The 2016 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship was an amateur snooker tournament that took place from 20 August to 25 August 2016 in Mol, Belgium. It was the 28th edition of the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship and also doubles as a qualification event for the World Snooker Tour.

The tournament was won by 25th seed Xu Si who defeated former world number 102 Alexander Ursenbacher 6–5 in the final. As a result, Xu Si was given a two-year card on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons.

Results

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

65 Pravil Kant 2–4 64 Man Hoi Leong 57 Eklent Kaçi 2–4 72 Belan Sharif 69 Ryan Rowlands 4–0 60 Rhys Thomas 61 Rodion Judin 4–1 68 Ben Mertens

67 Louis Heathcote 4–0 62 Karol Lelek 59 Cale Barrett 4–0 70 Alex Pace 71 Gabriel Martins Campos 0–4 46 Ming Wa Man 63 Ka Wai Cheung 4–2 66 Amedeo Durnez

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

1 Ratchayothin Yotharuck 4–1 64 Leong Man-hoi 33 Jeff Jacobs 4–3 32 Paweł Rogoza 17 Dylan Craig 4–0 48 Ben Foster 49 Richard Haney 4–3 16 Ashley Carty 9 Kacper Filipiak 4–0 56 Dennis Furrer 41 Alexis Callewaert 2–4 24 Peter Devlin 25 Xu Si 4–0 40 Yun Fung Tam 72 Belan Sharif 1–4 8 Joe O'Connor 5 Yuan Sijun 4–0 69 Ryan Rowlands 37 Michael Schnabel 4–2 28 Charlie Sweeney 21 Adam Fitzgerald 4–1 44 Niel Vincent 53 Ben Fortey 4–2 12 Simon Lichtenberg 13 Lukas Kleckers 4–2 52 Digvijay Kadian 45 Daniel Holoyda 0–4 20 Dylan Emery 29 Ivan Kakovsky 4–3 36 Daegyu Lee 61 Rodion Judin 1–4 4 Andres Petrov

3 Siyavosh Mozayani 0–4 67 Louis Heathcote 35 Asutosh Padhy 4–3 30 Florian Nüßle 19 Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4–0 46 Andrei Orzan 51 Yannick Tarillon 4–0 14 Umut Dikme 11 Amir Nardeia 0–4 54 Nico Elton 43 Spasian Spasov 1–4 22 Brian Ochoiski 27 Mateusz Baranowski 4–2 38 Louis Chand 59 Cale Barrett 1–4 6 Alexander Ursenbacher 7 Tyler Rees 4–2 58 Ming Wa Man 39 Ming Tung Chan 2–4 26 Shrikrishna Suryanarayanan 23 Phuttakarn Kimsuk 3–4 42 Keishin Kamihashi 55 Markus Pfistermüller 3–4 10 Chris Totten 15 Jackson Page 4–2 50 Narongdat Takantong 47 Patrik Tiihonen 4–2 18 Noel Landers 31 Shane Bates 0–4 34 Chris Peplow 63 Cheung Ka-wai 4–1 2 Brian Cini

References