Hong Kong Masters 1986

Hong Kong Masters 1986 Camus Hong Kong Masters 1986
Tournament type:	Invitation tournament
Attendees:	10
Venue:	Queen Elizabeth Stadium , Hong Kong
Opening:	3rd September 1986
Endgame:	September 7, 1986
Defending champion:	Terry Griffiths
Winner:	Willie Thorne
Finalist:	Dennis Taylor
Highest Break:	107 ( Willie Thorne )
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The 1986 Camus Hong Kong Masters was a professional snooker invitation tournament for the 1986/87 season . The tournament was held from September 3 to 7, 1986 in the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in what was then the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong . The winner was the Englishman Willie Thorne , who won the final with an 8: 3 win over the Northern Irishman Dennis Taylor . Thorne also played the highest break and the only century break of the tournament with a 107 break .

Prize money

For the fourth time in a row, the tournament was sponsored by the Camus distillery . In addition, there was prize money for the first time, which amounted to 86,800 pounds sterling , of which about 40 percent went to the winner.

	Prize money
winner	£ 34,800
finalist	£ 17,400
Semi-finalist	£ 8,700
Quarter finalist	£ 3,000
First round	-
Highest break	£ 5,200
All in all	£ 86,800

Tournament course

After the two previous editions of the tournament were played with eight participants each, the number of those with this edition increased to ten, with two local amateurs again being allowed to play and each meeting a professional player in the first round. The winners of the games met one of the remaining participants in the quarter-finals, so that in the further course of the tournament the winner was played in the knockout system . Up to and including the quarter-finals, the game was played in the best of 5 frames mode , followed by the semi-finals in the best of 9 frames mode and the final in the best of 13 frames mode .

	First round best of 5 frames				Quarterfinals Best of 5 Frames				Semi-final Best of 9 frames				Final Best of 13 frames
					Willie Thorne	3
					Cliff Thorburn	0
									Willie Thorne	5
									Steve Davis	2
	Tony Meo	3			Steve Davis	3
	Stanley Leung	0			Tony Meo	0
													Willie Thorne	8th
													Dennis Taylor	3
					Dennis Taylor	3
					Jimmy White	1
									Dennis Taylor	5
									Terry Griffiths	4th
	Neal Foulds	3			Terry Griffiths	3
	Franky Chan	0			Neal Foulds	2

final

The Englishman Willie Thorne was in one of the best phases of his career at the time of the tournament and after a white wash over the Canadian ex-world champion Cliff Thorburn with a 5-2 win over the world leader, the three-time world champion Steve Davis , made it to the finals. In this he met the Northern Irishman Dennis Taylor , who had become world champion in 1985 against Steve Davis and had only defeated Jimmy White 3-1 during the tournament and defending champion Terry Griffiths from Wales 5-4 in the semifinals .

But the final itself became a clear affair: Even if it was 2: 2 after a contested start of the game after four frames, Thorne was subsequently able to replace himself with a series of won frames, so that Taylor also won Thorne 8: 3 after another frame -Could no longer prevent victory.

Final: Best of 15 Frames Queen Elizabeth Stadium ,  Hong Kong , British Crown Colony Hong Kong , September 7, 1986
Willie Thorne	8 : 3	Dennis Taylor
71 : 17, 52: 64 , 81 : 24, 0: 70 , 65 : 20, 106 : 13, 75 : 33, 58 : 30, 69 : 56, 129 : 1, 84 : 33 1
-	Highest break	-
-	Century breaks	-
-	50+ breaks	-

¹According to the frame results used here based on the tournament entry on CueTracker, the game would have ended 9: 2. However, since a final score of 8: 3 is consistently reported, it can be assumed that in the results of CueTracker a frame actually won by Taylor is incorrectly rated for Thorne.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ron Florax: 1986 Hong Kong Masters. CueTracker.net, accessed November 2, 2019 .  
2. ^ ^{A b} 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 2, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Ron Florax: 1986 Hong Kong Masters - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed November 2, 2019 .