The 2003 Scottish Open (officially the 2003 Regal Scottish Open) was a professional

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tournament that took place between 5–13 April 2003 at the Royal Highland Centre in

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, Scotland. It was the seventh and penultimate ranking event of the 2002/2003 season. David Gray won his first ranking title by defeating

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9–7 in the final. This was Gray's only ranking final victory, and was Selby's first appearance in a ranking final. The defending champion, Stephen Lee, was defeated in the quarter-finals by

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. This was the final tournament held under the Scottish Open name, being re-branded the following season as the Players Championship before being discontinued. The tournament would be revived under the Scottish Open name in 2016. __TOC__

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Winner: £82,500
Runner-up: £42,500
Semi-final: £21,250
Quarter-final: £11,700
Last 16: £9,600
Last 32: £7,800
Last 48: £4,000
Last 64: £3,150 Last 80: £2,150
Last 96: £1,450 Stage one highest break: £1,800
Stage two highest break: £7,500 Stage one maximum break: £5,000
Stage two maximum break: £20,000 Total: £597,200

Main draw

Final

Qualifying

Round 1

Best of 9 frames

Round 2–4

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

* 141

Stuart Bingham Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner. Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his pro ...

* 138

Shaun Murphy Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...

* 136 Rory McLeod * 135 Michael Holt * 133 Lee Spick * 128, 113 Kristjan Helgason * 121 David Gray * 120 Bradley Jones * 120 Wayne Brown * 119 Johl Younger * 119

Tony Drago Tony Drago ( ; born 22 September 1965) is a Maltese former professional snooker and pool player. Known for his speed around the table, during his snooker career he won two professional titles: the 1993 Strachan Challenge Event 3 and the 1996 ...

* 117 David Gilbert * 115

Adrian Gunnell Adrian Gunnell (born 24 August 1972) is an English former professional snooker player from Telford. He reached the last-16 in four world ranking events (three in Asia, in three different seasons, and at the 2008 Grand Prix). While practising ...

* 114 Ian McCulloch * 112, 104, 101 Ryan Day * 110

Robin Hull Robin Hull (born 16 August 1974) is a Finnish former professional snooker player. For some time, he was the sole Nordic countries, Nordic player on the game's Snooker world rankings, main tour. He is known as a solid -builder, having compiled o ...

* 108, 100 Mark Gray * 103 Nick Walker

Televised stage centuries

* 142, 116

Ali Carter Allister Carter (born 25 July 1979) is an English professional snooker player. He has twice been a World Championship finalist, in 2008 and 2012, losing both finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan. He has won six ranking titles and briefly reached number t ...

* 136, 120, 102, 101, 100

Stephen Hendry Stephen Gordon Hendry (born 13 January 1969) is a Scottish retired professional snooker player and a current Sports commentator, commentator and pundit. One of the most successful players in snooker history, he turned professional in 1985, ag ...

* 134, 100

* 131, 124

Ken Doherty Kenneth Joseph Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player who also works as a commentator and pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. From Ranelagh in Dublin, he is the sport's only World Snooker Championship, wor ...

* 128, 102

* 117 Mark King * 101

Matthew Stevens Matthew John Stevens (born 11 September 1977) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other t ...

* 101 Ian McCulloch * 101 Quinten Hann * 101 Anthony Hamilton

References

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