2012 World Open (snooker)


The 2012 Star Xing Pai Haikou World Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 February – 4 March 2012 at the Haikou Stadium in Haikou, China. It was the first time that the tournament was held outside the United Kingdom. It was televised on ITV4
Marco Fu made the 86th official maximum break during his round 4 qualifying match against Matthew Selt. This was Fu's second 147 break.
Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but lost 2–5 against Stephen Lee in the second round.
Mark Allen won his first ranking title by defeating Stephen Lee 10–1 in the final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
These matches were played in Haikou on 27 February 2012.
MatchScore
WC1 Sam Baird3–5 Jin Long
WC2 Robert Milkins5–3
WC3 Mark King5–2 Hossein Vafaei
WC4 Tom Ford5–4 Lyu Haotian
WC5 Jimmy Robertson5–2 Zhou Yuelong
WC6 Joe Perry5–0 Rouzi Maimaiti
WC7 Michael Holt5–4 Zhu Yinghui
WC8 Nigel Bond4–5 Lu Ning

Main draw

Final

Qualifying

These matches were held between 11 and 14 January 2012 at the World Snooker Academy, Sheffield, England.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries