Paul Hunter Classic

Date: 22-27 Aug 2017; Venue: Stadthalle, F�rth, Germany; Type: Ranking; Defending champion: Mark Selby; Notes: See also results (291)

Final (Winner: £20,000; Runner-up: £10,000)
		Michael White [11]	4	-	2	Shaun Murphy [2]
	79-0, 72-27, 0-84 (84), 90-9 (83) 53-59, 97-0 (97) Referee: Martyn Royce Michael White claims his second ranking title. His previous being the 2015 Indian Open. This was Murphy's second final loss in a row. He also lost in last week's China Championship, to Luca Brecel.
Semifinals (Losers receive £4,500)
		Shaun Murphy [2]	4	-	3	Jamie Jones [18]
	0-102 (102), 5-77 (77), 64-54, 7-80 (72) 90-1 (90), 99-0 (75), 78-3 (77)
		Michael White [11]	4	-	1	Mitchell Mann [48]
	45-76 (64), 89-39, 69-8, 72-12 (68), 72-23 (50) Mann reached the semifinals of a ranking event for the first time in his career. Before the event he had never made it beyond the last 32 stage.
Quarterfinals (Losers receive £3,000)
		Jamie Jones [18]	4	-	2	Gary Wilson [35]
		Shaun Murphy [2]	4	-	2	Ben Woollaston [13]
		Michael White [11]	4	-	1	Ian Burns
		Mitchell Mann [48]	4	-	3	Mark Joyce [26]
Round 4 (Last 16; Losers receive £1,725)
1		Gary Wilson [35]	4	-	2	Chris Wakelin [40]
2		Jamie Jones [18]	4	-	0	Peter Lines
3		Ben Woollaston [13]	4	-	0	Tom Ford [16]
4		Shaun Murphy [2]	4	-	2	Zhao Xintong [47]
5		Ian Burns	4	-	3	Kyren Wilson [4]
6		Michael White [11]	4	-	1	Mark Selby [1]
7		Mitchell Mann [48]	4	-	1	George Pragnall (a)
8		Mark Joyce [26]	4	-	3	Mark King [8]
Round 3 (Last 32; Losers receive £1,000)
1		Gary Wilson [35]	4	-	1	Andy Symons (a)
2		Chris Wakelin [40]	4	-	3	Michael Georgiou [46]
3		Peter Lines	4	-	1	Paul S Davison [62]
4		Jamie Jones [18]	4	-	2	Dominic Dale [15]
5		Ben Woollaston [13]	4	-	1	Stuart Carrington [27]
6		Tom Ford [16]	4	-	0	Jamie Cope (a)
7		Shaun Murphy [2]	4	-	0	Ken Doherty
8		Zhao Xintong [47]	4	-	2	Craig Steadman [54]
9		Kyren Wilson [4]	4	-	0	Alan McManus [14]
10		Ian Burns	4	-	0	Joe O'Connor (a)
11		Michael White [11]	4	-	0	Mike Dunn [23]
12		Mark Selby [1]	4	-	3	Joe Swail
13		George Pragnall (a)	4	-	3	David B Gilbert [7]
14		Mitchell Mann [48]	4	-	1	Oliver Brown (a)
15		Mark Joyce [26]	4	-	1	Matthew Stevens [34]
16		Mark King [8]	4	-	1	Peter Ebdon [21]
Round 2 (Last 64; Losers receive £600)
1		Gary Wilson [35]	4	-	0	Rod Lawler
2		Andy Symons (a)	4	-	0	David Grace [24]
3		Michael Georgiou [46]	4	-	3	Fergal O'Brien [25]
