Welsh Professional Championship 1990

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Welsh Professional Championship 1990
Senator Windows Welsh Professional Championship 1990
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Tournament type: Non-ranking
Attendees: 10
Venue: Newport Center , Newport
Opening: February 12, 1990
Endgame: 17th February 1990

Winner: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan
Finalist: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy
Highest Break: 130 ( Darren Morgan ) WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg
1989
 
1991

The Senator Windows Welsh Professional Championship 1990 was a professional snooker tournament of the 1989/90 season without affecting the world rankings and determining the Welsh professional champions. The tournament was from 12 to 17 February 1990 at the Newport Center of Wales Newport discharged. In the final, Darren Morgan achieved his first win of the Welsh Professional Championship with a 9: 7 win over Doug Mountjoy . Morgan also played the tournament's highest break with a 130 break.

Prize money

Although the tournament is no longer on the WPBSA was supported, the sponsor was Senator Windows the tournament faithful, with the prize money to 1,600 pounds Sterling compared to the previous year to 27,600 £ was raised, of which about two-fifths on the winner accounted for.

Prize money
winner £ 10,500
finalist £ 6,000
Semi-finalist £ 2,750
Quarter finalist £ 900
First round 350 pounds
Highest break £ 1,300
All in all £ 27,600

Tournament course

Again ten players took part in the tournament, so there was another first round . These and the quarter-finals were played again in the best of 11 frames mode, while the semi-finals and the final were played 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 Darren Morgan 6th     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 4th  
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Colin Roscoe 4th     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 6th  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 9  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Tony Chappel 8th  
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Tony Chappel 6th
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Cliff Wilson 4th  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 9
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 7th
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 6th     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 6th  
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett 2     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 3  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 9
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wayne Jones 7th  
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wayne Jones 6th
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Newbury 3  

final

Darren Morgan had only been a professional player since 1988, but had already won a tournament with the Pontins Professional in 1989 and had defeated the three-time tournament winner and ex-world champion Terry Griffiths as well as Colin Roscoe and Tony Chappel in the 1990 Welsh Professional Championship . In the final, he met Doug Mountjoy on the player who was the tournament's record winner with five titles and was in the final for the tenth time.

Mountjoy initially took the lead 0: 2 and 1: 3, but Morgan then equalized to 3: 3. After Mountjoy won the next frame, Morgan equalized with a 130 break and then took the lead for the first time and expanded it to 7: 4. Mountjoy came close to him at 7: 6 and 8: 7, but Morgan brought the victory to safe haven with an 80s break.

Final: Best of 17 Frames
Newport CenterNewport (Gwent) , Wales , February 17, 1990
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 9 : 7 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy
24: 63 , 43: 98 , 92 : 29 (84), 18: 67 , 87 : 34, 86 : 43 (85), 31: 62 , 134 : 4 (130),
75 : 36, 58 : 55, 74 : 23 (52), 0: 72 , 15: 105 (66), 76 : 28, 6: 78 , 80 : 0 (80)
130 Highest break 66
1 Century breaks -
5 50+ breaks 1

Century Breaks

During the tournament, four players played a total of four Century Breaks :

WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 130
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 121
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 101
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Tony Chappel 100

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ron Florax: 1990 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: 1990 Welsh Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed June 13, 2019 .