2018 China Open (snooker)

The 2018 Fuhua Group China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, taking place from 2–8 April 2018 in Beijing, China. It was the nineteenth and penultimate ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.

Defending champion Mark Selby retained his title with an 11–3 final win against Barry Hawkins. By winning this tournament, Selby ensured that he will end a seventh consecutive season as world number one, regardless of his result in the 2018 World Championship.

Ronnie O'Sullivan made his 14th maximum break in professional competition in the 5th frame of his last 64 match against Elliot Slessor. The following day, Stuart Bingham made his fourth maximum break in professional competition in the 7th frame of his last 32 match against Ricky Walden. These were the 137th and 138th official maximum breaks in professional competition. It was only the second time that two 147s were made at the main stage of a professional ranking event, the first time being at the 2008 World Championship.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money is shown below.


 * Winner: £225,000
 * Runner-up: £90,000
 * Semi-final: £45,000
 * Quarter-final: £27,000
 * Last 16: £18,000
 * Last 32: £11,000
 * Last 64: £5,000


 * Televised highest break: £7,000
 * Total: £1,000,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £35,000.

Qualifying
The Round 2 qualifying matches – except for the held over ones – were played between 27 and 30 January 2018 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Qualifying Round 1 and the held over matches of Round 2 were played in Beijing on 2 April 2018.

All qualifying matches were best of 11 frames.

Round 2

 * Notes

Main stage centuries
Total: 72


 * 147, 105 – Stuart Bingham
 * 147 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
 * 143, 141, 136, 135, 135, 132, 119, 118, 112, 108 – Mark Selby
 * 143, 110, 110, 105, 103, 103 – Neil Robertson
 * 139 – Ali Carter
 * 138, 133 – Ding Junhui
 * 138, 105, 102 – Mark Allen
 * 135, 127, 110, 101 – Sam Craigie
 * 135, 105, 100 – Luo Honghao
 * 135, 100 – Cao Yupeng
 * 133, 122 – Craig Steadman
 * 132, 125, 124, 103, 101 – Barry Hawkins
 * 131, 130, 129, 112 – Mark Williams
 * 130, 111 – Xiao Guodong
 * 130, 102 – Joe Perry
 * 130 – Yan Bingtao
 * 127 – Stephen Maguire
 * 126 – Anthony McGill
 * 122, 115, 107, 103 – Zhou Yuelong
 * 119 – David Gilbert
 * 114, 106 – Duane Jones
 * 114, 101 – Jack Lisowski
 * 114 – Michael White
 * 112, 111, 107, 105, 104 – Kyren Wilson
 * 103 – Graeme Dott
 * 103 – Tom Ford
 * 102 – Fergal O'Brien
 * 100 – Mark King
 * 100 – Lyu Haotian

Qualifying stage centuries
Total: 45


 * 143, 112 – Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
 * 139 – Nigel Bond
 * 138 – Yan Bingtao
 * 137 – Thor Chuan Leong
 * 133 – David Grace
 * 132 – Ian Burns
 * 128 – Gary Wilson
 * 127, 121 – Sanderson Lam
 * 127 – Mark Allen
 * 126 – Neil Robertson
 * 124 – Soheil Vahedi
 * 122 – Robin Hull
 * 122 – Zhang Yong
 * 121 – Cao Yupeng
 * 121 – John Higgins
 * 119 – Martin Gould
 * 119 – Barry Hawkins
 * 118, 107 – Luo Honghao
 * 118 – Lyu Haotian
 * 117 – Judd Trump
 * 116 – Zhou Yuelong
 * 115 – Stephen Maguire
 * 112 – Noppon Saengkham
 * 111 – Mark Davis
 * 110 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
 * 109, 101, 100 – Mark Williams
 * 109 – Luca Brecel
 * 108 – Xiao Guodong
 * 106 – Zhao Xintong
 * 105, 105 – Elliot Slessor
 * 105, 101 – Liang Wenbo
 * 104 – Stuart Bingham
 * 104 – Peter Ebdon
 * 104 – Tian Pengfei
 * 103 – Ben Woollaston
 * 101 – Anthony Hamilton
 * 101 – Kyren Wilson
 * 100 – Li Hang