The European Tour 2014/2015 – Event 3 (also known as the 2014 Victoria Bulgarian Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 1–5 October 2014 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The tournament was meant to be Ali Carter's first since his lung cancer diagnosis and subsequent chemotherapy treatment, but he was forced to withdraw due to acute pain in his left arm following his radiofrequency ablation surgery.

John Higgins was the defending champion, but he lost 1–4 against Judd Trump in the last 64.

Shaun Murphy won his fifteenth professional title by defeating Martin Gould 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 Total €125,000

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Vasil Todorov 0–4 Martin O'Donnell Iveilo Pekov n/s–w/o Alex Taubman Sashko Dimitrov 0–4 Richard Beckham Teodor Chomovski 4–0 Veselin Lazarov

Bratislav Krustev 4–3 Sergiy Isayenko Chris Jones 4–1 Chris Bryant Nikolai Hristov 0–4 Paul Davison

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Jeff Jacobs 4–2 Mark Owens Kjetil Hårtveit 2–4 Ivan Kyupov 1–4 Martin O'Donnell Marko Vukovic 0–4 Alex Taubman Sam Harvey 4–0 Julian Petrov Adam Bobat 3–4 Joe O'Connor 4–0 David Frew Georgi Velichkov 1–4 Richard Beckham Hans Blanckaert 1–4 Josh Boileau Kristof Vermeiren 4–3 Jack Bradford Sydney Wilson 4–0 Karen Osipov Damail Tugov 1–4 Spasian Spasov Simon Dent 4–0 Corina Maracine Matthew Day 4–1 Rhys Clark Farhan Mirza 0–4 Thomas Dowling Reanne Evans 4–3 Nikola Kemilev Billy Brown 3–4 Ryan Causton Tomasz Skalski 4–1 Daniel Wells Joe Steele 2–4 Mitchell Travis Peter Devlin 4–0 Matthew Hulatt Brian Cini 4–1 Matthew Glasby Ashley Hugill 4–0 Krasimir Kameshev Marc Davis 4–1 Jonathan Mabey Adam Duffy 4–0 Stefan Simeonovski

Gareth Allen 4–0 Mark Vincent Ivaylo Hristov 0–4 Michael Collumb Jeff Cundy 4–0 Teodor Chomovski Dylan Craig 4–1 Josh Mulholland John Chapman 0–4 Oliver Brown Jake Nicholson 3–4 Nico Elton Declan Brennan 3–4 Zack Richardson Kacper Filipiak w/o–w/d Michal Zielinski Sanderson Lam 4–0 Bratislav Krustev Sean O'Sullivan 4–1 Kishan Hirani Anthony Jeffers 3–4 Ben Jones John Sutton 2–4 Luke Garland Eden Sharav 4–3 Chris Jones Arshad Qureshi w/d–w/o Daniel Schneider Hristo Sirakov 3–4 Conor McCormack Luchezar Gergov 0–4 Grzegorz Biernadski Andrew Rogers 2–4 Paul Davison Joshua Baddeley 4–0 Kobi Mates 0–4 Jurian Heusdens William Lemons 3–4 Brandon Sargeant Andreas Ploner 1–4 Lukas Kleckers Michael Williams 4–0 Viktor Iliev 3–4 Ashley Carty John Parkin 4–0

Round 3 Best of 7 frames

Jeff Jacobs 4–0 Martin O'Donnell 3–4 Alex Taubman Sam Harvey 4–3 Joe O'Connor 4–1 Richard Beckham Josh Boileau 4–0 Kristof Vermeiren Sydney Wilson 4–0 Spasian Spasov Simon Dent 1–4 Matthew Day Thomas Dowling 4–3 Reanne Evans Ryan Causton 3–4 Tomasz Skalski Mitchell Travis 4–0 Peter Devlin Brian Cini 3–4 Ashley Hugill Marc Davis 2–4 Adam Duffy

Gareth Allen 4–0 Michael Collumb Jeff Cundy 4–3 Dylan Craig Oliver Brown 2–4 Nico Elton Zack Richardson 3–4 Kacper Filipiak Sanderson Lam 4–0 Sean O'Sullivan Ben Jones 4–2 Luke Garland Eden Sharav 4–0 Daniel Schneider Conor McCormack 1–4 Paul Davison 4–3 Joshua Baddeley Jurian Heusdens 1–4 Brandon Sargeant Lukas Kleckers 3–4 Michael Williams Ashley Carty 4–2 John Parkin

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

139 Dominic Dale 138, 108 Fraser Patrick 135 Ryan Day 135 Michael White 133, 108 Michael Wasley 133, 106 Neil Robertson 133 Liang Wenbo 132, 131, 111, 110, 108 Mark Selby 128, 118 Ricky Walden 127, 117, 105 Judd Trump 125 Oliver Lines 123 Matthew Selt 123 Xiao Guodong 122 Gerard Greene 121, 109 Peter Ebdon 119 Jamie Cope 115, 111, 102 Shaun Murphy 114 Gareth Allen

110 Mark Davis 110 John Higgins 109 Kurt Maflin 107, 101 Martin Gould 107 Robbie Williams 106 Anthony McGill 106 Andrew Higginson 105 Barry Pinches 104 Mark Joyce 104 Liam Highfield 104 Robert Milkins 104 Ben Woollaston 103 Tom Ford 103 Fergal O'Brien 101 Joe Perry 100 Gary Wilson 100 Jimmy White 100 Jeff Cundy

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