The 2021 British Open (officially the 2021 Matchroom.live British Open) was a professional
snooker
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event played from 16 to 22 August 2021 at the
Morningside Arena
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,
Leicester
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The city l ...
, England. It was the 2021 edition of the
British Open
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event, and the first since the
2004 British Open. It was the second ranking event of the
2021–22 snooker season
The 2021–22 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played from July 2021 to May 2022, including the professional World Snooker Tour but also featuring events for female, senior, and Q School players. The season saw a record five pl ...
, following the
2021 Championship League and preceding the
2021 Northern Ireland Open. It was broadcast by
ITV Sport
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. The winner received £100,000 from a total prize pool of £470,000.
All rounds in the tournament were played after a random draw made under a
single-elimination tournament
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format with no
seeded players. The first four rounds, from the last 128 to the last 16, were played as best-of-five matches, the quarter-finals and semi-finals as best-of-seven-frame matches, and the final played as the best-of-eleven frames.
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 ( ...
, the defending champion from 2004, lost 1–3 to
Ricky Walden
Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester.
Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...
in the third round.
Mark Williams defeated
Gary Wilson 6–4 in the final to win the 24th ranking title of his career. The event featured 32
century break
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s, including two
maximum break
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven) is the highest possible in a single of snooker. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 with 15 for 120 points, followed by all six for a further 27 ...
s. Higgins made his 12th maximum break in professional competition in the first frame of his first-round win over
Alexander Ursenbacher
Alexander Ursenbacher (born 26 April 1996) is a Swiss professional snooker player from Rheinfelden. He is Switzerland's first professional snooker player (former professional Darren Paris represented England, in the mid-1990s, before moving to S ...
, and
Ali Carter
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made his third maximum break in the second frame of his fourth-round match against
Elliot Slessor
Elliot Slessor (born 4 August 1994) is an English professional snooker player.
In May 2013, Slessor qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first Q School event.
Career
Slessor ...
.
Format
The
British Open
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is a
snooker
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event first held in 1980 as the
British Gold Cup. The event changed names to the British Open for the
1985 event won by
Silvino Francisco
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Snooker career
Francisco comes from a snooker-playing family. His brother Manuel and nephew Peter both ...
.
The 2021 tournament was held from 16 to 22 August 2021 at the
Morningside Arena
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in
Leicester
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The city l ...
, England.
It was the first British Open event in 17 years, the last being played in
2004
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.
It was the second ranking event of the
2021–22 snooker season
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, following the
2021 Championship League, and preceding the
Northern Ireland Open.
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 ( ...
was the defending champion, having defeated Stephen Maguire
Stephen Maguire (born 13 March 1981) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won six major ranking tournaments, including the 2004 UK Championship, and has twice since reached the finals of that event. Maguire turned professional i ...
9–6 in the 2004 final, to win his 16th ranking title. The event was broadcast by ITV4
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in the United Kingdom, Eurosport
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in Europe; Liaoning TV, Superstar online
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, Kuaishou
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, Migu, Youku
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, Zhibo.tv and Huya Live
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in China; Now TV
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in Hong Kong; Sports cast in Taiwan; True Sports in Thailand; DAZN
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in Canada, Astrosport in Australia and by Matchroom Sport
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in all other territories. Matchroom also sponsored the event.
The event featured all 128 participants from the World Snooker Tour
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, no seed
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ings, and a random draw after each round. Matches were played as the best-of-five , until the quarter-finals and semi-finals, which were played as best-of-seven-frame matches. The final was a best-of-eleven.
Prize fund
The tournament had a total prize fund of £470,000, the winner receiving £100,000. A breakdown of prize money for this event is shown below:
* Winner: £100,000
* Runner-up: £45,000
* Semi-final: £20,000
* Quarter-final: £12,000
* Last 16: £7,000
* Last 32: £5,000
* Last 64: £3,000
* Highest break: £5,000
* Total: £470,000
Summary
The first round was played from 16 to 18 August, as the best of five frames. On the first day, defending champion Higgins made his 12th competitive maximum break
A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven) is the highest possible in a single of snooker. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 with 15 for 120 points, followed by all six for a further 27 ...
