The 2013 Indian Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament held between 14 and 18 October 2013, at the Le Meridien Hotel in New Delhi, India. It was the first ranking event held in India, and the fourth ranking event of the 2013/2014 season.
Ding Junhui won his eighth ranking title by defeating Aditya Mehta 5–0 in the final. Ding became the first player to win two consecutive ranking titles in the same season since Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2002/2003, who won the 2003 European Open and the 2003 Irish Masters. At the tournament Mehta became the first Indian player to reach the final of a ranking event.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £50,000 Runner-up: £25,000 Semi-final: £13,500 Quarter-final: £9,000 Last 16: £6,000 Last 32: £3,000 Last 64: £2,000
Televised highest break: £2,000 Total: £300,000
Wildcard round These matches were played in New Delhi on 14 October 2013. The Indian wildcard players were selected through a qualifying tournament.
Match Score WC1 4–1 WC2 4–0 WC3 4–3 WC4 4–1 WC5 4–1 WC6 w/d–w/o
Main draw
Top half
Bottom half
Final Final: Best of 9 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore.Le Meridien Hotel, New Delhi, India, 18 October 2013. Ding Junhui 5–0 Aditya Mehta 76–36 (52), 87–0 (81), , , 107 Highest break 30 2 Century breaks 0 5 50+ breaks 0
Qualifying These matches were held on 11 and 12 August 2013 at the Doncaster Dome in Doncaster, England. All matches were best of 7 frames.
Neil Robertson 4–3 Robin Hull Adam Duffy 0–4 Noppon Saengkham Rod Lawler 4–0 Jak Jones Ali Carter 4–0 Gareth Green Ryan Day 4–0 Christopher Keogan Dechawat Poomjaeng 4–1 Rhys Clark Liang Wenbo 4–0 Scott Donaldson Matthew Stevens 0–4 David Morris Ding Junhui 4–1 Sanderson Lam Barry Pinches 4–1 Chris Wakelin Mark Joyce 4–3 Allan Taylor Martin Gould 3–4 Sean O'Sullivan Mark King 0–4 Jeff Cundy Peter Lines 2–4 Li Yan Tian Pengfei 2–4 Joel Walker John Higgins 4–2 Sam Baird Barry Hawkins 4–2 Jamie O'Neill Anthony McGill 4–1 James Cahill Dave Harold 2–4 Alex Davies Fergal O'Brien 4–0 Vinnie Calabrese Joe Perry 4–1 Passakorn Suwannawat David Gilbert 4–0 Zak Surety Gerard Greene 4–3 Mitchell Travis Ricky Walden 4–1 Alex Borg Graeme Dott 2–4 Ratchayothin Yotharuck James Wattana 4–1 Ryan Clark Mike Dunn 4–0 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Ken Doherty 4–2 Luca Brecel Andrew Higginson 4–0 Ross Muir Jamie Burnett 4–2 Chris Norbury Rory McLeod 0–4 Kyren Wilson Shaun Murphy 3–4 Robbie Williams
Judd Trump 3–4 Zhang Anda Alan McManus 4–1 Sydney Wilson Anthony Hamilton 4–2 Michael Wasley Michael White 4–0 Ahmed Saif Dominic Dale 4–2 Alexander Ursenbacher Jimmy White 1–4 Gary Wilson Alfie Burden 3–4 Tony Drago Marco Fu 4–0 Michael Leslie Mark Davis 4–0 Lee Page Kurt Maflin 2–4 Elliot Slessor Jamie Cope 4–3 Martin O'Donnell Michael Holt 4–2 Fraser Patrick Tom Ford 4–0 Craig Steadman Jamie Jones 4–1 Patrick Einsle Cao Yupeng 1–4 Paul Davison Stephen Maguire 4–1 Andrew Pagett Stuart Bingham 4–1 Ian Burns Liu Chuang 4–0 Mohamed Khairy Steve Davis 1–4 Ben Woollaston 3–4 Lyu Haotian Marcus Campbell 4–3 Shane Castle Matthew Selt 0–4 Pankaj Advani Nigel Bond 4–3 Li Hang Mark Allen 4–1 John Astley Robert Milkins 2–4 Chen Zhe Jimmy Robertson 3–4 Hammad Miah Xiao Guodong 2–4 Aditya Mehta Peter Ebdon 4–1 Ashley Carty Mark Williams 4–0 Joe Swail Yu Delu 4–2 Stuart Carrington Jack Lisowski 2–4 Liam Highfield Mark Selby 4–3 Daniel Wells
Century breaks
Televised stage centuries
142, 109, 107, 106, 100 Ding Junhui 138, 123, 103 Anthony McGill 137 Marco Fu 135, 125, 120 Gary Wilson 134 Pankaj Advani 133, 125 Michael White 133 Zhang Anda 132, 127, 122 Aditya Mehta 131, 101 Ratchayothin Yotharuck 119, 119, 117 Stuart Bingham 114 Mark Joyce 108 Rod Lawler 104, 103, 103, 103, 100 Neil Robertson 103, 100 Robbie Williams 102 Ken Doherty 102 Ricky Walden 101 Liu Chuang 100 Liang Wenbo 100 Mark Williams
Qualifying stage centuries
136 Andrew Higginson 134 Marco Fu 129 Martin O'Donnell 126 Elliot Slessor 125 Chen Zhe 121 Fergal O'Brien 114 Mark Davis 111 Jamie O'Neill 109, 101 Zhang Anda 105 Peter Ebdon 105 Xiao Guodong 105 Liam Highfield 104 Aditya Mehta 103 Graeme Dott 103 Paul Davison 102 Fraser Patrick 101 David Gilbert 101 Kyren Wilson 100 Joe Perry 100 Kurt Maflin
References
External links 2013 Indian Open – Pictures mainly by Tai Chengzhe at Facebook