The 2017 China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place between 27 March and 2 April 2017 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China. It was the 18th and penultimate ranking event of the 2016–17 season. The tournament was broadcast in Europe on Eurosport and Eurosport Player.
Judd Trump was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarter-finals to Hossein Vafaei.
Mark Selby defeated Mark Williams 10–8 in the final to win his second China Open title and 11th career ranking title overall.
Trump made the 130th official maximum break and the third of his career in the fifth frame of his 5–3 win over Tian Pengfei in the third round.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £85,000 Runner-up: £35,000 Semi-final: £21,000 Quarter-final: £12,500 Last 16: £8,000 Last 32: £6,500 Last 64: £4,000
Televised highest break: £2,000 Total: £510,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break: £30,000.
Wildcard round These matches were played in Beijing on 27 March 2017.
Match Score WC1 w/d–w/o WC2 5–1 WC3 5–1 WC4 4–5
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Jan Verhaas.Beijing University Students' Gymnasium, Beijing, China, 2 April 2017. Mark Williams 8–10 Mark Selby Afternoon: 9–122 (54), , , , , , , , Evеning: 75–1 (68), , , , , , , , 124 Highest break 124 2 Century breaks 3 6 50+ breaks 8
Qualifying These matches were played from 24 to 27 January 2017 at the Guild Hall in Preston, England, except for 4 matches which were held over and played in Beijing on 27 March 2017. All matches were best of 9 frames.
Judd Trump Jason Weston Anthony Hamilton 2–5 Ashley Hugill Jamie Jones 3–5 Eden Sharav Dominic Dale 2–5 Ross Muir Anthony McGill 5–1 Peter Lines Tian Pengfei 5–1 Ian Preece Martin Gould 5–2 Lee Walker Robbie Williams 5–1 Jamie Curtis-Barrett Mike Dunn 5–2 Elliot Slessor Luca Brecel 3–5 Andy Hicks Rory McLeod 5–2 Daniel Womersley Liang Wenbo Itaro Santos Kurt Maflin 5–1 Adam Duffy Ben Woollaston 5–1 Igor Figueiredo Dechawat Poomjaeng 4–5 Hossein Vafaei Joe Perry 5–0 David John Shaun Murphy 5–1 Sydney Wilson Ken Doherty 3–5 Allan Taylor Graeme Dott 5–3 Jak Jones Gary Wilson 5–2 Duane Jones Ali Carter Hamza Akbar Stuart Carrington 5–1 Wang Yuchen Michael White 5–4 Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn Yu Delu 5–0 Hammad Miah Sam Baird 4–5 Jimmy White Michael Holt 5–4 Liam Highfield Oliver Lines 3–5 Zhang Anda Mark Williams 5–3 Zhao Xintong Peter Ebdon 2–5 Rhys Clark Mark Davis 5–0 Yan Bingtao Ian Burns 5–1 Thor Chuan Leong John Higgins 5–0 Darryl Hill
Stuart Bingham 5–4 James Wattana Chris Wakelin 2–5 Scott Donaldson Robert Milkins 5–3 Mei Xiwen Tom Ford 3–5 Noppon Saengkham Kyren Wilson 5–2 Michael Georgiou Xiao Guodong 5–3 John Astley Mark King 5–1 Marc Davis David Grace 2–5 Sanderson Lam Mark Joyce 5–4 Mitchell Mann Ryan Day 2–5 Fraser Patrick Robin Hull 4–5 Gareth Allen Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–3 James Cahill Zhou Yuelong 5–4 Michael Wild Matthew Selt 5–0 Craig Steadman Joe Swail 3–5 Paul Davison Ding Junhui Sean O'Sullivan Marco Fu 3–5 Daniel Wells Rod Lawler 2–5 Jamie Cope Alan McManus 5–1 Chen Zhe Matthew Stevens 5–3 Josh Boileau Barry Hawkins 2–5 Aditya Mehta Li Hang 5–3 Fang Xiongman Stephen Maguire 5–0 Boonyarit Keattikun Fergal O'Brien 5–3 Nigel Bond Andrew Higginson 5–1 Christopher Keogan David Gilbert 5–1 Kurt Dunham Jack Lisowski 1–5 Alex Borg Ricky Walden 5–1 Zhang Yong Jimmy Robertson 5–3 Cao Yupeng Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4–5 Martin O'Donnell Alfie Burden 5–2 Sunny Akani Mark Selby Adam Stefanów
Century breaks
Televised stage centuries Total: 54
147, 135, 122, 108, 105, 102 Judd Trump 140 Zhang Anda 138, 127, 123, 109 Ding Junhui 137, 108 Mark Joyce 136, 126, 124, 113, 109, 104, 101, 100 Mark Selby 135, 118, 101 Michael White 133, 124 Martin O'Donnell 132, 106 Ronnie O'Sullivan 131 David Gilbert 130, 101 Kyren Wilson 129, 114, 100 Stephen Maguire 125 Ricky Walden
124, 106, 103 Mark Williams 123 Gary Wilson 120 Xiao Guodong 114 Martin Gould 113, 104, 101, 101 Shaun Murphy 109 Aditya Mehta 108 Rory McLeod 106, 100 Hossein Vafaei 106 Rhys Clark 105 Andrew Higginson 103, 100 Ben Woollaston 103 Daniel Wells
Qualifying stage centuries
Total: 22
137 Marco Fu 136 Joe Perry 134 Liam Highfield 130 Stuart Carrington 126 Luca Brecel 125 Stephen Maguire 125 Stuart Bingham 119 Lee Walker 116 Fraser Patrick 115 Tian Pengfei 113 Mitchell Mann
111 Mark King 108 Rhys Clark 107 Ronnie O'Sullivan 107 Michael Holt 104 John Astley 102 Jamie Jones 102 Martin Gould 102 Zhou Yuelong 101 Fergal O'Brien 100 Gary Wilson 100 Xiao Guodong
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