2015 World Grand Prix

2015 Snooker tournament in Wales

This article is about the snooker tournament. For the darts tournament, see 2015 World Grand Prix (darts).

2015 888.com World Grand PrixTournament information

Dates| 16–22 March 2015 (2015-03-16 – 2015-03-22)
Venue| Venue Cymru
City| Llandudno
Country| Wales
Organisation| WPBSA
Format| Non-ranking event
Total prize fund| £300,000
Winner's share| £100,000
Highest break|  Judd Trump (142)
Final
Champion|  Judd Trump
Runner-up|  Ronnie O'Sullivan
Score| 10–7

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Snooker tournament

The 2015 World Grand Prix (officially the 2015 888.com World Grand Prix) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 22 March 2015 at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales.[1][2]

Judd Trump won the inaugural event by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 10–7 in the final.[3][4]

## Prize fund

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The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[5][6]

* Winner: £100,000
* Runner-up: £35,000
* Semi-final: £20,000
* Quarter-final: £10,000
* Last 16: £5,000
* Last 32: £2,500

* Highest break: £5,000
* Total: £300,000

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## Seeding list

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The top 32 players on a one-year ranking system running from the 2014 World Snooker Championship to the 2015 Gdynia Open qualified for the tournament.[7][8][9]

Rank  | Player  | Total points

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01  |  Mark Selby | 429,166
02  |  Ronnie O'Sullivan | 305,250
03  |  Neil Robertson | 217,360
04  |  Judd Trump | 191,916
05  |  Ricky Walden | 188,227
06  |  Stuart Bingham | 176,545
07  |  Mark Allen | 163,500
08  |  Shaun Murphy | 150,083
09  |  Stephen Maguire | 115,700
10  |  John Higgins | 103,450
11  |  Barry Hawkins | 102,000
12  |  Mark Williams | 99,400
13  |  Joe Perry | 94,833
14  |  Marco Fu | 85,266
15  |  Robert Milkins | 79,444
16  |  Martin Gould | 76,834
17  |  Alan McManus | 70,001
18  |  Michael White | 63,333
19  |  Mark Davis | 61,127
20  |  Ben Woollaston | 60,699
21  |  Ryan Day | 59,582
22  |  Matthew Selt | 55,900
23  |  Graeme Dott | 55,033
24  |  Xiao Guodong | 52,295
25  |  Peter Ebdon | 51,917
26  |  Liang Wenbo | 51 251
27  |  Anthony McGill | 49,167
28  |  Ding Junhui | 48,500
29  |  Dominic Dale | 47,583
30  |  Luca Brecel | 45,332
31  |  Rod Lawler | 42,499
32  |  Michael Holt | 42,083

## Main draw

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| Last 32
Best of 7 frames | | | Last 16
Best of 7 frames | | | Quarter-finals
Best of 7 frames | | | Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames | | | Final
Best of 19 frames |

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| 1 |  Mark Selby | 4 | | | | |
| 32 |  Michael Holt | 1 |
| | 1 |  Mark Selby | 2 |
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| | | 16 |  Martin Gould | 4 |
| 16 |  Martin Gould | 4 |

| 17 |  Alan McManus | 1 |
| | 16 |  Martin Gould | 4 |
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| | | 25 |  Peter Ebdon | 2 |
| 9 |  Stephen Maguire | 4 | |

| 24 |  Xiao Guodong | 1 |
| | 9 |  Stephen Maguire | 1 |
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| | | 25 |  Peter Ebdon | 4 |
| 8 |  Shaun Murphy | 3 |

| 25 |  Peter Ebdon | 4 |
| | 16 |  Martin Gould | 5 |
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| | | 4 |  Judd Trump | 6 |
| 5 |  Ricky Walden | 4 | | |

| 28 |  Ding Junhui | 1 |
| | 5 |  Ricky Walden | 3 |
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| | | 12 |  Mark Williams | 4 |
| 12 |  Mark Williams | 4 |

| 21 |  Ryan Day | 3 |
| | 12 |  Mark Williams | 3 |
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| | | 4 |  Judd Trump | 4 |
| 13 |  Joe Perry | 4 | |

