Welsh Professional Championship 1988

Welsh Professional Championship 1988 Senator Windows Welsh Professional Championship 1988
Tournament type:	Non-ranking
Attendees:	10
Venue:	Newport Center , Newport (Gwent) , Wales
Opening:	February 8, 1988
Endgame:	February 12, 1988
Defending champion:	Doug Mountjoy
Winner:	Terry Griffiths
Finalist:	Wayne Jones
Highest Break:	119 ( Terry Griffiths )
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The Senator Windows Welsh Professional Championship 1988 was a professional snooker tournament of the 1987/88 season without affecting the world rankings and determining the Welsh professional champions. The tournament was from 8 to 12 February 1988, like in the previous year in the Newport Center in Wales Newport discharged. The winner was Terry Griffiths , who won his third title at this tournament with a 9: 3 victory in the final over Wayne Jones . He also played the highest break of the tournament with a 119 break.

Prize money

With Senator Windows there were now four sponsors within four editions, but Senator Windows remained the sponsor of the tournament in the following year. Compared to last year, the prize money increased by £ 2,500 to £ 22,500, of which two fifths went to the winner.

	Prize money
winner	£ 9,000
finalist	£ 5,500
Semi-finalist	£ 2,250
Quarter finalist	£ 625
First round	£ 0
Highest break (qualification / main round)	£ 1,000
All in all	£ 22,500

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; the first round and the 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

Tony Chappel

6th

Terry Griffiths

6th

Colin Roscoe

4th

Tony Chappel

4th

Terry Griffiths

9

Cliff Wilson

7th

Cliff Wilson

6th

Steve Newbury

3

Terry Griffiths

9

Wayne Jones

3

Wayne Jones

6th

Ray Reardon

5

Wayne Jones

9

Doug Mountjoy

5

Mark Bennett

6th

Doug Mountjoy

6th

Clive Everton

0

Mark Bennett

3

final

Terry Griffiths - 1979 World Champion - had made his fourth final appearance at the Welsh professional championship perfect with narrow victories over Tony Chappel and Cliff Wilson . He met Wayne Jones , who had previously only defeated the six-time world champion Ray Reardon and broken his series of six consecutive finals at this tournament by a 9-5 victory in the semifinals over Doug Mountjoy .

Mostly safe, Griffiths took a 5-0 lead before Jones managed to cut it to 5-2. Subsequently, however, his opponent extended his lead to 8-2, so that Jones could only delay the certain defeat by winning the next frame: With the 12th frame of the game, which went 83:13 to Griffiths, Griffiths won his third Title in this tournament. For Jones it was the first of two lost professional ends; the second he lost to Doug Mountjoy at the 1989 Classic .

Final: Best of 17 Frames Newport Center ,  Newport , Wales , February 12, 1988
Terry Griffiths	9 : 3	Wayne Jones
88 : 42, 73 : 61, 54 : 46, 67 : 16, 78 : 39 (71), 0: 84 , 22: 87 (50), 87 : 46, 71 : 14, 112 : 10, 57: 69 , 83 : 13
71	Highest break	50
-	Century breaks	-
1	50+ breaks	1

Century Breaks

During the tournament, a total of two century breaks were played by two players.

• Terry Griffiths : 119
• Doug Mountjoy : 115

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ron Florax: 1988 Welsh Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed June 13, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Chris Turner: Welsh Professional Championship. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on June 13, 2019 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ron Florax: 1988 Welsh Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed June 13, 2019 .