Irish Professional Championship 1985

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Irish Professional Championship 1985
Strongbow Irish Professional Championship 1985
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Tournament type: Non-ranking
Attendees: 13
Venue: Ulster Hall , Belfast , Northern Ireland
Opening: April 8, 1985
Endgame: April 11, 1985

Defending champion: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins
Winner: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor
Finalist: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins
Highest Break: 136 ( Alex Higgins ) Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland
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The Strongbow Irish Professional Championship 1985 was a professional snooker tournament without influence on the world rankings to determine the Irish or Northern Irish professional champions. The tournament was played as part of the 1984/85 season from April 8 to 11, 1985 in Ulster Hall in Dublin , Northern Ireland , where it returned after two events in Coleraine. The winner was Dennis Taylor , who won his fourth win at this tournament with a 10: 5 win over defending champion Alex Higgins . In return, Higgins played the tournament's highest break with a 136 break.

After there had been no event the year before due to the loss of the sponsor, there was again a sponsor with Strongbow Cider and thus a new event.

Prize money

Compared to the last event in 1983, the prize money increased by about a third of the then prize money to 19,600 pounds sterling , of which about a third went to the winner.

Prize money
winner £ 7,500
finalist £ 4,500
Semi-finalist £ 2,000
Quarter finalist 750 pounds
Second round 150 pounds
All in all £ 19,600

Tournament course

After a field of eight players in 1983, 13 Irish and Northern Irish players took part in the tournament. Two of them competed against each other in the first round, with Northern Irish Jack McLaughlin winning a 6-3 win over Dessie Sheehan . McLaughlin joined seven other players in the second round, and these four winners met the rest of the field in the quarter-finals. With the exception of the final, which was played in the best of 19 frames mode, all games were played in the best of 11 frames mode .

First round
best of 11 frames 		Second round
best of 11 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 11 frames 		Semi-final
best of 11 frames 		Final
Best of 19 frames
                                     
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jack McLaughlin 6th   Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jackie Rea 6th     Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 6th  
IrelandIreland Dessie Sheehan 3   Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jack McLaughlin 5     Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jackie Rea 0  
  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 6th  
  IrelandIreland Eugene Hughes 5  
      IrelandIreland Billy Kelly 6th     IrelandIreland Eugene Hughes 6th
      IrelandIreland Paul Watchorn 2     IrelandIreland Billy Kelly 2  
  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 10
  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 5
      IrelandIreland Pascal Burke 6th     Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 6th  
      IrelandIreland Tony Kearney 4th     IrelandIreland Pascal Burke 0  
  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 6th
  IrelandIreland Patsy Fagan 3  
      Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Tommy Murphy 6th     IrelandIreland Patsy Fagan 6th
      IrelandIreland Paddy Browne 3     Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Tommy Murphy 2  

final

This final pairing had already existed in 1982 and 1983 as well as in earlier editions, in 1982 Taylor had won his third title in a row, in 1983 Higgins had clinched his fifth tournament victory. Both players had survived the quarter-finals through white-washs , but in the semifinals Taylor had only won the victory over Eugene Hughes in the decider , while Higgins had defeated Patsy Fagan 6-3.

At the start of the match, Taylor went 2-0 and a 106 break 4-1 before Higgins reduced the lead to 4-3. By further higher breaks Taylor prevented the equalizer and took the lead 8: 3 before Higgins won another frame. With a 96 break, the following frame went back to Taylor before Higgins restored the old distance. But with an 83 break, Taylor won the 15th frame of the game with 101: 8 and thus won both the match and the tournament.

For Taylor it was the fourth victory in the tournament. While his renewed opponent Higgins had already won two world championships (1972 and 1982), Taylor won the 1985 World Snooker Championship, which took place a few weeks after this final .

Final: Best of 19 Frames
Ulster Hall ,  Belfast , Northern Ireland , April 11, 1985
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 10 : 5 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins
66 : 34, 97 : 18 (78), 50: 65 , 80 : 30 (51), 106 : 1 (106) 54: 73 , 42: 73 , 98 : 14 (67),
111 : 14 (79), 102 : 11, 61 : 49, 35: 80 (60), 96 : 10 (96), 7: 76 , 101 : 8 (83)
106 Highest break 60
1 Century breaks -
7th 50+ breaks 1

Century Breaks

During the tournament, three players each played a century break .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ron Florax: 1985 Irish Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed April 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Chris Turner: Irish Professional Championship - Non Ranking Event open to professionals from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland only. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on April 8, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Ron Florax: 1985 Irish Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed April 10, 2019 .