2020 Tour Championship
The 2020 Tour Championship was a professional snooker tournament. It was the second edition of the Tour Championship and the third and final event of the second season of the Coral Cup. Ronnie O’Sullivan was the defending champion, having defeated Neil Robertson 13–11 in the 2019 final. The winner of the tournament won £150,000 out of a total prize fund of £380,000. The draw for the event comprised the top eight players based on the one-year ranking list.
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The 2020 Tour Championship was a professional snooker tournament. It was the second edition of the Tour Championship and the third and final event of the second season of the Coral Cup. Ronnie O’Sullivan was the defending champion, having defeated Neil Robertson 13–11 in the 2019 final. The tournament was originally scheduled for 17 to 22 March 2020, but on the morning of 17 March the event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 5 June 2020, the tournament was rescheduled to be held between 20 and 26 June 2020 and moved to a different venue, the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. The winner of the tournament won £150,000 out of a total prize fund of £380,000. The draw for the event comprised the top eight players based on the one-year ranking list. Every match was played over multiple sessions, and the final was played as a best-of-19-frames match. The event was primarily broadcast by ITV4 in the United Kingdom. It also aired on Sky Sport in New Zealand, NowTV in Hong Kong, and Superstars Online in China. Eurosport did not broadcast the event, after covering all but one of the otherSnooker tournaments in the season. The first round of matches was held from 20 to June, with matches played over two sessions over the best of 17 frames.
The highest prize money was the quarter-finals, which was £23,000 for the highest break of 23. The final was held between Neil Robertson and Stephen Maguire, with Robertson winning 10–6 in the final. It is the sixth ranking title of his career, his first for seven years. In winning the tournament, MagUire also won the Coral Cups. The players qualified for the series by virtue of their placement on theOne-year Ranking list, rather than by their current world ranking positions. The Tour Championship featured the top 8 players from the one year ranking list taking part in a single-elimination tournament. The winners of the event were: Ronnie O’Sullivan, Neil Robertson, Mark Allen, Shaun Murphy and Mark Selby. Ding Junhui was unable to travel to the event because of the situation with the CO VID-19 Pandemic, and his replacement was Stephen MagUir. The player who won the tournament is ranked ninth. The prize fund for the 2020 Tour Championships was £380k. The only difference from the money awarded in 2019 was a increased prize for the break of break of 17. The quarter-final was held 23 to June, with the winner receiving £150k out of the total prize money.
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