Tour Championship 2019

Tour Championship 2019

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The 2019 Tour Championship (officially the 2019 Coral Tour Championship) was a professional snooker ranking tournament that took place from 19 to 24 March 2019 at Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales. Organised by World Snooker, it was the first edition of the Tour Championship and the third and final event of the inaugural Coral Cup. It was the eighteenth ranking event of the 2018–19 snooker season.

The draw for the Tour Championship comprised the top eight players based on the single year ranking list, taking part in a single elimination tournament. Each match was played over a minimum of two sessions, the final as best-of-25-frames over two days. The winner of the tournament won £150,000 out of a total prize fund of £375,000. The event was sponsored by betting company Coral.

In a repeat of the Players Championship final two weeks prior, Ronnie O'Sullivan met Neil Robertson in the final. O'Sullivan won the match 13–11 to claim his 36th ranking title, equalling Stephen Hendry's record of ranking event wins. On winning the tournament, O'Sullivan returned to the world number one position for the first time since May 2010, ending Mark Selby's six-year reign as world number one, and won the Coral Cup. In regaining the ranking, he also became the oldest world number one since Ray Reardon in 1983. This was O'Sullivan's third ranking title win of the season, having won the UK Championship and the Players Championship earlier in the season.

The event featured 22 century breaks made by six players. The tournament's highest break prize of £5,000 was won by Robertson, scoring a break of 135 in frame 16 of his first round victory over Mark Selby.

Het Tour Championship 2019 is het afsluitende toernooi van het snookerseizoen 2018/2019. Het toernooi wordt gehouden van 19 tot en met 25 maart 2019 in Llandudno, Wales.

Aan het toernooi doen de top 8 spelers van de éénjarige ranglijst mee. De spelers worden op basis van hun punten ingedeeld in twee groepen van vier. De spelers in elke groep spelen een round-robin toernooi, waarna de beste twee spelers uit elke groep doorgaan naar de halve finales. De halve finales en de finale worden gespeeld in een best-of-19-frames formaat.

De titelverdediger is Ronnie O'Sullivan, die het toernooi in 2018 won door Mark Allen in de finale met 13-11 te verslaan.

Het Tour Championship 2019 wordt live uitgezonden door Eurosport.