Australian Professional Championship 1987

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Australian Professional Championship 1987
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Tournament type: Non-ranking tournament
Attendees: 13
Venue: Lakemba Services Memorial Club, Sydney , Australia
Opening: August 1987
Endgame: August 1987

Defending champion: AustraliaAustralia Warren King
Winner: AustraliaAustralia Warren King
Finalist: AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
Highest Break: 120 ( Warren King ) AustraliaAustralia
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The Australian Professional Championship 1987 was a professional snooker tournament without influence on the world rankings, which acted as the national professional championship of Australia. The tournament was held in August 1987 at the Lakemba Services Memorial Club in the Australian city ​​of Sydney . The winner was the defending champion Warren King with a 10: 7 final victory over local hero and record winner Eddie Charlton , in which King played the only century break and thus the highest break of the tournament with a 120 break .

Prize money

While the tournament was again without a sponsor, the prize money was reduced by about a quarter compared to the previous year to 9,107 pounds sterling , of which a little less than a quarter went to the winner.

Prize money
winner £ 2,222
finalist £ 1,333
Semi-finalist £ 889
Quarter finalist 555 pounds
Second round 333 pounds
First round -
Highest break 222 pounds
All in all £ 9,107

Tournament course

The number of participants in the tournament fell with this edition by two players to thirteen participants, ten of whom were professional and the remaining three were amateur players. Two of the amateur players competed against each other in a first round, so that the winner advanced to the second round, in which seven other players also started the tournament. The four winners of the second round games each met one of the last four players in the quarter-finals, so that the winner was ultimately played out in the knockout system . Up to and including the quarter-finals, the game was played in the best of 11 frames mode , followed by a best of 15 frames in the semi-finals and a best of 19 frames in the final .

First round
best of 11 frames 		Second round
best of 11 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 11 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 15 frames 		Final
Best of 19 frames
                                     
      AustraliaAustralia Greg Jenkins 6th     AustraliaAustralia Warren King 6th  
      AustraliaAustralia Lou Condo 1     AustraliaAustralia Greg Jenkins 4th  
  AustraliaAustralia Warren King 8th  
  AustraliaAustralia Robby Foldvari 1  
AustraliaAustralia Sam Frangie 6th   AustraliaAustralia Paddy Morgan 5     AustraliaAustralia Robby Foldvari 6th
AustraliaAustralia Vladimir Potazznyk 4th   AustraliaAustralia Sam Frangie 6th     AustraliaAustralia Sam Frangie 2  
  AustraliaAustralia Warren King 10
  AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 7th
      AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson 6th     AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 6th  
      AustraliaAustralia Leon Heywood 4th     AustraliaAustralia Ian Anderson 2  
  AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 8th
  AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 6th  
      AustraliaAustralia Glen Wilkinson 6th     AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 6th
      AustraliaAustralia Jim Charlton 0     AustraliaAustralia Glen Wilkinson 4th  

final

For the second time in a row, Warren King had reached the final of this tournament after defeating John Campbell in the final 10: 3 a year earlier . This year he started the tournament with a relatively narrow 6-4 quarter-final win over Greg Jenkins before reaching the final with a clear 8-1 win over Robby Foldvari . In the final, he faced local hero Eddie Charlton - who had previously won the tournament fourteen times - making the final a remake of the 1984 final, when Charlton defeated King 10-3. Charlton himself started the tournament with a 6-2 win over Ian Anderson this time , before moving into the final with an 8-6 win over John Campbell.

After a hard-fought start into the game - up to 3: 3, no player managed a lead of more than one frame - King replaced himself and also took the lead 6: 3 and later 8: 4 with the help of the aforementioned 120 break . Charlton was only able to shorten it to 8: 6 and shortly afterwards to 9: 7 before King won the game with a 64:25 win in the 17th frame with 10: 7 and with it the tournament.

Final: Best of 19 Frames
Lakemba Services Memorial Club,  Sydney , Australia , August 1987
AustraliaAustralia Warren King 10 : 7 AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton
70 : 62, 12: 63 , 36: 75 , 79 : 0, 58: 69 , 84 : 19 (54), 55 : 45, 129 : 0 (120), 81 : 35 (60),
42: 66 , 62 : 51, 72 : 10, 33: 48 , 6: 85 (66), 72 : 43, 1: 121 (97), 64 : 25
120 Highest break 97
1 Century breaks -
3 50+ breaks 2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1987 Australian Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Ron Florax: 1987 Australian Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed on January 22, 2020 .