English Professional Championship 1988
English Professional Championship 1988![]()
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Tournament type: | Non-ranking tournament |
Attendees: | 64 |
Venue: | Corn Exchange, Ipswich , England |
Opening: | 4th February 1988 |
Endgame: | February 10, 1988
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Defending champion: |
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Winner: |
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Finalist: |
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Highest Break: | 134 ( Barry West )
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The English Professional Championship 1988 was a professional snooker tournament without influence on the world rankings in the context of the season 1987/88 for the purpose of determining the English professional champion. The tournament was held without sponsor from February 4 to 10, 1988 in the Corn Exchange in the English city of Ipswich . In the final, Dean Reynolds succeeded with a 9: 5 victory over Neal Foulds for the only time the tournament victory in a professional tournament. The highest break of the tournament was played with a 134 break by Barry West .
Prize money
After the tournament had been sponsored by the Ipswich brewery Tolly Cobbold for the last three years , the tournament had no sponsors this year, but was still subsidized by the WPBSA . Nonetheless, compared to last year, the total prize money fell by over 25% to 63,004 pounds sterling , of which a good quarter (15,000 pounds) went to the winner.
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winner | £ 15,000 |
finalist | £ 9,000 |
Semi-finalist | £ 4,750 |
Quarter finalist | £ 2,375 |
Round of 16 | £ 1,187 |
Last 32 | 563 pounds |
Last 48 | £ 0 |
Highest break (qualification / main round) |
£ 250 £ 1,250 |
All in all | £ 63,004 |
Tournament course
The tournament began on December 12 of the previous year with the qualification, which was completed on December 16. The tournament only continued with the main round at the beginning of February. A total of 64 players took part in the tournament, of which 32 players competed in a first round of the last 64 against one of these players each. The winners of the games met one of 16 other players in the round of the last 48. The winners of these games finally played in the round of the last 32 against one of the remaining players, so that the tournament winner was determined in the following in the knockout system . As in the previous year, the game was played in the best of 11 frames mode up to and including the quarter-finals , while the semi-finals and the final were played in the best of 17 frames mode.
Round of the last 64
game | Player 1 | Result | Player 2 |
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1 |
Nigel Gilbert ![]() |
6 : 3 |
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2 |
Jim Chambers ![]() |
6 : 0 |
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3 |
Eric Lawlor ![]() |
6 : 5 |
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4th |
Dave Gilbert ![]() |
6 : 1 |
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5 |
Jason Smith ![]() |
6 : 3 |
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6th |
Martin Smith ![]() |
6 : 1 |
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7th |
Steve Meakin ![]() |
6 : 3 |
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8th |
Mick Fisher ![]() |
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9 |
Robert Marshall ![]() |
6 : 3 |
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10 |
Derek Heaton ![]() |
6 : 0 |
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11 |
Gary Wilkinson ![]() |
6 : 1 |
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12 |
Paul Medati ![]() |
6 : 0 |
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13 |
Ian Williamson ![]() |
6 : 5 |
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14th |
Dennis Hughes ![]() |
6 : 1 |
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15th |
Martin Clark ![]() |
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16 |
David Greaves ![]() |
6 : 5 |
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Round of 48 to final
final
For Dean Reynolds it was the first professional final, even if he had previously reached the semi-finals of the Classic 1987 , among other things . In this tournament he had easily defeated Dave Gilbert and John Parrott before he defeated the winner of the two previous editions, Tony Meo , 6-4 in the quarterfinals . In the semifinals he finally won 9: 8 against ex-world champion Joe Johnson , so that he had reached the final. In this he met Neal Foulds , who had moved into the semi-finals with wins over Gary Wilkinson , Danny Fowler and Willie Thorne and had defeated Barry West 9: 6 there.
Foulds got off to a better start, taking a 2-0 lead, but Reynolds turned the game in his favor and took a 4-2 lead himself. As a result, Foulds equalized, but Reynolds restored the old gap and now led 6: 4. The following frame results are not recorded. It is known, however, that one of the following four frames went to Foulds and three to Reynolds, so that he won the game with 9: 5 and thus his only professional title.
Final: Best of 17 Frames Corn Exchange , Ipswich , England , February 10, 1988 |
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9 : 5 |
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41: 87 , 33: 63 , 61 : 58, 73 : 14 (54), 102 : 8 (59), 71 : 16, 32: 78 , 7: 71 , 67 : 0; 81 : 34, results of the following four frames missing |
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59 | Highest break | - |
- | Century breaks | - |
2 | 50+ breaks | - |
Century Breaks
During the tournament, eight players each played a century break :
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1988 English Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Chris Turner: English Professional Championship - Non Ranking Event. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; accessed on April 6, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b Ron Florax: 1988 English Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed April 6, 2020 .