2017 Players Championship (snooker)

The 2017 Players Championship (officially the 2017 Ladbrokes Players Championship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament played between 6–12 March 2017 at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales. It was the 17th ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.^[1][2]

2017 Ladbrokes Players Championship

Tournament information
Dates	6–12 March 2017 (2017-03-06 – 2017-03-12)
Venue	Venue Cymru
City	Llandudno
Country	Wales
Organisation	World Snooker
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£380,000
Winner's share	£125,000
Highest break	Judd Trump (ENG) (136)
Final
Champion	Judd Trump (ENG)
Runner-up	Marco Fu (HKG)
Score	10–8
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Prior to this season, this tournament was part of the Players Tour Championship: however, that minor-ranking series was cancelled for this season, and the "Grand Final" event at the end was renamed to be its own ranking event called the Players Championship.^[3] It was played between the top 16 players on a one-year ranking list.^[4][5]

Mark Allen was the defending champion, but he did not qualify for this year's tournament.^[6]

Judd Trump won the tournament, beating Marco Fu 10–8 in the final.^[7]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money is shown below.^[8]

	Prize fund
Winner	£125,000
Runner-up	£50,000
Semi-finalist	£30,000
Quarter-finalist	£15,000
Last 16	£10,000
Highest break	£5,000
Total	£380,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £25,000.

Seeding list

The seedings were conducted on the basis of the 1-year ranking list up to and including the 2017 Gibraltar Open:^[5]

Rank	Player	Total points
1	Mark Selby (ENG)	384,550
2	Judd Trump (ENG)	208,250
3	Barry Hawkins (ENG)	205,725
4	Stuart Bingham (ENG)	181,087
5	Ding Junhui (CHN)	178,025
6	Ali Carter (ENG)	173,025
7	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)	153,750
8	Marco Fu (HKG)	152,650
9	Anthony McGill (SCO)	141,800
10	Liang Wenbo (CHN)	140,400
11	Shaun Murphy (ENG)	129,375
12	John Higgins (SCO)	124,025
13	Anthony Hamilton (ENG)	119,925
14	Neil Robertson (AUS)	114,125
15	Mark King (ENG)	109,325
16	Ryan Day (WAL)	101,362

Main draw

	Last 16 Best of 9 frames					Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames					Semi-finals Best of 11 frames					Final Best of 19 frames
	1	Mark Selby (ENG)	5
	16	Ryan Day (WAL)	4
						1	Mark Selby	2
						8	Marco Fu	5
	8	Marco Fu (HKG)	5
	9	Anthony McGill (SCO)	1
											8	Marco Fu	6
											5	Ding Junhui	5
	5	Ding Junhui (CHN)	5
	12	John Higgins (SCO)	4
						5	Ding Junhui	5
						13	Anthony Hamilton	2
	4	Stuart Bingham (ENG)	1
	13	Anthony Hamilton (ENG)	5
																8	Marco Fu	8
																2	Judd Trump	10
	3	Barry Hawkins (ENG)	0
	14	Neil Robertson (AUS)	5
						14	Neil Robertson	3
						6	Ali Carter	5
	6	Ali Carter (ENG)	5
	11	Shaun Murphy (ENG)	4
											6	Ali Carter	4
											2	Judd Trump	6
	7	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)	5
	10	Liang Wenbo (CHN)	1
						7	Ronnie O'Sullivan	3
						2	Judd Trump	5
	2	Judd Trump (ENG)	5
	15	Mark King (ENG)	2

Final

Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore. Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales, 12 March 2017.
Marco Fu (8)  Hong Kong	8–10	Judd Trump (2)  England
Afternoon: 0–89 (83), 69–26 (53), 73–9 (73), 8–78, 82–0 (67), 87–8, 83–0 (83), 0–136 (136), 0–115 (115) Evening: 34–90, 24–110 (110), 0–92 (63), 9–77 (76), 66–33, 63–52 (Fu 52), 0–102 (102), 69–22 (58), 0–102 (53)
83	Highest break	136
0	Century breaks	4
6	50+ breaks	8

Century breaks

Total: 18^[9]

136, 132, 115, 113, 110, 102, 101 – Judd Trump 131, 105 – Anthony Hamilton 123 – Neil Robertson 118, 109, 101 – Ronnie O'Sullivan 115, 107 – Ali Carter 110 – Shaun Murphy 107 – Ding Junhui 106 – Marco Fu

References

1. "Cazoo Players Championship". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021.
2. "Calendar 2021/2022 | World Snooker Live Scores". livescores.worldsnookerdata.com.
3. "2016/17 calendar" (PDF).
4. "Every Pound Counts... Snooker Race Set to Start". World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
5. "1 Year Ranking List". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 9 January 2020.
6. "Mark Allen beats Ricky Walden in Players Championship final". Sky Sports.
7. "Judd Top Trump in Llandudno". World Snooker. 12 March 2017. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020.
8. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
9. "Centuries | World Snooker Live Scores". Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017.