The 2017 English Open (officially the 2017 Dafabet English Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 16 to 22 October 2017 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It was the seventh ranking event of the 2017/2018 season and a part of the Home Nations Series.

Liang Wenbo was the defending champion, having beaten Judd Trump 9–6 in the 2016 final. Liang made a maximum break in his second round match against Tom Ford, but lost in the third round to Yan Bingtao. His maximum won him the "rolling 147 prize" of £40,000.

Ronnie O'Sullivan captured his 29th ranking title by beating Kyren Wilson 9–2 in the final. With his win O'Sullivan tied John Higgins for 2nd place on the all-time list of ranking event wins, only behind Stephen Hendry.

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

Winner: £70,000 Runner-up: £30,000 Semi-final: £20,000 Quarter-final: £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 £40,000

Main draw

Qualifying round

Allan Taylor 4–3 David Lilley Ian Burns 3–4 Zhang Anda

Fang Xiongman 4–0 Joe O'Connor

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. Barnsley Metrodome, Barnsley, England, 22 October 2017. Ronnie O'Sullivan (13) 9–2 Kyren Wilson (15)Afternoon: 115–19 (115), , , , , , , Evening: 69–32 (50), , 132 Highest break 109 4 Century breaks 1 9 50+ breaks 2

Century breaks Total: 83

147, 107, 105 Liang Wenbo 144, 132, 130, 128 Jack Lisowski 143, 128, 114, 105 Judd Trump 141, 127, 112, 104, 104 Stuart Bingham 140, 124, 118, 109, 109, 106, 103 Kyren Wilson 140, 104 Liam Highfield 139, 136, 134, 133, 132, 131, 129, 127, 127, 126, 125, 115 Ronnie O'Sullivan 139 Thor Chuan Leong 138, 131 John Higgins 136, 135, 134 Shaun Murphy 136 Mitchell Mann 135 Marco Fu 134, 132 Neil Robertson 132, 115, 105 Matthew Stevens 131 Ian Preece 131 David Gilbert 128, 100 Michael White 127 Ali Carter 126 Tian Pengfei 124 Mark Selby 123, 104, 104 Yuan Sijun 123 Barry Hawkins 123 Alexander Ursenbacher 121 Scott Donaldson 120 Stuart Carrington 116 Aditya Mehta 113 Ding Junhui 112 Sunny Akani 111 Yan Bingtao 110, 105 Tom Ford 110 Ross Muir 110 Xiao Guodong 108 James Wattana 107, 101 Jimmy Robertson 107 Fang Xiongman 106 Robin Hull 104 Hamza Akbar 104 Jamie Jones 102 Chen Zifan 101 Craig Steadman 100 Mark Joyce 100 Anthony McGill

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