Tournament information | |
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Dates | 16–22 March 2015 |
Venue | Venue Cymru |
City | Llandudno |
Country | Wales |
Organisation | WPBSA |
Format | Non-ranking event |
Total prize fund | £300,000 |
Winner's share | £100,000 |
Highest break | Judd Trump (142) |
Final | |
Champion | Judd Trump |
Runner-up | Ronnie O'Sullivan |
Score | 10–7 |
2016 → |
The 2015 World Grand Prix (officially the 2015 888.com World Grand Prix) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 22 March 2015 at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales. [1] [2]
Judd Trump won the inaugural event by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10–7 in the final. [3] [4]
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: [5] [6]
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The top 32 players on a one-year ranking system running from the 2014 World Snooker Championship to the 2015 Gdynia Open qualified for the tournament. [7] [8] [9]
Rank | Player | Total points |
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1 | Mark Selby | 429,166 |
2 | Ronnie O'Sullivan | 305,250 |
3 | Neil Robertson | 217,360 |
4 | Judd Trump | 191,916 |
5 | Ricky Walden | 188,227 |
6 | Stuart Bingham | 176,545 |
7 | Mark Allen | 163,500 |
8 | Shaun Murphy | 150,083 |
9 | Stephen Maguire | 115,700 |
10 | John Higgins | 103,450 |
11 | Barry Hawkins | 102,000 |
12 | Mark Williams | 99,400 |
13 | Joe Perry | 94,833 |
14 | Marco Fu | 85,266 |
15 | Robert Milkins | 79,444 |
16 | Martin Gould | 76,834 |
17 | Alan McManus | 70,001 |
18 | Michael White | 63,333 |
19 | Mark Davis | 61,127 |
20 | Ben Woollaston | 60,699 |
21 | Ryan Day | 59,582 |
22 | Matthew Selt | 55,900 |
23 | Graeme Dott | 55,033 |
24 | Xiao Guodong | 52,295 |
25 | Peter Ebdon | 51,917 |
26 | Liang Wenbo | 51 251 |
27 | Anthony McGill | 49,167 |
28 | Ding Junhui | 48,500 |
29 | Dominic Dale | 47,583 |
30 | Luca Brecel | 45,332 |
31 | Rod Lawler | 42,499 |
32 | Michael Holt | 42,083 |
Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Olivier Marteel. Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales, 22 March 2015. [12] | ||
Judd Trump (4) England | 10–7 | Ronnie O'Sullivan (2) England |
Afternoon:67–54, 14–90 (90), 60–80, 47–83 (56), 1–105 (105), 86–22 (50), 82–1, 76–8 (50), 9–115 (89) Evening: 0–100 (96), 20–63 (59), 80–29 (57), 72–0, 142–0 (142), 67–35, 62–53, 65–9 | ||
142 | Highest break | 105 |
1 | Century breaks | 1 |
4 | 50+ breaks | 6 |
Total: 17 [13]
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