Irish Open (Snooker)
Irish Open 1998
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Venue: | National Basketball Arena, Tallaght , Ireland |
| Opening: | December 14, 1998 |
| Endgame: | December 20, 1998
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| Winner: |
 Mark Williams
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| Finalist: |
 Alan McManus
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| Highest Break: | 141 ( Marco Fu )
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The Irish Open 1998 was a snooker tournament , which until 20 December 1998 in the 14th National Basketball Arena in Tallaght , a suburb of the Irish capital Dublin , was discharged and as a world ranking tournament part of the Main Tour - 1998-99 season was.
The Welshman Mark Williams won the tournament with a 9-4 victory in the final against the Scottish Alan McManus .
After this event, the tournament was removed from the Main Tour calendar and the Malta Grand Prix was given the status of the world ranking tournament. In April 2015, WPBSA Chairman Barry Hearn announced that the tournament will now take place in Belfast as the Northern Ireland Open as part of the newly founded Home Nations Series from the 2016/17 season . and together with the English Open , the Scottish Open and the Welsh Open will form the newly introduced Home Nations Series. The tournament moved from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom .
Prize money and ranking points
| Prize money | Points | |
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| winner | £ 50,000 | 4,560 |
| finalist | £ 26,000 | 3,040 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 13,000 | 2,025 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 7,555 | 1,520 |
| Round of 16 | £ 3,750 | 1,330 |
| Last 32 | £ 3,100 | 1,140 |
| Last 48 | £ 1,800 | 855 |
| Last 64 | £ 1,250 | 640 |
| Last 96 | £ 890 | 480 |
| Overseas play-off | £ 890 | 480 |
| Last 134 | 205 pounds | 360 |
| Highest break | £ 3,000 | |
| Highest Break (TV) | £ 1,000 | |
| total | £ 305,000 |
qualification
The qualifying round took place from July 29th to September 3rd. From the 197 participants, the 32 players who took part in the main round held from December 14th to 20th, 1998 were determined in the knockout system .
Main round
final
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Final: Best of 17 Frames Referee: Len Ganley National Basketball Arena, Tallaght , Ireland , December 20, 1998 |
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Mark Williams
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9 : 4 |
Alan McManus
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62 : 26, 64 : 8, 64 : 20 (64), 44 : 36, 78 : 4 (64), 135 : 0 (101), 47: 60 , 49: 53 , 7: 91 (71), 68 : 1 (53), 75 : 16 (62), 0: 82 (82), 107 : 0 (65) |
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| 101 | Highest break | 82 |
| 1 | Century breaks | - |
| 6th | 50+ breaks | 2 |
Century breaks
A total of 25 century breaks were played, 10 of them in the qualification and 15 in the main tournament. Marco Fu played the highest break of the tournament with 141 points.
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- ↑ Irish Open vs. Northern Ireland Open. Worldsnooker.com, accessed October 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Shamoon Hafez: World Championship: Snooker tour to be revamped in 2016. In: bbc.com. BBC , April 29, 2015, accessed March 5, 2016 .
- ^ Hearn Announces New Five-Year Plan. (No longer available online.) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , April 29, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Rolf Kalb : Snooker - End of an Era: The European Tour is history (and still lives on). (No longer available online.) In: eurosport.de. Eurosport , February 29, 2016, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 2, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Irish Open 1998. Snooker.org, accessed March 5, 2016 .
- ↑ 1998 Irish Open - Finishes. Cuetracker.net, accessed March 5, 2016 .
- ↑ a b 1998 Irish Open. Cuetracker.net, accessed March 5, 2016 .
- ↑ 1998 Irish Open Centuries. Cuetracker.net, accessed March 5, 2016 .
