Thailand Masters 1983

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Thailand Masters 1983
Channel 7 Pepsi Cola Thailand Masters 1983
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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Attendees: 6th
Venue: Thai-Nippon Stadium , Bangkok , Thailand
Opening: August 11, 1983
Endgame: August 13, 1983

Winner: EnglandEngland Tony Meo
Finalist: EnglandEngland Steve Davis
 
1984

The 1983 Channel 7 Pepsi Cola Thailand Masters was a professional snooker invitation tournament as part of the 1983/84 season . The tournament was held from August 11th to 13th, 1983 in the Thai-Nippon Stadium in the Thai capital Bangkok . The winner in an all-English final was Tony Meo , who was able to prevail in the final with a 2-1 win over Steve Davis . Records of potentially high breaks are unknown.

Prize money

Both Channel 7 and Pepsi Cola appeared as sponsors of the tournament , although there was still no prize money for the players.

Tournament course

As was common in most of the Asian invitation tournaments of the time, in addition to four world class professional snooker players - in this case, Steve Davis and Tony Meo , Terry Griffiths and Doug Mountjoy , two Englishmen and two Welsh - also several local amateur players were invited to the tournament, whereby this in this case the two Thais were Vichien Saengtong and A. Tanyuthitham . Both competed in a first round against a professional player, with the winners of the respective games in the semi-finals against one of the other professional players. The winner of the tournament was then determined in the final. All games in the tournament were played in the best of 3 frames mode .

First round
best of 3 frames
Semi-finals
Best of 3 Frames
Final
best of 3 frames
                   
   
 EnglandEngland Tony Meo  2    
 ThailandThailand A. Tanyuthitham  0  
 EnglandEngland Tony Meo  2    
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths  1  
 EnglandEngland Tony Meo  2
     EnglandEngland Steve Davis  1
 EnglandEngland Steve Davis  2
     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy  1  
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy  2
 ThailandThailand Vichien Saengtong  0  

final

The Englishman Tony Meo had to start the tournament in the first round and had clearly survived this with a white wash over A. Tanyuthitham . As a result, he had defeated former Welsh world champion Terry Griffiths 2-1 in the semifinals and thus secured a place in the final. In this he met the reigning world champion Steve Davis on a close friend who, thanks to his dominant position in snooker in the 1980s, could only start in the semifinals and there with 2: 1 over Griffiths' compatriot Doug Mountjoy and Meo only in the Decider had reached the finals. However, there are no exact frame results from the final itself, but the same game went into the decider that Tony Meo won with a 2-1 victory.

Final: Best of 3 Frames
Thai-Nippon StadiumBangkok , Thailand , August 13, 1983
EnglandEngland Tony Meo 2 : 1 EnglandEngland Steve Davis
unknown
- Highest break -
- Century breaks -
- 50+ breaks -

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ron Florax: 1983 Thailand Masters. CueTracker.net, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  2. Ron Florax: 1983 Thailand Masters - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed November 14, 2019 .