The 2018 Scottish Open (officially the 2018 BetVictor Scottish Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 10 to 16 December 2018 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the tenth ranking event of the 2018/2019 season and a part of the Home Nations Series.
Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost 2–4 to Ross Muir in the second round. The tournament was won by Mark Allen who beat Shaun Murphy in the final. Allen led 6–3, but then Murphy won four frames in a row to take a 7–6 lead. Allen, however, won the next three frames to win 9–7.
John Higgins made the ninth maximum break of his career in the third frame of his second-round victory over Gerard Greene.
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: £20,000
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: Greg Coniglio Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland, 16 December 2018. Shaun Murphy (8) 7–9 Mark Allen (6) Afternoon: 0–110 (110), , , , , , , Evening: 7–68, 108–0, , , , , , 115 Highest break 134 1 Century breaks 2
Century breaks Total: 70
147, 104 John Higgins 141, 124, 122, 115, 101 Shaun Murphy 139 Lu Ning 138 Zhou Yuelong 136, 122, 102 Ali Carter 136, 101 Yan Bingtao 136 Nigel Bond 135 Jimmy Robertson 134, 129, 126, 110, 106 Mark Allen 134, 111, 105 Ding Junhui 134 Gerard Greene 133, 104, 102, 100 Ryan Day 133, 103 Marco Fu 130 Eden Sharav 130 Yuan Sijun 127, 119, 119, 117, 102, 101, 101 Judd Trump 127 Zhang Anda 122, 115, 108, 108 Stuart Carrington 122, 108 Joe Perry 121 Mark Davis 119 Matthew Stevens 115, 112 James Cahill 114 Ross Muir 113 Jack Lisowski 110, 105 Kyren Wilson 110 Gary Wilson 109 Duane Jones 107 Tom Ford 107 Joe Swail 106 Ricky Walden 105 Ian Burns 102 Alfie Burden 101, 101 Zhao Xintong 101 Elliot Slessor 100 Luca Brecel 100 David Gilbert 100 Mark King 100 Alan McManus 100 Robbie Williams
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