2020 Scottish Open (snooker)
Snooker tournament held December 2020
Snooker tournament
The 2020 Scottish Open (officially the 2020 Matchroom.live Scottish Open ) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place on 7–13 December 2020 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes , England.[ 1] ranking event of the 2020–21 season and the third event of the Home Nations Series .
Mark Selby was the defending champion after a 9–6 defeat of Jack Lisowski in the 2019 final .[ 2] Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–3.[ 3] ranking title , and he became the second player, after Judd Trump , to win three Home Nations Series titles.
Zhou Yuelong made his second career maximum break in the third frame of his first-round match with Peter Lines .[ 4]
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[ 5]
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
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: Leo Scullion Marshall Arena , Milton Keynes , England, 13 December 2020.
Mark Selby England
9 –3
Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)England
Afternoon: 104 –21, 5–72 , 137 –4 (102)82 –2562–76 , 97 –17119 –090 –37Evening: 129 –0, 40–96 , 83 –4876 –64
102
Highest break
72
1
Century breaks
0
Century breaks
A total of 86 century breaks were made by 45 players during the tournament.[ 6]
147 – Zhou Yuelong 140, 126 – Liam Highfield
138, 132, 103, 102 – Barry Hawkins
137, 101 – Shaun Murphy
135, 129, 128, 123, 121, 102, 101, 100 – Mark Selby
135, 129, 112, 110, 109, 105 – Mark Allen
135, 126, 114, 114, 103, 101 – Ding Junhui
134, 127, 123 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
134, 127, 113, 100 – Kyren Wilson
134 – Lu Ning
134 – Kurt Maflin
134 – Matthew Stevens
133, 129 – Liang Wenbo
131 – Ashley Hugill
129, 104 – Tian Pengfei
References
International Open Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow Ravenscraig Milton Keynes Llandudno
