The 2005 China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 26 March to 3 April 2005 at the Haidian Stadium in Beijing, China. It was the penultimate ranking event of the 2004–05 season, preceding the 2005 World Championship.

The event was last held in 2002, where Mark Williams won the tournament by defeating Anthony Hamilton 9–8.

Ding Junhui won in the final 9–5 against Stephen Hendry. Ding became the second youngest player after Ronnie O'Sullivan to capture a ranking title. Along with several other Chinese players, Ding gave up his normal tournament entry position in order to accept an offer to enter the tournament as a wild-card player and thus he did not receive either prize money or ranking points for his tournament win.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £30,000 Runner-up: £15,000 Semi-final: £7,500 Quarter-final: £5,600 Last 16: £4,000 Last 32: £2,500 Last 48: £1,625 Last 64: £1,100

Stage one highest break: £500 Stage two highest break: £2,000

Stage one maximum break: £1,000 Stage two maximum break: £20,000

Wildcard round

Match Score WC1 5–3 WC2 1–5 WC3 5–1 WC4 2–5 WC5 5–1 WC6 3–5 WC7 5–3 WC8 5–1

Match Score WC9 5–3 WC10 5–3 WC11 5–3 WC12 5–2 WC13 5–3 WC14 5–1 WC15 5–1 WC16 4–5

Main draw

* Steve Davis conceded match due to illness

Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Paul Collier.Haidian Stadium, Beijing, China, April 2, 2005. Ding Junhui 9–5 Stephen Hendry (3) Afternoon: 1–108 (92), , , , , , Evening: 46–31, , , , , , 107 Highest break 108 2 Century breaks 1 6 50+ breaks 3

Qualifying

Qualifying for the tournament took place at Pontin's in Prestatyn, Wales between January 25–28, 2005.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

139, 108 Anthony Hamilton 130, 117, 105 Robert Milkins 127, 101 Darren Morgan 125 Gerard Greene 120 Mark Davis 119 Neil Robertson 117 Tom Ford 114, 105, 102 Adrian Gunnell

112 Ali Carter 111 Sean O'Neill 108 Gary Wilkinson 105 Paul Davison 104, 101 Nigel Bond 103 Mike Hallett 100 Ryan Day

Televised stage centuries

140 Paul Hunter 139, 103 Michael Holt 138, 113 John Higgins 135, 129, 126, 117, 107 Ding Junhui 135 Ricky Walden 135 Stephen Lee 134 Quinten Hann

123 Kobkit Palajin 122 Barry Pinches 117, 114, 102, 101 Mark Williams 114, 112, 109, 108 Stephen Hendry 113 Ken Doherty 104 Tom Ford

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