, in the first frame of his 3–1 win against Alexander Ursenbacher
Alexander Ursenbacher (born 26 April 1996) is a Swiss professional snooker player from Rheinfelden. He is Switzerland's first professional snooker player (former professional Darren Paris represented England, in the mid-1990s, before moving to S ...
. At 46 years and 90 days, Higgins broke his own record as the oldest man to make a maximum break in competition. He had previously been the oldest player to make one after completing a maximum at the Championship League
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in October 2020. Higgins became the player with the second most maximum breaks, behind Ronnie O'Sullivan
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with 15, and now ahead of Stephen Hendry
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.
World number one Judd Trump
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trailed 1–2 to Mitchell Mann
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Career Junior
Mann first played snooker aged 9, after being forced to quit football after a diagnosis of Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome, a rare disease which r ...
, but won 3–2. Despite making two century break
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s, Kyren Wilson
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was defeated by Ashley Hugill 2–3. Mark Allen
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and Reanne Evans
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, who had been in a relationship between 2005 and 2008, met in the first round. The players, who had been in legal battles over child maintenance, had their first professional meeting at the event. Evans refused to shake hands with Allen before the match, and led 2–1, but missed the and Allen completed a clearance to win the contest. The finalists of the 2021 World Snooker Championship
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, Shaun Murphy
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and Mark Selby
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met in the first round. World champion Selby won the match 3–2. Four-time winner Hendry met Chris Wakelin
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in the first round. Hendry won the match 3–2, his first main tournament win since rejoining the tour in 2020 after retiring in 2012. Lukas Kleckers
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won the final two frames against Masters champion Yan Bingtao
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Having qualified to compete on the main tour for t ...
to win 3–2.
The second round was played on 18 and 19 August as the best of five frames. The 1997
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winner Mark Williams recovered from 0–2 behind to Dominic Dale
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in a 3–2 victory. Iranian player Hossein Vafaei
Hossein Vafaei ( fa, حسین وفایی ایوری; born 15 October 1994) is an Iranian professional snooker player. He is the first professional player from Iran. He won his first professional title at the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Mar ...
defeated Allen 3–2, despite having never beaten him in four prior meetings. Stephen Maguire defeated Martin O'Donnell
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3–2, but complained about O'Donnell's slow play, who had averaged more than 30 seconds per shot. Ali Carter
Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been the World Championship runner-up, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won four ranking titles and briefly reached numb ...
described playing reigning world champion Selby as a "dream draw", and won the match 3–0. Higgins trailed Cao Yupeng
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1–2, but made breaks of 95 and 96 to win the match. Higgins lost the third frame of the match after missing a shot, blaming the having a stray hair on it.[ Hendry played Gary Wilson and lost 0–3. Neither player made a break above 50. Wilson called the performance "an embarrassment".
The third and fourth rounds were played on 20 August also as the best of five frames.] Trump played Elliot Slessor
Elliot Slessor (born 4 August 1994) is an English professional snooker player.
In May 2013, Slessor qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first Q School event.
Career
Slessor ...
losing 2–3. The loss meant that Selby would now be ranked as the world number one after the event. Slessor went on to face Carter in the fourth round. Carter made the second maximum break of the event in the second round, but only won that frame, losing 1–3. Ricky Walden
Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester.
Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...
completed a 3–1 win over Higgins, and then defeated Ross Muir by the same scoreline.[ Williams made breaks of 71 and 70 as he defeated ]Liam Highfield
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Career Amateur years
In the 2007/2008 season, Highfie ...
3–0. Williams played Zhang Jiankang in the fourth round, where he was the sole player from the top 16 remaining.[ Zhang led 2–1 and was within four of winning the match, but missed a routine , and eventually lost 2–3.] David Gilbert, who had won his first ranking event at the preceding Championship League event, reached the quarter-finals where he drew Wilson, who had defeated Vafaei.[
The quarter-finals were played on 21 August as the best of seven frames.] Gilbert played Wilson, and led both 2–0 and 3–2, but lost the match after missing a pot using a . Slessor met Zhou Yuelong
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Career
Between 2 ...
and won 4–3 to reach his second ranking event semi-final. Williams played Ricky Walden in the quarter-finals. Williams won 4–3 on the final black, despite Walden making four breaks over 50. Williams commented that despite the win, he "couldn't string three pots together", and that the players he had faced in the tournament had lost matches, rather than him winning them.[ Robertson played ]Lu Ning
Lu Ning (, born 1 January 1994 in Jilin) is a professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China.
