The European Tour 2014/2015 – Event 2 (also known as the 2014 Arcaden Paul Hunter Classic) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 and 24 August 2014 in Fürth, Germany.

Aditya Mehta made the 106th official maximum break during his last 32 match against Stephen Maguire. Mehta became the first Indian player to compile an official 147.

Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion, but he lost 2–4 against Tian Pengfei in the last 16.

Mark Allen won his seventh professional title by defeating Judd Trump 4–2 in the final.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below: Prize fund Winner €25,000 Runner-up €12,000 Semi-finalist €6,000 Quarter-finalist €4,000 Last 16 €2,300 Last 32 €1,200 Last 64 €700 Maximum break €1,877 Total €126,877

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Josh Boileau 4–1 Brian Cini Luke Garland 4–0 Jerom Meeus Billy Brown 3–4 Wan Chooi Tan Ali Masoudi Alavi 0–4 Duane Jones Kishan Hirani 4–0 Thomas Kiesewetter Anton Woywod 0–4 Reanne Evans Jan Leichs 0–4 Kobi Mates Eden Sharav 4–0 Adam Bobat Norbert Hofheinz 0–4 Ryan Causton Chris Jones 1–4 Daniel Wells Matthew Glasby 0–4 Adam Duffy Gerry Egger 0–4 Luca Kaufmann Sanjin Kusan 0–4 Stephane Ochoiski Hans Blanckaert 4–1 Fabian Tost Kevin Chan 1–4 Mitchell Travis Zack Richardson w/o–n/s Filipe Cardoso Ashley Carty 4–0 Matthias Porn Simon Dent 4–0 Manon Melief Jurian Heusdens 4–3 Kristof Vermeiren Thomas Dowling 4–1 Steve Lambrechts Carl Rosenberger w/o–w/d Nils Hartung

Jack Bradford 4–0 Stefan Gerst Christopher Keogan 4–1 Jeff Jacobs Nicole Breitenstein 0–4 Gareth Allen Joe Steele 4–2 Simon Lichtenberg Michael Williams 4–0 Rick Kraaijeveld Sydney Wilson 3–4 Paul Davison Vyacheslav Nikiforov 3–4 Stefan Schenk Shachar Ruberg 0–4 John Sutton Andreas Ploner 4–0 Ralf Günzel Ralph Müller 0–4 Martin O'Donnell Thomas Broeckx 0–4 Marc Davis Raymon Fabrie 2–4 Jordan Brown Diana Schuler 0–4 Michael Collumb William Lemons 4–0 Jayson Umar Ali Shaikh 0–4 Ross Higgins Tomasz Skalski 4–1 Manuel Pomwenger Mark Owens 1–4 Jamie Clarke Ben Jones 4–2 Matthew Day Alex Taubman 4–0 Robert Drahn Corina Maracine 0–4 Dylan Craig

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Wendy Jans 0–4 Josh Boileau Luke Garland 4–3 Wan Chooi Tan Daniel Schneider 0–4 Duane Jones Phil Barnes 0–4 Kishan Hirani Prasit Buttakham 1–4 Reanne Evans Sanderson Lam 4–0 Kobi Mates Ali Kirim 0–4 Eden Sharav Lukas Kleckers 2–4 Ryan Causton Joe O'Connor 4–3 Daniel Wells Jamie Bodle 1–4 Adam Duffy Luca Kaufmann 4–1 Stephane Ochoiski Andreas Hartung 2–4 Hans Blanckaert Oliver Brown 2–4 Mitchell Travis Declan Brennan 2–4 Zack Richardson Sean O'Sullivan 3–4 Ashley Carty Jeff Cundy 4–1 Simon Dent Jurian Heusdens 0–4 Thomas Dowling

Saqib Nasir 4–0 Carl Rosenberger Sam Harvey 2–4 Jack Bradford Gerhard Engelschalk 0–4 Christopher Keogan Bernd Strnad 0–4 Gareth Allen Sascha Lippe 4–0 Joe Steele Benjamin Buser 0–4 Michael Williams Paul Davison 4–0 Stefan Schenk John Sutton 2–4 Andreas Ploner Sebastian Thron 0–4 Martin O'Donnell Patrick Einsle 3–4 Marc Davis Jordan Brown 3–4 Michael Collumb Jamie O'Neill w/d–w/o William Lemons Markus Pfistermüller 1–4 Ross Higgins Tomasz Skalski 2–4 Jamie Clarke Ashley Hugill 1–4 Ben Jones Rhys Clark 3–4 Alex Taubman Matthew Hulatt 0–4 Dylan Craig

Round 3 Best of 7 frames

Josh Boileau 2–4 Luke Garland Duane Jones 3–4 Kishan Hirani Reanne Evans 0–4 Sanderson Lam Eden Sharav 4–2 Ryan Causton Joe O'Connor 1–4 Adam Duffy Luca Kaufmann 2–4 Hans Blanckaert Mitchell Travis 4–0 Zack Richardson Ashley Carty 0–4 Jeff Cundy Thomas Dowling 4–2 Saqib Nasir

Jack Bradford 4–2 Christopher Keogan Gareth Allen 4–3 Sascha Lippe Michael Williams 1–4 Paul Davison Andreas Ploner 3–4 Martin O'Donnell Marc Davis 3–4 Michael Collumb William Lemons 4–1 Ross Higgins Jamie Clarke 4–1 Ben Jones Alex Taubman 4–1 Dylan Craig

Main rounds

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Century breaks

147 Aditya Mehta 143, 111, 108, 106, 104 Judd Trump 141, 132, 107 Stephen Maguire 139, 102 Mark Allen 132 Paul Davison 131, 113 Ricky Walden 130 Mark Joyce 129, 101 Li Hang 124, 106, 102 Anthony McGill 123 Xiao Guodong 122 Neil Robertson 121, 107 Mark Selby 121 Andrew Higginson

120, 112 Tian Pengfei 118 David Gilbert 116 Jimmy White 114, 105, 101 Ronnie O'Sullivan 114 Marco Fu 109 Robert Milkins 108 Martin O'Donnell 105 Reanne Evans 104 Martin Gould 103 Daniel Wells 102 Jamie Cope 101 Graeme Dott 100 Mike Dunn

References