Scottish Masters 2002

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Scottish Masters 2002
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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Venue: Thistle Hotel, Glasgow , Scotland
Opening: September 24, 2002
Endgame: September 29, 2002

Winner: EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
Finalist: ScotlandScotland John Higgins
Highest Break: 139 ( Stephen Lee ) EnglandEngland
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The 2002 Regal Scottish Masters was a snooker tournament as part of the 2002/03 Snooker Main Tour . The invitation tournament was held from September 24th to 29th at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow , Scotland . It was the 21st and final edition of the tournament. The following year, a tobacco advertising ban went into effect in the UK and the cigarette maker Regal, which had sponsored the tournament for the past 14 years, was no longer available.

For the tenth time in a row a Scot was in the Scottish Masters final. It was a new edition of the final from the previous year in the same place. The home player John Higgins could not defend his title, instead the world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan from England won 9: 4.

Prize money

Overall, the prize money changed little, adding £ 2,000 to the winner and £ 1,000 more to the losing finalist. In Round 1 there was £ 500 more to earn.

placement Prize money
winner £ 65,000
final £ 32,000
Semifinals £ 16,000
Quarter finals £ 9,000
Round 1 £ 5,500
Highest Break (Final Round) £ 5,000
All in all £ 192,000

Final round

The first 11 of the world rankings were determined to be participants in the main tournament. Another player was able to secure 12th place in a qualifying tournament, this year it was the Scot Drew Henry . He and the players from places 5 to 11 played against each other in round 1. The top 4 were seeded for the quarter-finals and played against the four winners of the matches from round 1.

Round 1
(Best of 9) 		Quarter Finals
(Best of 11) 		Semi-finals
(Best of 11) 		Final
(Best of 17)
                                   
  1  EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan  6th    
8th  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Matthew Stevens  3
9  EnglandEngland Paul Hunter  3    
9  EnglandEngland Paul Hunter  5   1  EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan  6th
  6th  ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry  3    
3  EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon  4th
6th  ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry  5
6th  ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry  6th  
11  EnglandEngland Mark King  0   1  EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan  9
  4th  ScotlandScotland John Higgins  4th
4th  ScotlandScotland John Higgins  6th
5  IrelandIreland Ken Doherty  4th
10  EnglandEngland Jimmy White  4th    
10  EnglandEngland Jimmy White  5   4th  ScotlandScotland John Higgins  6th
  7th  EnglandEngland Stephen Lee  4th  
2  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams  0
7th  EnglandEngland Stephen Lee  5
7th  EnglandEngland Stephen Lee  6th  
12  ScotlandScotland Drew Henry  1  


final

For the third time in five years, the final was Ronnie O'Sullivan versus John Higgins . In the other two years, too, one of the two was in the final. In 1998 O'Sullivan won his first title against Higgins, the previous year the Scot had taken revenge. It was the fourth Scottish Masters final for both of them. Last year, the encounter had been mixed, this time O'Sullivan quickly took the lead 3-0 and 5-1, mostly with medium-high breaks deciding the frames. Until the break between the sessions, however, Higgins was able to shorten it to 3: 5 and in the evening he even made the connection to 4: 5. But it was his last frame gain. O'Sullivan then took 4 frames in a row and won the final 9: 4. The Englishman caught up with the record winners Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry , all three of whom had won the Scottish Masters three times.

Final: Best of 17 Frames
Thistle Hotel,  Glasgow , Scotland , September 29, 2002
EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 9 : 4 ScotlandScotland John Higgins
Afternoon : 70 : 0 (51), 79 : 0 (79), 67 : 43 (52), 0: 100 (100), 69 : 9 (65), 63 : 34, 4: 77 , 44: 74 ;
Evening : 55: 70 (55 O'Sullivan, Higgins 59), 69 : 0, 112 : 22 (112) 90 : 43 (52) 95 : 0 (91)
112 Highest break 100
1 Century breaks 1
8th 50+ breaks 2

qualification

The qualifying matches were played from August 27 to September 1, 2002. 16 players had played in four rounds for the free place in the final tournament, the winner was the Scot Drew Henry .

  Round of 16 Quarter finals Semifinals final
                             
 ScotlandScotland Graeme Dott 1                  
 FinlandFinland Robin Hull 5  
 FinlandFinland Robin Hull 3
 
   ScotlandScotland Drew Henry 5  
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale 2
 ScotlandScotland Drew Henry 5  
 ScotlandScotland Drew Henry 5
   Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail 4th  
 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail 5    
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Anthony Davies 2  
 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail 5
 
   ScotlandScotland Alan McManus 4th  
 ScotlandScotland Alan McManus 5
 ScotlandScotland Chris Small 0  
 ScotlandScotland Drew Henry 5
   EnglandEngland Ali Carter 3
 EnglandEngland Nigel Bond 5        
 
 MaltaMalta Tony Drago 1  
 EnglandEngland Nigel Bond 2
 
   IrelandIreland Michael Judge 5  
 EnglandEngland Anthony Hamilton 4th
 IrelandIreland Michael Judge 5  
 IrelandIreland Michael Judge 0
   EnglandEngland Ali Carter 5  
 EnglandEngland David Gray 5    
 IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien 4th  
 EnglandEngland David Gray 4th
 
   EnglandEngland Ali Carter 5  
 EnglandEngland Joe Perry 3
 EnglandEngland Ali Carter 5  

Century breaks

11 breaks of 100 or more points were scored in the entire tournament, 9 of them in the final round. Stephen Lee managed a break of 139 points in the semifinals, for which he received the special prize of £ 5,000 for the highest Century .

Final round
EnglandEngland Stephen Lee 139, 122
EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 136, 112
ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 136
ScotlandScotland John Higgins 133, 100
IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 112
EnglandEngland Paul Hunter 101
qualification
EnglandEngland Ali Carter 141
EnglandEngland Nigel Bond 103

swell

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