The Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 3 (also known as Star Xing Pai Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 3 for sponsorship purposes) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6–8 August 2010 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England. The preliminary rounds took place on 24 July at the same venue.

Barry Hawkins made the 72nd official maximum break during his last 32 match against James McGouran. This was Hawkins' first official 147.

Tom Ford won his first professional title by defeating Jack Lisowski 4–0 in the final.

Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: Prize fund Ranking points1 Winner £10,000 2,000 Runner-up £5,000 1,600 Semi-finalist £2,500 1,280 Quarter-finalist £1,500 1,000 Last 16 £1,000 760 Last 32 £600 560 Last 64 £200 360 Total £50,000 – 1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Gareth Green 3–4 Robert Valiant David Gray Lee Page Sam Baird 4–0 Jim Buck

Chen Zhe 4–1 Oliver Brown Samuel Thistlewhite 4–0 Stephen Ormerod

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Rogelio Esteiro 1–4 Callum Downing David Portman 4–0 Terry Challenger Shaun Parkes 1–4 Mitchell Travis Lasse Münstermann 0–4 Robert Valiant Damian Wilks 4–2 Jamie Brown Jamie Curtis-Barrett 3–4 Lee Spick Michael Wild 4–1 Jake Nicholson Tony Knowles 1–4 Chris Norbury Kamran Ashraf 3–4 Stuart Carrington Jordan Rimmer 3–4 Farakh Ajaib Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Sharrukh Nasir James Hill 1–4 Lee Farebrother Robbie Williams 4–1 Shaun Wilkes Craig Barber 4–1 Callum Lloyd Luca Brecel 2–4 Adam Duffy Rock Hui 2–4 Daniel Skingle

Antony Parsons 4–2 Joel Walker Lewis Mayes w/d–w/o Andrew Norman Lee Shanker 0–4 Lee Page Greg Davis w/o–w/d Craig Steadman Alex Taubman 1–4 Steve Judd Alex Davies 2–4 Sam Baird Aditya Mehta w/d–w/o Marc Harman Martin O'Donnell 4–3 Paul Metcalf Danny Douane w/d–w/o Ian Burns Jamie Walker 4–3 David Grace Neal Jones Charlie Walters Raymond Fry 2–4 Chen Zhe Nick Pearce w/d–w/o Andy Lee Jeff Cundy w/o–w/d Suriya Suwannasingh Lucky Vatnani 1–4 Samuel Thistlewhite Ian Glover 4–1 Hans Blankaert

Main rounds

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. World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England, 8 August 2010. Jack Lisowski 0–4 Tom Ford 16–85 (85), 5–60, , – Highest break 85 0 Century breaks 0 0 50+ breaks 3

Century breaks

147, 134, 129, 102 Barry Hawkins 141, 120, 102 Mark Davis 141 Ryan Day 141 Jeff Cundy 140 Shaun Murphy 136 Neil Robertson 133, 118 Robbie Williams 130 Jamie Cope 125 Rory McLeod 123 Ben Harrison 120 Stuart Bingham

118 James McBain 116 Liam Highfield 113, 101, 100 Stuart Pettman 110 Andy Hicks 110 Anthony Hamilton 107 Stuart Carrington 106 Dominic Dale 105 Martin O'Donnell 104, 101 Mark Selby 103 Martin Gould

References

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