The 2018 English Open (officially the 2018 BetVictor English Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 15 to 21 October 2018 in Crawley, West Sussex, England. It was the sixth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season and a part of the Home Nations Series.
The defending champion was Ronnie O'Sullivan, who defeated Kyren Wilson in the 2017 event. However, O'Sullivan would lose to Mark Davis 1–6 in the semi-final. O'Sullivan was highly critical of the venue stating "The worst part was not the smell of urine..."This is about as bad as I've ever seen. It's a bit of a hellhole....I don't know what this gaff is, but I've just done an interview and all I can smell is urine."
Stuart Bingham won his fifth professional ranking title with a 9–7 victory against Mark Davis, who had reached his first ever ranking final at the age of 46, playing in his 28th season on the professional tour. Bingham became the first player to win two Home Nations Series events.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made the second maximum break of his career in the opening frame of his 4–1 first round win against Soheil Vahedi. On the following day Ronnie O'Sullivan made the 15th maximum break of his career in the final frame of the second round whitewash of Allan Taylor. This was the fourth time that two maximums were made at the main stage of a ranking tournament, and the third time in just over half a year.
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: £15,000
Tournament 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: Ben Williams. K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley, England, 21 October 2018. Mark Davis 7–9 Stuart Bingham (13)Afternoon: , , , , , , , Evening: 94–44, , , , , , , 136 Highest break 102 1 Century breaks 1
Century breaks Total: 81
147, 135, 118, 104 Ronnie O'Sullivan 147, 112 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 141, 136, 132, 121, 105 Ryan Day 140 Zhou Yuelong 138, 131, 109, 102 Stuart Bingham 137 Marco Fu 136, 136, 107, 104, 102 Mark Davis 136, 128, 100 Luo Honghao 136, 116, 100 Tian Pengfei 135 Elliot Slessor 133 Sunny Akani 131, 101 Ben Woollaston 129, 101 Sam Craigie 129 Mike Dunn 126, 109, 108, 107, 104 Judd Trump 122 Jak Jones 121, 106, 106 Barry Hawkins 121 Ashley Carty 121 Allan Taylor 120, 100 Sam Baird 116, 109 Mark Williams 116, 103 Ali Carter 116 Robert Milkins 115 Thor Chuan Leong 114, 102, 100, 100 Noppon Saengkham 113 Liam Highfield 113 Zhang Anda 112, 102, 100 Neil Robertson 112 Liang Wenbo 109, 109 Martin Gould 109 Luca Brecel 108, 101 David Gilbert 108 Paul Davison 107 Anthony McGill 106, 100 Mark Selby 105 Ricky Walden 105 John Higgins 104 Stuart Carrington 102 Yan Bingtao 102 Stephen Maguire 102 Mei Xiwen 101 Matthew Selt 100 Jack Lisowski
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