Paul Hunter Classic

Tour: Main Tour; Date: 22-26 Aug 2018; Venue: Stadthalle, Fürth, Germany; Type: Ranking; Defending champion: Michael White; Notes: See also results (218)

Final (Winner: £20,000; Runner-up: £10,000)
		Kyren Wilson [3]	4	-	2	Peter Ebdon [25]
	20-54, 18-66 (66), 60-49, 127-4(120) 67-23, 125-5 (68, 57) Referee: Luise Kraatz This was Wilson's second ranking title. He also won the 2015 Shanghai Masters. This was Ebdon's first ranking final since the 2012 Australian Open.
Semifinals (Losers receive £4,500)
		Peter Ebdon [25]	4	-	1	Scott Donaldson [27]
	0-85 (85), 86-29, 87-14 (65), 81-32, 56-23
		Kyren Wilson [3]	4	-	3	Peter Lines [39]
	80-0 (53), 66-0, 27-57, 56-61, 21-69, 52-47, 76-8 (64) First world ranking semi-final for Peter Lines in his 24th season as a professional.
Quarterfinals (Losers receive £3,000)
		Scott Donaldson [27]	4	-	3	Zhang Anda
		Peter Ebdon [25]	4	-	1	Lee Walker [61]
		Kyren Wilson [3]	4	-	3	Daniel Wells [32]
	Wells reached the Quarterfinals for the first time in his career.
		Peter Lines [39]	4	-	3	Jack Lisowski [6]
	Re-spotted black in deciding frame
Round 4 (Last 16; Losers receive £1,725)
1		Zhang Anda	4	-	0	Harvey Chandler
	Chandler reached the last 16 for the first time in his career.
2		Scott Donaldson [27]	4	-	2	Jackson Page (a)
	Page reached the last 16 for the first time in his career.
3		Peter Ebdon [25]	4	-	0	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh [28]
4		Lee Walker [61]	4	-	2	Chris Wakelin [20]
5		Kyren Wilson [3]	4	-	1	Hammad Miah
	Miah reached the last 16 for the first time in his career.
6		Daniel Wells [32]	4	-	2	Billy Castle [49]
7		Jack Lisowski [6]	4	-	0	Jimmy Robertson [11]
8		Peter Lines [39]	4	-	2	Mark Davis [14]
Round 3 (Last 32; Losers receive £1,000)
1		Zhang Anda	4	-	1	Michael White [1]
2		Harvey Chandler	4	-	0	Mark Joyce [16]
3		Jackson Page (a)	4	-	3	Sam Baird
4		Scott Donaldson [27]	4	-	3	Tom Ford [9]
5		Peter Ebdon [25]	4	-	2	Mark King [5]
6		Thepchaiya Un-Nooh [28]	4	-	2	Zhang Yong [36]
7		Lee Walker [61]	4	-	3	Craig Steadman [55]
	Re-spotted black in the deciding frame
8		Chris Wakelin [20]	4	-	2	Luca Brecel [4]
9		Kyren Wilson [3]	4	-	0	Liam Highfield [29]
10		Hammad Miah	4	-	2	Jordan Brown
11		Daniel Wells [32]	4	-	3	Joe O'Connor [58]
12		Billy Castle [49]	4	-	3	Andrew Higginson [24]
13		Jack Lisowski [6]	4	-	3	Lu Ning
14		Jimmy Robertson [11]	4	-	3	Rod Lawler [52]
15		Mark Davis [14]	4	-	2	Alfie Burden [59]
16		Peter Lines [39]	4	-	2	Noppon Saengkham [23]
Round 2 (Last 64; Losers receive £600)
1		Michael White [1]	4	-	2	Allan Taylor [40]
2		Zhang Anda	4	-	2	Dominic Dale [19]
3		Mark Joyce [16]	4	-	2	Brian Cini (a)
4		Harvey Chandler	4	-	1	Alexander Ursenbacher [35]
5		Sam Baird	4	-	0	Reggie Edwards (a)
6		Jackson Page (a)	4	-	1	Ian Burns [37]
7		Scott Donaldson [27]	4	-	3	Niu Zhuang [43]
8		Tom Ford [9]	4	-	2	Ross Muir [50]
9		Mark King [5]	4	-	2	Jack Bradford (a)
10		Peter Ebdon [25]	4	-	0	Andreas Ploner (a)
11		Thepchaiya Un-Nooh [28]	4	-	1	Ben Woollaston [12]
12		Zhang Yong [36]	4	-	3	Michael Georgiou [21]
13		Craig Steadman [55]	4	-	0	Kishan Hirani
14		Lee Walker [61]	4	-	2	Jamie Jones [13]
	Jones made his first official 147. It's the 141st maximum break in professional snooker competitions and the second of this tournament.
