The 2012 Star Xing Pai Haikou World Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 February – 4 March 2012 at the Haikou Stadium in Haikou, China. It was the first time that the tournament was held outside the United Kingdom. It was televised on ITV4

Marco Fu made the 86th official maximum break during his round 4 qualifying match against Matthew Selt. This was Fu's second 147 break.

Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but lost 2–5 against Stephen Lee in the second round.

Mark Allen won his first ranking title by defeating Stephen Lee 10–1 in the final.

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

Winner: £75,000 Runner-up: £34,000 Semi-final: £16,000 Quarter-final: £10,000 Last 16: £7,500 Last 32: £6,000 Last 48: £2,300 Last 64: £1,500

Stage one highest break: £500 Stage two highest break: £2,000 Stage one maximum break: £500 Total: £400,500

Wildcard round These matches were played in Haikou on 27 February 2012.

Match Score WC1 3–5 WC2 5–3 WC3 5–2 WC4 5–4 WC5 5–2 WC6 5–0 WC7 5–4 WC8 4–5

Main draw

Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Leo Scullion.Haikou Stadium, Haikou, China, 4 March 2012. Stephen Lee (15) 1–10 Mark Allen (10) Afternoon: 55–66, , , , , , , , Evening: 18–69, 67 Highest break 127 0 Century breaks 4 1 50+ breaks 7

Qualifying These matches were held between 11 and 14 January 2012 at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

147 Marco Fu 138 Marcus Campbell 137 Mark Davis 136 Yu Delu 135, 125 Anthony Hamilton 132 Kurt Maflin 123, 103 Alfie Burden 122 Robert Milkins 121, 104 David Gilbert 120 Joe Jogia 119, 118 Tian Pengfei 118 Liam Highfield

117 Andrew Norman 116 Andrew Higginson 116 Michael Holt 113 Sam Baird 110, 103 Michael White 107 Adrian Gunnell 106 Sam Craigie 104, 100 Jimmy Robertson 104 Liang Wenbo 103 Fergal O'Brien 100 Ken Doherty

Televised stage centuries

138, 120, 109 Stephen Lee 136, 133 John Higgins 136, 106 Neil Robertson 135, 101, 101 Michael Holt 131, 115 Shaun Murphy 127, 123, 112, 105, 104, 104, 103, 101, 100, 100, 100 Mark Allen 117, 112, 109, 108, 105, 102 Mark Selby 117, 106, 102 Robert Milkins 111, 104 Judd Trump 100 Tom Ford

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