The 2020 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2020 Matchroom.live Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 16 to 22 November 2020 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. It was the fourth ranking event of the 2020–21 season and a part of the Home Nations Series. It was the fifth edition of the Northern Ireland Open.

For the third consecutive edition of the tournament, Judd Trump defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–7 in the final, winning his 19th ranking title. He is the first player to win a ranking event three times in a row since Stephen Hendry won the UK Championship from 1994 to 1996. He is also the first to win four Home Nations Series titles, and the second, after Mark Selby, to win two Home Nations events in a single season. During this tournament, he made the fifth maximum break of his career in the third frame of his second-round match with Gao Yang.

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: £7,500 Last 32: £4,000 Last 64: £3,000 Highest break: £5,000 Total: £405,000

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. Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, England, 22 November 2020. Judd Trump (1) 9–7 Ronnie O'Sullivan (2) Afternoon: 69–55, , , , , , , Evening: 89–55, , , , , , , 128 Highest break 130 2 Century breaks 1

Century breaks A total of 68 century breaks were made during the competition.

147, 128, 127, 115, 112, 109, 105, 103, 101 Judd Trump 144, 130 John Higgins 142 Anthony McGill 141 Ashley Carty 137, 125, 103 Yan Bingtao 135, 135, 127, 112 Kurt Maflin 135 Kyren Wilson 134, 130, 118, 101 Ben Woollaston 134, 109, 109, 100 Zhao Xintong 133 Luca Brecel 133 Chang Bingyu 133 Mark Williams 130, 125, 111 Mark Allen 130, 125, 106, 103, 102, 100 Ronnie O'Sullivan 130 Stuart Bingham 127, 116 Patrick Wallace 122 Lee Walker 121, 107, 100 Ding Junhui 121, 106 Liang Wenbo 117, 101 Martin Gould 114 Lu Ning 113, 107 Ryan Day 109 Andy Hicks 108, 103, 101, 100 Ali Carter 104 David Grace 104 Barry Hawkins 104 Robert Milkins 103 Stephen Maguire 102 Alex Borg 102 Liam Highfield 101, 101 Ken Doherty

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