The European Tour 2013/2014 – Event 8 (also known as the 2014 Gdynia Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6–9 February 2014 at the Gdynia Sports Arena in Gdynia, Poland.
Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 3–4 against Alan McManus in the last 64.
Shaun Murphy won in the final 4–1 against Fergal O'Brien. This was Murphy's first title since the 2011 Brazil Masters 29 months earlier. Murphy also made the 104th official maximum break during his last 16 match against Jamie Jones. This was Murphy's third official 147 break, and the seventh in the 2013/2014 season.
Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: Prize fund Ranking points1 Winner €25,000 2,000 Runner-up €12,000 1,600 Semi-finalist €6,000 1,280 Quarter-finalist €4,000 1,000 Last 16 €2,300 760 Last 32 €1,200 560 Last 64 €700 360 Maximum break €600 – Total €125,600 – 1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.
Main draw
Preliminary rounds
Round 1 Best of 7 frames Krzysztof Wrobel 4–1 Maciej Maciejwski
Round 2 Best of 7 frames
Marcin Nitschke 4–1 Grzegorz Biernadski Maciej Sarapuk 0–4 Thomas Goldstein Kacper Filipiak 4–0 Tomasz Malecki Oliver Brown 4–0 Michal Ebert Filipe Cardoso 3–4 Wojciech Przylucki Felix Buchfeld Mateusz Goslinowski Marcin Bek 1–4 Rafał Jewtuch Michael Wild Ross Higgins Anita Maflin 0–4 Joe Steele Michael Collumb 4–0 Antoni Kowalski Mateusz Baranowski 0–4 Sanderson Lam Kevin Dabrowski 0–4 Hans Blanckaert Konrad Piekarczyk 0–4 David Frew Mateusz Nowak 4–2 Wojciech Bojewski Kashif Khan w/d–w/o Sam Harvey Krzysztof Wrobel 3–4 Michael Georgiou
Karol Lelek 4–0 Rafal Gorecki Tetyana Volovelska 0–4 Christopher Keogan Oliver Lines 4–0 Brian Cox Gareth Allen 4–1 Charlie Walters Adrian Materek 1–4 Billy Brown Oliwia Lachowicz Robert Valiant Kamil Zubrzycki w/d–w/o Jamie Clarke Maciej Kielkowicz 0–4 Jeff Cundy Nathan Jones 4–2 Maciej Michowski Ben Harrison w/d–w/o Matthew Hudson Michal Matuszczyk 0–4 Ricky Norris Matthew Day 4–1 Ryan Causton Konrad Sor 1–4 Marcin Kolibski Tomasz Marczak 0–4 Jaroslaw Kowalski Pawel Rogoza 2–4 Adam Stefanow Denis Lachowicz w/d–w/o Sydney Wilson
Round 3 Best of 7 frames
Marcin Nitschke 4–2 Thomas Goldstein Kacper Filipiak 4–2 Oliver Brown Wojciech Przylucki 4–0 Mateusz Goslinowski Rafał Jewtuch 4–3 Ross Higgins Joe Steele 0–4 Michael Collumb Sanderson Lam 4–2 Hans Blanckaert David Frew 4–1 Mateusz Nowak Sam Harvey 1–4 Michael Georgiou
Karol Lelek 1–4 Christopher Keogan Oliver Lines 1–4 Gareth Allen Billy Brown 0–4 Robert Valiant Jamie Clarke 4–3 Jeff Cundy Nathan Jones Matthew Hudson Ricky Norris 2–4 Matthew Day Marcin Kolibski 4–1 Jaroslaw Kowalski Adam Stefanow 4–1 Sydney Wilson
Main rounds Top half Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Century breaks
147, 138, 136, 128, 103 Shaun Murphy 138 Liu Chuang 137 Steve Davis 136, 133 Alfie Burden 136, 120, 107 Martin Gould 133, 111, 106, 103 Sam Baird 129, 100 Mark King 127 Gareth Allen 126 Peter Ebdon 125, 109 Alan McManus 123 Rod Lawler 121, 100 Mark Davis 118 Marcus Campbell 113 Fergal O'Brien
113 Zhang Anda 112, 100 Neil Robertson 110 Mark Selby 108 Stephen Maguire 106 Chris Norbury 106 Matthew Selt 106 Kurt Maflin 105 Judd Trump 104 Jak Jones 103 Tian Pengfei 102 Ken Doherty 101 David Grace 100 Ian Burns 100 Dominic Dale
References
External links
2014 Gdynia Open in Poland – Pictures by Iza Morska & Mikołaj Ochman at Facebook