Hong Kong Masters 1985

Hong Kong Masters 1985 Camus Hong Kong Masters 1985
Tournament type:	Invitation tournament
Attendees:	8th
Venue:	Queen Elizabeth Stadium , Hong Kong
Opening:	5th September 1985
Endgame:	September 8, 1985
Defending champion:	Steve Davis
Winner:	Terry Griffiths
Finalist:	Steve Davis
Highest Break:	92 ( Terry Griffiths )
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The 1985 Camus Hong Kong Masters was an inviting professional snooker tournament for the 1985/86 season . The tournament was held from September 5 to 8, 1985 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the then British Crown Colony of Hong Kong . The winner of the tournament was Terry Griffiths from Welsh , who won the final with a 4-2 victory over the former three-time and then vice-world champion and last year's winner Steve Davis . Griffiths also played the highest known break of the tournament with a break of 92 .

Prize money

For the third time, the tournament was sponsored by the French cognac distillery Camus . In addition, there was once again no official prize money. However, since the tournament was part of a series of Barry Hearn 's Matchroom Sport and Camus-sponsored series of Asian tournaments, the players received free first-class flights as well as several bottles of cognac.

Tournament course

Again a total of eight players took part in the tournament, six of whom were professional players and the remaining two were local amateur players. All eight players played in the knockout system from the quarter-finals onwards , up to and including the semi-finals in the best of 5 frames mode , followed by the final over a maximum of seven frames.

	Quarterfinals Best of 5 Frames					Semi-final best of 5 frames					Final best of 7 frames
	Terry Griffiths		3
	Stanley Leung		1
						Terry Griffiths		3
						Tony Meo		2
	Tony Meo		3
	Dennis Taylor		2
											Terry Griffiths		4th
											Steve Davis		2
	Steve Davis		3
	Tony Knowles		1
						Steve Davis		3
						Willie Thorne		0
	Willie Thorne		3
	Gary Kwok		0

final

The Welshman Terry Griffiths , world champion of 1979, was a number in the invitation tournament runners-up look back and had the Hong Kong Masters with victories over the local amateur Stanley Leung and the Englishman Tony Meo , who previously held the reigning world champion Dennis Taylor defeated, reached the final . In this he met Steve Davis on a three-time world champion, who a few months earlier had only just been defeated by Dennis Taylor in the final of the snooker world championship. Davis had beaten two Englishmen with Tony Knowles and Willie Thorne on his way to the finals and had lost two frames less than his Welsh competitor.

After Steve Davis had taken a 0-1 lead at the beginning of the final with a 76 break, Terry Griffiths was able to turn the game around and take a 2-1 lead himself. But with the next frame Davis managed to equalize in the meantime, with Griffiths taking the lead again with the next frame and with a 92 break in the sixth frame of the game secured the game and tournament victory.

Final: Best of 7 Frames Queen Elizabeth Stadium ,  Hong Kong , British Crown Colony Hong Kong , September 8, 1985
Terry Griffiths	4 : 2	Steve Davis
22: 91 (76), 61 : 36, 74 : 18, 48: 91 ; Result unknown , 92 : 0 (92)
92	Highest break	76
-	Century breaks	-
1	50+ breaks	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ron Florax: 1985 Hong Kong Masters. CueTracker.net, accessed November 4, 2019 .  
2. ↑ 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 4, 2019 .  
3. ^ Ron Florax: 1985 Hong Kong Masters - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed November 4, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Steve Davis : Interesting . Dragonstars Eventmanagement, Fürth 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053061-6 , p.  220 (English: Interesting . Ebury Press, London 2015.).