2017 China Championship (snooker)

China Championship
Tournament information
Dates	16–22 August 2017
Venue	Guangzhou Sport University
City	Guangzhou
Country	China
Organisation(s)	WPBSA
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£700,000^[1]
Winner's share	£150,000
Defending champion	John Higgins
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The 2017 Evergrande China Championship is a professional ranking snooker tournament that is scheduled to take place between 16–22 August 2017 in China.^[1] It is the second ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.^[2]

This will be the first time the event is a ranking tournament, having previously been a non-ranking event in the 2016/2017 season. John Higgins is the defending champion.^[3]^[4]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^[5]

Winner: £150,000
Runner-up: £75,000
Semi-final: £32,000
Quarter-final: £18,000
Last 16: £12,000
Last 32: £7,000
Last 64: £4,000

Non-televised highest break: £TBC
Televised highest break: £TBC

Total: £TBC

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stands at £

Main draw

Last 64
Best of 9 frames

Last 32
Best of 9 frames

Last 16
Best of 9 frames

Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames

Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames

Final
Best of 19 frames

Chen Zifan

Final

Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Guangzhou Sports University, Guangzhou, China, 22 August 2017.
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	Highest break
	Century breaks
	50+ breaks

Qualifying

These matches will be held between 3 and 6 June 2017 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches will be best of 9 frames.^[6]


Mark Selby	−^{[nb 1]}	Luo Honghao^{[nb 2]}
Noppon Saengkham	5−4	Rhys Clark
Zhou Yuelong	5−3	Christopher Keogan
Dominic Dale	3−5	Chen Zifan
Martin Gould	5−1	Adam Duffy
Andrew Higginson	−^{[nb 1]}	Hu Hao^{[nb 2]}
Anthony McGill	5−3	Craig Steadman
Mark Joyce	5−3	Rod Lawler
Rory McLeod	5−3	Chen Zhe
Stephen Maguire	5−1	Jamie Curtis-Barrett
Yan Bingtao	5−1	Wang Yuchen
Stuart Bingham	5−0	Billy Joe Castle
Peter Ebdon	5−3	Nigel Bond
Anthony Hamilton	5−2	Robin Hull
Gary Wilson	1−5	Ken Doherty
Shaun Murphy	5−2	Zhang Anda
Barry Hawkins	5−4	John Astley
Oliver Lines	5−2	Duane Jones
Ben Woollaston	5−3	Lukas Kleckers
Mark Davis	5−2	Alexander Ursenbacher
Ali Carter	5−2	Ross Muir
Robbie Williams	4−5	Aditya Mehta
Ricky Walden	0−5	Ian Preece
David Grace	5−4	Mei Xiwen
Fergal O'Brien	5−3	Sam Craigie
Mark King	w/o−w/d	Li Yuan
Kurt Maflin	5−3	Thor Chuan Leong
Kyren Wilson	1−5	Michael Georgiou
Jamie Jones	0−5	Elliot Slessor
Alan McManus	5−4	Hammad Miah
Alfie Burden	5−2	Paul Davison
Ding Junhui	−^{[nb 1]}	Niu Zhuang


Judd Trump	5−1	Xu Si
Daniel Wells	−^{[nb 1]}	Ma Bing^{[nb 2]}
Graeme Dott	w/o−w/d	Liam Highfield
Robert Milkins	5−2	Zhao Xintong
Ronnie O'Sullivan	w/o−w/d	Zhang Yong
Sam Baird	5−2	Josh Boileau
David Gilbert	5−4	Mitchell Mann
Stuart Carrington	5−1	Scott Donaldson
Mike Dunn	5−2	Alex Borg
Joe Perry	5−1	Eden Sharav
Jack Lisowski	3−5	Allan Taylor
Liang Wenbo	−^{[nb 1]}	Ian Burns
Jimmy Robertson	5−0	David John
Luca Brecel	5−2	Sean O'Sullivan
Hossein Vafaei	5−0	Soheil Vahedi
Marco Fu	5−0	Sanderson Lam
Neil Robertson	5−2	Gerard Greene
Li Hang	5−3	Joe Swail
Michael White	5−3	Martin O'Donnell
Xiao Guodong	5−4	Hamza Akbar
Mark Allen	5−3	Lee Walker
Matthew Stevens	5−2	Ashley Hugill
Michael Holt	5−0	Kurt Dunham
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	5−4	Chris Totten
Yu Delu	3−5	Cao Yupeng
Ryan Day	5−0	Jimmy White
Tian Pengfei	−^{[nb 1]}	Fan Zhengyi^{[nb 2]}
Mark Williams	5−3	Jak Jones
Matthew Selt	5−4	Peter Lines
Tom Ford	5−3	Yuan Sijun
Chris Wakelin	5−3	Fang Xiongman
John Higgins	−^{[nb 1]}	Lyu Haotian

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Match held over to be played in Guangzhou.
1 2 3 4 Wildcard

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

Total: 29

References

1 2 "China Championship 2017". World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
↑ "Calendar 2017/2018". Snooker.org. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
↑ "China Championship: John Higgins beats Stuart Bingham in final". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
↑ "Higgins Is Guangzhou King". World Snooker. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
↑ "Indicative Prize Money Rankings Schedule 2017/2018 Season" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
↑ "2017 China Championship Qualifying". Snooker.org. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

Snooker season 2017/2018
Ranking events	Riga Masters China Championship Paul Hunter Classic Indian Open World Open European Masters English Open International Championship Northern Ireland Open UK Championship Scottish Open German Masters Snooker Shoot-Out World Grand Prix Welsh Open Gibraltar Open Players Championship China Open World Snooker Championship
Non-ranking events	World Cup (team event) Hong Kong Masters World Games CVB Snooker Challenge (team event) Haining Open Champion of Champions The Masters Championship League
World Seniors Tour	UK Seniors Championship Irish Seniors Masters World Seniors Championship The Seniors Masters
Variant events	Six-red World Championship
2017/18 world rankings ranking points

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