The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 3 (also known as the 2015 Ruhr Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 7–11 October 2015 in Mülheim, Germany.

Shaun Murphy was the defending champion, but he lost 1–4 to Tian Pengfei in the last 16.

Barry Pinches and Alan McManus played what was, at the time, snooker's longest ever official frame. In the sixth frame of their first round meeting they battled for 100 minutes and 24 seconds.The longest frame

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

Daniel Schneider 1–4 Ben Jones Chris Jones 4–1 Arsen Balishyan Alain Van Der Steen 4–3 Daan Leysen Sascha Lippe 4–2 Hans Blanckaert Fozan Masood 4–1 Jean Luca Nüßgen Daniel O’Regan 0–4 Kacper Filipiak Michael Collumb 4–0 Joerg Petersen Aleksandr Kurgankov 0–4 Andreas Ploner Özyurt Aksoy 1–4 Thomas Hein James Silverwood 4–0 Maxim Maximov Damian Wilks 4–2 Adam King Fabian Tost 0–4 Ryan Causton Thomas Barton 3–4 Jurian Heusdens Johny Moermans 4–0 Sebastian Zittermann Umar Ali Shaikh 1–4 Miro Popovic Lukas Kleckers 1–4 Brandon Sargeant Nico Elton 4–0 Conor McCormack Alex Borg 4–0 Adam Longley Albert Pronk 0–4 Mateusz Baranowski Patrick Whelan 4–0 Pedro Chacon Joshua Baddeley 4–1 Julian Maschmeier Steve Lambrechts 0–4 Hammad Miah Nick Jennings 4–2 Lewis Gillen Joe Steele 1–4 Dean Sheridan Charlie Walters Krzysztof Drazkiewicz Luke Garland w/d–w/o Elliot Slessor Maris Volajs 4–0 Dirk Oppenhoff

Tomasz Skalski 1–4 Ashley Hugill Dirk Lycops 0–4 Frans Veling Dessie Sheehan 0–4 Gary Thomson Alexander van den Doel 0–4 Sam Craigie Deitmar Juschka 0–4 Adam Edge Sam Thistlewhite 4–0 Markus Fischer Kevin Chan 1–4 Joe O'Connor Mark Vincent 3–4 Mohammed Rangzib Daniel Salis 1–4 Habib Shalchian Richard Beckham 4–2 Ismail Türker Julian Mills 4–0 Julia Litschke Manon Melief 0–4 Brendan O'Donoghue Christopher Keogan 4–1 Matthew Glasby Robin Otto 4–2 Joe Roberts Zack Richardson 3–4 Adam Duffy Felix Frede 4–0 Rolf Mahr Andrej Burdel 0–4 Michael Schnabel Ashley Carty 4–0 Kemal Ueruen Jamie Clarke w/o–w/d Zhao Xintong Paul Schopf 3–4 Gary Lees Michael Heeger 4–0 Pascal Fischer Christopher Harrison 4–3 Lee Brookes Mark Owens 4–1 Jan Eisenstein Ross Higgins 4–0 Oktay Yildiz Krzysztof Kubicki 1–4 Josh Boileau Lieven Vanthournout 2–4 Phuntsok Jaegers Robert Czupryniak w/o–w/d Bartosz Olchowka

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Ben Jones 4–2 Chris Jones Michael Williams 3–4 Alain Vandersteen Thomas Rees 0–4 Sascha Lippe Luc Blancke 1–4 Fozan Masood Joshua Cooper 0–4 Kacper Filipiak Michael Collumb 4–0 Andreas Ploner Callum Lloyd 4–0 Thomas Hein James Silverwood 0–4 Damian Wilks Kishan Hirani 4–0 Ryan Causton Jurian Heusdens 4–1 Johny Moermans Dennis Deroose 4–1 Miro Popovic Alexander Ursenbacher 4–2 Brandon Sargeant Jake Nicholson 1–4 Nico Elton Marvin Losi 1–4 Alex Borg Mateusz Baranowski 4–0 Patrick Whelan Simon Lichtenberg 3–4 Joshua Baddeley Hammad Miah 4–2 Nick Jennings Wan Chooi Tan 1–4 Dean Sheridan Charlie Walters 2–4 Elliot Slessor

Rafal Szymanek 0–4 Maris Volajs Jeff Jacobs 0–4 Ashley Hugill Charlie Sweeney 4–2 Frans Veling Oliver Brown 4–1 Gary Thomson Sam Craigie 4–0 Adam Edge Alex Taubman 1–4 Sam Thistlewhite Inge Vermeulen 0–4 Joe O'Connor Mohammed Rangzib 4–0 Habib Shalchian Richard Beckham 2–4 Julian Mills Stephane Ochoiski 0–4 Brendan O'Donoghue Brian Cini 4–1 Christopher Keogan Robin Otto 2–4 Adam Duffy Felix Frede 4–3 Michael Schnabel Ashley Carty 4–0 Jamie Clarke Gary Lees 4–1 Michael Heeger Phil O'Kane 4–2 Christopher Harrison Mark Owens 2–4 Ross Higgins Josh Boileau 4–1 Phuntsok Jaegers Volker Grigo w/d–w/o Robert Czupryniak

Round 3 Best of 7 frames

Ben Jones 2–4 Alain Vandersteen Sascha Lippe 4–1 Fozan Masood Kacper Filipiak 3–4 Michael Collumb Callum Lloyd 2–4 Damian Wilks Kishan Hirani 4–3 Jurian Heusdens Dennis Deroose 0–4 Alexander Ursenbacher Nico Elton 1–4 Alex Borg Mateusz Baranowski 4–3 Joshua Baddeley Hammad Miah 4–0 Dean Sheridan Elliot Slessor 4–0 Maris Volajs

Ashley Hugill 4–2 Charlie Sweeney Oliver Brown 1–4 Sam Craigie Sam Thistlewhite 4–3 Joe O'Connor Mohammed Rangzib 4–2 Julian Mills Brendan O'Donoghue 4–2 Brian Cini Adam Duffy 4–1 Felix Frede Ashley Carty 4–0 Gary Lees Phil O'Kane 3–4 Ross Higgins Josh Boileau 4–1 Robert Czupryniak

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

141, 111 Stuart Carrington 140, 135 Luca Brecel 140 Ross Muir 136, 134, 112 Mike Dunn 135, 130, 104, 100 Robert Milkins 134 Kyren Wilson 133, 129, 100 David Gilbert 133, 103 Kishan Hirani 133 James Cahill 132, 130 Mark Davis 131 Stephen Maguire 130 Mitchell Mann 128, 115, 106 Tian Pengfei 126 Graeme Dott 124 Ashley Carty 123, 109 Anthony McGill 122, 121 Dominic Dale 121, 104 Mark Allen 120 Ben Woollaston

120 Ashley Hugill 116 Rod Lawler 112 Hammad Miah 112 Josh Boileau 109 Neil Robertson 108 Shaun Murphy 108 Gerard Greene 108 Kurt Maflin 107 David Grace 106 Ali Carter 106 Chris Wakelin 105 Barry Hawkins 104 Mark Selby 104 Li Hang 104 Scott Donaldson 103 Alan McManus 102 Andrew Higginson 101 Joe Perry

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