4		Chris Wakelin [40]	4	-	0	Noppon Saengkham [39]
5		Peter Lines	4	-	2	Jak Jones [50]
6		Paul S Davison [62]	4	-	0	Fang Xiongman [55]
7		Dominic Dale [15]	4	-	0	John Astley [42]
8		Jamie Jones [18]	4	-	2	Martin O'Donnell
9		Stuart Carrington [27]	4	-	3	Ricky Walden [9]
10		Ben Woollaston [13]	4	-	0	Brian Cini (a)
11		Jamie Cope (a)	4	-	2	Aditya Mehta [51]
12		Tom Ford [16]	4	-	1	Alexander Ursenbacher [66]
13		Shaun Murphy [2]	4	-	1	Sam Baird [30]
14		Ken Doherty	4	-	1	Ian Preece [52]
15		Zhao Xintong [47]	4	-	0	Kuldesh Johal (a)
16		Craig Steadman [54]	4	-	3	Yu Delu [29]
17		Alan McManus [14]	4	-	3	Kurt Maflin [32]
18		Kyren Wilson [4]	4	-	0	Jamie Curtis-Barrett [60]
19		Ian Burns	4	-	2	Alfie Burden [37]
20		Joe O'Connor (a)	4	-	1	Harvey Chandler (a)
21		Mike Dunn [23]	4	-	2	Alex Borg [55]
22		Michael White [11]	4	-	1	Robbie Williams [31]
23		Joe Swail	4	-	2	Adam Edge (a)
24		Mark Selby [1]	4	-	1	Michael Williams (a)
25		David B Gilbert [7]	4	-	3	Nigel Bond [65]
26		George Pragnall (a)	4	-	3	Barry Pinches (a)
27		Mitchell Mann [48]	4	-	1	Robert James (a)
28		Oliver Brown (a)	4	-	3	Liam Highfield [43]
29		Matthew Stevens [34]	4	-	0	Sam Craigie [49]
30		Mark Joyce [26]	4	-	1	Andrew Higginson [28]
31		Peter Ebdon [21]	4	-	1	Jack Lisowski [33]
32		Mark King [8]	4	-	1	Luca Brecel [12]
Round 1 (Last 128; Losers receive £0)
1		Gary Wilson [35]	4	-	2	Jimmy White
2		Rod Lawler	4	-	3	Zhang Yong
3		David Grace [24]	4	-	0	Matthew Glasby (a)
4		Andy Symons (a)	4	-	1	Christopher Keogan [59]
5		Fergal O'Brien [25]	4	-	3	Steven Hallworth (a)
6		Michael Georgiou [46]	4	-	2	Josh Boileau [58]
7		Noppon Saengkham [39]	4	-	2	Ashley Hugill
8		Chris Wakelin [40]	4	-	0	Kishan Hirani (a)
9		Jak Jones [50]	4	-	1	Saqib Nasir (a)
10		Peter Lines	4	-	1	Umut Dikme (a)
11		Fang Xiongman [55]	4	-	3	Sanderson Lam
12		Paul S Davison [62]	4	-	3	Rhys Clark
13		Dominic Dale [15]	4	-	1	Daniel Ward (a)
14		John Astley [42]	4	-	0	Daniel Holoyda (a)
15		Martin O'Donnell	4	-	3	Zack Richardson (a)
16		Jamie Jones [18]	4	-	2	Billy Joe Castle
17		Ricky Walden [9]	4	-	0	Sean O'Sullivan
18		Stuart Carrington [27]	4	-	1	Wang Yuchen [53]
19		Brian Cini (a)	4	-	2	Robert Milkins [17]
20		Ben Woollaston [13]	4	-	1	Robin Hull [67]
21		Aditya Mehta [51]	4	-	2	Rory McLeod [22]
22		Jamie Cope (a)	4	-	2	David John [64]
23		Tom Ford [16]	4	-	0	Robert Read (a)
24		Alexander Ursenbacher [66]	4	-	2	Jamie Clarke (a)
