The 2011 Welsh Open (officially the 2011 Wyldecrest Park Homes Welsh Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 20 February 2011 at the Newport Centre in Newport, Wales. This was the first time that the Welsh Open was sponsored by Wyldecrest Park Homes.

Stephen Hendry made the 77th official maximum break during his second round match against Stephen Maguire. This was Hendry's 10th 147 break, and with this equalled the record for most maximums with Ronnie O'Sullivan, and became the oldest player to compile a maximum break at the age of 42 years and 35 days.

John Higgins defended his title, which he won in 2010, after defeating Maguire 9–6 in the final. This was the first All-Scottish final since the 2005 Malta Cup final between Hendry and Graeme Dott.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £30,000 Runner-Up: £15,000 Semi-final: £7,500 Quarter-final: £5,600 Last 16: £4,000 Last 32: £2,500 Last 48: £1,600 Last 64: £1,250

Stage one highest break: £500 Stage two highest break: £1,000 Total: £201,500

Main draw

Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Eirian Williams.Newport Centre, Newport, Wales, 20 February 2011. John Higgins (1) 9–6 Stephen Maguire (8) Afternoon: 0–83 (59), , , , , , , Evening: 55–49, 64–48 (63), , , , , 120 Highest break 89 1 Century breaks 0 8 50+ breaks 6

Qualifying These matches took place between 8 and 11 February 2011 at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

143 Barry Hawkins 137 James McBain 137 Patrick Wallace 128 Anthony Hamilton 125 Ian McCulloch 124 David Gilbert 124, 101, 100 Jack Lisowski 124 Xiao Guodong 119 Jamie Jones

111 Joe Jogia 110 Jimmy Robertson 107, 103 Jimmy White 105 Kuldesh Johal 103 Anthony McGill 103 Dominic Dale 102 Joe Perry 100 Jamie Burnett

Televised stage centuries

147 Stephen Hendry 139 Dominic Dale 137, 129, 109, 105 Stephen Maguire 136, 132, 120 John Higgins 133 Matthew Stevens 130 Neil Robertson 125, 113, 109, 102 Ryan Day 125, 103 Ding Junhui

120, 108, 100 Mark Williams 120 Jamie Cope 118 Ali Carter 115 Peter Ebdon 102 Nigel Bond 102 Mark Selby 100 Ronnie O'Sullivan

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