Australian Professional Championship 1975

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Australian Professional Championship 1975
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Tournament type: Non-ranking tournament
Attendees: 6th
Venue: Australia
Opening: August 1975
Endgame: 29th August 1975

Defending champion: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Winner: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Finalist: AustraliaAustralia Dennis Wheelwright
Highest Break: 115 ( Eddie Charlton ) AustraliaAustralia
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The Australian Professional Championship 1975 was a professional snooker tournament in the context of the 1975/76 season without influence on the world rankings and in the function of the national professional championship of Australia. The tournament without prize money or sponsors was held in Australia from August 1975 to the 29th of the same month . The winner was Eddie Charlton for the seventh time in a row and for the tenth time overall , who defeated Dennis Wheelwright in the final with 31:10 and played the highest break of the tournament with a 115 break .

Tournament course

Compared to the previous year, the number of participants decreased from ten to six players, which consisted of four professional and two amateur players. Four of the players started the tournament in a first round game, with the winners of the two games each facing one of the remaining players in the semifinals. In the knockout system , the winner of the tournament was then played out. The first round was played in the best of 21 frames mode , the semifinals in the best of 37 frames mode and the final in the best of 61 frames mode .

  Quarterfinals
Best of 21 Frames 		    Semi-final
Best of 37 frames 		    Final
Best of 61 frames
                           
        AustraliaAustralia  Eddie Charlton 19th  
  AustraliaAustralia  Jim Charlton 11     AustraliaAustralia  Jim Charlton 9    
  AustraliaAustralia  Philip Tarrant 8th         AustraliaAustralia  Eddie Charlton 31
      AustraliaAustralia  Dennis Wheelwright 10
        AustraliaAustralia  Ron Mares 15th    
  AustraliaAustralia  Dennis Wheelwright 11     AustraliaAustralia  Dennis Wheelwright 19th  
  AustraliaAustralia  Lou Condo 4th  

final

The Australian Eddie Charlton was the dominant player of the tournament and had won nine editions up to this point. The reigning vice-world champion had qualified for the final with a clear 19: 9 victory over Jim Charlton , in which he met first-round participant Dennis Wheelwright , who moved into the semifinals with a clear 11: 4 victory over Lou Condo and there had secured a place in the final with a relatively narrow 19:15 win over Ron Mares .

No exact frame results are available from the finale itself. However, both players each played a Century Break , so that all Century Breaks of the tournament were played in the final. The game ended at 31:10 for Charlton, who won his seventh title in a row and his tenth title overall.

Final: Best of 61 frames
unknown , Australia , at least August 29, 1975
AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 31 : 10 AustraliaAustralia Dennis Wheelwright
unknown
115 Highest break 101
1 Century breaks 1
- 50+ breaks -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1975 Australian Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Ron Florax: 1975 Australian Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 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 26, 2020 (English).