25		Shaun Murphy [2]	4	-	2	Adam Stefanow (a)
26		Sam Baird [30]	4	-	0	Jimmy Robertson [20]
27		Ian Preece [52]	w/o			Darren Morgan (a)
28		Ken Doherty	4	-	1	Ross Muir
29		Zhao Xintong [47]	4	-	0	Reanne Evans (af)
30		Kuldesh Johal (a)	w/o			Hamza Akbar
31		Craig Steadman [54]	4	-	2	Gerard Greene [69]
32		Yu Delu [29]	4	-	0	Stuart Bingham [3]
33		Alan McManus [14]	4	-	1	Allan Taylor
34		Kurt Maflin [32]	4	-	1	Brandon Sargeant (a)
35		Kyren Wilson [4]	4	-	0	Kurt Dunham [63]
36		Jamie Curtis-Barrett [60]	4	-	2	Chris Totten
37		Ian Burns	4	-	3	Andy Hicks (a)
38		Alfie Burden [37]	4	-	3	Scott Donaldson [41]
39		Joe O'Connor (a)	4	-	2	Lukas Kleckers [68]
40		Harvey Chandler (a)	4	-	2	Li Yuan
41		Alex Borg [55]	4	-	1	Eden Sharav [70]
42		Mike Dunn [23]	4	-	1	Lee Mein (a)
43		Robbie Williams [31]	4	-	2	Matthew Selt [19]
44		Michael White [11]	4	-	3	Adam Duffy [57]
45		Joe Swail	4	-	3	Louis Heathcote (a)
46		Adam Edge (a)	w/o			Chen Zhe [62]
47		Michael Williams (a)	4	-	1	Niel Vincent (a)
48		Mark Selby [1]	4	-	2	Michael Holt [10]
	143 by Selby in the fourth frame was the highest break of the event.
49		David B Gilbert [7]	w/o			Soheil Vahedi
50		Nigel Bond [65]	4	-	3	Joshua Thomond (a)
51		George Pragnall (a)	w/o			Mark J Williams [5]
52		Barry Pinches (a)	4	-	3	Matthew Bolton
53		Mitchell Mann [48]	4	-	2	Daniel Wells [38]
54		Robert James (a)	4	-	3	Xu Si
55		Liam Highfield [43]	4	-	1	Lee Walker [44]
56		Oliver Brown (a)	4	-	0	Oliver Lines [36]
57		Matthew Stevens [34]	4	-	1	Kacper Filipiak (a)
58		Sam Craigie [49]	w/o			Yuan Sijun
59		Mark Joyce [26]	4	-	0	Marc J Davis (a)
60		Andrew Higginson [28]	4	-	2	Hammad Miah [45]
61		Peter Ebdon [21]	4	-	1	Martin Gould [6]
62		Jack Lisowski [33]	4	-	3	Roman Dietzel (a)
63		Luca Brecel [12]	4	-	1	Ashley Carty (a)
64		Mark King [8]	4	-	2	Elliot Slessor [56]
Qual Round 3 (Last 161; Losers receive £0)
1		Matthew Glasby (a)	4	-	1	Marcin Nitschke (a)
2		Andy Symons (a)	4	-	0	Mike Finn (a)
3		Steven Hallworth (a)	4	-	0	Horst Bendig (a)
4		Kishan Hirani (a)	4	-	2	Jin Foulger (a)
5		Saqib Nasir (a)	4	-	0	Brian Ochoiski (a)
6		Umut Dikme (a)	4	-	0	Alex Taubman (a)
7		Daniel Ward (a)	4	-	2	Florian Nüßle (a)
8		Daniel Holoyda (a)	4	-	3	Amedeo Durnez (a)
9		Zack Richardson (a)	4	-	1	Robin Otto (a)
10		Brian Cini (a)	4	-	3	Declan Brennan (a)
11		Jamie Cope (a)	4	-	0	Louis Wakelin (a)
