2011 Welsh Open (snooker)

The 2011 Welsh Open (officially the 2011 Wyldecrest Park Homes Welsh Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 20 February 2011 at the Newport Centre in Newport, Wales. This was the first time that the Welsh Open was sponsored by Wyldecrest Park Homes.

Stephen Hendry made the 77th official maximum break during his second round match against Stephen Maguire. This was Hendry's 10th 147 break, and with this equalled the record for most maximums with Ronnie O'Sullivan, and became the oldest player to compile a maximum break at the age of 42 years and 35 days.

John Higgins defended his title, which he won in 2010, after defeating Maguire 9–6 in the final. This was the first All-Scottish final since the 2005 Malta Cup final between Hendry and Graeme Dott.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


 * Winner: £30,000
 * Runner-Up: £15,000
 * Semi-final: £7,500
 * Quarter-final: £5,600
 * Last 16: £4,000
 * Last 32: £2,500
 * Last 48: £1,600
 * Last 64: £1,250


 * Stage one highest break: £500
 * Stage two highest break: £1,000
 * Total: £201,500

Qualifying
These matches took place between 8 and 11 February 2011 at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England.

Qualifying stage centuries

 * 143 – Barry Hawkins
 * 137 – James McBain
 * 137 – Patrick Wallace
 * 128 – Anthony Hamilton
 * 125 – Ian McCulloch
 * 124 – David Gilbert
 * 124, 101, 100 – Jack Lisowski
 * 124 – Xiao Guodong
 * 119 – Jamie Jones


 * 111 – Joe Jogia
 * 110 – Jimmy Robertson
 * 107, 103 – Jimmy White
 * 105 – Kuldesh Johal
 * 103 – Anthony McGill
 * 103 – Dominic Dale
 * 102 – Joe Perry
 * 100 – Jamie Burnett

Televised stage centuries

 * 147 – Stephen Hendry
 * 139 – Dominic Dale
 * 137, 129, 109, 105 – Stephen Maguire
 * 136, 132, 120 – John Higgins
 * 133 – Matthew Stevens
 * 130 – Neil Robertson
 * 125, 113, 109, 102 – Ryan Day
 * 125, 103 – Ding Junhui


 * 120, 108, 100 – Mark Williams
 * 120 – Jamie Cope
 * 118 – Ali Carter
 * 115 – Peter Ebdon
 * 102 – Nigel Bond
 * 102 – Mark Selby
 * 100 – Ronnie O'Sullivan