The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 2 (also known as the 2015 Paul Hunter Classic) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 26 and 30 August 2015 in Fürth, Germany.

Mark Allen was the defending champion, but he lost 3–4 to Sanderson Lam in the round of 128.

Ali Carter won his seventh professional title, beating Shaun Murphy 4–3 in the final.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below: Prize fund Winner €25,000 Runner-up €12,000 Semi-finalist €6,000 Quarter-finalist €4,000 Last 16 €2,300 Last 32 €1,200 Last 64 €700 Total €125,000

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Michael Collumb 4–0 Rolf Mahr Ben Jones 4–0 Benjamin Buser Freddie Blunden 0–4 Adam Longley Stefan Gerst Adam King Luca Kaufmann 4–0 Daniel O'Regan Robert Drahn 0–4 Brian Cini Jeff Jacobs 4–0 Gery De Mol Sam Thistlewhite 4–0 Richard Wienold Paul Liebstreich 2–4 Scott Lyons Manon Melief 0–4 Daniel Schneider Mark Vincent w/d–w/o Ryan Causton Christopher Keogan 4–2 Manuel Pomwenger Charlie Sweeney 4–2 Kilian Baur-Pantoulier Alexander Ursenbacher 4–0 Stefan Caspers Dana Amir 0–4 Gerry Egger Robin Otto 3–4 Joshua Cooper Sascha Breuer 1–4 Saqib Nasir Aaron Cook 0–4 Alex Borg Kacper Filipiak 4–1 Loris Lehmann Patrick Einsle 4–0 Rick Kraaijeveld Thomas Blang 0–4 Tony Corrigan Chris Norbury 4–1 Tomasz Skalski Jack Bradford w/d–w/o Nick Jennings Jürgen Kesseler 2–4 Charlie Walters Jamie Clarke 4–1 Andreas Ploner Kevin Chan 4–0 Imran Nisar Adam Edge 4–0 Felix Frede Ralph Müller 0–4 Sam Craigie

Ashley Carty 4–0 Stefan Schneider Joe O'Connor 4–0 Shachar Ruberg Thomas Barton 4–2 Matthais Porn Dennis Furrer 4–2 Chris Lloyd Luke Garland 4–0 Corina Maracine Oliver Brown 2–4 Marc J Davis Simon Lichtenberg 4–0 Miro Popovic Josh Boileau 4–0 Michael Schnabel Markus Fisher 0–4 Andrew Doherty Thomas Hein 4–1 Matthew Hudson Adam Duffy 4–1 Hans Blanckaert Phil O'Kane 4–0 Tanja Ender Steve Lambrechts 0–4 Julian Mills Ronny Pawlitza 0–4 Mateusz Baranowski Stephane Ochoiski 4–1 Sascha Lippe Carl Rosenberger 1–4 Conor McCormack Stefan Dohr 0–4 Brandon Sargeant Wan Chooi Tan 4–1 Thomas Kiesewetter Laurin Winters 1–4 Marvin Losi Thomas Frank w/o–w/d Ejler Hame Markus Hertle 1–4 Paul Schopf Jurian Heusdens 2–4 Thomas Rees Michael Heeger 4–1 Pedro Chacon Ralf Günzel w/o–w/d Norbert Hofheinz Oktay Yildiz 1–4 Ashley Hugill Robbie Purdham 0–4 Lukas Kleckers Matthew Glasby 0–4 Michael Williams

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Stefan Schenk 0–4 Michael Collumb Ben Mertens 0–4 Ben Jones Adam Longley 4–3 Adamn King Luca Kaufmann 0–4 Brian Cini Kishan Hirani 4–0 Jeff Jacobs Zack Richardson 3–4 Sam Thistlewhite Scott Lyons 2–4 Daniel Schneider Callum Lloyd 0–4 Ryan Causton Christopher Keogan 4–0 Charlie Sweeney Soner Sari 2–4 Alexander Ursenbacher Joe Steele 4–1 Gerry Egger Sebastian Stein 0–4 Joshua Cooper Saqib Nasir 0–4 Alex Borg Phuntsok Jaegers 0–4 Kacper Filipiak Diana Schuler 0–4 Patrick Einsle Tony Corrigan 1–4 Chris Norbury Alex Taubman 4–0 Nick Jennings Damian Wilks 3–4 Charlie Walters Jamie Clarke 4–0 Kevin Chan Adam Edge 1–4 Sam Craigie

Ashley Carty 4–1 Joe O'Connor Tom Zimmermann 0–4 Thomas Barton Peter Brehm 1–4 Dennis Furrer Nico Elton 4–3 Luke Garland Marc J Davis 4–0 Simon Lichtenberg Josh Boileau 4–1 Andrew Doherty Richard Beckham 4–0 Thomas Hein Jamie Bodle 2–4 Adam Duffy Heiko Mutz 0–4 Phil O'Kane Julian Mills 1–4 Mateusz Baranowski Ron Florax 0–4 Stephane Ochoiski Vamsikrishna Yanamandra 0–4 Conor McCormack Elliot Slessor 4–0 Brandon Sargeant Wan Chooi Tan 4–2 Marvin Losi Andreas Hartung 4–1 Thomas Frank Paul Schopf 3–4 Thomas Rees Anton Woywod 0–4 Michael Heeger Jake Nicholson 4–0 Ralf Günzel Ashley Hugill 4–3 Lukas Kleckers Michael Williams 4–0 Dessie Sheehan

Round 3 Best of 7 frames

Michael Collumb 3–4 Ben Jones Adam Longley 1–4 Brian Cini Kishan Hirani 2–4 Sam Thistlewhite Daniel Schneider 1–4 Ryan Causton Christopher Keogan 4–2 Alexander Ursenbacher Joe Steele 3–4 Joshua Cooper Alex Borg 3–4 Kacper Filipiak Patrick Einsle 4–1 Chris Norbury Alex Taubman 4–3 Charlie Walters Jamie Clarke 1–4 Sam Craigie

Ashley Carty 4–2 Thomas Barton Dennis Furrer 0–4 Nico Elton Marc J Davis 4–3 Josh Boileau Richard Beckham 4–1 Adam Duffy Phil O'Kane 2–4 Mateusz Baranowski Stephane Ochoiski 4–3 Conor McCormack Elliot Slessor 4–1 Wan Chooi Tan Andreas Hartung 0–4 Thomas Rees Michael Heeger 0–4 Jake Nicholson Ashley Hugill 4–1 Michael Williams

Main rounds

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Century breaks

142 Dechawat Poomjaeng 140 Liang Wenbo 136 Michael Williams 131 Kurt Maflin 130, 106, 102 Judd Trump 130 Stuart Carrington 129, 111 Ashley Carty 128 Peter Ebdon 126 Josh Boileau 125, 110 John Higgins 125 Ashley Hugill 124 Brian Cini 123, 123 Mark King 123 Shaun Murphy

122 Kyren Wilson 117, 115 David Gilbert 114 Jamie Cope 112, 105 Ali Carter 110 Elliot Slessor 110 Chris Norbury 108, 107 Patrick Einsle 105 Ben Woollaston 105 Rod Lawler 105 Mark Williams 103 Ian Burns 102 Dominic Dale 100 Sean O'Sullivan

References