page_title: 2019 Champion of Champions
section_title: Knockout stages
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 Champion of Champions / Summary / Knockout stages
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bild aufgenommen in Berlin während des German Masters im Snooker 2013. Daniel Wells, Neil Robertson. English: Picture taken in Berlin during the Snooker German Masters in 2013. Daniel Wells, Neil Robertson.
context_page_description: The 2019 Champion of Champions was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 10 November 2019 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. It was the ninth Champion of Champions event, the first of which was held in 1978. The tournament featured 16 participants who had won World Snooker events throughout the prior snooker season. In 2019, the Women's World Champion competed at the tournament for the first time. As an invitational event, the Champion of Champions tournament carried no world ranking points.
  Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion having defeated Kyren Wilson 10–9 in the final of the 2018 event. O'Sullivan lost 5–6 to Neil Robertson in the semi-finals. Robertson defeated reigning world champion Judd Trump 10–9 in the final to win the championship, having required foul shots in the penultimate frame to avoid losing the match. There were 20 century breaks during the tournament, eight of which were made in the final. Mark Allen compiled the highest break of the tournament, a 140, in his semi-final loss to Trump. The tournament's total prize fund was £440,000, the winner receiving £150,000.
context_section_description: The semi-finals were played as best-of-11-frames matches. The first semi-final was held on 8 November between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Neil Robertson. The pair had met in the finals of two events in the 2019 Coral Cup series—the Tour Championship and the Players Championship—with O'Sullivan winning on both occasions. The match was even throughout, with no more than one frame separating the two players. Robertson compiled a break of 108 in frame five to open up a 3–2 lead, O'Sullivan winning three of the next four frames to lead 5–4. Robertson won frame 10 with a break of 135, the highest of the tournament at that point, to force a deciding frame. O'Sullivan gained the first chance of the final frame, but miscued whilst playing the black ball, allowing Robertson to make a break of 90 to win the match 6–5. Robertson later commented that the match was "definitely one of the best matches [he had] been involved in".
  Mark Allen and Judd Trump met in the second semi-final on 9 November. Trump won the first three frames of the match, but Allen took the next four, including the tournament's highest break of 140, to lead 4–3. Trump made a break of 86 to tie the match, and then clinched frame nine after a fluke when potting a red ball. With a break of 98 in frame 10, Trump won the match 6–4.
  The final between Trump and Robertson was played as a best-of-19-frames match over two sessions on 10 November. The referee for the final was Desislava Bozhilova. Robertson won the first two frames of the match, including a break of 112 in the second frame, and took an early 3–1 lead. Trump then made three consecutive centuries in frames five to seven, totalling 367 points without reply, to go ahead 4–3. Breaks of 96 and 111 gave Robertson the next two frames to retake the lead at 5–4 between the two sessions.
  Trump took the first frame of the second session, but Robertson replied with a break of 104. Trump won the next two frames to go ahead 7–6, and retained the lead until Robertson made a break of 135 in the 16th frame to tie the match at 8–8. Trump required foul shots from his opponent to win frame 17, and went ahead once again. Robertson needed a snooker in frame 18 to avoid losing the match; he succeeded and forced a re-spotted black, which he potted to draw level at 9–9. He then made a break of 137 in the deciding frame to win the match 10–9. This was Robertson's second Champion of Champions victory, having won the event in 2015. He later commented: "I can't believe the pair of us playing a match like that. It's the best match I've ever been involved in". With a total of eight century breaks (five of which were compiled by Robertson), the final included a record number of centuries for a best-of-19-frames match. There were 784,000 viewers on ITV4 across the two sessions of the final. This was the second-highest non-terrestrial viewing figure in the United Kingdom for the day, behind a Premier League football match between Liverpool F.C. and Manchester City F.C. on Sky Sports.
caption: Neil Robertson won the event, defeating Judd Trump 10–9 in the final.
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D90", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Capture NX 2.2.4 W", "Image DateTime": "2013:09:14 15:13:23", "Image WhitePoint": "[313/1000, 329/1000]", "Image PrimaryChromaticities": "[16/25, 33/100, 21/100, 71/100, 3/20, 3/50]", "Image YCbCrCoefficients": "[299/1000, 587/1000, 57/500]", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ReferenceBlackWhite": "[0, 255, 0, 255, 0, 255]", "Image ExifOffset": "414", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "1036", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "300", "Thumbnail YResolution": "300", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "11012", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4989", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/40", "EXIF FNumber": "28/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Aperture Priority", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "400", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2013:01:30 16:45:11", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2013:01:30 16:45:11", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "-4/3", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "175", "EXIF SubSecTime": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "00", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2962", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2500", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 2, 0, 1]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "262", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "Low gain up", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0", "EXIF Gamma": "11/5"}