The 2016
Coral Northern Ireland Open was a professional
ranking snooker
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tournament that took place between 14 and 20 November 2016 at the
Titanic Exhibition Centre in
Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
It was the ninth ranking event of the
2016/2017 season.
This was the inaugural Northern Ireland Open event, being held as part of a new
Home Nations Series introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the existing
Welsh Open and new
English Open and
Scottish Open tournaments. The winner of the Northern Ireland Open is awarded the Alex Higgins Trophy which is named in honour of Northern Irish two-time world champion
Alex Higgins.
Mark King won the first ranking title of his career by defeating
Barry Hawkins 9–8 in the final.
John Higgins made the 123rd official
maximum break in the fifth frame of his last 64 match against
Sam Craigie. It was Higgins' eight professional maximum.
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
*
147, 137, 130, 107
John Higgins
* 142
Fergal O'Brien
* 141, 133, 131, 126, 117, 108
Ronnie O'Sullivan
* 139
Mark Williams
* 138, 134, 124
Anthony Hamilton
* 137, 130, 117, 104
Michael White
* 133
Dominic Dale
* 131
Chen Zhe
* 130, 121
Yan Bingtao
* 126, 117, 113
Barry Hawkins
* 126
Kurt Dunham
* 125, 108
Rhys Clark
* 125
Alfie Burden
* 125
James Cahill
* 121
David Gilbert
* 120
Peter Ebdon
* 119, 112, 101
Kurt Maflin
* 119
Hossein Vafaei
* 118
Marco Fu
* 118
Alan McManus
* 117
Luca Brecel
* 116, 109
Ricky Walden
* 113, 109, 100
Kyren Wilson
* 112
Michael Georgiou
* 110, 100
Mark King
* 110
Anthony McGill
* 110
Tom Ford
* 109
Mark Allen
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* 106
Scott Donaldson
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* 106
Sam Baird
* 104
Sam Craigie
* 104
Yu Delu
* 103
Jamie Curtis-Barrett
* 102
Jordan Brown
* 102
Ken Doherty
* 102
Liang Wenbo
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* 101
Robbie Williams
* 102
Stephen Maguire
* 100
Jack Lisowski
* 100
Eden Sharav
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References
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Home Nations Series
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