The 2005 China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 26 March to 3 April 2005 at the Haidian Stadium in Beijing, China. It was the penultimate ranking event of the 2004âÂÂ05 season, preceding the 2005 World Championship.
The event was last held in 2002, where Mark Williams won the tournament by defeating Anthony Hamilton 9âÂÂ8.
Ding Junhui won in the final 9âÂÂ5 against Stephen Hendry. Ding became the second youngest player after Ronnie O'Sullivan to capture a ranking title. Along with several other Chinese players, Ding gave up his normal tournament entry position in order to accept an offer to enter the tournament as a wild-card player and thus he did not receive either prize money or ranking points for his tournament win.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: ã30,000<br /> Runner-up: ã15,000<br /> Semi-final: ã7,500<br /> Quarter-final: ã5,600<br /> Last 16: ã4,000<br /> Last 32: ã2,500<br /> Last 48: ã1,625<br /> Last 64: ã1,100<br />
Stage one highest break: ã500<br /> Stage two highest break: ã2,000
Stage one maximum break: ã1,000<br /> Stage two maximum break: ã20,000
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Steve Davis conceded match due to illness
Qualifying for the tournament took place at Pontin's in Prestatyn, Wales between January 25âÂÂ28, 2005.