After a brilliant debut back during the Shanghai Masters, the Stat Attack is back for another Statistical preview, for the European Tour event 3, the Ruhr Open. In the stats preview i'll be looking at the previous two Ruhr Open tournaments that have been staged, stats that focus particularly on the European Tour and any relevant stats from this season so far.
One man that plenty of great European Tour statistics seem to be related to is this weeks Ruhr Open defending Shaun Murphy. This year the Ruhr Open is the third European Tour event on the calendar (rather than last year when it was the fourth), but Shaun also stormed to victory in the third Euro Tour event last year, which was the Bulgarian open in Sofia.
Shaun has also been the most dominant player on the European Tour by far since the Gdynia Open of 2014. Including his win there, in the last 9 ET's Shaun has won 3, been runner-up once, a losing semi-finalist once, as well as suffering one exit in each of the Last 16, Last 32, Last 64 and Last 128 rounds, meaning that during that period the quarter-finals is the only round Murphy hasn't exited at, so it would be quite ironic if that happened this week.
Murphy's comeback in the Paul Hunter Classic semi-finals from 3-0 down to beat Mark King 4-3 was something he'd achieved for a second time in 5 European Tour events, achieving the same at last years Ruhr Open against Judd Trump.
Stepping away from the Shaun Murphy bandwagon for a moment, both times that the Ruhr Open has been staged the winner, completed victory as part of consecutive European Tour event wins, as Mark Allen did so on the way to his consecutive ET victories in 2013. That could signal good things for Ali Carter, or that whoever wins this will repeat things in the fourth European Tour event in November.
Stephen Maguire is one man that has two interesting stats related to him this week, the first of which relates directly to the Ruhr Open. On both occasions that this event has been staged, Stephen has lost in the semi-finals. So, he'll be hoping to go one better over the weekend.
Hopefully from his viewpoint that statistic above will help him break a spell of not beating a professional tour player since the Australian Open quarter-finals. Since then, Maguire achieved two wins in the Riga Open both against amateurs prior to his loss against Alan McManus, he then overcame another amateur qualifier in the Paul Hunter Classic before losing to Jimmy Robertson, and then having qualified automatically at the Shanghai Masters, he lost 5-1 to Michael Holt, prior to his 6-2 loss at last weeks International Championship qualifiers. Cao Yupeng is the man looking to keep Maguire down this week.
Judd Trump also has a good record in Mulheim where in 2013 he lost in the quarter-finals and 2014 in the semi-finals and on both occasions the man that beat Judd went on to win the title. If Judd goes one better this week he'd get to the final, and lose once again to the event winner.
The same is ironically true for Welsh potter Mark Williams. In 2013 he fell 4-2 to eventual champion Allen, before repeating that in 2014 by losing by the same score to Shaun Murphy in the quarter-finals of this event.
Centuries wise, the overall standard at the Ruhr Open has slightly declined from 2013 to 2014 with 47 tons being made in the professional stages of the 2013 event, while a year later 6 less were made in the professional stages at 41. All that's left to do with that statistic is to wonder how this year will rank. Judd Trump is the man that's made the most centuries so far, with 7 more than anyone else having notched up a tally of 13. Kyren Wilson, Luca Brecel and Ali Carter are all in joint second with 6 (along with Martin Gould who hasn't entered this week)
To put that last statistic into perspective, Judd Trump has also won more matches than anyone else this season (including the 6 Reds competition) with 19 wins, while Matt Selt, Kyren Wilson and Michael Holt come shortly after that with 18, 16 and 15 wins this season respectively.
If you're hoping for some of the repeat magic that Shaun Murphy offered up in the final of last years Ruhr Open when he made a maximum 147 break in the final, we are long overdue for a maximum. The last will have been exactly 8 months ago on Saturday (10th October). David Gilbert made that last maximum during seventh group of the 2015 Championship League.
Maximums have the tendency to pop up in these German events (of which there are only three a season). As last season 3 of the 9 maximums were made on German soil (Mehta in the Paul Hunter Classic, Murphy in the Ruhr Open and Trump in the German Masters) while 3 of the 9 also came on the European Tour which comprised only 6 events (Mehta's, Murphy's along with Ben Woollaston's at the Lisbon Open)
Something to keep look out for if Neil Robertson loses at any point this weekend is that on 6 of the last 8 occasions he's done so, he's lost in a deciding frame, which may creep into the Australian's head if he finds himself at 3-3 at any point over the weekend.
That's really all that I've been able to put together in terms of statistics for this event bearing in mind that this is only the third staging of the Ruhr Open. Still, I hope there were plenty of fun statistics there for you all to look over, and again if you have any suggestions with how you want to see the feature go in the future let me know.
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