
* 132, 105
Robert Milkins
* 131
Li Yuan
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* 129, 107
Joe Perry
* 129
Gary Wilson
* 128
Robin Hull
* 127, 113, 106, 104
Mark Williams
* 126
Ronnie O'Sullivan
* 125, 119
Sunny Akani
* 125
Anthony McGill
* 115, 107, 105
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
* 113, 108
Matthew Selt
* 110, 106
Sam Craigie
* 110
Xiao Guodong
* 109, 106
Tian Pengfei
* 108
Allan Taylor
* 106
Paul Davison
* 105
Kyren Wilson
* 104
Neil Robertson
* 104
Yuan Sijun
* 103, 103
Zhou Yuelong
* 103
Ken Doherty
* 103
Michael Holt
* 102
Cao Yupeng
* 101, 100
Jack Lisowski
* 101
Tom Ford
* 101
Chen Zifan
References
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Home Nations Series
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