WPBSA Non-Ranking 1989 - Event 1
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WPBSA Non-Ranking 1989 - Event 1 Favorite Fried Chicken WPBSA Non-Ranking 1989 - Event 1 
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| Tournament type: | Non-ranking |
| Attendees: | 68 |
| Venue: | Clacton Snooker Center , Clacton-on-Sea , England |
| Opening: | September 1989 |
| Endgame: | September 1989
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| Winner: |
 Robby Foldvari
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| Finalist: |
 Darren Morgan
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| Highest Break: | 140 ( Tony Drago )
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The Favorite Fried Chicken WPBSA Non-Ranking 1989 - Event 1 was a professional snooker tournament during the 1989/89 season without affecting the world rankings. The tournament was held in September 1989 at the Clacton Snooker Center in Clacton-on-Sea , England . The winner was the Australian Robby Foldvari , who won his only professional tournament with an 8-1 win over the Welshman Darren Morgan . The highest break of the tournament was played by Tony Drago from Malta .
Prize money
Although the tournament was sponsored for the first time with Favorite Fried Chicken , the prize money decreased by about a fifth of the previous year's prize money to 20,000 pounds sterling , of which a quarter went to the winner.
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| winner | £ 5,000 |
| finalist | £ 2,500 |
| Semi-finalist | £ 1,200 |
| Quarter finalist | 600 pounds |
| Round of 16 | 400 pounds |
| Last 32 | 250 pounds |
| Highest break | £ 500 |
| All in all | £ 20,000 |
Tournament course
After there was one round of the last 48 with a maximum of two previous rounds in each of the three previous editions, this time only a few players competed in a first preceding round before the rest of the field started in the round of the last 64. All games up to and including the semi-finals were played in the best of 9 frames mode , only the final was played in a different mode with the best of 15 frames mode.
First round
Due to the slight decrease in the number of participants and the changes in the tournament mode, only eight players competed in the first round, with one of the opponents not playing in three games and thus the other getting through without a fight.
| game | Player 1 | Result | Player 2 |
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| 1 |
Stephen Murphy 
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5 : 2 |
 Bernard Bennett
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| 2 |
Joe Grech
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Greg Jenkins
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| 3 |
Nick Dyson
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 Ian Black
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| 4th |
Pascal Burke
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Billy Kelly
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Further course of the tournament
The rest of the field met in the round of the last 64 on the four winners of the first round.
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final
The Australian Robby Foldvari , born in 1960, had been a professional player since 1984 and had only reached a professional final at the Australian professional championship , so this was his second place in the final. He met the six-year-old Welshman Darren Morgan , who had been a professional player since 1988 and was in the final several times and had won a tournament .
Morgan won the first frame with a break of 50, but Foldvari equalized with a break of 98. From that point on, Foldvari managed not to drop a frame and win the game 8-1. It remained the only professional title for Foldvari.
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Final: Best of 15 Frames Clacton Snooker Center , Clacton-on-Sea , England , September 1989 |
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Robby Foldvari
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8 : 1 |
Darren Morgan
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| 16: 86 (50), 108 : 6 (98), 60 : 40, 80 : 7 (76), 90 : 33 (65), 83 : 72, 70 : 33, 67 : 21, 106 : 6 (80) | ||
| 98 | Highest break | 50 |
| - | Century breaks | - |
| 4th | 50+ breaks | 1 |
Century Breaks
During the tournament, two players played a total of three century breaks .
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Tony Drago : 140
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Darren Morgan : 109, 106
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Ron Florax: 1989 WPBSA Non-Ranking - Event 1. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 7, 2019 (English).
- ^ A b Ron Florax: 1989 WPBSA Non-Ranking - Event 1 - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed May 7, 2019 .