15		Chris Wakelin [20]	4	-	2	Aaron Busuttil (a)
16		Luca Brecel [4]	4	-	1	Chen Zifan [42]
17		Kyren Wilson [3]	4	-	0	Jake Nicholson (a)
18		Liam Highfield [29]	4	-	1	Ryan Davies (a)
19		Jordan Brown	4	-	0	Gary Wilson [15]
20		Hammad Miah	4	-	2	Gerard Greene [34]
21		Joe O'Connor [58]	4	-	3	Matthew Selt [30]
22		Daniel Wells [32]	4	-	3	Robert Milkins [10]
23		Andrew Higginson [24]	4	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)
24		Billy Castle [49]	4	-	3	Xiao Guodong [7]
25		Jack Lisowski [6]	4	-	0	Zhang Jiankang
26		Lu Ning	4	-	0	Eden Sharav [46]
27		Jimmy Robertson [11]	4	-	1	Joe Swail [48]
28		Rod Lawler [52]	4	-	3	Lukas Kleckers [54]
	Decided on the final black
29		Alfie Burden [59]	4	-	1	Simon Lichtenberg
30		Mark Davis [14]	4	-	2	Andrew Pagett (a)
31		Peter Lines [39]	4	-	1	Kurt Maflin [17]
32		Noppon Saengkham [23]	4	-	1	Fergal O'Brien [22]
Round 1 (Last 128; Losers receive £0)
1		Michael White [1]	4	-	2	Thor Chuan Leong
2		Allan Taylor [40]	4	-	0	Rory McLeod [31]
3		Zhang Anda	4	-	3	George Pragnell (a)
4		Dominic Dale [19]	4	-	0	Itaro Santos (a)
5		Mark Joyce [16]	4	-	3	Michael Wild (a)
6		Brian Cini (a)	4	-	0	Sean O'Sullivan [53]
7		Alexander Ursenbacher [35]	4	-	0	Barry Pinches (a)
8		Harvey Chandler	w/o			Fan Zhengyi
9		Sam Baird	4	-	2	Kevin Van Hove (a)
10		Reggie Edwards (a)	4	-	3	Andy Lee
11		Ian Burns [37]	4	-	0	Oliver Brown (a)
12		Jackson Page (a)	4	-	0	Zhou Yuelong [8]
13		Niu Zhuang [43]	4	-	1	James Cahill (a)
14		Scott Donaldson [27]	4	-	2	Sam Craigie [60]
15		Ross Muir [50]	4	-	1	Patrick Einsle (a)
16		Tom Ford [9]	4	-	0	Luke Pinches (a)
17		Mark King [5]	4	-	3	Martin O'Donnell [33]
18		Jack Bradford (a)	w/o			Stuart Carrington [18]
19		Peter Ebdon [25]	4	-	0	Ben Jones (a)
20		Andreas Ploner (a)	4	-	2	Basem Eltahhan [62]
21		Ben Woollaston [12]	4	-	2	Alex Taubman (a)
22		Thepchaiya Un-Nooh [28]	4	-	0	Christopher Watts (a)
23		Michael Georgiou [21]	4	-	2	Umut Dikme (a)
	Georgiou made his first official maximum break in frame 3. It's the 140th maximum break in professional snooker competitions.
