The 2017 China Championship (officially the 2017 Evergrande China Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 22 August 2017 in China. It was the second ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.
This was the first time the event was a ranking tournament. John Higgins was the defending champion, but was knocked out in the second round by Tom Ford.
Luca Brecel won his first ranking tournament, beating Shaun Murphy 10–5 in the final. He became the first player from mainland Europe to win a ranking event.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £150,000 Runner-up: £75,000 Semi-final: £32,000 Quarter-final: £18,000 Last 16: £12,000 Last 32: £7,000 Last 64: £4,000
Televised highest break: £3,000 Total: £700,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £15,000
Main draw
Notes
Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Deng Shihao.Guangzhou Sports University, Guangzhou, China, 22 August 2017. Shaun Murphy 5–10 Luca Brecel Afternoon: 68–2 (55), , , , , , , , Evening: 0–66, 30–62, , , , 107 Highest break 78 1 Century breaks 0 5 50+ breaks 2
Qualifying These matches were held between 3 and 6 June 2017 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches were the best of 9 frames.
5–1Match held over and played in Guangzhou Wildcard player 5–4 5–3 3–5 5–1 5–1 Wildcard player 5–3 5–3 5–3 5–1 5–1 5–0 5–3 5–2 1–5 5–2 5–4 5–2 5–3 5–2 5–2 4–5 0–5 5–4 5–3 w/o–w/d 5–3 1–5 0–5 5–4 5–2 5–1
5–1 5–2 Wildcard player w/o–w/d 5–2 w/o–w/d 5–2 5–4 5–1 5–2 5–1 3–5 3–5 5–0 5–2 5–0 5–0 5–2 5–3 5–3 5–4 5–3 5–2 5–0 5–4 3–5 5–0 5–2 Wildcard player 5–3 5–4 5–3 5–3 5–0
Notes
Century breaks Qualifying stage centuries
Total: 29
138 Zhang Anda 136 Stuart Carrington 134, 124 Marco Fu 120 David Gilbert 115 Mark Allen 115 Rhys Clark 111 Anthony McGill 110 Chris Wakelin 110 Mark Williams 109 Shaun Murphy 107 Anthony Hamilton 105 Joe Perry 104 Barry Hawkins 104 Xiao Guodong
103 Ali Carter 103 Jimmy Robertson 103 Chen Zifan 102 Mark Davis 102 Ken Doherty 102 Sam Craigie 101 Peter Ebdon 101 Stephen Maguire 100 Judd Trump 100 Ian Preece 100 Gerard Greene 100 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 100 Hossein Vafaei 100 Chris Totten
Televised stage centuries Total: 40
144 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 139, 133, 103 Li Hang 139, 130, 124, 100 Ronnie O'Sullivan 137 Ryan Day 134 Mark Joyce 133, 127, 112 Ali Carter 133 Tom Ford 130, 120 Stuart Carrington 129, 119 John Higgins 128, 105, 104 Judd Trump 128 Ding Junhui 124, 104 Zhou Yuelong
124 Fergal O'Brien 123 Mark Selby 122 Yan Bingtao 115 Mark Williams 110, 107, 103 Luca Brecel 110 Barry Hawkins 109 Mark Davis 107, 104, 100 Shaun Murphy 104 Michael White 102 Marco Fu 102 Liang Wenbo 100 Alfie Burden
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