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2016 Northern Ireland Open
The 2016 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2016 Coral Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 20 November 2016 at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the ninth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.
| Column 1 |
|---|
| 14–20 November 2016 (2016-11-14 – 2016-11-20) |
| Titanic Exhibition Centre |
| Belfast |
| Northern Ireland |
| World Snooker |
| Ranking event |
| £366,000 |
| £70,000 |
| John Higgins (SCO) (147) |
| Mark King (ENG) |
| Barry Hawkins (ENG) |
| 9–8 |
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The 2016 Northern Ireland Open (officially the 2016 Coral Northern Ireland Open) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 20 November 2016 at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the ninth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.
This was the inaugural Northern Ireland Open event, being held as part of a new Home Nations Series introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the existing Welsh Open and new English Open and Scottish Open tournaments. The winner of the Northern Ireland Open is awarded the Alex Higgins Trophy which is named in honour of Northern Irish two-time world champion Alex Higgins.
Mark King won the first ranking title of his career by defeating Barry Hawkins 9–8 in the final.
John Higgins made the 123rd official maximum break in the fifth frame of his last 64 match against Sam Craigie. It was Higgins' eighth professional maximum.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000.
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Terry Camilleri.Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 20 November 2016. | ||
| Mark King England | 9–8 | Barry Hawkins (11) England |
| Afternoon: 1–85 (85), 6–118 (113), 126–11 (110), 49–80, 1–60, 14–64, 66–18, 90–1Evening: 95–5 (62), 101–13 (100), 83–1, 76–6 (54), 0–73 (73), 40–82 (76), 65–28, 65–72, 84–33 | ||
| 110 | Highest break | 113 |
| 2 | Century breaks | 1 |
| 4 | 50+ breaks | 4 |
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