The 2012 Wuxi Classic was a professional ranking snooker tournament held between 25 June–1 July 2012 at the Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium in Wuxi, China. It was the first year of the tournament as a ranking event, having been non-ranking in its previous playings. It was also the first ranking event of the 2012/2013 season.
Mark Selby was the defending champion, but he lost in the quarter-finals 5–4 against Stuart Bingham.
Ricky Walden won his second ranking title by defeating Bingham 10–4 in the final. During the final Bingham made the 89th official maximum break. This was Bingham's third 147 break. __TOC__
Prize fund It was announced on 2 May 2012, that this year's prize money would be £400,000, which would rise to £425,000 for next year and then to £450,000 for the following three years. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £75,000 Runner-up: £30,000 Semi-final: £18,000 Quarter-final: £10,000 Last 16: £7,500 Last 32: £6,000 Last 48: £2,300 Last 64: £1,500
Non-televised highest break: £200 Televised highest break: £2,000 Televised maximum break: £5,000 Total: £405,000
Wildcard round These matches were played in Wuxi on 25 and 26 June 2012.
Match Score WC1 5–4 WC2 5–3 WC3 4–5 WC4 5–2 WC5 1–5 WC6 5–2 WC7 1–5 WC8 5–2
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore.Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium, Wuxi, China, 1 July 2012. Stuart Bingham (14) 4–10 Ricky Walden (13) Afternoon: 57–59, 43–53, , , , , , Evening: 34–76, 24–74 (73), , , , 147 Highest break 74 3 Century breaks 0 3 50+ breaks 4
Qualifying These matches were held between 5 and 8 June 2012 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England. In the fourth frame of the match between Dominic Dale and Peter Lines, a 20-year-old record from the 1992 Asian Open was broken. They accumulated 192 points, then the most in a single frame in the history of snooker. Lines won the frame 108–84. The previous record was 185, made when Sean Storey defeated Graham Cripsey 93–92. The record stood until the quarter-finals of the 2023 UK Championship, when Mark Williams won frame eight of his match against Ding Junhui by a score of 101–94, for a total of 195 points.
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
136 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 136 Mark Joyce 136 Dechawat Poomjaeng 131 David Grace 131 Passakorn Suwannawat 130, 110 Joe Perry 128, 102 Anthony Hamilton 127 Ian Burns 123, 105 Kurt Maflin 123 Simon Bedford 122, 108, 105 Luca Brecel 118 Chen Zhe
118 Fergal O'Brien 112, 111 Liam Highfield 112, 106, 100 Jimmy Robertson 110, 105 Mark King 110 Dave Harold 107 Michael Holt 107 Paul Davison 104 Zhang Anda 104 Liu Chuang 103 Marco Fu 100 Yu Delu 100 Michael White
Televised stage centuries
147, 143, 134, 124, 110, 103, 100 Stuart Bingham 137, 113, 108 Judd Trump 129 Rod Lawler 120, 101 Mark Selby 115 Zhou Yuelong 104, 102 Ricky Walden 102 Ken Doherty 101 Lu Ning
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