| 20 |  Ben Woollaston | 0 |
| | 13 |  Joe Perry | 2 |
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| | | 4 |  Judd Trump | 4 |
| 4 |  Judd Trump | 4 |

| 29 |  Dominic Dale | 0 |
| | 4 |  Judd Trump | 10 |
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| | | 2 |  Ronnie O'Sullivan | 7 |
| 3 |  Neil Robertson | 4 | | | |

| 30 |  Luca Brecel | 0 |
| | 3 |  Neil Robertson | 3 |
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| | | 19 |  Mark Davis | 4 |
| 14 |  Marco Fu | 1 |

| 19 |  Mark Davis | 4 |
| | 19 |  Mark Davis | 0 |
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| | | 6 |  Stuart Bingham | 4 |
| 11 |  Barry Hawkins | 0 | |

| 22 |  Matthew Selt | 4 |
| | 22 |  Matthew Selt | 2 |
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| | | 6 |  Stuart Bingham | 4 |
| 6 |  Stuart Bingham | 4 |

| 27 |  Anthony McGill | 3 |
| | 6 |  Stuart Bingham | 0 |
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| | | 2 |  Ronnie O'Sullivan | 6 |
| 7 |  Mark Allen | 3 | | |

| 26 |  Liang Wenbo | 4 |
| | 26 |  Liang Wenbo | 3 |
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| | | 23 |  Graeme Dott | 4 |
| 10 |  John Higgins | 3 |

| 23 |  Graeme Dott | 4 |
| | 23 |  Graeme Dott | 1 |
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| | | 2 |  Ronnie O'Sullivan | 4 |
| 15 |  Robert Milkins | 4 | |

| 18 |  Michael White | 2 |
| | 15 |  Robert Milkins | 0 |
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| | | 2 |  Ronnie O'Sullivan | 4 |
| 2 |  Ronnie O'Sullivan | 4 |

| 31 |  Rod Lawler | 2 |

## Final

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Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Olivier Marteel.
Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales, 22 March 2015.[12]

Judd Trump (4)
England | 10–7  | Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)
England
Afternoon: 67–54, 14–90 (90), 60–80, 47–83 (56), 1–105 (105), 86–22 (50), 82–1, 76–8 (50), 9–115 (89)
Evening: 0–100 (96), 20–63 (59), 80–29 (57), 72–0, 142–0 (142), 67–35, 62–53, 65–9
142 | Highest break  | 105
1 | Century breaks  | 1
4  | 50+ breaks  | 6

## Century breaks

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Total: 17[13]

* 142, 140, 121 – Judd Trump
* 139 – Joe Perry
* 136 – Peter Ebdon
* 122, 108, 106 – Stephen Maguire
* 121 – Neil Robertson
* 115 – Rod Lawler
* 113, 111 – Martin Gould
* 110 – Mark Selby
* 109, 102 – Mark Davis
* 105 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
* 101 – Stuart Bingham

## References

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1. ^ "Tournament Calendar 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
2. ^ "888.com To Sponsor World Grand Prix". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 11 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
3. ^ Goulding, Neil (22 March 2015). "Trump leaves Rocket struggling on fumes to take Grand Prix". Herald Scotland. Newsquest. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
4. ^ Hendon, Dave (22 March 2015). "Trump outlasts O'Sullivan to triumph at World Grand Prix". Inside Snooker. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
5. ^ Kalb, Rolf (10 March 2015). "World Grand Prix – Turnier-Info: World Grand Prix" (in German). Eurosport Deutschland. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
6. ^ Welton, Blake (1 March 2015). "World Grand Prix Snooker: What are the prizes on offer for the North Wales event?". Daily Post. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
7. ^ "Top Class Snooker Heading To Llandudno". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 25 June 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
8. ^ "Llandudno Line-up Set In Gdynia". wpbsa.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
9. ^ "World Grand Prix Rankings (2015)". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
10. ^ "World Grand Prix Draw" (PDF). World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
11. ^ "World Grand Prix 2015 Provisional Format" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
12. ^ a b "888.com World Grand Prix (2015)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
13. ^ "World Grand Prix: century breaks". worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.

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