The 2017 Welsh Open (officially the 2017 Coral Welsh Open) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 13 to 19 February 2017 at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. It was the fourteenth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.

The 2017 Welsh Open was held as part of a new Home Nations Series, introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the new English Open, Northern Ireland Open and Scottish Open tournaments. The tournament's trophy was renamed to the Ray Reardon Trophy in honour of six-time world champion Ray Reardon.

The defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan lost 3–4 against Mark Davis in the last 64.

Stuart Bingham won his first Welsh Open title and fourth ranking title overall, beating Judd Trump 9–8 in the final.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money is shown below.

Winner: £70,000 Runner-up: £30,000 Semi-finals: £20,000 Quarter-finals: £10,000 Last 16: £6,000 Last 32: £3,500 Last 64: £2,500

Highest break: £2,000 Total: £366,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000.

Main draw

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Colin Humphries.Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales, 19 February 2017. Judd Trump (5) 8–9 Stuart Bingham (3) Afternoon: 45–69 (69), , , , , , , Evening: 91–1, 48–63 (63), , , , , , , 68 Highest break 87 0 Century breaks 0 3 50+ breaks 6

Century breaks

Total: 55

144 Mark Davis 143, 133, 111, 102 Neil Robertson 142 Fergal O'Brien 140, 131, 102 Judd Trump 136, 123, 118, 103 Hossein Vafaei 136 Yan Bingtao 132, 113 Anthony Hamilton 131 Mei Xiwen 130 Lee Walker 128, 101 Stuart Carrington 128 Michael White 127, 103, 101, 101 Stuart Bingham 126 Graeme Dott 120 Mitchell Mann 118 Andy Hicks 117 Joe Perry 116, 113 Kurt Maflin 115 Robert Milkins

114 Aditya Mehta 113, 101, 100 Barry Hawkins 109, 101 Anthony McGill 109 Josh Boileau 108, 107, 101 Jimmy Robertson 108 Gareth Allen 106 Sanderson Lam 105 Robin Hull 105 Igor Figueiredo 105 Craig Steadman 104 Ricky Walden 102 Jimmy White 101 Ronnie O'Sullivan 101 Allan Taylor 101 Zhou Yuelong 100 Ryan Day 100 Stephen Maguire 100 Robbie Williams

References