The 2018 Fuhua Group China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, taking place from 2–8 April 2018 in Beijing, China. It was the nineteenth and penultimate ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.

Defending champion Mark Selby retained his title with an 11–3 final win against Barry Hawkins. By winning this tournament, Selby ensured that he will end a seventh consecutive season as world number one, regardless of his result in the 2018 World Championship.

Selby's 141 break in his last 64 match against Scott Donaldson was the fourth in a professional tournament.

Ronnie O'Sullivan made his 14th maximum break in professional competition in the 5th frame of his last 64 match against Elliot Slessor. The following day, Stuart Bingham made his fourth maximum break in professional competition in the 7th frame of his last 32 match against Ricky Walden. These were the 137th and 138th official maximum breaks in professional competition. It was only the second time that two 147s were made at the main stage of a professional ranking event, the first time being at the 2008 World Championship.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money is shown below.

Winner: £225,000 Runner-up: £90,000 Semi-final: £45,000 Quarter-final: £27,000 Last 16: £18,000 Last 32: £11,000 Last 64: £5,000

Televised highest break: £7,000 Total: £1,000,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £35,000.

Main draw

Final Final: Best of 21 frames. Referee: Peggy Li.Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, Beijing, China, 8 April 2018. Mark Selby 11–3 Barry HawkinsAfternoon: 0–80, , , , , , , , , Evеning: 112–17 (112), , , 132 Highest break 75 2 Century breaks 0

Qualifying The Round 2 qualifying matches – except for the held over ones – were played between 27 and 30 January 2018 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Qualifying Round 1 and the held over matches of Round 2 were played in Beijing on 2 April 2018.

All qualifying matches were best of 11 frames.

Round 1

Zhang Yong 4–6Match held over and played in China. Chang Bingyu Chen Feilong 6–2Match held over and played in China. Fan Zhengyi

Basem Eltahhan 1–6Match held over and played in China. Luo Honghao

Round 2

Mark Selby Wang Yuchen Scott Donaldson 6–3 Zhang Anda Ben Woollaston 6–1 Rod Lawler Robert Milkins 4–6 Lee Walker Ryan Day 3–6 Lyu Haotian Rory McLeod 0–6 Liam Highfield Stephen Maguire 6–3 James Wattana Fergal O'Brien 6–3 Hammad Miah Mark Davis 6–2 Alexander Ursenbacher Michael Holt 6–2 Sunny Akani Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 6–4 Ian Burns Mark Williams 6–1 Ian Preece Kurt Maflin 6–5 Ashley Hugill Yan Bingtao 6–2 John Astley Noppon Saengkham 6–4 Ken Doherty Mark Allen 6–4 Allan Taylor John Higgins 6–3 Adam Duffy Alfie Burden 2–6 Martin O'Donnell Anthony Hamilton 6–5 David John Jack Lisowski 6–4 Gerard Greene Ali Carter 6–4 Chen Zifan Gary Wilson 6–2 Niu Zhuang Joe Perry 6–1 Joe Swail Matthew Selt 2–6 Chris Totten Peter Ebdon Chang Bingyu Mark King 6–2 Leo Fernandez Andrew Higginson Chen Feilong Kyren Wilson 6–0 Li Yuan Jimmy Robertson 6–2 Christopher Keogan Xiao Guodong 6–2 Alex Borg Tian Pengfei 4–6 Craig Steadman Ding Junhui Michael Georgiou

Judd Trump 5–6 Jak Jones Oliver Lines 3–6 Nigel Bond Zhou Yuelong 6–2 Sean O'Sullivan Li Hang 4–6 Chen Zhe Neil Robertson 6–4 Robin Hull Robbie Williams 6–3 Sanderson Lam Martin Gould 6–2 Fang Xiongman Jamie Jones 3–6 Sam Craigie Hossein Vafaei Hamza Akbar Ricky Walden 6–2 Aditya Mehta Matthew Stevens 6–1 Eden Sharav Stuart Bingham 6–2 Jimmy White Mark Joyce 6–4 Peter Lines Graeme Dott 6–2 Mei Xiwen Chris Wakelin 6–1 Lukas Kleckers Shaun Murphy 6–3 David Grace Barry Hawkins 6–4 Josh Boileau Sam Baird 6–5 Soheil Vahedi Michael White 6–5 Xu Si Dominic Dale 4–6 Paul Davison Luca Brecel 6–4 Zhao Xintong Cao Yupeng 6–3 Kurt Dunham David Gilbert 6–3 Billy Joe Castle Mike Dunn 6–4 Mitchell Mann Yu Delu 5–6 Duane Jones Liang Wenbo Rhys Clark Stuart Carrington Luo Honghao Anthony McGill 6–5 Thor Chuan Leong Tom Ford 6–3 Jamie Curtis-Barrett Alan McManus 5–6 Yuan Sijun Daniel Wells 4–6 Elliot Slessor Ronnie O'Sullivan Ross Muir

Notes

Century breaks Main stage centuries Total: 72

147, 105 Stuart Bingham 147 Ronnie O'Sullivan 143, 141, 136, 135, 135, 132, 119, 118, 112, 108 Mark Selby 143, 110, 110, 105, 103, 103 Neil Robertson 139 Ali Carter 138, 133 Ding Junhui 138, 105, 102 Mark Allen 135, 127, 110, 101 Sam Craigie 135, 105, 100 Luo Honghao 135, 100 Cao Yupeng 133, 122 Craig Steadman 132, 125, 124, 103, 101 Barry Hawkins 131, 130, 129, 112 Mark Williams 130, 111 Xiao Guodong 130, 102 Joe Perry 130 Yan Bingtao 127 Stephen Maguire 126 Anthony McGill 122, 115, 107, 103 Zhou Yuelong 119 David Gilbert 114, 106 Duane Jones 114, 101 Jack Lisowski 114 Michael White 112, 111, 107, 105, 104 Kyren Wilson 103 Graeme Dott 103 Tom Ford 102 Fergal O'Brien 100 Mark King 100 Lyu Haotian

Qualifying stage centuries Total: 45

143, 112 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 139 Nigel Bond 138 Yan Bingtao 137 Thor Chuan Leong 133 David Grace 132 Ian Burns 128 Gary Wilson 127, 121 Sanderson Lam 127 Mark Allen 126 Neil Robertson 124 Soheil Vahedi 122 Robin Hull 122 Zhang Yong 121 Cao Yupeng 121 John Higgins 119 Martin Gould 119 Barry Hawkins 118, 107 Luo Honghao 118 Lyu Haotian 117 Judd Trump 116 Zhou Yuelong 115 Stephen Maguire 112 Noppon Saengkham 111 Mark Davis 110 Ronnie O'Sullivan 109, 101, 100 Mark Williams 109 Luca Brecel 108 Xiao Guodong 106 Zhao Xintong 105, 105 Elliot Slessor 105, 101 Liang Wenbo 104 Stuart Bingham 104 Peter Ebdon 104 Tian Pengfei 103 Ben Woollaston 101 Anthony Hamilton 101 Kyren Wilson 100 Li Hang

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