The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 6 (also known as the 2016 Gdynia Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament held between 23 and 28 February 2016 in Gdynia, Poland.

Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he chose not to defend his title. Local 12-year-old Antoni Kowalski attracted attention with a 4–1 win over Liam Taylor in the opening round, before being beaten 4–0 by Richard Beckham in the next.

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

Robbie Purdham w/d–w/o Simon Dent Mark Dooley 1–4 Ashley Hugill Robin Otto 4–1 Majid Khan Peter Devlin 1–4 Rodion Judin Felix Vidler w/o–w/d Jamie Barrett David Ackers 0–4 Saqib Nasir Richard Somauroo 4–1 Andrii Buchynskyi Rafal Jewtuch w/o–n/s Phan Quoc Binh Scott Lyons 4–3 Brandon Sargeant Freddie Blunden 4–0 Rees Carter Phil O'Kane 4–0 Grzegorz Loniewski Michael Rhodes w/o–n/s Wojciech Bojewski Jeremy Lee 4–0 Aki Suutari Adam King 1–4 Jurian Heusdens Ryan Causton 4–1 Daniel Womersley Jaroslaw Kowalski 2–4 Andreas Ploner Adam Bobat 4–0 Kieran Briggs Michal Matuszczyk 1–4 Matt Lancaster Marcin Kolibski 0–4 Gareth Green Dessie Sheehan 0–4 Nico Elton Rafal Szymanek 0–4 Alex Borg Josh Boileau 3–4 Declan Bristow Thomas Rees 4–1 Neil Guidon Andrew Greaves 3–4 Conor McCormack Chris Norbury 4–3 Zack Richardson Maciej Kielkowicz 0–4 Aleksandr Kurgankov

Hussam Al-Shaffar 4–1 Damian Adamus Lewis Gillen 4–0 Aaron Lowe Stephane Ochoiski n/s–w/o Ashley Carty Bjorn Gulbrandsen 1–4 Matthew Pudney Joe Roberts 4–1 Mark Owens Tomasz Gieraltowski 1–4 Manasawin Phetmalaikul Joshua Baddeley 4–0 Ariel Trebocha Danijel Vranjes 3–4 Adam Longley Adam Edge 4–3 Tony Corrigan Antoni Kowalski 4–1 Liam Taylor Daniel O'Regan 4–1 Krzysztof Kubicki Joe O'Connor 3–4 Kishan Hirani Felix Frede 3–4 David Greig Daniel Schneider w/o–w/d Israel Pertman Jamie Clarke 4–1 Lee Mein Hammad Miah 4–2 Dean Sheridan Tomasz Skalski 4–0 James Clements Kacper Filipiak 4–2 George Pragnall Adam Duffy 4–0 Wiktor Doberschotz Tytus Pawlak 0–4 Christopher Keogan Ron Florax 0–4 Adam Stefanow Mick Dagostino 0–4 Simon Lichtenberg Maciej Sarapuk 0–4 Michael Collumb Lukas Kleckers 4–0 Waldemar Matuszkiewicz Paul Moss 0–4 Sam Craigie Jamie O'Neill 3–4 Grzegorz Biernadski

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Paul Stelmaszuk 1–4 Simon Dent Anthony Bonnar 1–4 Ashley Hugill Charlie Walters 2–4 Robin Otto Dylan Craig 4–0 Rodion Judin Matthew Glasby 4–0 Felix Vidler Michael Williams 4–3 Saqib Nasir Mateusz Baranowski 4–0 Richard Somauroo Bhavesh Sodha 0–4 Rafal Jewtuch Bartosz Olchowka 1–4 Scott Lyons Freddie Blunden 0–4 Phil O'Kane Piotr Olejnik 0–4 Michael Rhodes Declan Brennan 4–0 Jeremy Lee Louis Heathcote 4–2 Jurian Heusdens Daniel Holoyda 3–4 Ryan Causton Shay Arama n/s–w/o Andreas Ploner Joshua Cooper 4–3 Adam Bobat Andy Maivel 4–1 Matt Lancaster Billy Brown 2–4 Gareth Green Nico Elton 3–4 Alex Borg Elliot Slessor 4–2 Declan Bristow Jenson Kendrick 2–4 Thomas Rees Rune Kampe w/d–w/o Conor McCormack Andrzej Pakula 1–4 Chris Norbury Matthew Day 4–0 Aleksandr Kurgankov Marc J Davis 4–0 Hussam Al-Shaffar