24		Zhang Yong [36]	4	-	3	Elliot Slessor
25		Craig Steadman [55]	4	-	1	Oliver Lines [56]
26		Kishan Hirani	4	-	3	Jamie Clarke
27		Lee Walker [61]	4	-	0	Regis D'Anna (a)
28		Jamie Jones [13]	4	-	0	Nigel Bond [41]
29		Chris Wakelin [20]	4	-	1	Luke Simmonds (a)
30		Aaron Busuttil (a)	4	-	0	Stefan Joachim (a)
31		Chen Zifan [42]	4	-	0	Duncan Bezzina (a)
32		Luca Brecel [4]	4	-	0	Curtis Daher (a)
33		Kyren Wilson [3]	4	-	2	Chen Feilong
34		Jake Nicholson (a)	4	-	3	Ashley Carty [57]
35		Liam Highfield [29]	4	-	0	Sergey Isaenko (a)
36		Ryan Davies (a)	4	-	0	Kilian Baur-Pantoulier (a)
37		Gary Wilson [15]	4	-	2	John Astley
38		Jordan Brown	4	-	1	Philip Ciantar (a)
39		Hammad Miah	4	-	1	Jurian Heusdens (a)
40		Gerard Greene [34]	4	-	0	Soner Sari (a)
41		Matthew Selt [30]	4	-	3	Luis Vetter (a)
42		Joe O'Connor [58]	4	-	0	Sompol Saetang (a)
43		Daniel Wells [32]	4	-	0	Jürgen Kesseler (a)
44		Robert Milkins [10]	4	-	2	Sanderson Lam [51]
45		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Adam Stefanow
46		Andrew Higginson [24]	4	-	1	Fabian Monnin (a)
47		Billy Castle [49]	4	-	1	Iulian Boiko (a)
48		Xiao Guodong [7]	w/o			Yuan Sijun [38]
49		Jack Lisowski [6]	4	-	0	Dylan Emery (a)
50		Zhang Jiankang	4	-	3	Felix Frede (a)
	Zhang was 3-0 down
51		Lu Ning	4	-	1	Daniel Williams (a)
52		Eden Sharav [46]	4	-	1	Daniel Holoyda (a)
53		Jimmy Robertson [11]	w/o			Chris Totten [45]
54		Joe Swail [48]	4	-	1	Paul S Davison [47]
55		Rod Lawler [52]	4	-	0	Florian Nüßle (a)
56		Lukas Kleckers [54]	4	-	1	Ng On Yee (af)
57		Alfie Burden [59]	4	-	3	Marcin Nitschke (a)
	Burden was 3-0 down
58		Simon Lichtenberg	4	-	3	Wayne Brown (a)
59		Andrew Pagett (a)	4	-	1	Ashley Hugill [44]
60		Mark Davis [14]	4	-	0	Markus Hertle (a)
61		Kurt Maflin [17]	4	-	2	David Grace (a)
62		Peter Lines [39]	4	-	1	Tam Yun Fung (a)
63		Noppon Saengkham [23]	4	-	2	Robbie Williams [26]
64		Fergal O'Brien [22]	4	-	2	Shaun Murphy [2]
Qual Round 2 (Last 175; Losers receive £0)
1		George Pragnell (a)	4	-	3	Jamie O'Neill (a)
2		Itaro Santos (a)	4	-	1	Hussam Al-Saffar (a)
3		Michael Wild (a)	4	-	0	Loris Lehmann (a)
4		Brian Cini (a)	4	-	2	Antoni Kowalski (a)
5		Barry Pinches (a)	4	-	3	Matthew Glasby (a)
6		Kevin Van Hove (a)	4	-	3	Heikki Niva (a)
7		Reggie Edwards (a)	4	-	3	Mateusz Baranowski (a)
8		Oliver Brown (a)	4	-	2	Callum Beresford (a)
9		Jackson Page (a)	4	-	0	Thomas Cesal (a)
10		James Cahill (a)	4	-	2	Charlie Walters (a)
11		Patrick Einsle (a)	4	-	1	Jenson Kendrick (a)
12		Luke Pinches (a)	4	-	3	Kevin Vandevoort (a)
13		Jack Bradford (a)	4	-	0	Bartosz Utkowski (a)
14		Ben Jones (a)	4	-	0	Markus Fischer (a)
15		Andreas Ploner (a)	4	-	0	Achim Belzl (a)
16		Alex Taubman (a)	4	-	0	Daniel Womersley (a)
17		Christopher Watts (a)	4	-	1	Mink Nutcharut (af)
18		Umut Dikme (a)	4	-	0	Gert Kempenaers (a)
19		Regis D'Anna (a)	4	-	0	Ron Kantor (a)
20		Luke Simmonds (a)	4	-	0	Stefan Gerst (a)
21		Aaron Busuttil (a)	4	-	3	Brian Ochoiski (a)
22		Duncan Bezzina (a)	4	-	2	Sean Maddocks (a)
23		Curtis Daher (a)	4	-	2	Özyurt Aksoy (a)
24		Jake Nicholson (a)	4	-	0	Cheung Ka Wai (a)
25		Sergey Isaenko (a)	4	-	0	Carl Rosenberger (a)
26		Ryan Davies (a)	4	-	3	Peter Devlin (a)
