The European Tour 2014/2015 – Event 4 (also known as the 2014 Kreativ Dental Ruhr Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 19 and 23 November 2014 at the RWE-Sporthalle in Mülheim, Germany.

Mark Allen was the defending champion, but he lost 0–4 against Stuart Carrington in the last 32.

Shaun Murphy won his fourth professional title of the calendar year by defeating Robert Milkins 4–0 in the final. During the final Murphy made the 108th official maximum break, becoming the first player to make three maximums in a calendar year.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below: Prize fund Winner €25,000 Runner-up €12,000 Semi-finalist €6,000 Quarter-finalist €4,000 Last 16 €2,300 Last 32 €1,200 Last 64 €700 Maximum break €1,265 Total €126,265

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Deitmar Juschka 0–4 Jake Nicholson Kevin Chan 0–4 Eden Sharav Michael Buchholz 0–4 Daan Leysen Marinus Teerling w/o–w/d Rhys Clark Gary Ryan 2–4 Joshua Baddeley Matthew Hulatt 2–4 Billy Brown Rolf Mahr 0–4 Matthew Day Conor McCormack 0–4 Joe O'Connor John Sutton 3–4 Kishan Hirani 1–4 Kristof Vermeiren Paul Davison 4–0 Mitchell Travis Richard Beckham 4–0 Joerg Petersen Brandon Sargeant 4–1 Darryl Hill Aaron Cook 0–4 Daniel Wells Dennis Deroose 3–4 Karen Osipov Ashley Hugill 0–4 Sydney Wilson Jörg Schneidewindt 1–4 Thomas Dowling Joe Steele 4–2 Raymon Fabrie Marko Reijers 1–4 Adam Edge

Hans Blanckaert 3–4 Ben Jones Jeff Cundy 4–1 Martin O'Donnell Dessie Sheehan 4–1 Jayson Wholly Ejler Hame 0–4 Adam Duffy Luke Garland 4–3 Louis Heathcote 0–4 Sean O'Sullivan Matthew Glasby 4–0 Andreas Steinborn Jerom Meeus 0–4 Mark Dooley 4–0 Ferdous Bhuiyan Marc Davis 4–0 Miro Popovic Kemal Ueruen 0–4 Brian Cini Manon Melief 0–4 Ross Higgins Dirk Kunze 1–4 Alex Taubman Christopher Keogan 2–4 Phuntsok Jaegers Adam Bobat 4–2 Maris Volajs Markus Fischer 1–4 Richard Jones 4–1 Jeff Jacobs Andreas Ploner w/o–w/d Clayton Humphries

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Jake Nicholson 1–4 Eden Sharav Zack Richardson 4–0 Daan Leysen Marinus Teerling 0–4 Joshua Baddeley Billy Brown 2–4 Matthew Day Joe O'Connor 3–4 Kishan Hirani Kristof Vermeiren 0–4 Paul Davison Reanne Evans 3–4 Richard Beckham Diana Schuler 0–4 Brandon Sargeant Daniel Wells 4–1 Karen Osipov Sydney Wilson 4–2 Thomas Dowling Michael Williams 4–0 Joe Steele Adam Edge 1–4 Ben Jones Nico Elton 2–4 Jeff Cundy

Ashley Carty 4–0 Dessie Sheehan Sergiy Isayenko 0–4 Adam Duffy Luke Garland 4–3 Sean O'Sullivan Matthew Glasby 4–3 Mark Dooley 0–4 Marc Davis Kacper Filipiak 4–1 Brian Cini Andy Marriott 3–4 Ross Higgins Alex Taubman 3–4 Phuntsok Jaegers John Chapman 0–4 Adam Bobat Jack Bradford 4–0 Roel Laverman 0–4 Richard Jones Daniel Ward 0–4 Andreas Ploner

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, 129, 127, 122, 109, 105, 102 Shaun Murphy 141, 109 Marco Fu 140, 102, 102, 100 Neil Robertson 137 Chris Melling 136 John Higgins 135 Joe Perry 129 Lu Ning 128 Craig Steadman 125 Robbie Williams 124 Matthew Stevens 116 Sean O'Sullivan 116 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 114 Liang Wenbo 113 Andrew Higginson 112 Mark Allen 112 Fergal O'Brien

112 Chris Wakelin 111, 103 Judd Trump 108 Robert Milkins 108 Matthew Selt 106 Marc Davis 106 Zack Richardson 106 Zhou Yuelong 104 Mark Joyce 104 David Grace 103 Stuart Bingham 102, 101 Stephen Maguire 102 Jimmy Robertson 102 Cao Yupeng 102 Stuart Carrington 101 Daniel Wells 101 Luke Garland

References

External links 2014 Kreativ Dental Ruhr Open – Pictures by Tai Chengzhe at Facebook