Jake Nicholson 4–3 Lewis Gillen Joe Steele 1–4 Ashley Carty Gary Frederick 4–0 Matthew Pudney Chris Totten 3–4 Joe Roberts Anthony Green 3–4 Manasawin Phetmalaikul Chris Jones 1–4 Joshua Baddeley Maris Volajs 2–4 Adam Longley Mohammed Rangzib 4–2 Adam Edge Richard Beckham 4–0 Antoni Kowalski Lukasz Guzowski 0–4 Daniel O'Regan Hans Blanckaert 1–4 Kishan Hirani Maciej Michowski 1–4 David Greig Sam Thistlewhite 3–4 Daniel Schneider Ross Higgins 0–4 Jamie Clarke Jyri Virtanen 0–4 Hammad Miah Karl Townsend 4–1 Tomasz Skalski Karol Lelek 0–4 Kacper Filipiak Krzysztof Drazkiewicz 0–4 Adam Duffy Essam Saadeh 0–4 Christopher Keogan Brian Cini w/d–w/o Adam Stefanow Alex Taubman 4–2 Simon Lichtenberg Patrik Sedlak n/s–w/o Michael Collumb Gary Thomson 2–4 Lukas Kleckers Ben Jones 0–4 Sam Craigie Oliver Brown 4–1 Grzegorz Biernadski

Round 3 Best of 7 frames

Simon Dent 1–4 Ashley Hugill Robin Otto 0–4 Dylan Craig Matthew Glasby 0–4 Michael Williams Mateusz Baranowski 4–0 Rafal Jewtuch Scott Lyons 0–4 Phil O'Kane Michael Rhodes 4–1 Declan Brennan Louis Heathcote 1–4 Ryan Causton Andreas Ploner 4–3 Joshua Cooper Andy Maivel 0–4 Gareth Green Alex Borg 3–4 Elliot Slessor Thomas Rees 4–1 Conor McCormack Chris Norbury 4–0 Matthew Day Marc J Davis 4–1 Jake Nicholson

Ashley Carty 4–1 Gary Frederick Joe Roberts 4–1 Manasawin Phetmalaikul Joshua Baddeley 4–0 Adam Longley Mohammed Rangzib 0–4 Richard Beckham Daniel O'Regan 1–4 Kishan Hirani David Greig 4–2 Daniel Schneider Jamie Clarke 4–3 Hammad Miah Karl Townsend 0–4 Kacper Filipiak Adam Duffy 4–2 Christopher Keogan Adam Stefanow 4–2 Alex Taubman Michael Collumb 4–2 Lukas Kleckers Sam Craigie 1–4 Oliver Brown

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

139 Anthony Hamilton 139 Rod Lawler 136, 122 Andrew Higginson 136 Noppon Saengkham 135, 123, 103 Barry Hawkins 133 Richard Beckham 132 Tian Pengfei 130, 108 Stephen Maguire 129 Martin O'Donnell 128 Graeme Dott 127, 125, 116, 104 Martin Gould 125, 107, 103 Marco Fu 125, 101 Sam Baird 125 Robbie Williams 123, 100 Mitchell Mann 123 Zhang Anda 121, 110, 104, 101 Mark Selby

120 Mark King 119 Mark Davis 118, 104 Joe Perry 115 Robin Hull 114, 108 Ryan Day 112, 103, 100 Kyren Wilson 111 Luca Brecel 109 Rory McLeod 107 Ben Woollaston 105 Zhou Yuelong 104, 102 Alan McManus 104, 101 Tom Ford 104 Michael White 103 Eden Sharav 102 Louis Heathcote 101, 100 Dominic Dale

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