Australian Professional Championship 1984

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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

Defending champion: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Winner: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Finalist: AustraliaAustralia Warren King
Highest Break: 105 ( Eddie Charlton ) AustraliaAustralia
← 1978
 
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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
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
                             
AustraliaAustralia Robby Foldvari 6th     AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 6th  
AustraliaAustralia Jim Charlton 1     AustraliaAustralia Robby Foldvari 4th  
  AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 9  
  AustraliaAustralia Paddy Morgan 2  
AustraliaAustralia George Ganim 6th     AustraliaAustralia Paddy Morgan 6th
AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson 5     AustraliaAustralia George Ganim 4th  
  AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 10
  AustraliaAustralia Warren King 3
AustraliaAustralia James Giannaros 6th     AustraliaAustralia Warren King 6th  
AustraliaAustralia Lou Condo 2     AustraliaAustralia James Giannaros 5  
  AustraliaAustralia Warren King 9
  AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 6th  
        AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 6th
        AustraliaAustralia 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
AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 10 : 3 AustraliaAustralia 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
105 Highest break -
1 Century breaks -
4th 50+ breaks -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ron Florax: 1984 Australian Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 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).
  3. ↑ Ron Florax: 1984 Australian Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 23, 2020 .