1991/92 snooker season

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1991/92 snooker season
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Season dates
Beginning of the season August 1991
End of season May 31, 1992
Ranked tournaments 10
Non-ranking 10
Invitation tournaments 7th
number of players 556
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship EnglandEngland John Parrott
Masters ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
World Champion ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
World ranking
Ranking first ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
1990/91
1992/93

The 1991/92 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that were part of the Main Tour . It began in August 1991 and ended on May 21, 1992 with the final of the Irish Professional Championship . The 1992 World Snooker Championship was the last world ranking tournament of the season.

Season results

date competition venue Art winner finalist Result
August 1, 1991 EnglandEngland Pot Black 1991 Birmingham Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 2: 1
August 1991 BelgiumBelgium European Challenge 1991 Commodity Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White EnglandEngland Steve Davis 4: 1
August 1991 ThailandThailand Thailand Masters 1991 Bangkok Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 6: 3
August 28 to August 31, 1991 Hong Kong 1959Hong Kong Hong Kong Challenge 1991 Hong Kong Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry ThailandThailand James Wattana 9: 1
September 4 to September 7, 1991 IndiaIndia Indian Challenge 1991 Delhi Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland John Parrott 9: 5
September 11th to September 15th 1991 ScotlandScotland Scottish Masters 1991 Motherwell Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Mike Hallett EnglandEngland Steve Davis 10: 6
September 18 to September 22, 1991 EnglandEngland World Seniors Championship 1991 Stoke-on-Trent Invitation tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Cliff Wilson AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 5: 4
September 1991 BelgiumBelgium Humo Masters 1991 Antwerp Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Mike Hallett EnglandEngland Neal Foulds 9: 7
October 5 to October 11, 1991 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai Duty Free Classic 1991 Dubai World ranking tournament EnglandEngland John Parrott EnglandEngland Tony Knowles 9: 3
October 14th to October 27th 1991 EnglandEngland Grand Prix 1991 Reading World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland Steve Davis 10: 6
November 2 to November 14, 1991 ScotlandScotland Benson & Hedges Championship 1991 Glasgow Invitation tournament IrelandIreland Ken Doherty WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 9: 3
November 15 to December 2, 1991 EnglandEngland UK Championship 1991 Preston World ranking tournament EnglandEngland John Parrott EnglandEngland Jimmy White 16:13
December 5 to December 14, 1991 EnglandEngland World Matchplay 1991 Doncaster Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Gary Wilkinson EnglandEngland Steve Davis 18:11
December 18 to December 21, 1991 BelgiumBelgium Belgian Challenge 1991 Antwerp Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 10: 9
January 1 to January 11, 1992 EnglandEngland Classic 1992 Bournemouth World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 9: 8
January 14th to January 19th 1992 ThailandThailand Asian Open 1992 Bangkok World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis ScotlandScotland Alan McManus 9: 3
February 2 to February 9, 1992 EnglandEngland Masters 1992 London Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland John Parrott 9: 4
February 10 to February 16, 1992 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh Open 1992 Newport World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 9: 3
February 17 to February 29, 1992 EnglandEngland British Open 1992 Derby World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White ThailandThailand James Wattana 10: 7
March 1992 BelgiumBelgium European Challenge 1992 Commodity Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland Joe Johnson 4-0
March 2 to March 7, 1992 EnglandEngland Strachan Open 1992 Thornbury World ranking tournament ThailandThailand James Wattana EnglandEngland John Parrott 9: 5
March 10 to March 14, 1992 BelgiumBelgium European Open 1992 Tongeren World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White EnglandEngland Mark Johnston-Allen 9: 3
March 31 to April 5, 1992 IrelandIreland Irish Masters 1992 Kildare Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 9: 6
April 18 to May 4, 1992 EnglandEngland World Snooker Championship 1992 Sheffield World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland Jimmy White 18:14
May 9 to May 16, 1992 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Pontins Professional 1992 Prestatyn Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Steve James EnglandEngland Neal Foulds 9: 8
May 18 to May 21, 1992 IrelandIreland Irish Professional Championship 1992 Cork Invitation tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jason Prince 9: 1
January 12 to May 31, 1992 EnglandEngland Matchroom League 1992 Bournemouth Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland Steve Davis 9: 2
  1. a b c d Exact date is unknown.
  2. The result is also given as 5: 3.

World ranking

The snooker world rankings were only updated after every full season until 2010 and took into account the performance of the past two seasons. The following table shows the 32 best players in the world rankings for the 1991/92 season; is based on the results of the seasons 1989/90 and 1990/91 . The previous year's placement is given in brackets.

Place 1 - 8 Place 9 - 16 17th - 24th place Place 25 - 32
1 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (1) 9 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor (10) 17th EnglandEngland Willie Thorne (11) 25th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wayne Jones (23)
2 EnglandEngland Steve Davis (2) 10 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy (5) 18th New ZealandNew Zealand Dene O'Kane (24) 26th EnglandEngland Joe Johnson (18)
3 EnglandEngland Jimmy White (4) 11 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths (6) 19th South Africa 1961South Africa Peter Francisco (25) 27 AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton (32)
4th EnglandEngland John Parrott (3) 12 EnglandEngland Dean Reynolds (8) 20th ThailandThailand James Wattana (32) 28 EnglandEngland Danny Fowler (30)
5 EnglandEngland Gary Wilkinson (20) 13 CanadaCanada Alain Robidoux (17) 21st EnglandEngland Nigel Bond (38) 29 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett (??)
6th EnglandEngland Neal Foulds (13) 14th EnglandEngland Martin Clark (12) 22nd MaltaMalta Tony Drago (31) 30th CanadaCanada Bob Chaperone (26)
7th EnglandEngland Steve James (9) 15th EnglandEngland Tony Jones (34) 23 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Newbury (21) 31 EnglandEngland John Virgo (15)
8th EnglandEngland Mike Hallett (7) 16 EnglandEngland Tony Knowles (22) 24 South Africa 1961South Africa Silvino Francisco (27) 32 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Cliff Wilson (29)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Strachan Open. World Ranking Event. (No longer available online.) In: Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Chris Turner, archived from the original on February 16, 2012 ; accessed on April 3, 2016 .
  2. 1992 Strachan Open. In: CueTracker - Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed April 3, 2016 .