The 2020 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2020 Matchroom.live Northern Ireland Open) was a professional
ranking
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snooker
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tournament that took place from 16 to 22 November 2020 at the
Marshall Arena
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in
Milton Keynes
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, England. It was the fourth ranking event of the
2020–21 season and a part of the
Home Nations Series
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. It was the fifth edition of the
Northern Ireland Open.
For the third consecutive edition of the tournament,
Judd Trump
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player, a former world champion and former world number one. Widely regarded as one of the sport's most talented players, he is currently sixth on the list of all-time ranki ...
defeated
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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9–7 in final, winning his 19th ranking title. He is the first player to win a ranking event three times in a row since
Stephen Hendry
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won the
UK Championship
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from 1994 to 1996. He is also the first to win four
Home Nations Series
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titles, and the second, after
Mark Selby
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, to win two Home Nations events in a single season. During this tournament, he made the fifth
maximum break
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of his career in the third frame of his second-round match with
Gao Yang.
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: £7,500
* Last 32: £4,000
* Last 64: £3,000
* Highest break: £5,000
* Total: £405,000
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
A total of 68 century breaks were made during the competition.
*
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...
, 128, 127, 115, 112, 109, 105, 103, 101
Judd Trump
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*144, 130
John Higgins
John Higgins, (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won 31 career ranking titles, placing him in third position on the all-time list of ranking event winners, behind Ronnie O'Sullivan (39) and Stephen Hendry ( ...
*142
Anthony McGill
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McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He wo ...
*141
Ashley Carty
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*137, 125, 103
Yan Bingtao
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Having qualified to compete on the main tour for t ...
*135, 135, 127, 112
Kurt Maflin
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*135
Kyren Wilson
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*134, 130, 118, 101
Ben Woollaston
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*134, 109, 109, 100
Zhao Xintong
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*133
Luca Brecel
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*133
Chang Bingyu
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Chang is one of ten Chinese players currently suspended from the professional tour amid a match-fixing investigation. In January 2023, the WPBSA charged him with fi ...
*133
Mark Williams
*130, 125, 111
Mark Allen
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*130, 125, 106, 103, 102, 100
Ronnie O'Sullivan
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*130
Stuart Bingham
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*127, 116
Patrick Wallace
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*122
Lee Walker
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Career
After turning professional in 1994 at the age of 18, Walker r ...
*121, 107, 100
Ding Junhui
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*121, 106
Liang Wenbo
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*117, 101
Martin Gould
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Career
Gould began his prof ...
*114
Lu Ning
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Lu is among ten Chinese players currently suspended from the professional tour amid a match-fixing investigation.
Career
Lu's fir ...
*113, 107
Ryan Day
*109
Andy Hicks
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*108, 103, 101, 100
Ali Carter
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*104
David Grace
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*104
Barry Hawkins
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*104
Robert Milkins
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Milkins ...
*103
Stephen Maguire
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*102
Alex Borg
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Career
Borg first turned professional in 1991, and regularly appeared as a wild card in the Malta Grand Prix, wh ...
*102
Liam Highfield
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In the 2007/2008 season, Highfie ...
*101, 101
Ken Doherty
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As an amateur, Doherty won the Irish Amateur Championship twice, the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the World Amateur C ...
References
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