The 2017 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2017 Dafabet Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 and 26 November 2017 in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the tenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season and a part of the Home Nations Series. It was the second edition of the Northern Ireland Open.

Mark King was the defending champion, but he was beaten 1–4 in the third round by Yan Bingtao. Yan went on to reach the final, becoming the youngest ever finalist of a ranking event. He faced Mark Williams, who won the 19th ranking title of his career by beating Yan 9–8. With his victory, Williams ended a ranking title drought dating back to the 2011 German Masters lasting 6 years and 9 months. Williams had come from 7–8 behind to win, and denied Yan becoming the youngest ever winner of a ranking event. Ronnie O'Sullivan still holds that record for the 1993 UK Championship.

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 £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: Marcel Eckardt.Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 26 November 2017. Yan Bingtao 8–9 Mark Williams (15) Afternoon: 79–43, , , , , , , Evening: 137–0 (137), , , , , , , , 137 Highest break 104 1 Century breaks 1 5 50+ breaks 4

Century breaks Total: 53

142, 135, 107 John Higgins 140, 120 Kurt Maflin 138, 129 Stephen Maguire 138 Ben Woollaston 137, 114, 113 Yan Bingtao 137 Lukas Kleckers 134 Dominic Dale 134 Ryan Day 132, 105 Robert Milkins 131 Li Yuan 129, 107 Joe Perry 129 Gary Wilson 128 Robin Hull 127, 113, 106, 104 Mark Williams 126 Ronnie O'Sullivan 125, 119 Sunny Akani 125 Anthony McGill 115, 107, 105 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 113, 108 Matthew Selt 110, 106 Sam Craigie 110 Xiao Guodong 109, 106 Tian Pengfei 108 Allan Taylor 106 Paul Davison 105 Kyren Wilson 104 Neil Robertson 104 Yuan Sijun 103, 103 Zhou Yuelong 103 Ken Doherty 103 Michael Holt 102 Cao Yupeng 101, 100 Jack Lisowski 101 Tom Ford 101 Chen Zifan

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