12		Robert Read (a)	4	-	2	Andrew Rogers (a)
13		Jamie Clarke (a)	4	-	3	Tony Drago (a)
14		Adam Stefanow (a)	4	-	0	Andrew Molyneux (a)
15		Reanne Evans (af)	4	-	2	Imran Nisar (a)
16		Kuldesh Johal (a)	4	-	1	Thomas Kevern (a)
17		Brandon Sargeant (a)	4	-	0	Mateusz Baranowski (a)
18		Andy Hicks (a)	4	-	1	Heikki Niva (a)
19		Joe O'Connor (a)	4	-	3	Peter Devlin (a)
20		Harvey Chandler (a)	4	-	3	Sam Thistlewhite (a)
21		Lee Mein (a)	4	-	0	Stefan Dohr (a)
22		Louis Heathcote (a)	4	-	0	Gary Thomson (a)
23		Adam Edge (a)	4	-	2	Antoni Kowalski (a)
24		Michael Williams (a)	4	-	1	Jake Nicholson (a)
25		Joshua Thomond (a)	4	-	2	Sean McAllister (a)
26		George Pragnall (a)	4	-	0	Luca Kaufmann (a)
27		Barry Pinches (a)	4	-	0	Tudor Popescu (a)
28		Robert James (a)	4	-	1	Charlie Walters (a)
29		Oliver Brown (a)	4	-	0	Luke Simmonds (a)
30		Kacper Filipiak (a)	4	-	2	Jackson Page (a)
31		Marc J Davis (a)	4	-	2	Stuart Watson (a)
32		Roman Dietzel (a)	4	-	0	Fabian Haken (a)
33		Ashley Carty (a)	4	-	1	Patrick Einsle (a)
Qual Round 2 (Last 227; Losers receive £0)
1		Marcin Nitschke (a)	4	-	0	Norbert Hofheinz (a)
2		Matthew Glasby (a)	4	-	0	Christophe Rives-Lange (a)
3		Mike Finn (a)	4	-	0	Oliver Kremp (a)
4		Andy Symons (a)	4	-	0	Anton Woywod (a)
5		Steven Hallworth (a)	4	-	0	Wojciech Pastor (a)
6		Horst Bendig (a)	4	-	1	Corina Maracine (af)
7		Kishan Hirani (a)	4	-	0	Lewis Sinclair (a)
8		Jin Foulger (a)	4	-	2	Ismail Türker (a)
9		Brian Ochoiski (a)	4	-	3	Jenson Kendrick (a)
10		Saqib Nasir (a)	4	-	1	Conor McCormack (a)
11		Umut Dikme (a)	4	-	1	Manasawin Phetmalaikul (a)
12		Alex Taubman (a)	4	-	0	Michael Peyr (a)
13		Florian Nüßle (a)	4	-	0	Reggie Edwards (a)
14		Daniel Ward (a)	w/o			Mark Vincent (a)
15		Amedeo Durnez (a)	4	-	0	Halim Hussain (a)
16		Daniel Holoyda (a)	4	-	2	Dillon McGee (a)
17		Zack Richardson (a)	4	-	0	Mario-Zeljo Milosevic (a)
18		Robin Otto (a)	4	-	1	Martin Pitcher (a)
19		Brian Cini (a)	4	-	0	Markus Fischer (a)
20		Declan Brennan (a)	4	-	1	Gary Challis (a)
21		Jamie Cope (a)	4	-	0	Ralf Günzel (a)
22		Louis Wakelin (a)	4	-	0	Thomas Blang (a)
23		Andrew Rogers (a)	4	-	2	Nev Graham (a)
24		Robert Read (a)	4	-	3	Ben Jones (a)
25		Tony Drago (a)	4	-	1	Curtis Daher (a)
26		Jamie Clarke (a)	4	-	1	Jeff Cundy (a)
27		Andrew Molyneux (a)	4	-	3	Jack Bradford (a)
28		Adam Stefanow (a)	4	-	0	Stefan Joachim (a)
29		Reanne Evans (af)	4	-	2	Jan Eisenstein (a)
30		Imran Nisar (a)	4	-	0	Ejler Hame (a)
