2015 World Grand Prix

888.com World Grand Prix

Tournament information
Dates	16–22 March 2015
Venue	Venue Cymru
City	Llandudno
Country	Wales
Organisation(s)	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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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

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

Seeding list

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
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

(Top 32 players out of 560)

Main draw

^[10][11][12]

	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
	1	Mark Selby	4
	32	Michael Holt	1
						1	Mark Selby	2
						16	Martin Gould	4
	16	Martin Gould	4
	17	Alan McManus	1
											16	Martin Gould	4
											25	Peter Ebdon	2
	9	Stephen Maguire	4
	24	Xiao Guodong	1
						9	Stephen Maguire	1
						25	Peter Ebdon	4
	8	Shaun Murphy	3
	25	Peter Ebdon	4
																16	Martin Gould	5
																4	Judd Trump	6
	5	Ricky Walden	4
	28	Ding Junhui	1
						5	Ricky Walden	3
						12	Mark Williams	4
	12	Mark Williams	4
	21	Ryan Day	3
											12	Mark Williams	3
											4	Judd Trump	4
	13	Joe Perry	4
	20	Ben Woollaston	0
						13	Joe Perry	2
						4	Judd Trump	4
	4	Judd Trump	4
	29	Dominic Dale	0
																					4	Judd Trump	10
																					2	Ronnie O'Sullivan	7
	3	Neil Robertson	4
	30	Luca Brecel	0
						3	Neil Robertson	3
						19	Mark Davis	4
	14	Marco Fu	1
	19	Mark Davis	4
											19	Mark Davis	0
											6	Stuart Bingham	4
	11	Barry Hawkins	0
	22	Matthew Selt	4
						22	Matthew Selt	2
						6	Stuart Bingham	4
	6	Stuart Bingham	4
	27	Anthony McGill	3
																6	Stuart Bingham	0
																2	Ronnie O'Sullivan	6
	7	Mark Allen	3
	26	Liang Wenbo	4
						26	Liang Wenbo	3
						23	Graeme Dott	4
	10	John Higgins	3
	23	Graeme Dott	4
											23	Graeme Dott	1
											2	Ronnie O'Sullivan	4
	15	Robert Milkins	4
	18	Michael White	2
						15	Robert Milkins	0
						2	Ronnie O'Sullivan	4
	2	Ronnie O'Sullivan	4
	31	Rod Lawler	2

Final

Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Olivier Marteel. Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales, 22 March 2015.[12][13]
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

^[14][15]

• 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

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