1991 Masters (snooker)
Tournament information | |
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Dates | 3–10 February 1991 |
Venue | Wembley Conference Centre |
City | London |
Country | England |
Organisation(s) | WPBSA |
Format | Non-ranking event |
Total prize fund | £350,000 |
Winner's share | £100,000 |
Highest break |
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Final | |
Champion |
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Runner-up |
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Score | 9–8 |
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The 1991 Benson & Hedges Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3 and 10 February 1991 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England. The highest break of the tournament was 135 made by Dennis Taylor, for which he earned £7,500.
The final turned out to be one of the greatest finals in snooker. Stephen Hendry beat Mike Hallett 9–8 after trailing 0–7 and 2–8.
Stephen Hendry, defending champion and World Champion was the number 1 seed. Places were allocated to the top 16 players in the world rankings. Players seeded 15 and 16 played in the wild-card round against the winner of the qualifying event, Alan McManus, and Gary Wilkinson (ranked 19), who was the wild-card selection. Martin Clark, Alan McManus, Alain Robidoux and Gary Wilkinson were making their debuts in the Masters.
Wild-card round
Match[1][2] | Date | Score | ||
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WC1 | Sunday 3 February | 5–3 | ||
WC2 | Monday 4 February | 3–5 |
Main draw
Last 16 Best of 9 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||||||||||
1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
11 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
10 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Final
Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: John Street Wembley Conference Centre, London, England, 10 February 1991. | ||
Stephen Hendry |
9–8 | Mike Hallett |
First session: 59–84 (Hendry 59, Hallett 80), 4–58, 12–93 (53), 29–81, 41–87 (87), 7–88 (73), 0–77, 73–67 (60), 73–35, 58–70 (Hendry 53), 67–49, 61–50, 67–43, 72–15, 63–14, 64–57, 51–41 | ||
60 | Highest break | 87 |
0 | Century breaks | 0 |
3 | 50+ breaks | 4 |
Qualifying
Alan McManus won the qualifying tournament, known as the 1990 Benson & Hedges Satellite Championship at the time.[3]
Century breaks
Total: 9[4]
- 135
Dennis Taylor - 131, 117, 114
Stephen Hendry - 125
Mike Hallett - 107
Doug Mountjoy - 103, 101
Jimmy White - 101
Steve James
References
- 1 2 "1991 Masters Results". Snooker Database. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- 1 2 "The Masters". Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ↑ Turner, Chris. "Benson & Hedges Championship, Masters Qualifying Tournament". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ↑ "1991 Masters". CueTracker - Snooker Results and Statistics Database. Retrieved 19 January 2015.