Hong Kong Masters 1983
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Hong Kong Masters 1983 Camus Hong Kong Masters 1983 
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| Tournament type: | Invitation tournament |
| Attendees: | 6th |
| Venue: | Queen Elizabeth Stadium , Hong Kong |
| Opening: | 5th August 1983 |
| Endgame: | August 7, 1983
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| Winner: |
 Doug Mountjoy
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| Finalist: |
Terry Griffiths
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| Highest Break: | 140 ( Terry Griffiths )
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The 1983 Camus Hong Kong Masters was a professional snooker invitation tournament for the 1983/84 season . The first edition of the tournament was held from August 5th to 7th, 1983 at Queen Elizabeth Stadium in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong . The winner in an all-Welsh final was Doug Mountjoy , who declared himself the winner of the tournament with a 4-3 win over former world champion Terry Griffiths . In contrast, Griffiths played the highest break and at the same time the only century break of the tournament with a 140 break in the penultimate frame of the final .
Prize money
The tournament was sponsored by the French cognac distillery Camus , which also appeared in this function during the following three editions. However, there was no official prize money. However, since the tournament was part of a series of Barry Hearns Matchroom Sport and Camus-sponsored series of Asian tournaments, the players received, for example, several bottles of cognac in addition to the free first-class flights.
Tournament course
A total of six players took part in the tournament, two of which were professional players from England and Wales. Two of these professional players each met a Hong Kong amateur player in the first round in the best of 3 frames mode , followed by the semi-finals over a maximum of five frames and the final in the best of 7 frames mode in the knockout system .
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First round best of 3 frames |
Semi-final best of 5 frames |
Final best of 6 frames |
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| Doug Mountjoy
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.svg){kind=small} Cheun Chi-Ming
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| Doug Mountjoy
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 Steve Davis
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| Doug Mountjoy
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| Terry Griffiths
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| Terry Griffiths
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| Tony Meo
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| Tony Meo
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| Stanley Leung
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final
With Doug Mountjoy and Terry Griffiths , two Welsh met in the final. Mountjoy, at that time a two-time winner of Triple Crown tournaments, had reached the semi-finals with a victory over the local amateur Cheun Chi-Ming and reached the final there with a 3-0 white wash over Steve Davis . Griffiths, on the other hand, had been successful in all three triple-crown tournaments in recent years, with the ex-1979 world champion only starting the tournament in the semifinals and reaching the final there with a 3-2 win over Tony Meo .
Griffiths dominated the beginning of the game and took a 2-0 lead before Mountjoy shortened with a 94-1 in the next frame and as a result first equalized and finally took the lead 3-2. Even if Griffiths equalized with a 140 break in the next frame, the decider went 58:40 to Mountjoy, who won both the game and the tournament.
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Final: Best of 7 Frames Queen Elizabeth Stadium , Hong Kong , British Crown Colony Hong Kong , August 7, 1983 |
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Doug Mountjoy
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4 : 3 |
Terry Griffiths
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| 46: 59 , 15: 83 , 94 : 1, 68 : 64, 82 : 48, 0: 140 (140), 58 : 40 | ||
| - | Highest break | 140 |
| - | Century breaks | 1 |
| - | 50+ breaks | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1983 Hong Kong Masters. CueTracker.net, accessed November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Chris Turner: Other Non-Ranking and Invition Events - First held 1980-1989. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on February 16, 2012 ; accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Ron Florax: 1983 Hong Kong Masters - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Steve Davis : Interesting . Dragonstars Eventmanagement, Fürth 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053061-6 , p. 220 (English: Interesting . Ebury Press, London 2015.).