Australian Professional Championship 1985
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
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Defending champion: | Eddie Charlton |
Winner: | John Campbell |
Finalist: | Eddie Charlton |
Highest Break: | 130 ( Warren King ) |
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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 | |
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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 |
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Gordon Robinson | 6th | Robby Foldvari | 7th | John Campbell | 8th | |||||||||||||
Jim Charlton | 0 | Gordon Robinson | 3 | Robby Foldvari | 5 | |||||||||||||
John Campbell | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
Warren King | 6th | |||||||||||||||||
Ian Anderson | kl. | Warren King | 8th | |||||||||||||||
George Ganim | - | Ian Anderson | 2 | |||||||||||||||
John Campbell | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
Eddie Charlton | 7th | |||||||||||||||||
Glen Wilkinson | 6th | Leon Heywood | 3 | Eddie Charlton | 8th | |||||||||||||
Greg Jenkins | 2 | Glen Wilkinson | 7th | Glen Wilkinson | 2 | |||||||||||||
Eddie Charlton | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
Paddy Morgan | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Lou Condo | 6th | James Giannaros | 7th | Paddy Morgan | 8th | |||||||||||||
Edward Charlton | 2 | Lou Condo | 2 | 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 |
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John Campbell | 10 : 7 | Eddie Charlton |
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119 | Highest break | - |
1 | Century breaks | - |
- | 50+ breaks | - |
Century Breaks
During the tournament, two players played a total of four Century Breaks :
- Warren King : 130
- John Campbell : 121, 119, 100
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1985 Australian Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ a b Ron Florax: 1985 Australian Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 23, 2020 .