The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 5 (also known as the 2015 Gibraltar Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament held between 9–13 December 2015 in Gibraltar.

Marco Fu made the 116th official maximum break in the fifth frame of his last 64 match against Sam Baird. This was Fu's fourth official 147 break and also the second maximum break in the 2015/2016 season.

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

Sam Craigie 4–1 Danny Connolly Adam Edge Lukas Kleckers Sam Thistlewhite 4–0 Joshua Cooper Kevin Chan w/o–w/d Jamie O'Neill Zhao Xintong 4–1 Joe Steele Jake Nicholson 4–2 Robin Otto Michael Williams 4–0 Mateusz Baranowski Reanne Evans 2–4 Oliver Brown Ashley Hugill 4–1 Joshua Baddeley Mourad Naitali 4–0 Francisco Domingues Mark Owens 3–4 Nico Elton Simon Lichtenberg 3–4 Kacper Filipiak Joe O'Connor 2–4 Brandon Sargeant Dylan Craig 4–1 Conor McCormack Simon Dent 0–4 Hammad Miah

Maxim Maximov 1–4 Stephen Webber Richard Beckham 4–3 Felix Frede Manon Melief 0–4 Jamie Clarke Ivelin Bozhanov 3–4 Edward Topharn Tomasz Skalski 4–3 Callum Lloyd Robbie Purdham 0–4 Kishan Hirani Marcin Nitschke 1–4 Phil O'Kane Christopher Keogan 2–4 George Pragnall Richard Ammons 2–4 James Dabell Adam Duffy 4–2 Ross Higgins Manasawin Phetmalaikul 2–4 Alex Taubman Elliot Slessor 4–2 Ben Jones Adam King 4–3 Lee Prickman Jurian Heusdens 0–4 Ashley Carty Adam Longley 2–4 Thomas Rees

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Sam Craigie 4–0 Lukas Kleckers Saqib Nasir 0–4 Sam Thistlewhite Kevin Chan 0–4 Zhao Xintong Jake Nicholson 4–3 Michael Williams Sean Galligan 0–4 Oliver Brown Dieter Meier 0–4 Ashley Hugill Mourad Naitali 0–4 Nico Elton Brian Cini 1–4 Kacper Filipiak Francis Becerra 0–4 Brandon Sargeant Michael Collumb 2–4 Dylan Craig Hammad Miah 4–0 Stephen Webber

Mohammed Rangzib 1–4 Richard Beckham Ryan Causton 1–4 Jamie Clarke Edward Topharn 1–4 Tomasz Skalski James Facey 1–4 Kishan Hirani Daniel Schneider 4–2 Phil O'Kane George Pragnall 4–1 James Dabell Louis Heathcote 4–3 Adam Duffy Alex Taubman 0–4 Elliot Slessor Adam King 0–4 Ashley Carty Tom Stormbom 0–4 Thomas Rees

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, 140, 133 Marco Fu 144 Liang Wenbo 142, 104 Zhao Xintong 135 Liam Highfield 133, 127 Sam Baird 132, 114, 110 Michael White 130 David Grace 129, 127 Dominic Dale 129, 105 Mark Selby 125 Michael Holt 124 Andrew Higginson 120, 103 Alfie Burden 116, 101 Mike Dunn 111, 105 Stuart Bingham 110 Graeme Dott 108 Richard Beckham

107 Nigel Bond 107 Adam Duffy 106, 103, 101 Luca Brecel 106 Xiao Guodong 104 Tom Ford 104 George Pragnall 103 Mark Davis 102 Chris Melling 102 Ricky Walden 102 Kyren Wilson 102 Daniel Wells 101 Michael Georgiou 101 Tian Pengfei 101 Hossein Vafaei 100 Mark King

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