Australian Professional Championship 1977

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Australian Professional Championship 1977
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Tournament type: Non-ranking tournament
Attendees: 8th
Venue: Golden Bowl Sports Center, Melbourne , Australia
Opening: September 1977
Endgame: September 30, 1977

Defending champion: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Winner: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Finalist: AustraliaAustralia Paddy Morgan
Highest Break: 119 ( Paddy Morgan ) AustraliaAustralia
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The Australian Professional Championship 1977 was a professional snooker tournament in the context of the 1977/78 season without influence on the world rankings and in function of the national professional championship of Australia. The tournament without prize money or sponsors was held from the beginning of September to the 30th of the same month in the Golden Bowl Sports Center in the Australian city ​​of Melbourne . For the ninth time in a row and for the twelfth time in total, Eddie Charlton won the tournament, defeating Paddy Morgan 25:19 in the final. Morgan meanwhile played the tournament's highest break with a 119 break .

Tournament course

A total of eight players took part in the tournament, each of whom met a different one of these players in the first round. While the winners of the games advanced to the third round, the losers played a different loser in a second round. The winners of the second round games finally met the losers of the third round games in a fourth round, while the winners of the latter round advanced to the semi-finals. In this they met one of the winners of the fourth round before the winners of the semi-finals battled for the title in the final. The first, second and fourth round were played in the best of 15 frames mode , while the third round was played in the best of 29 frames mode . Finally, the semi-finals were played in the best of 37 frames mode before the final was capped at 49 frames.

    First round / second round
Best of 15 frames 		    Third round / Fourth round
Best of 29 frames / Best of 15 frames 		    Semi-final
Best of 37 frames 		    Final
Best of 49 frames
                                       
  loser Game 7
  AustraliaAustralia  Lou Condo 8th     Game 9
  AustraliaAustralia  Gary Owen 7th     AustraliaAustralia  Lou Condo 3  
    AustraliaAustralia  Warren Simpson 8th    
       
  Winning round Game 1       AustraliaAustralia  Warren Simpson 6th  
  AustraliaAustralia  Eddie Charlton 8th         AustraliaAustralia  Eddie Charlton 19th    
  AustraliaAustralia  Lou Condo 4th     Game 5          
      AustraliaAustralia  Eddie Charlton 15th          
  Game 2     AustraliaAustralia  Dennis Wheelwright 4th        
  AustraliaAustralia  Dennis Wheelwright 8th          
  AustraliaAustralia  Gary Owen 5        
      AustraliaAustralia  Eddie Charlton 25th
  Game 3       AustraliaAustralia  Paddy Morgan 21st
  AustraliaAustralia  Paddy Morgan 8th        
  AustraliaAustralia  Ian Anderson 4th     Game 6      
      AustraliaAustralia  Paddy Morgan 15th        
  Game 4     AustraliaAustralia  Warren Simpson 6th          
  AustraliaAustralia  Warren Simpson 8th                
  AustraliaAustralia  Philip Tarrant 5         AustraliaAustralia  Paddy Morgan 19th    
      AustraliaAustralia  Philip Tarrant 13  
  Game 10    
  loser Game 8     AustraliaAustralia  Philip Tarrant 8th    
  AustraliaAustralia  Ian Anderson 7th     AustraliaAustralia  Dennis Wheelwright 5  
  AustraliaAustralia  Philip Tarrant 8th  
 

final

The local hero Eddie Charlton had only missed the final or a place in the top two places in the first edition of the tournament in 1963 and lost it for the last time in 1968 against Warren Simpson . In this edition he met in the final on Paddy Morgan , who had already reached the final last year and had given up there against Charlton without a fight. Neither player had lost a single game during the tournament so far. While Charlton had reached the final with mostly clear victories, Morgan was able to show only slightly narrower victories.

No exact results have been reported from the final itself. While Charlton played a 102 break over a maximum of 49 frames during the game, Morgan managed a 109 and a 119 break, so that all of the century breaks of the tournament were played in the final. In the end, Charlton won 25:19 and won the tournament for the twelfth time.

Final: Best of 49 Frames
Golden Bowl Sports Center,  Melbourne , Australia , September 30, 1977
AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 25 : 19 AustraliaAustralia Paddy Morgan
unknown
102 Highest break 119
1 Century breaks 2
- 50+ breaks -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1977 Australian Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 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 25, 2020 (English).
  3. ^ Ron Florax: 1977 Australian Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed January 25, 2020 .