Champions Cup 1999

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Champions Cup 1999
Liverpool Victoria Champions Cup
Billiard Picto 2-black.svg

Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Attendees: 10
Venue: Fairfield Halls, London , England
Opening: August 28, 1999
Endgame: September 5, 1999

Winner: ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
Finalist: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams
Highest Break: 139 ( Stephen Lee ) EnglandEngland
 
2000 →

The Liverpool Victoria Champions Cup in 1999 was a snooker tournament of the Main Tour - 1999/2000 season . After several tournaments from the previous year were discontinued, they looked for a new idea for a top event. For the first tournament of the new season from August 28 to September 5, 1999, the tournament winners from the previous season were invited. The venue was the Fairfield Halls in Croydon in the south of the English capital, London . The insurance company Liverpool Victoria, which had supported the Charity Challenge until the previous year, was able to be held as a sponsor .

The final was a new edition of the previous World Championship final at the end of the previous season. For the second time in a row, the 7-time world champion Stephen Hendry prevailed against the Welshman Mark Williams , this time he won 7-5.

Prize money

At £ 175,000 , the new tournament was on par with the Scottish Masters and Irish Masters , two similar invitational tournaments this season. What was unusual, however, was that the game was played according to the principle of “the winner takes it all”, that is, the entire sum went to the winner, the other 9 participants came away empty-handed. But it was the only time that this was done at the Champions Cup.

Group stage

Participants in the tournament included all tournament winners from the previous season : there had been 7 different winners. Ken Doherty , Steve Davis and Jimmy White completed the field to 10 players. They were divided into 2 groups, in which everyone played against everyone. The two best players then progressed to the semi-finals of the elimination round. All group games were played in Best of 7 mode .

Legend
Sp. Number of games played
SG Number of games won
FG Number of frames won
FV Number of frames lost
FD Frame difference
The two group best advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A

Table:

rank player Sp. SG FG FV FD
1 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 4th 3 13 7th +6
2 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 4th 3 12 12 ± 0
3 IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien 4th 2 12 12 ± 0
4th EnglandEngland Jimmy White 4th 1 11 12 −1
5 EnglandEngland John Parrott 4th 1 8th 13 −5

Group games:

game Player 1 Result Player 2
1 Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland 04 : 04th ScotlandScotland John Higgins
2 Jimmy White EnglandEngland 04 : 04th EnglandEngland John Parrott
3 Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland 14 : 14th IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien
4th John Higgins ScotlandScotland 24 : 24th EnglandEngland Jimmy White
5 John Parrott EnglandEngland 14 : 14th EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
6th John Higgins ScotlandScotland 34 : 34th IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien
7th John Higgins ScotlandScotland 34 : 34th EnglandEngland John Parrott
8th Fergal O'Brien IrelandIreland 34 : 34th EnglandEngland Jimmy White
9 Fergal O'Brien IrelandIreland 14 : 14th EnglandEngland John Parrott
10 Ronnie O'Sullivan EnglandEngland 24 : 24th EnglandEngland Jimmy White

Group B

Table:

rank player Sp. SG FG FV FD
1 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 4th 3 14th 9 +5
2 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 4th 2 12 9 +3
3 EnglandEngland Steve Davis 4th 2 11 13 −2
4th IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 4th 2 10 12 −2
5 EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 4th 1 9 13 −4

Group games:

game Player 1 Result Player 2
1 Mark Williams WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 04 : 04th EnglandEngland Stephen Lee
2 Stephen Hendry ScotlandScotland 14 : 14th EnglandEngland Steve Davis
3 Steve Davis EnglandEngland 24 : 24th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams
4th Ken Doherty IrelandIreland 24 : 24th ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
5 Ken Doherty IrelandIreland 24 : 24th EnglandEngland Steve Davis
6th Stephen Hendry ScotlandScotland 24 : 24th EnglandEngland Stephen Lee
7th Mark Williams WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 14 : 14th IrelandIreland Ken Doherty
8th Steve Davis EnglandEngland 34 : 34th EnglandEngland Stephen Lee
9 Stephen Lee EnglandEngland 14 : 14th IrelandIreland Ken Doherty
10 Stephen Hendry ScotlandScotland 24 : 24th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams

Finals

In both groups the favorites prevailed and so the 4 remaining players were also the top 4 in the world rankings . In the semifinals, a group winner played against a group runner-up. The winners of the two games then contested the final.

  Semi-final
Best of 9 frames 		Final
Best of 13 frames
                 
A1 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 4th    
B2 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 5  
B2 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 5
  B1 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 7th
B1 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 5
A2 ScotlandScotland John Higgins 2  

final

Until the last World Cup , Stephen Hendry seemed unable to win a final against Mark Williams . The Scot had lost three finals against him. Then he won his seventh and final world title against Williams in May of this year. He had also won the group match between the two with 4-2. In the world rankings , however, they were not far apart and were right next to each other in place 2 and 3. So the game was relatively even. Hendry was able to pull away by two frames twice and Williams equalized twice to 2: 2 and 4: 4. When the Scot increased again by two frames to 6: 4 and he was only one frame short of victory, Williams managed only one frame gain. With a century break , Hendry finished the match at 7: 5. For Williams it was only the third defeat in his tenth final. Hendry, on the other hand, was successful for the 63rd time in his career at a professional tournament.

Final: Best of 13 Frames
Fairfield Halls,  London , England , September 5, 1999
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams 5: 7 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
39: 61 , 69: 72 , 100 : 0 (100), 71 : 1, 18: 82 , 15: 82 (56), 86 : 17 (79), 116 : 0 (50, 62), 0: 136 ( 107), 0: 78 (63), 69 : 10, 20: 114 (105)
100 Highest break 107
1 Century breaks 2
4th 50+ breaks 4th

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  2. ↑ Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge / Champions Sup. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, archived from the original on January 7, 2012 ; accessed on October 13, 2019 (English).
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