Australian Professional Championship 1984
Australian Professional Championship 1984 Toohey’s Brewery Australian Professional Championship 1984
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Tournament type: | Non-ranking tournament |
Attendees: | 11 |
Venue: | RSL Club, Dubbo , Australia |
Opening: | August 13, 1984 |
Endgame: | 17th August 1984
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Defending champion: | Eddie Charlton |
Winner: | Eddie Charlton |
Finalist: | Warren King |
Highest Break: | 105 ( Eddie Charlton ) |
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The Toohey's Brewery Australian Professional Championship 1984 was a professional snooker tournament in the context of the 1984/85 season without influence on the world rankings and in the function of the national professional championship of Australia. The tournament was held from August 13 to 17, 1984 at the RSL Club in the Australian city of Dubbo . The defending champion was now fourteen times the record winner of the tournament Eddie Charlton , who defeated Warren King 10: 3 in the final. Charlton also played the only Century Break with a 105 break and thus the highest break of the first edition after the tournament was closed in 1978.
Prize money
First of all, the tournament had a sponsor with Toohey's Brewery , even if, according to an alternative, the tournament managed without a sponsor. A total of 7,485 pounds sterling was paid out, of which a good quarter went to the winner.
Prize money | |
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winner | £ 1,900 |
finalist | £ 1,425 |
Semi-finalist | £ 950 |
Quarter finalist | 475 pounds |
First round | 120 pounds |
All in all | £ 7,485 |
Tournament course
Compared to the previous edition of the tournament in 1978, the number of participants rose by three players to a total of eleven participants, of which ten were professional and one was an amateur player. A total of six players started the tournament in one of three first-round games, with the winners of the game playing together with the remaining five players in the knockout system from the subsequent quarter-finals onwards . The first round and quarter-finals were played in the best of 11 frames mode , followed by the semi-finals in the best of 17 frames mode and the final in the best of 19 frames mode .
First round best of 11 frames |
Quarterfinals Best of 11 frames |
Semi-final best of 17 frames |
Final Best of 19 frames |
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Robby Foldvari | 6th | Eddie Charlton | 6th | ||||||||||||
Jim Charlton | 1 | Robby Foldvari | 4th | ||||||||||||
Eddie Charlton | 9 | ||||||||||||||
Paddy Morgan | 2 | ||||||||||||||
George Ganim | 6th | Paddy Morgan | 6th | ||||||||||||
Ian Anderson | 5 | George Ganim | 4th | ||||||||||||
Eddie Charlton | 10 | ||||||||||||||
Warren King | 3 | ||||||||||||||
James Giannaros | 6th | Warren King | 6th | ||||||||||||
Lou Condo | 2 | James Giannaros | 5 | ||||||||||||
Warren King | 9 | ||||||||||||||
John Campbell | 6th | ||||||||||||||
John Campbell | 6th | ||||||||||||||
Leon Heywood | 2 |
final
Local hero Eddie Charlton had won the tournament thirteen times before the tournament was closed in 1978, the last time being in 1968 with Warren Simpson , another player emerged as the tournament winner. In this edition, Charlton started with a 6-4 win over Robby Foldvari before moving into the final of the tournament with a clear 9-2 win over Paddy Morgan . There he met Warren King , who had reached the final with his first participation in this tournament with relatively narrow wins over James Giannaros and John Campbell .
Despite a 95 break by Charlton, the game started very evenly, as neither player took the lead by more than one frame until the 3: 3. But then Charlton also managed with the help of a 105 break to win all of the seven following frames for himself, with which he won the game with 10: 3 and the tournament for the fourteenth and final time.
Final: Best of 19 Frames RSL Club, Dubbo , Australia , August 17, 1984 |
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Eddie Charlton | 10 : 3 | Warren King |
74 : 32, 19: 79 , 117 : 5 (95), 48: 64 , 39: 85 , 119 : 31 (75), 105 : 0 (105), 75 : 24, 72 : 36, 97 : 0 (65 ), 79 : 15, 65 : 17, 88 : 20 |
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105 | Highest break | - |
1 | Century breaks | - |
4th | 50+ breaks | - |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Ron Florax: 1984 Australian Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b 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 23, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Ron Florax: 1984 Australian Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 23, 2020 .