2016 China Championship (snooker)

Evergrande China Championship

Tournament information
Dates	1–5 November 2016
City	Guangzhou
Country	China
Organisation(s)	WPBSA
Format	Non-ranking event
Total prize fund	£650,000[1]
Winner's share	£200,000
Highest break	Shaun Murphy (144)
Final
Champion	John Higgins
Runner-up	Stuart Bingham
Score	10–7
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The 2016 Evergrande China Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 1–5 November 2016 in Guangzhou, China.^[1]

It was the first staging of the tournament, and the plans were for it to become a full ranking event for the following three years, with the biggest prize pool for any event ever held outside the UK previously.^[2]

John Higgins became the inaugural winner by beating Stuart Bingham 10–7 in the final.^[3][4]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money from this year is shown below:

Winner: £200,000 Runner-up: £100,000 Semi-final: £50,000 Quarter-final: £30,000 Last 16: £15,000 Highest break: £10,000 Total: £650,000

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

Seeding list

The top 10 snooker players on the ranking list after the Shanghai Masters, along with the top 4 players on the one year prize money ranking list were invited to participate in the event.^[2][5] The remaining two players (Marco Fu and Liang Wenbo) were selected by the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association.^[6] Mark Williams became eligible to participate after the withdrawal of world number 10 Ronnie O'Sullivan from the competition, as he was next in line to qualify through his official world ranking.^[7]

Source:^[8]

Seed	Player	Total Rankings[9]	1 Year Rankings[10]	Event Status
01	Mark Selby	690,650	60,775	Quarter-final lost to	Mark Allen [8]
02	Stuart Bingham	516,534	34,775	Runner-up lost to	John Higgins [5]
03	Shaun Murphy	447,308	26,000	Semi-final lost to	Stuart Bingham [2]
04	Judd Trump	409,166	19,000	Last 16 lost to	Ali Carter [11]
05	John Higgins	408,725	22,750	Champion defeated	Stuart Bingham [2]
06	Ding Junhui	376,925	91,500	Last 16 lost to	Marco Fu
07	Neil Robertson	359,582	58,500	Last 16 lost to	Michael Holt [14]
08	Mark Allen	336,592	9,725	Semi-final lost to	John Higgins [5]
09	Ricky Walden	312,208	9,400	Last 16 lost to	Mark Allen [8]
0w/d	Ronnie O'Sullivan	302,333	8,000	Withdrew
010	Mark Williams	243,008	22,250	Last 16 lost to	John Higgins [5]
011	Ali Carter	226,200	105,150	Quarter-final lost to	John Higgins [5]
012	Anthony McGill	197,375	73,525	Last 16 lost to	Mark Selby [1]
013	Joe Perry	295,133	41,050	Last 16 lost to	Shaun Murphy [3]
014	Michael Holt	149,683	38,150	Quarter-final lost to	Stuart Bingham [2]
	Marco Fu	Qualified via CBSA Wildcard		Quarter-final lost to	Shaun Murphy [3]
	Liang Wenbo	Qualified via CBSA Wildcard		Last 16 lost to	Stuart Bingham [2]

  Player qualified via general ranking list.

  Player qualified via one-year ranking list.

Main draw

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	Last 16 Best of 11 frames					Quarter-finals Best of 11 frames					Semi-finals Best of 17 frames					Final Best of 19 frames
	1	Mark Selby	6
	12	Anthony McGill	2
						1	Mark Selby	5
						8	Mark Allen	6
	8	Mark Allen	6
	9	Ricky Walden	4
											8	Mark Allen	3
											5	John Higgins	9
	5	John Higgins	6
	10	Mark Williams	4
						5	John Higgins	6
						11	Ali Carter	2
	4	Judd Trump	4
	11	Ali Carter	6
																5	John Higgins	10
																2	Stuart Bingham	7
	3	Shaun Murphy	6
	13	Joe Perry	4
						3	Shaun Murphy	6
							Marco Fu	2
	6	Ding Junhui	3
		Marco Fu	6
											3	Shaun Murphy	8
											2	Stuart Bingham	9
	7	Neil Robertson	5
	14	Michael Holt	6
						14	Michael Holt	5
						2	Stuart Bingham	6
	2	Stuart Bingham	6
		Liang Wenbo	2

Final

Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Zhou Ying. Guangzhou, China, 5 November 2016.[12][13][14]
John Higgins (5)  Scotland	10–7	Stuart Bingham (2)  England
Afternoon: 77–37, 74–17, 72–1, 1–127 (102), 18–112 (112), 49–75 (52), 69–0, 70–58 (Bingham 58, Higgins 65), 14–100 (50) Evening: 28–55, 4–98 (98), 81–0 (56), 71–10 (65), 0–84 (84), 134–1 (134), 105–21 (100), 129–8 (101)
134	Highest break	112
3	Century breaks	2
6	50+ breaks	7

Century breaks

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• 144, 129, 121, 101 Shaun Murphy
• 141, 122, 118, 114, 112, 104, 102 Stuart Bingham
• 140, 131, 114, 106, 100 Mark Allen
• 134, 131, 123, 101, 100 John Higgins
• 127 Mark Selby

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