The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 4 (also known as the 2015 Victoria Bulgarian Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament held between 4–8 November 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.World Snooker – Bulgarian Open 2015Snooker.org – European Tour Event Four

The first two days consisted of preliminary rounds. 31 players qualified through these rounds to reach the last-128 stage of the tournament. Days 3 and 4 consist edof 3 rounds; the top half of the draw playing on day 3 and bottom half on day 4. The remaining 16 players played to a conclusion on day 5. All matches were the best of 7 frames.World Snooker – Victoria Bulgaria Open 2015 (ET4)

Mark Allen beat Ryan Day 4–0 in the final. It was his fifth European Tour victory but his first win since August 2014 when he won the 2014 Paul Hunter Classic. The victory gave him entry to the 2015 Champion of Champions which was played the following week.Allen captures Bulgaria crown

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 Total €125,000

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Ashley Carty 2–4 Oliver Brown Alex Taubman 4–0 Terence Davidson Jin Foulger 2–4 Adam Edge Freddie Blunden 1–4 Tomasz Skalski Mihai Vladu 1–4 Felix Frede Dana Amir 0–4 Brandon Sargeant Lewis Gillen 4–1 Viktor Iliev Damian Wilks 1–4 Alexander Ursenbacher Brendan O'Donoghue 4–1 Jeremy Lee Krasimir Kameshev 1–4 Jurian Heusdens Andreas Ploner 4–0 Daniel Mladenov Joe Steele 4–1 Adam Longley Mateusz Baranowski 4–3 Ben Jones Peter Devlin 4–0 Razvan Sdrobis Ferdous Bhuyian 3–4 Robbie Purdham Ashley Hugill 4–1 Jake Nicholson Phil O'Kane 4–1 Kyriacos Kyriacou Nikolai Vlashev 0–4 Sam Betts Joe O'Connor Louis Heathcote Conor McCormack w/d–w/o Marcin Nitschke Nicholas Roberts 4–0 Veselin Lazarov Andrei Orzan 1–4 Josh Boileau Nikola Kemilev 4–1 Rodion Judin Mark Owens 4–3 Kishan Hirani

Elliot Slessor 4–0 Anastasis Ioannou Sam Thistlewhite 4–1 Sashko Dimitrov Corina Maracine 0–4 Michael Williams Paul Croitoru 0–4 Jamie Clarke Nikolai Hristov 1–4 Adam Duffy Bratislav Krustev 4–1 Salim Otti David Davidkov 4–0 Alkinoos Triantos Daniel O’Regan 2–4 Dessie Sheehan Adam King w/o–n/s Aleksandr Kurgankov Sam Craigie 4–0 Alex Borg Kacper Filipiak 3–4 Jeff Jacobs Simon Lichtenberg 4–1 Jonathan Mabey Adam Stefanow 2–4 Joe Roberts Michael Collumb 2–4 Lukas Kleckers Richard Beckham 4–2 Charlie Walters Dimitar Mehandjiiski 0–4 Robin Otto Nico Elton 4–1 Matthew Glasby Spasian Spasov 4–0 Gheorghe Margarit Teodor Chomovski 4–0 Monica Manolache Joshua Cooper 4–0 Ivan Kupov Marko Vukovic n/s–w/o Hammad Miah Ryan Causton 4–1 Brian Cini Patrick Whelan 2–4 Marc J Davis Christopher Keogan 4–1 Hans Blanckaert

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Oliver Brown 4–0 Alex Taubman Adam Edge 3–4 Tomasz Skalski Felix Frede 4–0 Julian Petrov Brandon Sargeant 3–4 Lewis Gillen Alexander Ursenbacher 1–4 Brendan O'Donoghue Jurian Heusdens 4–0 Viktor Gaidov Andreas Ploner 4–1 Daniel Schneider Joe Steele 0–4 Mateusz Baranowski Peter Devlin 4–2 Thomas Rees Robbie Purdham 0–4 Ashley Hugill Phil O'Kane 4–3 Radu Vilau Sam Betts 0–4 Joe O'Connor Marcin Nitschke 4–0 Nicholas Roberts Josh Boileau 4–1 Chris Jones Nikola Kemilev 0–4 Mark Owens Elliot Slessor 4–0 Georgi Georgiev

Sam Thistlewhite 2–4 Michael Williams Jamie Clarke 4–0 Chris Mason Adam Duffy 4–1 Ross Higgins Bratislav Krustev 4–0 David Davidkov Dessie Sheehan 0–4 Adam King Sam Craigie 4–1 Rares Sinca Jeff Jacobs 1–4 Simon Lichtenberg Joe Roberts 4–1 Lukas Kleckers Richard Beckham 4–0 Hristo Sirakov Robin Otto 0–4 Nico Elton Spasian Spasov 0–4 George Pragnall Teodor Chomovski 1–4 John Parkin Joshua Cooper 1–4 Hammad Miah Ryan Causton 4–1 Stefan Simeonovski Marc J Davis 2–4 Christopher Keogan

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

138, 133, 104 Dominic Dale 133 Barry Pinches 130, 124 Sam Baird 129 Aditya Mehta 128, 127, 118, 111, 100 Mark Williams 127, 102, 100 Mark Allen 126, 119, 111 Judd Trump 126, 110 Ryan Day 123, 114, 109, 106 Joe Perry 123, 112 Xiao Guodong 123 Ricky Walden 119, 102 Peter Ebdon 118, 106, 100, 100 Shaun Murphy 116 John Higgins 116 Jimmy Robertson

115 Andrew Higginson 115 Zak Surety 112 Joel Walker 112 Mitchell Mann 111, 105 Michael White 110 Michael Holt 109 Stuart Carrington 107 Josh Boileau 106 Mark Selby 103, 103 Daniel Wells 103 Jack Lisowski 102 Anthony McGill 100 Michael Wasley 100 Eden Sharav 100 Ryan Causton

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