Thailand Masters 1986

Thailand Masters 1986 Camus Thailand Masters 1986
Tournament type:	Invitation tournament
Attendees:	6th
Venue:	Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel
Opening:	August 1986
Endgame:	August 1986
Defending champion:	Dennis Taylor
Winner:	James Wattana
Finalist:	Terry Griffiths
Highest Break:	68 ( Steve Davis )
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The 1986 Camus Thailand Masters was a professional snooker invitation tournament as part of the 1986/87 season . The tournament was held in August 1986 in the Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel in the Thai capital Bangkok . The winner was local amateur player James Wattana , who won the tournament with a 2-1 win over Terry Griffiths . The highest break of the tournament was a break in 1968 by the Englishman Steve Davis due to the lack of a century break .

Prize money

For the third time, the tournament was sponsored by the French cognac distillery Camus , but again there was no official prize money. However, since the tournament was part of a series of Barry Hearns Matchroom Sport and Camus-sponsored series of Asian tournaments, the players received free first-class flights as well as several bottles of cognac.

Tournament course

After the number of participants had risen to eight in the previous tournament, it was reduced to six again this year. The field of participants was divided into three top professional players under contract with Matchroom Sport , the Thai professional player Sakchai Sim Ngam and the two local amateur players James Wattana and Patipat Wattanaporn . All three Thais played in a first round against one of the matchroom professionals each, with the three winners of the games and, with Sakchai Sim Ngam, the one who had lost the least as a lucky loser , advanced to the semifinals, from which he continued to play in the K.- o. system for the title was played. 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
	Dennis Taylor	1
	James Wattana	2
					James Wattana	2
					Steve Davis	1
	Steve Davis	2
	Sakchai Sim Ngam	1
									James Wattana	2
									Terry Griffiths	1
	Terry Griffiths	2
	Patipat Wattanaporn	0
					Terry Griffiths	2
					Sakchai Sim Ngam	0

final

The 16-year-old James Wattana had shown his skills in advance of the final at the tournament and with Dennis Taylor defeated an ex-world champion and the defending champion, to the final with another victory over Steve Davis , who is considered to be the dominant player of the 1980s to reach. In the final he met Terry Griffiths , also an ex-world champion, who was now in the final of the Thailand Masters for the third time in a row with this final. Griffiths had secured this with two white washes over two of the Thai players.

The first frame of the endgame, which lasts a maximum of three frames, went very close to Griffiths at 49:54. The following frame was also only a little clearer, but Wattana saved himself with a 80:63 in the decider . This in turn dominated the young Thai and won it 65: 8, making him the winner of the game and the tournament.

Final: Best of 3 Frames Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel ,  Bangkok , Thailand , August 1986
James Wattana	2 : 1	Terry Griffiths
49: 54 , 80 : 63, 65 : 8
-	Highest break	-
-	Century breaks	-
-	50+ breaks	-

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ron Florax: 1986 Thailand Masters. CueTracker.net, accessed November 16, 2019 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chris Turner: Thailand Open / Thailand Classic / Thailand Masters - World Ranking and Invitation Events. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on November 16, 2019 .  
3. ^ Ron Florax: 1986 Thailand Masters - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed November 16, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Steve Davis : Interesting . Dragonstars Eventmanagement, Fürth 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053061-6 , p.  220 (English: Interesting . Ebury Press, London 2015.).