1988/89 snooker season

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1988/89 snooker season
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Season dates
Beginning of the season July 1988
End of season June 1989
Ranked tournaments 8th
Non-ranking 2
Invitation tournaments 11
number of players 242
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy
Masters ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
World Champion EnglandEngland Steve Davis
World ranking
Ranking first EnglandEngland Steve Davis
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For Snooker season 1988/1989 included eight Snooker -Profiturniere affecting snooker world rankings were held and a number of other tournaments that, between September 1988 and the World Cup final on May 1, 1989th

Season results

The following table shows the seasonal results. If only the month is noted here, the exact date is unknown.

date competition venue Art winner Final opponent Result
July 1988 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand Masters Wellington Non-ranking ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland Mike Hallett 6: 1
3rd to 7th August Hong Kong 1959Hong Kong Hong Kong Masters Hong Kong Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White EnglandEngland Neal Foulds 6: 3
August 25 to September 16, 1988 EnglandEngland International Open Stoke-on-Trent World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis EnglandEngland Jimmy White 12: 6
September 1, 1988 to May 23, 1989 EnglandEngland London Masters London Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland John Parrott 4: 2
September 26-29, 1988 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai Masters Dubai Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Neal Foulds EnglandEngland Steve Davis 5: 4
October 1988 EnglandEngland Matchroom Professional Championship Southend-on-Sea Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 10: 7
October 1988 IrelandIreland Foster's professional Dublin Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Mike Hallett ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 8: 5
October 10-23, 1988 EnglandEngland Grand Prix Reading World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 10: 6
October 26th to November 5th, 1988 CanadaCanada Canadian Masters Toronto World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White EnglandEngland Steve Davis 9: 4
November 11-27, 1988 EnglandEngland UK Championship Preston World ranking tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 16:12
December 2-10, 1988 EnglandEngland World Matchplay Brentwood Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis EnglandEngland John Parrott 9: 5
December 17th and 18th, 1988 European UnionEuropean Union 1988 Norwich Union Grand Prix different Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis EnglandEngland Jimmy White 5: 4
January 1st to 15th, 1989 EnglandEngland Classic Blackpool World ranking tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wayne Jones 13:11
January 1 to May 14, 1989 EnglandEngland Matchroom League different league EnglandEngland Steve Davis EnglandEngland John Parrott 5: 3
January 21-29, 1989 EnglandEngland Masters London Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland John Parrott 9: 6
January 30th to February 11th 1989 FranceFrance European Open Deauville World ranking tournament EnglandEngland John Parrott WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 10: 9
February to March 5, 1989 EnglandEngland British Open Derby World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Tony Meo EnglandEngland Dean Reynolds 13: 6
March 1989 IrelandIreland Irish Masters Kill Invitation tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 9: 8
March 14-19, 1989 EnglandEngland World cup Bournemouth Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Team England ~~Nothing "Rest of the World" team 9: 8
April 15 to May 1, 1989 EnglandEngland World Snooker Championship Sheffield World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis EnglandEngland John Parrott 18: 3
June 1989 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Pontins Professional Prestatyn Non-ranking WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan MaltaMalta Tony Drago 9: 2
annotation
  1. ↑ There was no final game. The result is the result of the meeting of Davis and Parrott; Davis took first place, Parrott second.

    2. National professional championships

    date competition venue Art winner Final opponent Result
    September 1988 CanadaCanada Canadian Professional Championship Toronto Invitation tournament CanadaCanada Alain Robidoux CanadaCanada Jim Wych 8: 4
    September 1988 AustraliaAustralia Australian Professional Championship Sydney Invitation tournament AustraliaAustralia John Campbell AustraliaAustralia Robby Foldvari 9: 7
    January 1989 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh Professional Championship Newport Invitation tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 9: 6
    January 1989 South Africa 1961South Africa South African Professional Championship Johannesburg Invitation tournament South Africa 1961South Africa Perrie Mans South Africa 1961South Africa Robbie Grace 8: 5
    February 1989 EnglandEngland English Professional Championship Bristol Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Mike Hallett EnglandEngland John Parrott 9: 7
    February 1989 ScotlandScotland Scottish Professional Championship Edinburgh Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland John Rea ScotlandScotland Murdo MacLeod 9: 7
    February 1989 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Irish Professional Championship Antrim Invitation tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jack McLaughlin 9: 7

    Qualifying tournaments

    date competition venue winner finalist Result
    October 1986 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg WPBSA Pro Ticket Series - Event 1 Prestatyn Isle of ManIsle of Man Tony Wilson EnglandEngland Craig Edwards 5: 4
    May 1987 EnglandEngland WPBSA Pro Ticket Series - Event 2 Puck pool EnglandEngland Nick Terry WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 5: 3
    May / June 1987 EnglandEngland WPBSA Pro Ticket Series - Event 3 Burnham-on-Sea EnglandEngland Steve Ventham EnglandEngland Steve Campbell 5: 4
    September 1987 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg WPBSA Pro Ticket Series - Event 4 Prestatyn EnglandEngland Nick Terry EnglandEngland Mark Johnston-Allen 5: 4
    March 22-27, 1988 EnglandEngland Professional play-offs Preston 1st round winner 1st round loser different

    Non-ranking events outside of the tournament schedule

    date competition venue winner finalist Result
    September 1988 ScotlandScotland WPBSA Non-Ranking - Event 1 Glasgow EnglandEngland Gary Wilkinson Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 5: 4
    November 1988 EnglandEngland WPBSA Non-Ranking - Event 2 Brixham IrelandIreland Paddy Browne South Africa 1961South Africa Peter Francisco 5: 1
    December 1988 EnglandEngland WPBSA Non-Ranking - Event 3 Leeds EnglandEngland David Taylor EnglandEngland Steve Meakin 9: 1

    World ranking

    The snooker world ranking is only updated after each full season and takes into account the performance of the past two seasons. The following table shows the 32 best players in the world rankings for the 1988/89 season; is based on the results of seasons 86/87 and 87/88 . The previous year's position is given in brackets.

    Place 1 - 8 Place 9 - 16 17th - 24th place Place 25 - 32
    1 EnglandEngland Steve Davis (1) 9 EnglandEngland Mike Hallett (16) 17th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins (9) 25th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Newbury (??)
    2 EnglandEngland Jimmy White (2) 10 EnglandEngland Dennis Taylor (8) 18th EnglandEngland Rex Williams (12) 26th EnglandEngland Barry West (29)
    3 EnglandEngland Neal Foulds (3) 11 EnglandEngland Joe Johnson (5) 19th AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton (26) 27 EnglandEngland John Spencer (28)
    4th ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (23) 12 South Africa 1961South Africa Silvino Francisco (10) 20th MaltaMalta Tony Drago (32) 28 EnglandEngland David Taylor (25)
    5 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths (6) 13 EnglandEngland Willie Thorne (11) 21st IrelandIreland Eugene Hughes (24) 29 CanadaCanada Bob Chaperone (??)
    6th CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn (4) 14th South Africa 1961South Africa Peter Francisco (18) 22nd EnglandEngland Dean Reynolds (15) 30th EnglandEngland Steve Longworth (31)
    7th EnglandEngland John Parrott (13) 15th EnglandEngland John Virgo (19) 23 New ZealandNew Zealand Dene O'Kane (??) 31 EnglandEngland Tony Meo (20)
    8th EnglandEngland Tony Knowles (7) 16 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Cliff Wilson (17) 24 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy (14) 32 EnglandEngland Steve James (??)

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