The 2015 BAIC Motor China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place between 30 March and 5 April 2015 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China. It was the tenth ranking event of the 2014–15 season.
Ding Junhui was the defending champion, but he lost 5–6 against Gary Wilson in the semi-finals.
Mark Selby defeated Wilson 10–2 to win his sixth career ranking title, his second of the season, and his first China Open title after being twice runner-up (in 2011 and 2013). The tournament was Wilson's first ranking event final.
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £85,000 Runner-up: £35,000 Semi-final: £21,000 Quarter-final: £12,500 Last 16: £8,000 Last 32: £6,500 Last 64: £3,000
Televised highest break: £2,000 Total: £478,000
Wildcard round These matches were played in Beijing on 30 March 2015.
Match Score WC1 0–5 WC2 5–1 WC3 5–3 WC4 5–2
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore.Beijing University Students' Gymnasium, Beijing, China, 5 April 2015. Gary Wilson 2–10 Mark Selby Afternoon: 39–74, , , , , , , , Evening: 0–136 (136), , 101 Highest break 145 1 Century breaks 2 2 50+ breaks 4
Qualifying These matches were held on 14 and 15 February 2015 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. All matches were best of 9 frames.
Ding Junhui 5–1 Ross Muir Marcus Campbell 5–2 Lu Chenwei Kyren Wilson 5–3 Matthew Day Mark Davis 5–3 Mitchell Mann Mark Williams 5–1 Lee Walker Tom Ford 3–5 Alex Davies Ben Woollaston 2–5 Joe O'Connor Mark Allen 1–5 Michael Leslie John Higgins 5–2 Oliver Lines Yu Delu 5–3 Chris Norbury Robbie Williams 3–5 Daniel Wells Graeme Dott 5–1 Sean O'Sullivan Peter Ebdon 5–3 Sam Baird Aditya Mehta 2–5 Zhang Anda Andrew Higginson 5–0 Hammad Miah Judd Trump 5–0 Eden Sharav Barry Hawkins 5–1 Noppon Saengkham Gerard Greene 5–1 Chris Wakelin Jimmy Robertson 5–3 Steven Hallworth Dominic Dale 5–2 Ian Glover Ryan Day 5–0 Sydney Wilson Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 1–5 Liam Highfield David Morris 5–1 Jamie Clarke Stephen Maguire 5–2 Lee Page Ricky Walden 5–2 David Grace Cao Yupeng 5–2 Adam Bobat Gary Wilson 5–3 Jak Jones Liang Wenbo 5–2 Joel Walker Alan McManus 5–3 Tian Pengfei Jack Lisowski 5–0 Ahmed Saif Dechawat Poomjaeng 5–1 James Cahill Neil Robertson 5–3 Lyu Haotian
Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–1 Luca Brecel Rory McLeod 3–5 Robin Hull Jamie Burnett 5–3 Ian Burns Mark King 5–2 Lu Ning Fergal O'Brien 5–2 George Pragnall Mike Dunn 5–3 Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon Kurt Maflin 5–3 Cao Xinlong Ali Carter 5–1 Martin McCrudden Marco Fu 5–2 Michael Georgiou Jimmy White 4–5 Ashley Carty Jamie Jones 5–2 Michael Tomlinson Matthew Stevens 5–0 Mark Owens Anthony McGill 5–3 Alexander Ursenbacher Alfie Burden 5–4 Allan Taylor Jamie Cope 5–3 Thor Chuan Leong Shaun Murphy 5–1 Igor Figueiredo Stuart Bingham 5–0 Scott Donaldson Peter Lines 5–4 Chris Melling Ken Doherty 5–4 Dave Harold Michael White 5–2 James Wattana Rod Lawler 2–5 Joe Swail Li Hang 4–5 Zak Surety Nigel Bond 5–2 Craig Steadman Robert Milkins 5–0 Stuart Carrington Joe Perry 5–2 Oliver Brown David Gilbert 5–2 Adam Duffy Anthony Hamilton 5–0 Michael Wasley Michael Holt 1–5 Zhou Yuelong Xiao Guodong 4–5 Elliot Slessor Matthew Selt 5–0 John Astley Mark Joyce 5–2 Fraser Patrick Mark Selby 5–1 Barry Pinches
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
134 Robert Milkins 132, 111 Dechawat Poomjaeng 128 Zhou Yuelong 128 Dave Harold 125 Mark Williams 124 Ronnie O'Sullivan 123 Stuart Bingham 122 Barry Pinches 120, 108 Liang Wenbo 120 Jimmy Robertson 117 Luca Brecel
115 David Grace 112 John Higgins 111 Alfie Burden 111 Judd Trump 110 Chris Wakelin 109 Fergal O'Brien 104 Stephen Maguire 101 Liam Highfield 100 Joe Swail 100 Ryan Day
Televised stage centuries
145, 136, 131, 126, 106 Mark Selby 143, 113 Shaun Murphy 138, 124 Barry Hawkins 133 Marco Fu 132, 112 Robin Hull 132 Daniel Wells 129, 128, 113, 106, 103, 101 Kurt Maflin 128 Robert Milkins 127, 101, 100 Judd Trump 123 Matthew Selt
120 Mark Davis 116 David Morris 114, 101 Gary Wilson 114 John Higgins 112 Graeme Dott 106 Andrew Higginson 105, 103 Ding Junhui 105 Michael White 103 Dominic Dale 102, 100 Jamie Jones
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