Malta Grand Prix 1994

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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

Winner: EnglandEngland John Parrott
Finalist: MaltaMalta Tony Drago
Highest Break: 122 ( John Parrott ) EnglandEngland
 
1995

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
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)
                                   
  1  MaltaMalta Tony Drago  5    
7th  EnglandEngland Joe Johnson  5
7th  EnglandEngland Joe Johnson  3    
9  MaltaMalta Joe Grech  3   1  MaltaMalta Tony Drago  6th
  4th  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail  1    
4th  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail  5
10  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Gerard Greene  4th
12  EnglandEngland Allison Fisher  1  
12  EnglandEngland Allison Fisher  5   1  MaltaMalta Tony Drago  6th
  2  EnglandEngland John Parrott  7th
3  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon  5
6th  EnglandEngland Tony Knowles  5
6th  EnglandEngland Tony Knowles  2    
11  MaltaMalta Alex Borg  3   3  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon  5
  2  EnglandEngland John Parrott  6th  
2  EnglandEngland John Parrott  5
5  EnglandEngland Willie Thorne  5
5  EnglandEngland Willie Thorne  2  
8th  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 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
MaltaMalta Tony Drago 6: 7 EnglandEngland 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.

EnglandEngland John Parrott 122
EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 108, 105, 100
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail 106

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