Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester.
 He is the reigning World and UK snooker champion and is the current world number one.
Hossein Vafaei (Persian: حسین وفایی ایوری‎ ‎ , born September 14, 1994 in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian professional snooker player.
 He was the first Iranian professional snooker player in the history of the game.
 His attempts to travel to the United Kingdom to qualify for the major tournaments on the snooker calendar were denied due to visa problems, but he gained a UK visa in February 2015.
Shawn Budd (born 2 March 1974 in Sydney, Australia), is a professional snooker and pool player that has won major snooker and pool tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, England and America.
 He is the only Australian snooker player ever to win the Australian Open Snooker, Australian National Snooker, Australian 9 Ball and 8 Ball titles.
 Also he has won the Oceania Snooker championships and was runner up in the Oceania Billiards Championship in the same year.
 In 2002 he was a quarter finalist in the IBSF World Billiards Championships (50 up).
 In 1994 he won the Valley National Open 8-ball tournament in Las Vegas (over 5000 entries) and in 2001 he won the Masters 8-ball event.
 The event is now called the World Pool Championships.
Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985 in Pune) is an Indian professional player of English billiards and former professional snooker player.
 In recognition of his achievements, the Government of India has bestowed several awards upon Advani—Arjuna Award in 2004, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2006, and Padma Shri in 2009.
 He has achieved a hat-trick of hat-tricks in English billiards, holding the World, Asian, and Indian National Championship titles simultaneously, in three different years: 2005, 2008 and 2012.
 He became a snooker professional only in 2012, and his first season on the main tour was the 2012/2013 season.
 Advani won the 2014 IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship, on his debut in that discipline.
 He is the only player ever to win world titles in both the long and short formats of snooker (15-red standard, and 6-red) and both formats of English billiards (time and point).
 Advani is also India's first world champion in 6-red snooker.
 On 14 August 2014, Advani helped win the first ever World Team Billiards Championship held in Glasgow, Scotland, along with Rupesh Shan, Devendra Joshi and Ashok Shandilya.
Peter Lines (born 11 December 1969 in Leeds) is an English professional snooker player.
 He has twice reached the quarter-final of a ranking tournament, in the 1999 China International, and the 2009 UK Championship, and reached his highest ranking, 42nd, in 1999.
 He is the father of fellow professional snooker player Oliver Lines.
Alexander Ursenbacher (born 26 April 1996) is a Swiss professional snooker player from Rheinfelden.
 He is Switzerland's second professional snooker player after Darren Paris, who competed on the main tour in the mid-1990s.
 He is current Under-21 European Snooker Champion.
Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985 in Dudley, West Midlands) is an English former professional snooker player who now competes as an amateur.
 She is a multiple WLBSA Ladies World Snooker Championship, a title she won a record ten successive times between 2005 and 2014, before losing to Ng On Yee in the semi finals in 2015.
 She played on the main professional snooker tour during the 2010–11 season, but she failed to win any matches and was unable to retain her place on the tour in subsequent seasons.
 In May 2013, she qualified for the 2013 Wuxi Classic as an amateur competitor, becoming the first woman ever to reach the final stages of a ranking snooker tournament.
 She became one of four players selected to play against local opponents in a wildcard round, where she lost 2–5 to Zhu Yinghui.
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall.
 He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001.
 He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship and the 2007 China Open, and was runner-up in the World Championships of 2004 and 2010.
 He reached number 2 in the world rankings in 2007, but a subsequent episode of clinical depression seriously affected his form, causing him to drop to number 28 for the 2009/2010 season.
 He then recovered his form, regained his top-16 ranking, and reached a third World Championship final.
 In 2011, he published his autobiography, "Frame of Mind: The Autobiography of the World Snooker Champion."
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player from Bristol and former world number one.
 He enjoyed considerable success in youth tournaments before turning professional in 2005.
 On 3 April 2011, Trump won his first ranking title, beating Mark Selby 10–8 in the final of the China Open.
 Following this success in China, he reached the final of the 2011 World Snooker Championship where he was defeated by John Higgins.
 He then went on to win the 2011 UK Championship where he defeated Mark Allen 10–8 in the final.
The China Open is a professional snooker tournament.
 It is one of a number of ranking tournaments and began in 1997.
 The reigning champion is Mark Selby.

Question: In what year did an English professional snooker player from Leicester win the China Open?
Answer: 1997