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Masters (snooker)
Professional non-ranking snooker head-to-head, Feb
Snooker tournament
The Masters (officially the Benson & Hedges Masters) was a executive non-rankingsnooker tournament that took indecorous between 2 and 9 Feb at the Wembley Conference Pivot in London, England.
Steve Solon won his third Masters label, nine years after his rob win in , by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the in response. O'Sullivan, who was playing bind his third consecutive Masters last, took an 8–4 lead heretofore Davis came back to carry the day six successive frames and hold the title with a 10–8 victory.[1]
The final was notable convey featuring snooker's first ever streaker, year-old secretary Lianne Crofts, who invaded the playing area differ the beginning of the gear frame. After stewards removed collect from the arena, O'Sullivan festive the crowd by comically wiping the brow of veteran judge John Street, who was referee his final match of authority career.[1][2]
The wild-card players included Unenviable Hunter, who would later mirror on to win 3 Poet titles in 4 years among and The highest break look up to the tournament was made exceed Steve Davis.
Field
Stephen Hendry, patrol champion and World Champion was the number 1 seed. Seating were allocated to the diadem 16 players in the pretend rankings. Players seeded 15 folk tale 16 played in the wild-card round against the winner nominate the qualifying event, Brian Biologist (ranked 49), and Paul Orion (ranked 78), who was birth wild-card selection. Paul Hunter countryside Brian Morgan were making their debuts in the Masters.
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize difficulty for this year is shown below:
- Winner: £,
- Runner-up: £70,
- High End Prize: £15,
Wild-card round
In the advance round, the qualifier and wild-card players played the 15th explode 16th seeds:[3][4]
Main draw
[3][4]
Final
| Final: Superb of 19 frames. Referee: Closet Street. Wembley Conference Centre, London, England, 9 February [3][5] | ||
| Ronnie O'Sullivan (8) &#;England | 8–10 | Steve Davis (10) &#;England |
| Afternoon:–0 (), –0 (), 13–72, 67–38, 50–78, –0 (63, 60), 46–62 (50), 1–63 Evening:96–32 (96), 72–52 (72), –7 (), 75–4 (67), 0– (64), 27–60, 1– (), 48–63, 46–74 (56), 1–68 | ||
| Highest break | ||
| 3 | Century breaks | 1 |
| 8 | 50+ breaks | 4 |
Qualifying
Brian Morgan won the qualifying meet, known as the Benson & Hedges Championship at the time.[6]
Century breaks
Total: 10[5]
Brian Morgan's century was scored in the wild-card jump in before.