Players Championship 2004
Players Championship 2004
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
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SECC , Glasgow , Scotland |
| Opening: | April 3, 2004 |
| Endgame: | April 11, 2004
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| Winner: |
 Jimmy White
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| Finalist: |
Paul Hunter
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| Highest Break: | 145 ( Ken Doherty )
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The 2004 Daily Open Players Championship was a snooker tournament of the 2003/04 season held from April 3-11 , 2004 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center (SECC) in Glasgow .
Because the cigarette manufacturer Regal ceased to be a sponsor after the tobacco advertising ban came into force in Great Britain in 2004 , both the Scottish Masters and the Scottish Open ended . They looked for a new sponsor in Scotland and won the Daily Record newspaper from Glasgow. Because the tournament also marked the end of the so-called LG Tour, it was named Players Championship . This special ranking, sponsored by LG Electronics , comprised the 7 ranking tournaments of the season without the world championship and the tournament in Glasgow was included in the ranking with double the number of points. The tournament remained a one-off event, however, because no TV broadcast could be secured the following year. However, in 2017 a new tournament of the same name was started in Wales.
The winner of the tournament was Jimmy White , who won his 10th title in a ranking tournament. He defeated Paul Hunter in the final 9-7.
Prize money / world ranking points
Despite the change of sponsor, the prize money of almost £ 600,000 was kept. The winning bonus of £ 82,500 also remained unchanged, with minor postponements in the other places. Nothing changed in terms of the value for the world rankings either.
| Prize money | World ranking points a |
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| winner | £ 82,500 | 4,000 |
| finalist | £ 42,500 | 3,000 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 21,500 | 2,500 |
| Quarter finalist | £ 11,800 | 2,050 |
| Round of 16 | £ 9,700 | 1,750 |
| Last 32 | £ 7,600 | 1,450 |
| Last 48 | £ 4,200 | 1,150 |
| Last 64 | £ 3,100 | 900 |
| Last 80 | £ 2,200 | 650 |
| Last 96 | £ 1,500 | 200 |
| Highest break: TV phase | £ 5,000 | - |
| Highest break: qualification | £ 1,800 | - |
| All in all | £ 597,200 |
Final round
The main round in Glasgow was played with 48 players, with the top 16 of the world rankings set for round 2.
Round 1
16 players had qualified in three rounds in Prestatyn . They competed against the players from 17th to 32nd place in the world rankings.
Top 32 to the finalThe top 16 of the world rankings were set for round 2 and played against the 16 winners from round 1. kl. = without a fight finalPaul Hunter had won 5 of his 6 professional finals in his young career, most recently the Masters in February. At almost 42 years of age, Jimmy White had already won more than 50 titles, but the last was 5 years ago. A month earlier he had lost the final of the European Open . Jimmy White got off to a better start, but Hunter equalized at the first break. The two shared the second four frames of the afternoon session and the evening went 4: 4. After Hunter took the lead there, White achieved 4 frame wins in a row, 3 of them with breaks over 50 points. The 8: 5 lead meant a preliminary decision, as Hunter would now have needed 4 frames in a row. He shortened to 8: 7, but then White got the decisive frame to 9: 7. He had also won his very first professional title at the Scottish Masters in Glasgow in 1981 . The Players Championship was his 28th and last Main Tour title. For Paul Hunter it was the last final, a year later he was diagnosed with cancer from which he died in 2006.
qualificationThe qualifiers took place from March 11th to 15th, 2004 at the Pontin's Center in Prestatyn ( Wales ). In round 1, places 65 to 128 in the world rankings played against each other. From round 2, 32 players competed against each other, with places 49 to 64 being set for round 3 and numbers 33 to 48 for round 4. Round 1
kl. = without a fight Century breaks22 players scored 35 breaks of at least 100 points in the main tournament. Ken Doherty won £ 5,000 for the highest break of the TV phase of 145 points . Finalist Paul Hunter was successful with 5 century breaks . There were 24 Centurys in the qualification, spread over 18 players. Main tournament
a scored in round 1 (round of the last 48 without the top 16 players, does not count towards the TV phase)
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