1994/95 snooker season

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1994/95 snooker season
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Season dates
Beginning of the season August 1, 1994
End of season April 30, 1995
Ranked tournaments 9
Invitation tournaments 7th
number of players 596
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
Masters EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan
World Champion ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
World ranking
Ranking first ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry
1993/94
1995/96

The 1994/1995 snooker season included 15 professional snooker tournaments that were held between September 20, 1994 and the World Cup final on April 30, 1995. For the fourth time in a row, the Scot Stephen Hendry won the world title and with four tournament wins and two second places he defended the first place in the snooker world ranking for the fifth time , which is calculated from the placements in the nine world ranking tournaments. Another Scot, John Higgins , also had a very successful season with three titles and two other finals.

The Strachan Challenges , which began as a ranked tournament and had been downgraded twice, were discontinued after three years. As of this season, there was a second European tournament outside the British Isles, the Malta Grand Prix, alongside the Belgian European Open. At the start, local hero Tony Drago was able to advance to the final.

Season results

The following table shows the seasonal results.

date competition venue Art winner Final opponent Result
August 1 to August 7, 1994 AustraliaAustralia Australian Open 1994 Melbourne Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Willie Thorne 9: 7
September 20 to September 25, 1994 ScotlandScotland Scottish Masters 1994 Motherwell Invitation tournament IrelandIreland Ken Doherty ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 9: 7
September 30th to October 7th, 1994 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai Classic 1994 Dubai World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Alan McManus EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon 9: 6
October 10 to October 23, 1994 EnglandEngland 1994 Grand Prix Derby World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Dave Harold 9: 6
October 28 to November 5, 1994 ScotlandScotland Benson & Hedges Championship 1994 Edinburgh Invitation tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams EnglandEngland Rod Lawler 9: 5
November 1994 EnglandEngland Merseyside Professional 1994 Liverpool Non-ranking tournament EnglandEngland Dean Reynolds EnglandEngland Jason Ferguson 5: 1
November 11th to November 27th, 1994 EnglandEngland UK Championship 1994 Preston World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 10: 5
November 29 to December 4, 1994 MaltaMalta Malta Grand Prix 1994 Marsascala Invitation tournament EnglandEngland John Parrott MaltaMalta Tony Drago 7: 6
December 11th to December 17th, 1994 BelgiumBelgium European Open 1994 Antwerp World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland John Parrott 9: 3
January 4 to January 8, 1995 EnglandEngland Charity Challenge 1995 Birmingham Invitation tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 9: 1
January 22 to January 29, 1995 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh Open 1995 Newport World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis ScotlandScotland John Higgins 9: 3
February 5 to February 12, 1995 EnglandEngland Masters 1995 Wembley Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan ScotlandScotland John Higgins 9: 3
February 13 to February 19, 1995 EnglandEngland International Open 1995 Bournemouth World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Steve Davis 9: 5
March 10 to March 18, 1995 ThailandThailand Thailand Open 1995 Bangkok World ranking tournament ThailandThailand James Wattana EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 9: 6
March 21 to March 26, 1995 IrelandIreland Irish Masters 1995 Dublin Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 9: 8
April 1 to April 9, 1995 EnglandEngland British Open 1995 Plymouth World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland John Higgins EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan 9: 8
April 14th to April 30th 1995 EnglandEngland World Snooker Championship 1995 Sheffield World ranking tournament ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry EnglandEngland Nigel Bond 18: 9

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 1994/95 season; is based on the results of the seasons 92/93 and 93/94 . The previous year's position is given in brackets.

Place 1 - 8 Place 9 - 16 17th - 24th place Place 25 - 32
1 ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry (1) 9 EnglandEngland Ronnie O'Sullivan (57) 17th EnglandEngland Steve James (13) 25th EnglandEngland Neal Foulds (14)
2 EnglandEngland Steve Davis (4) 10 EnglandEngland Peter Ebdon (21) 18th EnglandEngland Martin Clark (12) 26th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy (30)
3 ThailandThailand James Wattana (5) 11 EnglandEngland Nigel Bond (9) 19th EnglandEngland Dave Harold (50) 27 EnglandEngland Mick Price (27)
4th EnglandEngland Jimmy White (3) 12 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail (25) 20th New ZealandNew Zealand Dene O'Kane (22) 28 EnglandEngland Jason Ferguson (32)
5 EnglandEngland John Parrott (2) 13 EnglandEngland David Roe (16) 21st EnglandEngland Tony Knowles (23) 29 EnglandEngland Dean Reynolds (28)
6th ScotlandScotland Alan McManus (6) 14th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths (8) 22nd EnglandEngland Gary Wilkinson (17) 30th EnglandEngland Brian Morgan (??)
7th IrelandIreland Ken Doherty (11) 15th EnglandEngland Willie Thorne (7) 23 EnglandEngland Mike Hallett (19) 31 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett (24)
8th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan (10) 16 MaltaMalta Tony Drago (20) 24 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor (15) 32 CanadaCanada Alain Robidoux (18)

Individual evidence

  1. 1994-95 WPBSA Sanctioned Tournaments. In: snooker.org. Accessed March 24, 2016 .
  2. World Rankings 1994/95. In: snooker.org. Accessed March 24, 2016 .