27		Philip Ciantar (a)	w/o			Phil O'Kane (a)
28		Jurian Heusdens (a)	4	-	2	Billy Ginn (a)
29		Soner Sari (a)	4	-	1	Mario-Zeljo Milosevic (a)
30		Luis Vetter (a)	4	-	0	Paul Ludden (a)
31		Sompol Saetang (a)	4	-	0	Horst Bendig (a)
32		Jürgen Kesseler (a)	4	-	0	Dietmar Smolka (a)
33		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	0	Jan Matejicek (a)
34		Fabian Monnin (a)	4	-	0	Bhavesh Sodha (a)
35		Iulian Boiko (a)	4	-	2	Brandon Sargeant (a)
36		Dylan Emery (a)	4	-	1	Tony Corrigan (a)
37		Felix Frede (a)	4	-	3	Patrick Whelan (a)
38		Daniel Williams (a)	4	-	0	David Elahi (a)
39		Daniel Holoyda (a)	4	-	0	Tanja Ender (af)
40		Florian Nüßle (a)	4	-	0	Richard Wienold (a)
41		Ng On Yee (af)	4	-	2	Paul Schopf (a)
42		Marcin Nitschke (a)	4	-	0	Ismail Türker (a)
43		Wayne Brown (a)	4	-	1	Matthew Roberts (a)
44		Andrew Pagett (a)	4	-	0	James Budd (a)
45		Markus Hertle (a)	4	-	0	Thomas Blang (a)
46		David Grace (a)	4	-	0	Rolf Mahr (a)
47		Tam Yun Fung (a)	4	-	0	Tom Egger (a)
Qual Round 1 (Last 219; Losers receive £0)
1		Jamie O'Neill (a)	4	-	0	Julian Maschmeier (a)
2		Hussam Al-Saffar (a)	w/o			Nirek Kaltenborn (a)
3		Michael Wild (a)	4	-	1	Davut Dikme (a)
4		Antoni Kowalski (a)	4	-	2	Johny Moermans (a)
5		Matthew Glasby (a)	4	-	2	Louis Wakelin (a)
6		Kevin Van Hove (a)	4	-	0	Daniel Schneider (a)
7		Mateusz Baranowski (a)	4	-	0	Abdullah Atmar Ghulam Jilani (a)
8		Callum Beresford (a)	4	-	1	Robin Otto (a)
9		James Cahill (a)	4	-	1	Conor Caniff (a)
10		Patrick Einsle (a)	4	-	0	Michael Heeger (a)
11		Luke Pinches (a)	4	-	0	Luis Chacon (a)
12		Jack Bradford (a)	4	-	0	Michael Spooner (a)
13		Ben Jones (a)	4	-	0	Jan Chren (a)
14		Daniel Womersley (a)	4	-	3	Tomasz Skalski (a)
15		Mink Nutcharut (af)	4	-	0	Enes Bakirci (a)
16		Gert Kempenaers (a)	4	-	1	Norbert Hofheinz (a)
17		Ron Kantor (a)	w/o			Tyler Rees (a)
18		Luke Simmonds (a)	4	-	0	Luca Kaufmann (a)
19		Aaron Busuttil (a)	4	-	1	Dale Prime (a)
20		Sean Maddocks (a)	4	-	1	Jörg Petersen (a)
21		Curtis Daher (a)	4	-	1	Nicolai Gebhardt (a)
22		Cheung Ka Wai (a)	4	-	0	Umar Ali Shaikh (a)
23		Sergey Isaenko (a)	4	-	1	Stephane Ochoiski (a)
24		Ryan Davies (a)	4	-	0	Shahidul Islam (a)
25		Philip Ciantar (a)	4	-	2	Karam Fatima (a)
26		Jurian Heusdens (a)	4	-	1	Zsolt Fenyvesi (a)
27		Soner Sari (a)	4	-	0	Georg Schoder (a)
28		Luis Vetter (a)	w/o			Ronny Buchholz (a)
29		Horst Bendig (a)	4	-	1	Boris Lazarkov (a)
30		Jürgen Kesseler (a)	4	-	3	Tan Wang Chooi (a)
31		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Marvin Losi (a)
32		Fabian Monnin (a)	4	-	0	Pedro Chacon (a)
33		Dylan Emery (a)	4	-	0	Tom Zimmermann (a)
34		Patrick Whelan (a)	4	-	0	Andreas Hartung (a)
35		Daniel Williams (a)	w/o			Dechawat Poomjaeng (a)
36		Daniel Holoyda (a)	4	-	2	Fabian Haken (a)
37		Florian Nüßle (a)	4	-	0	Jamie Curtis-Barrett (a)
38		Ng On Yee (af)	4	-	0	Paul Thompson (a)
39		Marcin Nitschke (a)	4	-	0	Christian Oehmicke (a)
40		Matthew Roberts (a)	4	-	1	Bernd Strnad (a)
41		Andrew Pagett (a)	4	-	0	Pawel Rogoza (a)
42		Markus Hertle (a)	4	-	1	Ralf Günzel (a)
43		David Grace (a)	4	-	0	John Nicholson (a)
44		Tam Yun Fung (a)	4	-	0	Abid Manzoor (a)

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