Australian Professional Championship 1985

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Australian Professional Championship 1985
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Tournament type: Non-ranking tournament
Attendees: 15th
Venue: Orange RSL, Sydney , Australia
Opening: September 1985
Endgame: September 1985

Defending champion: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Winner: AustraliaAustralia John Campbell
Finalist: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Highest Break: 130 ( Warren King ) AustraliaAustralia
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The Australian Professional Championship 1986 was a snooker tournament in the 1985/86 season without influence on the world rankings and in function of the national professional championship of Australia. The tournament was held in September 1985 at the Orange RSL in the Australian city ​​of Sydney . The first winner was John Campbell , who defeated defending champion and record winner Eddie Charlton 10: 7 in the final. The highest break of the tournament was played with a 130 break Warren King .

Prize money

After the tournament had a sponsor for the first time in its history last year, it was again without a sponsor this year. Nevertheless, the prize money almost doubled to a total of 16,425 pounds sterling , of which a good quarter went to the winner.

Prize money
winner £ 4,250
finalist £ 2,600
Semi-finalist £ 1,650
Quarter finalist £ 875
Second round £ 625
First round 300 pounds
All in all £ 16,425

Tournament course

Compared to the previous year, the number of participants increased by four players to a total of 15 participants, made up of twelve professional and three amateur players. Six of the players played in a first round against a different one of these six for a place in the second round, in which they again played together with five other players in a total of four games for a place in the quarterfinals. The winners of the four games now met one of the four remaining players in the quarter-finals, so that from there onwards the title was played in the knockout system . The game mode gradually increased from the first round from the best of 11 frames to the best of 19 frames in the final.

First round
best of 11 frames 		Second round
best of 13 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 15 frames 		Semi-final
best of 17 frames 		Final
Best of 19 frames
                                     
AustraliaAustralia Gordon Robinson 6th   AustraliaAustralia Robby Foldvari 7th     AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 8th  
AustraliaAustralia Jim Charlton 0   AustraliaAustralia Gordon Robinson 3     AustraliaAustralia Robby Foldvari 5  
  AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 9  
  AustraliaAustralia Warren King 6th  
      AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson kl.     AustraliaAustralia Warren King 8th
      AustraliaAustralia George Ganim -     AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson 2  
  AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 10
  AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 7th
AustraliaAustralia Glen Wilkinson 6th   AustraliaAustralia Leon Heywood 3     AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 8th  
AustraliaAustralia Greg Jenkins 2   AustraliaAustralia Glen Wilkinson 7th     AustraliaAustralia Glen Wilkinson 2  
  AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 9
  AustraliaAustralia Paddy Morgan 3  
AustraliaAustralia Lou Condo 6th   AustraliaAustralia James Giannaros 7th     AustraliaAustralia Paddy Morgan 8th
AustraliaAustralia Edward Charlton 2   AustraliaAustralia Lou Condo 2     AustraliaAustralia James Giannaros 4th  

final

Former Australian amateur champion John Campbell made it to the finals for the first time ever. On his way there he had relatively narrowly defeated Robby Foldvari and last year's finalist Warren King before he met Eddie Charlton in the final . With fourteen titles - including that of the previous year - Charlton was the record winner of the tournament and probably also an Australian local hero. In contrast to Campbell, he had made it into the final with clear victories over Glen Wilkinson and Paddy Morgan .

No exact frame results are available from the finale. However, Campbell also won the game 10: 7 with the help of a 119 break and thus the tournament for the first time, which is the first time since the victory of Warren Simpson in 1968 Eddie Charlton did not emerge as the winner of an Australian Professional Championship.

Final: Best of 19 Frames
Orange RSL,  Sydney , Australia , September 1985
AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 10 : 7 AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
unknown
119 Highest break -
1 Century breaks -
- 50+ breaks -

Century Breaks

During the tournament, two players played a total of four Century Breaks :

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1985 Australian Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 23, 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 23, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Ron Florax: 1985 Australian Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 23, 2020 .