31		Kuldesh Johal (a)	4	-	1	Joshua Cooper (a)
32		Thomas Kevern (a)	4	-	1	Aaron Graham (a)
33		Mateusz Baranowski (a)	4	-	0	William Robert Allen Ginn (a)
34		Brandon Sargeant (a)	4	-	0	John Gillard (a)
35		Andy Hicks (a)	4	-	2	Stephane Ochoiski (a)
36		Heikki Niva (a)	4	-	0	Mohammad Al Asfar (a)
37		Peter Devlin (a)	4	-	0	Andreas Hartung (a)
38		Joe O'Connor (a)	4	-	1	John Parkin (a)
39		Harvey Chandler (a)	4	-	0	Loris Lehmann (a)
40		Sam Thistlewhite (a)	4	-	0	Regis D'Anna (a)
41		Lee Mein (a)	4	-	0	Nicolai Gebhardt (a)
42		Stefan Dohr (a)	w/o			Hu Hao (a)
43		Louis Heathcote (a)	4	-	1	Wayne Brown (a)
44		Gary Thomson (a)	4	-	3	Josh Mulholland (a)
45		Antoni Kowalski (a)	w/o			James Cahill (a)
46		Adam Edge (a)	4	-	3	Andreas Ploner (a)
47		Jake Nicholson (a)	4	-	0	David Church (a)
48		Michael Williams (a)	w/o			Joe Steele (a)
49		Joshua Thomond (a)	4	-	1	Clayton Humphries (a)
50		Sean McAllister (a)	w/o			Vedant Kulkarni (a)
51		Luca Kaufmann (a)	4	-	0	Abdullah Atmar Ghulam Jilani (a)
52		George Pragnall (a)	4	-	1	Simon Dent (a)
53		Barry Pinches (a)	4	-	0	Bernd Strnad (a)
54		Tudor Popescu (a)	4	-	0	Volker Grigo (a)
55		Robert James (a)	4	-	0	Jani Kananen (a)
56		Charlie Walters (a)	4	-	2	Ryan Causton (a)
57		Oliver Brown (a)	4	-	0	Fabian Monnin (a)
58		Luke Simmonds (a)	4	-	0	Simon Bryant (a)
59		Jackson Page (a)	w/o			Nitin Sharma (a)
60		Kacper Filipiak (a)	4	-	0	Karol Lelek (a)
61		Stuart Watson (a)	4	-	0	Gregory Herbrecht (a)
62		Marc J Davis (a)	4	-	2	Tyler Rees (a)
63		Fabian Haken (a)	4	-	0	Barry Mincher (a)
64		Roman Dietzel (a)	4	-	3	Andrei Orzan (a)
65		Patrick Einsle (a)	4	-	2	Ben Mertens (a)
66		Ashley Carty (a)	4	-	2	Simon Lichtenberg (a)
Qual Round 1 (Last 292; Losers receive £0)
1		Norbert Hofheinz (a)	4	-	3	Thomas Frank (a)
2		Matthew Glasby (a)	4	-	0	Daniel Williams (a)
3		Mike Finn (a)	w/o			Mika Hummelin (a)	Hummelin failed to show up
4		Andy Symons (a)	4	-	0	Andreas Volkert (a)
5		Wojciech Pastor (a)	4	-	3	Daniel Schneider (a)
6		Corina Maracine (af)	w/o			Dragos-Bogdan Dorojan (a)
7		Lewis Sinclair (a)	4	-	3	Joshua Sellar (a)
8		Ismail Türker (a)	4	-	1	Stefan Gerst (a)
9		Jenson Kendrick (a)	4	-	1	Thomas Goder (a)
10		Conor McCormack (a)	4	-	1	Jürgen Kesseler (a)
11		Umut Dikme (a)	4	-	0	Felix Frede (a)
12		Alex Taubman (a)	4	-	0	Bhavesh Sodha (a)
13		Reggie Edwards (a)	4	-	1	Wan Chooi Tan (a)
