Australian Masters 1982

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Australian Masters 1982
Winfield Masters 1982
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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Attendees: 8th
Venue: Sydney , Australia
Opening: July 1982
Endgame: July 1982

Defending champion: EnglandEngland Tony Meo
Winner: EnglandEngland Steve Davis
Finalist: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
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The Australian Masters 1982 , alternatively the Winfield Masters 1982 or Winfield Australian Masters 1982 , was a professional snooker invitation tournament of the 1982/83 season . The tournament was played in July 1982 in the Tattersalls Club or in the TV studios of Channel 10 in the Australian city ​​of Sydney . The winner was the Englishman Steve Davis , who defeated local hero Eddie Charlton in the final. Records of potentially high breaks are unknown.

Prize money

As in previous years, Winfield appeared as sponsor of the tournament . Compared to the previous year, the prize money rose by a good £ 7,000 to £ 18,568, which all went to the winner.

Tournament course

The tournament was organized by Eddie Charlton . A total of eight players were invited, four of whom each played against each other in a group. The first two in each group qualified for the semi-finals, from which the title was played in the knockout system . While only one frame per game was played in the group phase , the results of the semi-finals were calculated from the sum of the results of two frames and three frames in the final. This means that in the following all results are given in points.

Group stage

Group A

The first group was won by Eddie Charlton , who, in addition to two other wins , owed this to a clear victory over Steve Davis , who nevertheless qualified for the semi-finals with two wins from his other games with second place. Third place went to John Spencer due to a clear victory over fourth-placed Canadian Cliff Thorburn .

space player Lots S. N Points
1 AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 3 3 0 292: 55
2 EnglandEngland Steve Davis 3 2 1 210: 182
3 EnglandEngland John Spencer 3 1 2 148: 203
4th CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn 3 0 3 75: 285
game Player 1 Result Player 2
1 John Spencer EnglandEngland 8th105 : 8105 CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn
2 Steve Davis EnglandEngland 2895 : 2895 EnglandEngland John Spencer
3 Steve Davis EnglandEngland 31111 : 31111 CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn
4th Eddie Charlton AustraliaAustralia 4th123 : 4123 EnglandEngland Steve Davis
5 Eddie Charlton AustraliaAustralia 3669 : 3669 CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn
6th Eddie Charlton AustraliaAustralia 15th100 : 15100 EnglandEngland John Spencer

Group B

The winner of the very first edition of the Australian Masters, Ian Anderson , narrowly won the group with two wins and one loss from Tony Meo , who also only won two games. What was remarkable was the negative point difference between the two, with which only third-placed Ray Reardon could show a positive difference. The reigning world champion Alex Higgins took last place .

space player Lots S. N Points
1 AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson 3 2 1 178: 183
2 EnglandEngland Tony Meo 3 2 1 175: 203
3 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 3 1 2 200: 139
4th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 3 1 2 175: 203
game Player 1 Result Player 2
1 Ray Reardon WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 1198 : 1198 EnglandEngland Tony Meo
2 Tony Meo EnglandEngland 3885 : 3885 AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson
3 Tony Meo EnglandEngland 6779 : 6779 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins
4th Alex Higgins Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland 5458 : 5458 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon
5 Ian Anderson AustraliaAustralia 4870 : 4870 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon
6th Ian Anderson AustraliaAustralia 5070 : 5070 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins

Semifinals and finals

Both semifinals showed only a narrow result. While in the first semifinals group winner Eddie Charlton was able to beat Tony Meo with 138: 94 , the winner of group B, Ian Anderson, lost in the second semifinals with 115: 119 and thus only by four points against Steve Davis . The latter finally won the final and thus the tournament with a 254: 100 victory over Charlton.

  Semi-final
point of two frames 		Final
point of three frames
                 
A1 AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 138    
B2 EnglandEngland Tony Meo 94  
A1 AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 100
  A2 EnglandEngland Steve Davis 254
A2 AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson 115
B1 EnglandEngland Steve Davis 119  

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ron Florax: 1982 Australian Masters. CueTracker.net, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Chris Turner: Australian Events - Invitation and Ranking Events. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2011, archived from the original on April 25, 2012 ; accessed on January 11, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Ron Florax: 1982 Australian Masters - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Steve Davis : Interesting . Dragonstars Eventmanagement, Fürth 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053061-6 , p.  165 (English: Interesting . Ebury Press, London 2015.).