Welsh Professional Championship 1987

Welsh Professional Championship 1987 Matchroom Welsh Professional Championship 1987
Tournament type:	Non-ranking
Attendees:	10
Venue:	Newport Center , Newport , Wales
Opening:	February 9, 1987
Endgame:	February 13, 1987
Defending champion:	Terry Griffiths
Winner:	Doug Mountjoy
Finalist:	Steve Newbury
Highest Break:	108 ( Doug Mountjoy )
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The Matchroom Welsh Professional Championship 1987 was a professional snooker tournament of the 1986/87 season without affecting the world rankings and determining the Welsh professional champions. The tournament was from 9 to 13 February 1987 for the first time in Newport Center in Wales Newport held, where it remained until the last tournament edition 1,991th The winner was Doug Mountjoy , who was the sole record winner of the tournament with a 9: 7 win over Steve Newbury in the final. Mountjoy also played the highest break of the tournament with a 108 break.

Prize money

In the third year in a row had the tournament a sponsor, this time it was Barry Hearn's company Matchroom Sport . Compared to last year, the total prize money increased by a third of the previous year's prize money to 20,000 pounds sterling , of which two fifths went to the winner.

	Prize money
winner	£ 8,000
finalist	£ 5,000
Semi-finalist	£ 2,000
Quarter finalist	£ 500
First round	£ 0
Highest break	£ 1,000
All in all	£ 20,000

Tournament course

Again ten players took part in the tournament, so there was another first round before the quarterfinals. The mode also remained the same; Again, the first round and quarter finals were played in the best of 11 frames mode and the semi-finals and the final in the best of 17 frames mode.

First round best of 11 frames

Quarterfinals Best of 11 frames

Semi-final best of 17 frames

Final Best of 17 frames

Colin Roscoe

6th

Doug Mountjoy

6th

Clive Everton

2

Colin Roscoe

2

Doug Mountjoy

9

Tony Chappel

2

Tony Chappel

6th

Ray Reardon

4th

Doug Mountjoy

9

Steve Newbury

7th

Steve Newbury

6th

Cliff Wilson

2

Steve Newbury

9

Terry Griffiths

6th

Wayne Jones

6th

Terry Griffiths

6th

Mark Bennett

3

Wayne Jones

2

final

For Doug Mountjoy it was the sixth finals in a row, and he had won the tournament three times. In the final, he met Steve Newbury , a player who had never reached a professional final before.

As expected, Mountjoy initially dominated the match, taking a 6-1 lead and a 7-2 lead before Newbury started to catch up and came up to 7-6. Mountjoy won the next frame, but Newbury managed to restore the old gap. However, Mountjoy was able to prevent the decider and won the next frame with 76:33, so that he won the match with 9: 7 and thus his fourth tournament victory, making him the sole record winner of the tournament.

The entire final was marked by high breaks, so there were a total of eleven breaks of over fifty points. In addition, the only two Century Breaks of the tournament were played in the final by Doug Mountjoy , which was a 103 and a 108 break.

Final: Best of 17 Frames Newport Center ,  Newport , Wales , February 13, 1987
Doug Mountjoy	9 : 7	Steve Newbury
79 : 10, 0: 112 (89), 73 : 45, 107 : 6 (61), 107 : 30 (103), 85 : 24 (54), 112 : 15 (108), 31: 76 (57), 96 : 34 (50), 26: 84 (84), 1: 99 (59), 51: 79 , 26: 75 (63), 85 : 4 (56), 7: 72 , 76 : 33
108	Highest break	89
2	Century breaks	-
6th	50+ breaks	5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ron Florax: 1987 Welsh Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed June 12, 2019 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ron Florax: 1987 Welsh Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed June 12, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Chris Turner: Welsh Professional Championship. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .