Thailand Open 1995 (Snooker)
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Thailand Open 1995 Monastery Thailand Open 1995 
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| Tournament type: | World ranking tournament |
| Attendees: | 469 |
| Venue: | Imperial Queens Park Hotel, Bangkok , Thailand |
| Opening: | March 10, 1995 |
| Endgame: | March 18, 1995
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| Winner: |
 James Wattana
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| Finalist: |
 Ronnie O'Sullivan
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| Highest Break: | 134 ( John Parrott )
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The Monastery Thailand Open 1995 was a snooker tournament as part of the Snooker Main Tour of the 1994/95 season , which was held in Bangkok from March 10th to 18th of that year . As in the previous year, the tournament took place in the Imperial Queens Park Hotel and, as in the previous year, the beer brand Kloster was the name sponsor.
The Thai top player James Wattana had won the first Thailand Open last year and reached the final again in the second edition. With a 9: 6 win over Ronnie O'Sullivan he successfully defended his title. The Thailand Masters in 1986 included a previous tournament in the Thailand Open , he had thus won for the third time a tournament in his hometown.
Prize money / ranking points
There was a fundamental change in the prize money compared to the previous year: The losers in the round of 128 were left empty-handed, but there were £ 150 and £ 85 more for the last three qualifying rounds . Nothing has changed for the players in the main tournament. This gave a small increase in the total prize money of less than £ 4,000.
The value of the tournament, however, fell significantly. The winner got 400 points less for the world rankings than in 1994, the defeated finalist 900 points. The other participants in the main tournament even got more than 1,000 points less, which in some cases came to half the number of points. For the players who were eliminated in the qualification, the drop was not as dramatic and outside the bottom 128 there were even more points.
| placement | Prize money | Points a |
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| winner | £ 32,500 | 3,600 |
| final | £ 18,000 | 2,700 |
| Semifinals | £ 9,000 | 2,025 |
| Quarter finals | £ 5,000 | 1,520 |
| Round of 16 | £ 2,500 | 1,330 |
| Last 32 | £ 1,665 | 1,140 (/ 380) |
| Last 48 | £ 900 | 855 (/ 570) |
| Last 64 | £ 800 | 640 |
| Last 96 | 480 pounds | 480 (/ 320) |
| Last 128 | - | 360 |
| Rounds 1-4 | - | 77-270 |
| Highest Break (Final Round) | £ 1,600 | |
| Highest Break (Qualification) | £ 700 | |
| All in all | £ 182,850 |
Wildcard round
As with the first edition of the Thailand Open, four amateurs selected by the Asian Association were allowed to take part in the tournament with a wildcard . In a preliminary round they played against the four lowest placed qualifiers in the world rankings for a place in the main round. Last year three wildcard players took advantage of this opportunity, this time there were at least two, with one benefiting from his opponent's cancellation.
The games of the wildcard round took place at the start of the tournament on March 10th. Game mode for the four games was Best of 9 .
WC = wildcard Final roundFor round 1, the 16 winners of the qualification or wildcard round were drawn from the top 16 of the world rankings . As in the previous year, all rounds except for the final were played in the best of 9 mode (5 winning frames). In the final, Best of 17 was played in two sessions, which means that the tournament winner needed 9 frames to win. finalIn his third year as a professional, Ronnie O'Sullivan was in a final for the sixth time and he had won all but one. In the previous month he had only won one of the three big tournaments, the Masters . In round 2 he had clearly defeated the world champion and world number one Stephen Hendry and with 5-0 he had come through the semifinals. But James Wattana also got through the tournament with ease and even made a set less than the Englishman. The Thai had home advantage and the experience of last year's win on the credit side. And even if it was his first final this season, he also had an impressive record with eight finals in the past two years (3 wins). Wattana got off to an ideal start into the final with a 90 break, which was followed by three more frames to lead the 4-0 break. O'Sullivan came into play slowly and was at least able to prevent the gap from growing further until the end of the session. In the evening he showed fighting spirit and came up from 2: 6 to 5: 6. But then Wattana got another run and with several high breaks he pulled back to 8: 5. That meant he was only missing one frame to win. With his highest break of 89 points, O'Sullivan shortened again, but then Wattana made the 9: 6 victory and thus the successful title defense perfect with another frame-decisive break. It was his seventh, but also his last title win on the professional tour.
Century breaks7 players scored 7 breaks of 100 or more points in the main tournament. John Parrott achieved the highest century break in the TV phase in the first round with 134 points . He received an extra bonus of £ 1,600 for this. Main tournament
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- ↑ a b c d e 1995 Thailand Open - Finishes. CueTracker, accessed September 21, 2019 .
- ↑ 1995 Thailand Open. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed September 21, 2019 .
- ↑ 1995 Monastery Thailand Open. snooker.org, accessed on September 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Rankings - 1994-1995. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed September 21, 2019 .