The 2003 Scottish Open (officially the 2003 Regal Scottish Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 5–13 April 2003 at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the seventh and penultimate ranking event of the 2002/2003 season.
David Gray won his first ranking title by defeating Mark Selby 9–7 in the final. This was Gray's only ranking final victory, and was Selby's first appearance in a ranking final. The defending champion, Stephen Lee, was defeated in the quarter-finals by John Higgins.
This was the final tournament held under the Scottish Open name, being re-branded the following season as the Players Championship before being discontinued. The tournament would be revived under the Scottish Open name in 2016. __TOC__
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £82,500 Runner-up: £42,500 Semi-final: £21,250 Quarter-final: £11,700 Last 16: £9,600 Last 32: £7,800 Last 48: £4,000 Last 64: £3,150
Last 80: £2,150 Last 96: £1,450
Stage one highest break: £1,800 Stage two highest break: £7,500
Stage one maximum break: £5,000 Stage two maximum break: £20,000
Total: £597,200
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 13 April 2003. David Gray (19) 9–7 Mark Selby (53) Afternoon: 73–32 (65), , , , , , , Evening: 9–102, 24–67, , , , , , 65 Highest break 60 0 Century breaks 0 3 50+ breaks 1
Qualifying
Round 1 Best of 9 frames
Paul Davies 4–5 Leo Fernandez Tony Jones 1–5 Colm Gilcreest Andrew Higginson 5–3 James Reynolds Jeff Cundy 5–2 Jamie Cope Paul Davison 5–1 Ricky Walden Rory McLeod 5–2 Bob Chaperon Ryan Day 5–0 Matthew Selt Jason Ferguson 3–5 Hugh Abernethy Craig Butler 3–5 David John Rod Lawler 5–1 Manan Chandra Adrian Gunnell 5–2 Jason Weston Euan Henderson w/d–w/o David Gilbert Stephen Kershaw 0–5 Munraj Pal Luke Fisher 4–5 Simon Bedford Lee Walker w/o–w/d Eddie Manning Alain Robidoux 1–5 Lee Spick
Shaun Murphy 5–2 Atthasit Mahitthi Matthew Couch 4–5 Kwan Poomjang John Read 5–1 Mario Wehrman Jason Prince 5–2 Peter Roscoe Paul Wykes 5–1 Jin Long Sean Storey 5–2 David Donovan Phaitoon Phonbun 5–3 Pang Weiguo Wayne Brown 5–2 Stefan Mazrocis Kristján Helgason w/o–w/d Matthew Farrant Neal Foulds 2–5 Darren Clarke Andrew Norman 4–5 Johl Younger Antony Bolsover 5–3 Jimmy Robertson Peter Lines 3–5 Mark Gray Martin Dziewialtowski 5–4 David McLellan Joe Johnson 0–5 Nick Pearce Troy Shaw 5–2 Justin Astley
Round 2–4
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
141 Stuart Bingham 138 Shaun Murphy 136 Rory McLeod 135 Michael Holt 133 Lee Spick 128, 113 Kristjan Helgason 121 David Gray 120 Bradley Jones 120 Wayne Brown
119 Johl Younger 119 Tony Drago 117 David Gilbert 115 Adrian Gunnell 114 Ian McCulloch 112, 104, 101 Ryan Day 110 Robin Hull 108, 100 Mark Gray 103 Nick Walker
Televised stage centuries
142, 116 Ali Carter 136, 120, 102, 101, 100 Stephen Hendry 134, 100 Mark Selby 131, 124 Ken Doherty 128, 102 John Higgins
117 Mark King 101 Matthew Stevens 101 Ian McCulloch 101 Quinten Hann 101 Anthony Hamilton
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