14		Daniel Ward (a)	4	-	0	Mike Beneke (a)
15		Amedeo Durnez (a)	4	-	1	Matthew Hudson (a)
16		Dillon McGee (a)	4	-	2	Patrick Whelan (a)
17		Zack Richardson (a)	4	-	2	Luke Pinches (a)
18		Robin Otto (a)	4	-	0	Hans Bergmann (a)
19		Brian Cini (a)	4	-	2	Michael Wild (a)
20		Declan Brennan (a)	4	-	0	Scott Lyons (a)
21		Jamie Cope (a)	4	-	1	Tony Corrigan (a)
22		Louis Wakelin (a)	4	-	3	Luis Vetter (a)
23		Andrew Rogers (a)	4	-	1	Ronny Buchholz (a)
24		Ben Jones (a)	4	-	1	Jiaming Zhang (a)
25		Tony Drago (a)	4	-	0	Peter Brehm (a)
26		Jeff Cundy (a)	4	-	1	Christof Biniarsch (a)
27		Andrew Molyneux (a)	4	-	0	Heiko Mutz (a)
28		Stefan Joachim (a)	4	-	3	Michael Drews (a)
29		Reanne Evans (af)	4	-	3	Soner Sari (a)
30		Imran Nisar (a)	4	-	0	Tomas Vastenavondt (a)
31		Joshua Cooper (a)	4	-	0	Maria Catalano (af)
32		Aaron Graham (a)	4	-	0	Rolf Mahr (a)
33		William Robert Allen Ginn (a)	4	-	1	Aaron Cook (a)
34		Brandon Sargeant (a)	4	-	0	Jens Kirchner (a)
35		Andy Hicks (a)	4	-	1	Omar Al Kojah (a)
36		Heikki Niva (a)	4	-	0	Pedro Chacon (a)
37		Andreas Hartung (a)	4	-	0	Ron Kantor (a)
38		John Parkin (a)	4	-	1	Tom Zimmermann (a)
39		Harvey Chandler (a)	4	-	1	Lieven Vanthournout (a)
40		Sam Thistlewhite (a)	4	-	0	Kevin Chan (a)
41		Lee Mein (a)	4	-	1	Paul Liebstreich (a)
42		Stefan Dohr (a)	4	-	0	Boris Lazarkov (a)
43		Louis Heathcote (a)	4	-	1	Hamim Hussain (a)
44		Gary Thomson (a)	4	-	0	Hassan Glumcevic-Kaufmann (a)
45		Antoni Kowalski (a)	4	-	0	Michael Buchholz (a)
46		Adam Edge (a)	4	-	1	Fraser Patrick (a)
47		David Church (a)	4	-	2	J�rg Petersen (a)
48		Michael Williams (a)	4	-	0	Luis Chacon (a)
49		Joshua Thomond (a)	4	-	3	Michael Collumb (a)
50		Luca Kaufmann (a)	4	-	3	Andrew Milliard (a)
51		Simon Dent (a)	4	-	3	Kilian Baur-Pantoulier (a)
52		Barry Pinches (a)	4	-	0	Billy Brown (a)
53		Tudor Popescu (a)	4	-	2	Ali Kirim (a)
54		Robert James (a)	4	-	2	John Foster (a)
55		Ryan Causton (a)	4	-	0	Sascha Breuer (a)
56		Fabian Monnin (a)	4	-	3	Mihai Vladu (a)
57		Luke Simmonds (a)	4	-	0	Dietmar Smolka (a)
58		Jackson Page (a)	w/o			Jamie O'Neill (a)
59		Kacper Filipiak (a)	4	-	0	Frank Mikulsky (a)
60		Gregory Herbrecht (a)	4	-	2	Carl Rosenberger (a)
61		Tyler Rees (a)	4	-	0	Shahidul Islam (a)
62		Fabian Haken (a)	4	-	1	Fabian Meulner (a)
63		Andrei Orzan (a)	4	-	3	Marvin Losi (a)
64		Patrick Einsle (a)	4	-	1	Stefan Schenk (a)
65		Ashley Carty (a)	4	-	0	Anthony Blyth (a)