The 2017 Gibraltar Open (officially the 2017 jojobet.com Gibraltar Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 1 to 5 March 2017, at the Tercentenary Sports Hall in Gibraltar. It was the 16th ranking event of the 2016/2017 season. The main event ran from 3 to 5 March and was preceded by amateur pre-qualifying rounds on 1 and 2 March.

Marco Fu was the defending champion, but he chose not to participate in this edition of the tournament.

Shaun Murphy won the tournament, beating Judd Trump 4–2 in the final.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below.

Winner: €25,000 Runner-up: €12,000 Semi-finals: €6,000 Quarter-finals: €4,000 Last 16: €2,300 Last 32: €1,200 Last 64: €700

Total: €125,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £20,000 (€26,600).

Main draw Main rounds 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 7 frames. Referee: Peggy LiTercentenary Sports Hall, Gibraltar, 5 March 2017. Shaun Murphy 4–2 Judd Trump 0–117 (59), 83–45, , , , 96 Highest break 84 0 Century breaks 0 3 50+ breaks 3

Preliminary rounds

These matches were played in Gibraltar on 1–2 March 2017. All matches were the best of 7 frames.

Round 1

Match 1: Match 2: Jeff Cundy 4–3 Oliver Brown Match 3: Thomas Rees 0–4 Barry Pinches Match 4: John Foster 4–0 David Alcaide Match 5: Sam Harvey 1–4 Michael Collumb Match 6: Daniel Schneider 4–2 Matthew Glasby

Match 7: Joe Steele 4–1 Andrew Olivero Match 8: Ryan Causton w/o–n/s Nader Al Dosari Match 9: Joe O'Connor 4–2 Greg Casey Match 10: David Lilley 3–4 Charlie Sweeney Match 11: Joshua Cooper 4–0 Conor McCormack Match 12: Alex Taubman 4–2 Michael Williams

Match 13: Danny Connolly 4–3 Matthew Day Match 14: Daniel O'Regan 4–1 Jurian Heusdens Match 15: Steven Hallworth 4–0 Francis Becerra Match 16: Mark Vincent 4–3 James Budd

Match 17: Simon Dent 4–0 Mike Collins Match 18: Lee Prickman 4–3 John Fearick Match 19: Joshua Thomond 0–4 Gerard Greene Match 20: Ejler Hame 1–4 Ian Glover

Match 21: Richard Beckham 1–4 Brandon Sargeant Match 22: Jenson Kendrick 1–4 Jamie Clarke Match 23: Ben Murphy 4–2 Adam Stefanow Match 24: Sean McAllister 2–4 Robin Otto

Match 25: Manasawin Phetmalaikul 1–4 Ian Martin Match 26: Nev Graham 2–4 Phil O'Kane Match 27: Andreas Ploner w/o–n/s Mourad Naitali Match 28: Hans Blanckaert 3–4 Francisco Sánchez Ruiz

Match 29: Felix Frede 0–4 George Pragnall Match 30: Paul Burrell 4–0 Andrew Urbaniak Match 31: Zack Richardson 4–0 Bhavesh Sodha

Match 32: James Dabell 4–1 Rees Carter Match 33: Adam Longley 2–4 Dan Barsley

Round 2

Match 34: Charlie Walters 4–2 Simon Lichtenberg Match 35: Louis Heathcote 2–4 Jeff Cundy

Match 36: Barry Pinches 3–4 John Foster

Match 37: Saqib Nasir 4–1 Michael Collumb Match 38: Ben Jones 4–0 Daniel Schneider Match 39: Laurens De Staelen 4–1 Joe Steele Match 40: Adam Edge 4–0 Ryan Causton

Match 41: Joe O'Connor 4–3 Charlie Sweeney Match 42: Ashley Carty 4–0 Joshua Cooper Match 43: Peter Lines 4–0 Alex Taubman Match 44: Matthew Roberts 4–3 Danny Connolly

Match 45: Stephen Kershaw 4–3 Daniel O'Regan Match 46: Boris Lazarkov 0–4 Steven Hallworth Match 47: Mitchell Grinstead 4–0 Mark Vincent Match 48: Simon Dent 4–3 Lee Prickman

Match 49: Gerard Greene 4–2 Ian Glover Match 50: Patrick Whelan 2–4 Brandon Sargeant Match 51: Joel Walker 2–4 Jamie Clarke Match 52: Martin Pitcher 4–1 Ben Murphy

Match 53: Robin Otto 1–4 Ian Martin Match 54: Daniel Devlin w/d–w/o Phil O'Kane Match 55: Ashley Hugill 1–4 Andreas Ploner Match 56: Francisco Sánchez Ruíz 0–4 George Pragnall

Match 57: Jaspal Bamotra 4–2 Paul Burrell Match 58: Zack Richardson 4–0 James Dabell Match 59: Kaif Shazad 0–4 Dan Barsley

Century breaks

Main rounds centuries Total: 48

145, 129, 106, 104 Jack Lisowski 140, 137, 122 Shaun Murphy 138, 135, 101 Mark Allen 136 Sam Craigie 136 Luca Brecel 135 John Astley 133, 131, 109, 102 Alfie Burden 132, 102 Ricky Walden 131 David John 130, 108, 101 Neil Robertson 129, 117, 102 Ryan Day 129, 114, 112, 103 Judd Trump 128, 102 Gary Wilson 128 Gerard Greene

127 Mark Davis 127 Zhou Yuelong 121 John Higgins 118 Zhang Yong 107 Michael White 107 Ben Woollaston 107 Zhang Anda 105, 100 Barry Hawkins 105 Jamie Jones 104 Fang Xiongman 102 Mark Williams 102 Charlie Walters 101 Mitchell Mann 100 Steven Hallworth

References