The 2021 Gibraltar Open (officially the 2021 BetVictor Gibraltar Open) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 1 to 7 March 2021 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. It was the twelfth ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season, and the sixth and final event in the BetVictor European Series.
The event was the sixth instalment of the Gibraltar Open tournament, first held in 2015. It was organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association and sponsored by BetVictor. The defending champion was Judd Trump, who defeated Kyren Wilson 4–3 in the 2020 final. Trump retained his title, defeating Jack Lisowski 4–0 in the final and losing just three of the 31 frames he played in the tournament overall. It was Trump's fifth ranking title of the season and the 22nd of his professional career. In addition to the winner's prize of £50,000, Trump secured the £150,000 European Series bonus, awarded to the player who wins the most prize money across the series, for a second consecutive season.
The event featured the return to the professional tour of seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry, who retired in 2012, but accepted a two-year invitational tour card to begin in the 2020–21 season. Matthew Selt beat Hendry 4–1 in the first round of the tournament.
Prize fund The breakdown of the tournament's prize money is shown below:
Winner: £50,000 Runner-up: £20,000 Semi-final: £6,000 Quarter-final: £5,000 Last 16: £4,000 Last 32: £3,000 Last 64: £2,000 Highest break: £5,000 Total: £251,000
Tournament draw Below is the full draw for the event. Players in bold denote match winners.
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final Final: Best of 7 frames. Referee: Colin Humphries Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, 7 March 2021 Judd Trump (1) 4–0 Jack Lisowski (10) Frames: 72–18, 106–0 (106), 73–46, 94–0 106 Highest break 31 1 Century breaks 0
Century breaks A total of 80 century breaks were made during the tournament.
145, 103 Jamie Jones 142, 137, 130, 124 Mark Selby 140, 113 Shaun Murphy 140 Scott Donaldson 138 Riley Parsons 137, 126, 103 Jack Lisowski 137 Chris Wakelin 134, 114 Jamie Clarke 132, 115 Fraser Patrick 132, 105 Chen Zifan 131, 128, 126, 124, 124, 106, 104, 101 Judd Trump 130, 129, 103 Barry Hawkins 127, 115, 107 Stuart Carrington 126 Mark Allen 125 Mitchell Mann 124, 107 David Gilbert 124 Luo Honghao 123, 102 Soheil Vahedi 121, 115, 113, 109, 101 Xiao Guodong 119, 102 Matthew Selt 119 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 118 Anthony McGill 116 Ashley Hugill 116 Elliot Slessor 115, 109, 105 Kyren Wilson 113 Anthony Hamilton 112, 100 Luca Brecel 109, 106 Liam Highfield 108 Ricky Walden 107, 105, 100 Ali Carter 107 Stephen Hendry 107 Lu Ning 106, 102 Liang Wenbo 105 Hossein Vafaei 104 Tom Ford 104 Pang Junxu 103 Oliver Lines 103 Mark Williams 102 Billy Castle 101, 101 Jamie O'Neill 101 Chang Bingyu 101 Si Jiahui 100 Martin Gould 100 Sunny Akani
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