Australian Professional Championship
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| Ranking tournament: | - | |
| Minor ranking tournament: | - | |
| Invitation tournament: | 1963-1988, 1984-1988 |
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| Venue: | Rooty Hill Retired Soldiers Club , Sydney | |
| Prize money (total): | £ 7,550 | |
| Prize money (winner): | £ 2,000 | |
| Frames in the final: | Best of 17 | |
| Records | ||
| Most wins: |
 Eddie Charlton (× 14)
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| Highest Break: | 138 Eddie Charlton ( 1978 )
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The Australian Professional Championship was a snooker tournament to determine the national snooker champion of Australia. The tournament became a professional tournament between 1963 and 1978 and between 1984 and 1988 as a non-ranking tournament and thus part of the professional tour . The record winner is Eddie Charlton with fourteen titles.
history
The Australian Professional Championship was first played in 1963, with one tournament being played annually up to and including 1978. The tournaments were held in different modes, including a round-robin tournament . With thirteen of sixteen titles, Eddie Charlton , three-time runner-up and Australian local hero, won the most titles, while the remaining three tournaments went to Warren Simpson with two titles and Norman Squire with one title. After Eddie Charlton played the highest break of the tournament with a 138 break in the 1978 edition , the tournament was suspended for the time being.
From 1984 various national championships were sponsored by the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , so that the Australian Professional Championship was also revived. While the first reprint went to Eddie Charlton, both John Campbell and Warren King won two times each of the following four editions . After the end of WPBSA sponsorship in 1989, the tournament, like most of the other national professional championships, was discontinued.
winner
Some data are incomplete, especially during the first period of deletions.
See also
- English Professional Championship
- Scottish Professional Championship
- Welsh Professional Championship
- Irish Professional Championship
- Canadian Professional Championship
- South African Professional Championship
Web links
- Tournament history ( Memento from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in Chris Turner's Snooker Archive
- Tournament history on CueTracker.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ron Florax: 1978 Australian Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Chris Turner: Other National Professional Championships - Non Ranking Event. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2011, archived from the original on March 18, 2016 ; accessed on January 24, 2020 (English).
- ^ A b Ron Florax: Tournaments In Australian Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 14, 2020 .
