Pontins Professional 1983

Pontins Professional 1983
Tournament type:	Invitation tournament
Attendees:	6th
Venue:	Pontins Prestatyn Sands Holiday Park , Prestatyn
Opening:	May 7, 1983
Endgame:	May 14, 1983
Defending champion:	Steve Davis
Winner:	Doug Mountjoy
Finalist:	Ray Reardon
Highest Break:	98 ( Ray Reardon Willie Thorne )
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The 1983 Pontins Professional was a professional snooker invitation tournament for the 1982/83 season . The tournament was from 7 to 14 May 1983 Pontins Prestatyn Sands Holiday Park , a Pontins - amusement park in North Wales seaside resort of Prestatyn discharged. The winner in an all-Welsh final was Doug Mountjoy thanks to a 9: 7 win over Ray Reardon . Reardon played together with Willie Thorne one of the two highest breaks of the tournament with a 98 break each.

Prize money

As in previous editions, the sponsor of the tournament was the theme park operator Pontins . In total, prize money of £ 9,000, £ 1,500 less than in the previous year, was paid out; More than two thirds of the prize money went to the winner.

	Prize money
winner	£ 3,500
finalist	£ 2,000
Semi-finalist	£ 1,000
Group stage	750 pounds
All in all	£ 9,000

Tournament course

In contrast to the previous year, only six players took part in the tournament instead of eight, including the defending champion Steve Davis . The players started the tournament in a similar format at times, as they did in the late 1970s, the tournament divided into two groups of three with a group stage. After a simple round-robin tournament was played, the two best players in each group advanced to the semi-finals, from which the winner was played in the knockout system . The games in the group phase lasted eight to nine frames, while the semi-finals were played in the best of 9 frames and the final in the best of 17 frames .

Group stage

Group A

space	player	Lots	S.	N	Frames	Diff.	Pt.
1	Ray Reardon	2	2	0	11: 7	+4	4th
2	Willie Thorne	2	1	1	9: 8	+1	2
3	Terry Griffiths	2	0	2	6:11	-5	0

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Ray Reardon	4th5 : 45	Willie Thorne
2	Willie Thorne	35 : 35	Terry Griffiths
3	Ray Reardon	36 : 36th	Terry Griffiths

Group B

space	player	Lots	S.	N	Frames	Diff.	Pt.
1	Doug Mountjoy	2	2	0	14: 4	+10	4th
2	Dennis Taylor	2	1	1	7:10	-3	2
3	Tony Knowles	2	0	2	5:12	–7	0

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Dennis Taylor	35 : 35	Tony Knowles
2	Doug Mountjoy	27 : 27th	Tony Knowles
3	Doug Mountjoy	27 : 27th	Dennis Taylor

Knockout phase

	Semi-final Best of 9 frames				Final Best of 17 frames
	Doug Mountjoy	5
	Willie Thorne	4th
					Doug Mountjoy	9
					Ray Reardon	7th
	Ray Reardon	5
	Dennis Taylor	2

final

For the first and only time in the history of the tournament there was an all-Welsh final. Both Doug Mountjoy and Ray Reardon had been successful in the Pontins Professional; Mountjoy had only one title to show, Reardon was one of the most successful players in tournament history with four titles from six finals until 1982. While Mountjoy got through the group stage without any problems, but then only defeated Willie Thorne in the decider in the semifinals , Reardon's group stage was significantly closer than his 5-2 semifinal victory over Dennis Taylor .

The first frames of the final were even and so after four frames it was 2: 2, but then Mountjoy was able to break away to take the 5: 2 lead. Ray Reardoon came up to 5: 4, 7: 6 and 8: 7, but couldn't equalize, so that Mountjoy won the final with 9: 7.

Final: Best of 17 Frames Pontins Theme Park,  Prestatyn , Wales , May 14th 1983
Doug Mountjoy	9 : 7	Ray Reardon
110 : 1, 59: 64 , 37: 82 , 73 : 10 (64), 64 : 44, 95 : 12 (71), 70 : 47 (54), 37: 61 , 40: 66 , 68 : 32, 86 : 29 (61), 51: 71 , 35: 77 , 70 : 12, 40: 61 , 73 : 13
71	Highest break	-
-	Century breaks	-
4th	50+ breaks	-

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ron Florax: 1983 Pontins Professional. CueTracker.net, accessed on June 22, 2020 .  
2. ↑ Chris Turner: Pontins Open / Pontins Professional / Pontins World Pro-Am Series - Non-Ranking Events. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on February 28, 2012 ; accessed on June 22, 2020 (English).  
3. ^ Ron Florax: 1983 Pontins Professional - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed on June 22, 2020 .  
4. ↑ 1983 Pontin's Professional Results. Snooker Database, accessed June 22, 2020 .