The 2018 Gibraltar Open (officially the 2018 ManBetX Gibraltar Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 7 to 11 March 2018 at the Tercentenary Sports Hall in Gibraltar. It was the seventeenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.

Shaun Murphy was the defending champion, but due to back and neck problems he withdrew prior to the tournament.

Ryan Day captured his second career ranking title, both won in the 2017/2018 season. He did so with a 4–0 win in the final against Cao Yupeng.

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

Winner: £25,000 Runner-up: £12,000 Semi-final: £6,000 Quarter-final: £4,000 Last 16: £3,000 Last 32: £2,000 Last 64: £1,000

Total: £153,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £25,000

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 7 frames. Referee: Desislava Bozhilova.Tercentenary Sports Hall, Gibraltar, 11 March 2018. Cao Yupeng 0–4 Ryan Day0–88, 7–86, , 8 Highest break 100 0 Century breaks 1

Amateur pre-qualifying These matches were played in Gibraltar on 7–8 March 2018. All matches were best of 7 frames.

Round 1

Mihai Vladu 4–2 Aaron Graham Louis Heathcote 4–0 Paul McLeod Daniel Schneider 1–4 Richard Beckham Conor McCormack 1–4 Paul Gibbs Martin Pitcher 4–2 Danny Connolly Felix Frede 4–0 Andrew Urbaniak

Joshua Thomond 1–4 Patrick Whelan Dylan Craig 4–1 Peter Devlin Jackson Page 4–0 Andrew Mincher Dan Barsley 2–4 Brian Cini Michael Wild 4–2 Sean McAllister Iulian Boiko 2–4 Brandon Sargeant

Round 2

Ben Jones 1–4 Ryan Causton Steven Hallworth 2–4 Barry Pinches Manasawin Phetmalaikul 4–2 Mihai Vladu James Cahill 4–1 Hamim Hussain Charlie Walters 4–1 Kevin Kelly Andreas Ploner 4–3 Ashley Carty Bradley Tyson 0–4 Louis Heathcote Matthew Hudson 3–4 Liam Golt Ian Martin 3–4 Richard Beckham Jamie Cope 4–1 Lee Prickman Joe O'Connor 4–0 Daniel O'Regan Adam Edge 4–0 Manon Melief Andrew Milliard 4–0 Paul Gibbs Andy Symons 4–0 Tony Corrigan Sergiy Isayenko 2–4 Harvey Chandler Jenson Kendrick 3–4 Mike Finn Reggie Edwards 3–4 Martin Pitcher Fergal Quinn 0–4 Matthew Glasby Shahidul Islam 1–4 Felix Frede Robin Otto 0–4 Patrick Whelan Andy Hicks 4–3 Zack Richardson

George Pragnall 4–3 Mitchell Grinstead John Foster 4–0 Bhavesh Sodha Matthew Day 4–3 Joshua Cooper Jack Bradford 3–4 Adam Ashley Jamie Clarke 4–2 Michael Williams Simon Lichtenberg 4–3 Rob James Barry Mincher 0–4 Dylan Craig Mohammed M.Shariff Ivelin Boyanov Bozhanov Thomas Lancastle 3–4 Umut Dikme Daniel Williams w/d–w/o Jackson Page Francis Becerra 1–4 Brian Cini Dylan Emery 4–2 Phil O'Kane Jamie O'Neill 4–0 Andrew Olivero Andrei Orzan 4–2 Adam Nash Kevin Chan 0–4 Michael Wild Matthew Roberts 2–4 James Height Oliver Brown 4–0 Blythe Reeve Lee Mein 0–4 Saqib Nasir Ron Kantor 0–4 Brandon Sargeant Thomas Kevern 4–2 Gareth Lopez Bash Maqsood 4–0 Simon Dent

Round 3

Ryan Causton 2–4 Barry Pinches Manasawin Phetmalaikul 1–4 James Cahill Charlie Walters 3–4 Andreas Ploner Louis Heathcote 4–0 Liam Golt Richard Beckham 2–4 Jamie Cope Joe O'Connor 4–2 Adam Edge Andrew Milliard 3–4 Andy Symons Harvey Chandler 3–4 Mike Finn Martin Pitcher 2–4 Matthew Glasby Felix Frede 0–4 Patrick Whelan Andy Hicks 4–2 George Pragnall

John Foster 1–4 Matthew Day Adam Ashley 1–4 Jamie Clarke Simon Lichtenberg 4–2 Dylan Craig Ivelin Boyanov Bozhanov 1–4 Umut Dikme Jackson Page 4–2 Brian Cini Dylan Emery 2–4 Jamie O'Neill Andrei Orzan 0–4 Michael Wild James Height 0–4 Oliver Brown Saqib Nasir 0–4 Brandon Sargeant Thomas Kevern 4–2 Bash Maqsood

Century breaks Main rounds centuries Total: 35

140, 130 Stuart Bingham 140 Scott Donaldson 140 Anthony McGill 135, 107 Kyren Wilson 134 Martin O'Donnell 130 Li Hang 130 Jack Lisowski 128 Jackson Page 123 Cao Yupeng 123 Mike Finn 122, 113, 105 Joe Perry 121 Jamie O'Neill 118 Dominic Dale 115, 100 Liang Wenbo 112, 104 Jamie Cope 112 Hammad Miah 112 Gary Wilson 111, 107, 104, 100 Ryan Day 110 Jamie Jones 109, 107 Zhang Anda 108 Tian Pengfei 104 Michael Georgiou 104 Craig Steadman 100 Oliver Brown 100 Zhao Xintong

Qualifying rounds centuries Total: 5

125 James Cahill 124 Ian Martin 114 Steven Hallworth 114 Saqib Nasir 104 Joe O'Connor

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