Lu is among ten Chinese players currently suspended from the professional tour amid a match-fixing investigation.
Career
Lu's fir ...
in the final quarter-final match, winning 4–2.[ The semi-finals were contested on 21 August as the best of seven frames.] Wilson played Slessor, but trailed 0–2. He won the next three frames with breaks of 67, 68 and 100 to lead 3–2, before Slessor made a 125 break to force a . Wilson won the frame to reach his second ranking final.[ Williams completed breaks of 60, 73 and 58 in a 4–1 win over Robertson.][
The final was played between Williams and Wilson on 22 August as the best of eleven frames.][ Williams won the opening frame, before Wilson tied the match in frame two. A break of 111 in frame three for Williams was his first century break of the event, before Wilson won frame four.] Wilson won frame five with a break of 101 to lead the match for the first time, Williams winning back-to-back frames to lead 4–3. Wilson won frame eight to tie the match, but Williams won the next two frames to complete a 6–4 victory. This was Williams's 24th ranking event title, and his second British Open title, 24 years since he last won the event in 1997. Aged 46, Williams was the third oldest person to win a ranking event, only behind Ray Reardon
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in 1982 (50) and Doug Mountjoy
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in 1989 (46). Williams commented that he had been lucky to progress to the final, but that his performance in the final was the best he had played in the tournament. Wilson said he was "bitterly disappointed" not to win.
Tournament draw
The results from the event are shown below; players in bold denote match winners. Kurt Maflin
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withdrew from the event (denoted by w/d) and his opponent received a walkover (w/o).
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final
The frame scores for the final are shown below. Numbers in brackets show breaks made during that frame.
Century breaks
There were 32 century breaks made during the event. Both Higgins and Carter compiled maximum breaks of 147 during the event. Higgins made one in the first frame of his first-round win over Ursenbacher, while Carter's maximum was completed during the second frame of his fourth-round loss to Slessor.[
* ]147 147 may refer to:
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...
, 107 Ali Carter
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* 147 147 may refer to:
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...
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 ( ...
* 135, 112 David Gilbert
* 134 Zhang Anda
Zhang Anda (born 25 December 1991) is a Chinese professional snooker player, who made his debut on the Main Tour for the 2009–10 season. He qualified by winning the ACBS Asian Under-21 Championship.
Standing at 5 ft. 3 in. tall, h ...
* 133 Yuan Sijun
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Yuan started to play snooker at the age of 10 and played as a wildcard in many professional tournaments between ages of 13 and 16. Yuan first drew ...
* 129, 125 Elliot Slessor
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In May 2013, Slessor qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first Q School event.
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Slessor ...
* 126 Jimmy Robertson
* 124, 109 Zhou Yuelong
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Career
Between 2 ...
* 121 Hossein Vafaei
Hossein Vafaei ( fa, حسین وفایی ایوری; born 15 October 1994) is an Iranian professional snooker player. He is the first professional player from Iran. He won his first professional title at the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Mar ...
* 118, 117 Luca Brecel
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* 118 Barry Hawkins
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* 117 Michael Holt
* 117 Michael White
* 115, 111 Mark Williams
* 115, 101 Kyren Wilson
Kyren Wilson (; born 23 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player from Kettering and a five-time ranking event winner. He has been a runner-up at two of the three Triple Crown events, having reached the final at both the 2018 ...
* 114, 106, 101, 100 Gary Wilson
* 111 Lu Ning
Lu Ning (, born 1 January 1994 in Jilin) is a professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China.
Lu is among ten Chinese players currently suspended from the professional tour amid a match-fixing investigation.
Career
Lu's fir ...
* 110 Anthony McGill
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McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. He wo ...
* 108 Wu Yize
Wu Yize (; born 14 October 2003) is a Chinese professional snooker player.
Career
Wu Yize won the IBSF U-21 World Championship in 2018 when he was just fourteen years old, defeating Pongsakorn Chongjairak from Thailand 6–4 in the final.
Wu ...
* 107 Jordan Brown
* 104 Ian Burns
* 104 Anthony Hamilton
References
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