Welsh Professional Championship 1989

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Welsh Professional Championship 1989
Senator Windows Welsh Professional Championship 1989
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Tournament type: National professional championship
Venue: Newport Center , Newport , Wales
Opening: January 1989
Endgame: January 1989

Defending champion: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths
Winner: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy
Finalist: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths
Highest Break: 124 ( Doug Mountjoy ) WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg
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The Senator Windows Welsh Professional Championship 1989 was a professional snooker tournament of the 1988/89 season without affecting the world rankings and determining the Welsh professional champions. The tournament was in January 1989. As in previous years, in Newport Center of Wales Newport discharged. The winner was the five-time title holder Doug Mountjoy , who defeated defending champion Terry Griffiths 9: 6 in the final . Mountjoy also played the tournament's highest break with a 124 break.

Prize money

As in the previous year, the tournament was sponsored by Senator Windows . The prize money increased by £ 3,500 to £ 26,000, of which about two-fifths went to the winner. In addition, for the first time the losers of the first round players received - albeit small - prize money.

Prize money
winner 10,500 ₤
final 6,000 ₤
Semifinals 2,500 ₤
Quarter finals 750 pounds
First round 150 pounds
Highest break 1,200 ₤
All in all 26,000 ₤

competition

The 1989 edition was also played with ten participants and in the tried and tested mode with two first round games and the subsequent quarter-finals 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
                             
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 6th  
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 3  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 9  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett 5  
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett 6th     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett 6th
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Colin Roscoe 3     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Cliff Wilson 1  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 9
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 6th
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 6th     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 6th  
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Tony Chappel 4th     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 5  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 9
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Newbury 7th  
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Newbury 6th
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wayne Jones 5  

final

For Doug Mountjoy it was already the ninth final at the Welsh Professional Championship, with four wins he was also the record winner of the tournament. In the final, he met the three-time winner and, among others, last year's winner Terry Griffiths .

Griffiths dominated the start of the match and took the lead 3-0 and 5-1 before Mountjoy caught up to 4-5. After Griffiths had extended his lead to 4-6, Mountjoy first equalized, then took the lead and finally won his last tournament title with 9: 6.

Final: Best of 17 Frames
Newport Center ,  Newport , Wales , January 1989
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 9 : 6 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths
25: 76 ; 8: 90 ; 32: 89 ; 89 : 6 (65); 43: 74 ; 4: 77 (69); 65 : 37; 119 : 8 (85);
88 27 (80); 45: 60 ; 65 : 7 (50); 124 : 11 (124); 76 : 25 (25); 80 : 24 (70); 72 : 25
124 Highest break 69
1 Century breaks -
7th 50+ breaks 1

Century Breaks

During the tournament, three century breaks were played by three players.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ron Florax: 1989 Welsh Professional Championship. Cuetracker.net, accessed on August 12, 2018 .
  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: 1989 Welsh Professional Championship - Finishes. Cuetracker.net, accessed on August 12, 2018 .