2020 Players Championship (snooker)


The 2020 Coral Players Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place from 24 February to 1 March 2020 in Southport, England. It was the 14th ranking event of the 2019–20 snooker season and the second leg of the Coral Series.
Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion after beating Neil Robertson 10–4 in the 2019 final, but he failed to qualify for the 2020 event. The top 16 players on the one-year ranking list qualified, but O'Sullivan was placed 18th at the cut-off date.
Judd Trump won his second Players Championship, defeating Yan Bingtao 10–4 in the final. It was the 16th ranking title of Trump's career, and his fifth ranking title of the season. With it, he equalled the record held jointly by Stephen Hendry, Ding Junhui, Mark Selby and O'Sullivan for the most ranking titles in a single season.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for the 2020 tournament is shown below:
The seedings were conducted on the basis of the one-year ranking list up to and including the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out.
The following players qualified for the event.
RankPlayerTotal Points
1 Judd Trump531,500
2 Shaun Murphy353,000
3 Neil Robertson274,500
4 Mark Selby267,500
5 Ding Junhui261,250
6 Yan Bingtao156,500
7 Mark Allen150,500
8 John Higgins143,500
9 Graeme Dott136,250
10 Thepchaiya 131,000
11 Kyren Wilson130,000
12 Stephen Maguire122,000
13 Mark Williams113,250
14 Joe Perry112,000
15 David Gilbert104,000
16 Michael Holt102,000

Main draw

The draw for the event is shown below.

Final

Century breaks

There was a total of 18 century breaks made during the tournament, the highest of which was a 140 made by Neil Robertson.