Malta Grand Prix 1994
Malta Grand Prix 1994 Rothmans Grand Prix 1994
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Tournament type: | Invitation tournament |
Attendees: | 12 |
Venue: | Jerma Palace Hotel, Valletta , Malta |
Opening: | November 28, 1994 |
Endgame: | 4th December 1994
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Winner: | John Parrott |
Finalist: | Tony Drago |
Highest Break: | 122 ( John Parrott ) |
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The Malta Grand Prix 1994 , also Rothmans Grand Prix 1994 , was a snooker tournament as part of the Snooker Main Tour of the 1994/95 season . The invitation tournament was held from November 28th to December 4th at the Jerma Palace Hotel in the capital Valletta . Malta is a traditional snooker country, since the ranking list opened there have been several successful players from the Mediterranean country and with Tony Drago even a player who could keep up with the best. For this reason, a professional tournament was organized in Malta for the first time together with the Rothmans cigarette brand .
Drago, number 16 in the world rankings , made it to the finals in the first edition, but was narrowly defeated by John Parrott 6: 7. The Englishman celebrated the 13th tournament victory in his professional career.
Prize money
With £ 16,500 in prize money and £ 4,000 for the winner, only a fraction of what the big invitational tournaments paid off could be offered. Nevertheless, an attractive field of participants could be won.
placement | Prize money |
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winner | £ 4,000 |
final | £ 2,500 |
Semifinals | £ 1,750 |
Quarter finals | £ 1,000 |
Round 1 | £ 500 |
Highest break | £ 500 |
All in all | £ 16,500 |
Final round
In addition to world number five , John Parrott , four other players from the top 16 of the world rankings came to Malta, including the best local player Tony Drago . The field of participants was supplemented by two other Maltese professionals and the best woman at the snooker table Allison Fisher . Drago and the three best professionals were seeded for the quarter-finals, the other players competed against each other in round 1 and played for the other quarter-finals. The first two rounds were played in the best of 9 mode, as is customary in comparable tournaments ; The final had a shorter distance of 7 winning frames (best of 13).
Round 1 (Best of 9) |
Quarter Finals (Best of 9) |
Semi-finals (Best of 11) |
Final (Best of 13) |
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1 | Tony Drago | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
7th | Joe Johnson | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
7th | Joe Johnson | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
9 | Joe Grech | 3 | 1 | Tony Drago | 6th | |||||||||||||
4th | Joe Swail | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
4th | Joe Swail | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
10 | Gerard Greene | 4th | ||||||||||||||||
12 | Allison Fisher | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
12 | Allison Fisher | 5 | 1 | Tony Drago | 6th | |||||||||||||
2 | John Parrott | 7th | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Peter Ebdon | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
6th | Tony Knowles | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
6th | Tony Knowles | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
11 | Alex Borg | 3 | 3 | Peter Ebdon | 5 | |||||||||||||
2 | John Parrott | 6th | ||||||||||||||||
2 | John Parrott | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Willie Thorne | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Willie Thorne | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
8th | Paul Davies | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
final
It was the ideal final constellation: local favorite Tony Drago against the best professional in the tournament, John Parrott . Drago made it into the top 16 in the world for the first time this season, and was in a professional final for the fifth time. Parrott had slipped from 2 to 5 in the ranking and had already won a dozen tournaments. For both of them it was the first final of the season. In the direct balance the Englishman was 4: 3 ahead, but Drago had always won in the last three elimination tournaments.
Parrott got the first frame with a high break, but Drago immediately countered with a nearly Century of 97 points. He picked up speed and pulled away to 3: 1 and 5: 1. Only in the 7th frame could the English prevail again and turn the game around. He came up to 4: 5, then Drago got another frame. The 6-4 meant that he was only one frame away from victory. But Parrott showed nerves. With a 67 and a 68 break he got the next two frames and barely left the Maltese a point. It was 6: 6 and the 13th frame had to decide the match. He was more competitive, but for the third frame in a row Parrott got the upper hand and won the final 7-6.
Final: Best of 13 Frames Jerma Palace Hotel, Valletta , Malta , 4th December 1994 |
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Tony Drago | 6: 7 | John Parrott |
0: 107 (75), 97 : 0 (97), 91 : 12 (60), 70 : 56, 70 : 41, 65 : 53, 47: 63 (52), 47: 57 , 2: 114 (70) , 73 : 13, 0: 75 (67), 4: 104 (68), 38: 61 | ||
97 | Highest break | 75 |
- | Century breaks | - |
2 | 50+ breaks | 5 |
Century breaks
5 breaks of 100 or more points were scored in the 11 tournament games, Peter Ebdon scored 3 Centurys in his quarter-final match . John Parrott received an extra £ 500 for the highest tournament break of 112 points in the semi-finals.
John Parrott | 122 |
Peter Ebdon | 108, 105, 100 |
Joe Swail | 106 |
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- ↑ Malta Grand Prix - Malta cup. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, archived from the original on February 16, 2012 ; accessed on November 4, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c 1994 malta Grand Prix - Finishes. CueTracker, accessed November 4, 2019 .
- ↑ a b 1994 Malta Grand Prix. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed November 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Rankings - 1994-1995. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed November 4, 2019 .