Scottish Masters 1996

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Scottish Masters 1996
Regal Masters 1996
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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Venue: Civic Center, Motherwell , Scotland
Opening: September 24, 1996
Endgame: September 29, 1996

Winner: EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon
Finalist: ScotlandScotland Alan McManus
Highest Break: 138 ( Alan McManus ) ScotlandScotland
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The Regal Scottish Masters 1996 was a snooker tournament as part of the Snooker Main Tour of the 1996/97 season . The invitation tournament was held from September 24th to 29th in the Motherwell Civic Center near Glasgow .

Defending champion Stephen Hendry lost his opening match against Alan McManus , who then made it to the final. There he met Peter Ebdon , who had lost the final against Hendry the previous year. This time the Englishman had the better end for himself and won his only Scottish Masters title with 9: 6.

Prize money

The prize money increased by £ 15,000 compared to the previous year. The winner alone got £ 5,000 more, with the other places the premium was between £ 250 and £ 1,000.

placement Prize money
winner £ 60,000
final £ 28,000
Semifinals £ 14,500
Quarter finals £ 8,500
Round 1 £ 4,750
Highest break £ 5,000
All in all £ 175,000

Final round

The top 10 in the world rankings as well as Jimmy White and Mark Williams as numbers 13 and 16 formed the invited field of participants of the tournament. The players ranked 5th to 12th competed against each other in round 1. The top 4 were set for the quarterfinals.

Round 1
(Best of 9) 		Quarter Finals
(Best of 11) 		Semi-finals
(Best of 11) 		Final
(Best of 17)
                                   
  1  ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry  3    
6th  ScotlandScotland Alan McManus  5
6th  ScotlandScotland Alan McManus  6th    
10  EnglandEngland Steve Davis  2   6th  ScotlandScotland Alan McManus  6th
  4th  EnglandEngland John Parrott  5    
4th  EnglandEngland John Parrott  6th
7th  IrelandIreland Ken Doherty  5
7th  IrelandIreland Ken Doherty  3  
11  EnglandEngland Jimmy White  2   6th  ScotlandScotland Alan McManus  6th
  3  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon  9
3  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon  6th
8th  EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan  5
8th  EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan  2    
9  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan  3   3  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon  6th
  2  ScotlandScotland John Higgins  5  
2  ScotlandScotland John Higgins  6th
5  EnglandEngland Nigel Bond  2
12  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams  2  
12  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams  5  


final

Peter Ebdon had lost the final in the previous year, but it was also the second chance for the title for Alan McManus after he had already been in the final in 1993 and lost just 9:10. The Scot had his last tournament win at the Dubai Classic in 1994 with 9: 6 against Ebdon and he had won 5 of the 7 previous tournament matches. However, the Englishman was more successful recently and was also 3 places ahead of McManus in the world rankings. McManus had the better start with a 3-1 lead. Then Ebdon not only equalized, but took the lead by 2 frames until the end of the first session. In the evening the Scot was initially able to equalize to 5: 5, but then Ebdon moved away to 8: 5. He now had four chances to complete the win, once McManus was able to shorten it with a century break , then Ebdon took the 15th frame for a 9: 6 victory. It was his fourth professional title for the fourth year in a row.

Final: Best of 17 Frames
Civic Center,  Motherwell , Scotland , 29th September 1996
ScotlandScotland Alan McManus 6: 9 EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon
Afternoon : 65 : 42, 22: 97 (57), 68 : 28, 78 : 43 (53), 0: 78 (55), 0: 72 , 49: 72 , 14: 112 (88);
Evening : 71 : 0, 88 : 17 (69), 1: 88 (70), 1: 131 (127), 58: 66 (50 Ebdon), 133 : 0 (127), 29: 69
127 Highest break 127
1 Century breaks 1
3 50+ breaks 6th

Century breaks

There were 6 breaks of over 100 points in the tournament, two of them in the final. The defeated finalist Alan McManus was the only player to score 2 century breaks , and for his highest tournament break with 138 points in the quarter-finals he received an extra £ 5,000.

ScotlandScotland Alan McManus 138, 127
EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 127
ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 122
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 119
EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 104

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  5. ↑ Rankings - 1996-1997. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed December 2, 2018 .