Welsh Professional Championship 1991

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Welsh Professional Championship 1991
Regal Welsh Professional Championship 1991
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Tournament type: Non-ranking
Attendees: 9
Venue: Newport Center , Newport , Wales
Opening: February 10, 1991
Endgame: February 15, 1991

Winner: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan
Finalist: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett
Highest Break: 123 ( Darren Morgan ) WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg
← 1990
 

The Regal Welsh Professional Championship 1991 was a professional snooker tournament of the 1990/92 season without affecting the world rankings and determining the Welsh professional champions. The tournament, which was the final edition of the Welsh Professional Championship, was played from February 10-15, 1991 at the Newport Center in the Welsh city ​​of Newport . Defending champion Darren Morgan was able to defend his title with a 9: 3 final win over Mark Bennett , at the same time he played the only Century Break and thus the highest break of the tournament with a 123 break .

Prize money

With the Imperial Brands brand Regal , the tournament had a new sponsor who sponsored the Welsh Open from the following season . With the sponsorship change, the prize pool increased by just under £ 6,000 to £ 33,500, of which about a third went to the winner. However, at the same time the price for the highest break was abolished after several years.

Prize money
winner £ 11,000
finalist £ 7,000
Semi-finalist £ 3,750
Quarter finalist £ 1,750
First round £ 1,000
All in all £ 33,500

Tournament course

After several years the number of participants had remained constant at ten despite changing participants, it fell to nine due to the absence of record winner Doug Mountjoy . Nevertheless, there was again a first round before the quarter-finals, with these two rounds again being played in the best of 11 frames mode and the semifinals 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 Ray Reardon 6th     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 6th  
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Colin Roscoe 5     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 4th  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 9  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wayne Jones 8th  
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wayne Jones 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 Mark Bennett 3
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett 6th  
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Newbury 4th  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett 9
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Tony Chappel 5  
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Tony Chappel 6th
        WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 3  

final

Darren Morgan had made it into the final for the second time in a row, although he had no clear wins with a 6: 4 win over the aged ex-world champion Ray Reardon and a 9: 8 win over Wayne Jones . His final opponent Mark Bennett had also only won 6: 4 - against Steve Newbury - in the first round , but had defeated Tony Chappel 9: 5 in the semifinals and thus lost fewer frames than Morgan until the final.

The match started very evenly, so that after four frames it was 2-2. However, Morgan was able to take the lead 6-2 with the help of several breaks of over 50 points, including the 123er Century, before Bennett was able to shorten it to 6-3. However, Morgan was not impressed and won the following three frames to win the tournament.

Final: Best of 17 Frames
Newport Center ,  Newport , Wales , February 15, 1991
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 9 : 3 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Bennett
62: 76 , 78 : 16 (78), 83 : 37, 14: 80 , 55 : 9, 117 : 1 (62, 55), 69 : 40 (52), 135 : 0 (123),
0: 83 ( 60), 105 : 17 (64), 77 : 26 (77), 66 : 23
123 Highest break 60
1 Century breaks -
7th 50+ breaks 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ron Florax: 1991 Welsh Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Chris Turner: Welsh Professional Championship. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2019 (English).
  3. ^ Ron Florax: 1991 Welsh Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed June 14, 2019 .