What is China Open (snooker)?
{{Infobox Snooker tournament |tournament_name = China Open |image = |venue = |location = [[Beijing]] |country = [[China]] |establishment = 1997 |organisation = [[World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association]] |format = [[Snooker world rankings|Ranking]] event |prizefund = £1,000,000 |final year= 2019 |Current Champion = |Final Champion = {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Neil Robertson]] }} The '''China Open''' was a [[snooker]] tournament. It was a [[Snooker world rankings|ranking tournament]] tournaments. It began in 1997. The final champion is [[Neil Robertson]], who won the event in 2019. == History == The first big snooker tournament in [[China]] was the '''China International''' in September 1997. The China International was a non-ranking tournament for the top 16 players and local players. The following season the tournament was given a ranking and was held in March. Then the name of the event was changed to '''China Open''' and was held in December, so there were two events in 1999. After the 2002 tournament the event was abandoned.<ref name=cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk>{{cite web|last=Turner|first=Chris|title=China International, China Open, Shanghai Masters, Jiangsu/Wuxi Classic|url=http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/China.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216155144/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/China.html|archive-date=16 February 2012|work=cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk|publisher=Chris Turner's Snooker Archive|access-date=1 March 2011}}</ref> The event was revived in 2004. Local players were invited to play against the qualifiers. [[Ding Junhui]], Chinese, won the tournament, but as he entered as a wild-card, he received no prize money nor ranking points.<ref name=cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/> The last edition of the tournament in 2019 took place at the [[Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium (Beijing)|Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium]], [[Chaoyang District, Beijing|Chaoyang District]], [[Beijing]] in early April, and it was usually the last [[Snooker world rankings|ranking]] event before the [[