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1989 Matchroom League
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Matchroom League 1989 01 16 1989 05 14 y Matchroom Sport Non-ranking event £220,000Smith Terry Higgins is quizzed about Monaco The Daily Telegraph London 16 May 1989 32 £70,000 Cliff Thorburn CAN (147) ENG Steve Davis ENG John Parrott Round-Robin 1988 1990
The 1989 Matchroom League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 16 January to 14 May 1989.MacDougall Hugh 'Whirlwind' blows in! Yorkshire Evening Press 16 December 1988 30 It featured ten players with seven from the Matchroom stable minus Dennis Taylor which he got relegated the previous year. He and fellow relegated player Joe Johnson were replaced by Alex Higgins and John ParrottAlex in Rothmans https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.com/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004985%2F19880610&page=79&article=079&stringtohighlight=dennis+taylor+matchroom+league subscription Manchester Evening News 10 June 1988 79 who plays alongside Stephen Hendry as the non Matchroom players. Matches were played mostly around sports and leisure centres and town halls across the UK and overseas countries with matches played in Iceland, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Monaco and France.
Steve Davis topped the table and won the tournament for the third year in running. Cliff Thorburn recorded a maximum break in his match against Jimmy White at Crawley and become the first player to have made two maximum breaks in competition.Premier/Matchroom League, Matchroom Championship League http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/league.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120216154905/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/league.html dead 16 February 2012 Chris Turner's Snooker Archive 23 January 2018
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:Smith, Terry 1989 Benson and Hedges Snooker Year Aylesbury Pelham Books 0720719445 Matchroom League: Final Table 92 Sixth
Winner: £70,000
Runner-up: £30,000
3rd place: £25,000
4th place: £20,000
5th Place: £17,000
6th Place: £15,000
7th Place: £13,000
8th Place: £11,000
9th Place: £9,000
10th Place: £5,000
Highest break: £5,000
Total: £220,000
League phase
Hayton Eric Cuesport Book of Professional Snooker 157 2004 Rose Villa Publications Lowestoft 978-0954854904 International division for Matchroom league Snooker Scene Everton's News Agency Birmingham June 1989 24
Ranking ENG DAV ENG PAR SCO HEN CAN THO ENG WHI ENG MEO ENG FOU ENG THO WAL GRI NIR HIG FrameW-L MatchW-D-L Pld-Pts Winner Steve Davis x 5 5 6 2 6 5 7 7 5 48–24 8–0–1 9–24 Runner-up John Parrott 3 x 3 7 4 6 5 5 5 7 45–27 6–1–2 9–19 3 Stephen Hendry 3 5 x 3 6 5 4 5 6 5 42–30 6–1–2 9–19 4 Cliff Thorburn 2 1 5 x 7 4 5 5 3 5 37–35 5–1–3 9–16 5 Jimmy White 6 4 2 1 x 3 1 4 5 5 31–41 3–2–4 9–11 6 Tony Meo 2 2 3 4 5 x 4 4 5 4 33–39 2–4–3 9–10 7 Neal Foulds 3 3 4 3 7 4 x 4 2 5 35–37 2–3–4 9–9 8 Willie Thorne 1 3 3 3 4 4 4 x 5 5 32–40 2–3–4 9–9 9 Terry Griffiths 1 3 2 5 3 3 6 3 x 5 31–41 3–0–6 9–9 10 Alex Higgins 3 1 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 x 26–46 0–1–8 9–1
If points were level then match wins, followed by most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If that ended 4–4 then the player who got to four first was higher.
16 January – Dolphin Centre, Darlington
John Parrott 5–3 Terry Griffiths
17 January – The Iceland Hotel, Reykjavík
Steve Davis 5–3 Neal Foulds
19 January – Queensway Hall, Dunstable
Cliff Thorburn 5–3 Stephen Hendry
20 January – Warwick University
Willie Thorne 4–4 Jimmy White
21 January – Torbay Lesuire Centre, Paignton
Tony Meo 4–4 Cliff Thorburn, Thorburn replaced Higgins
6 March –Spa Grand Hall, Scarborough
Tony Meo 5–3 Terry Griffiths
7 March – Stoke Rochford Hall, near Grantham
John Parrott 5–3 Willie Thorne
8 March – Hawth Theatre, Crawley
Cliff Thorburn 7–1 Jimmy White
9 March – Watford Leisure Centre, Watford
John Parrott 5–3 Neal Foulds
10 March – Aston Villa Sports and Leisure Centre, Birmingham
Jimmy White 5–3 Alex Higgins
11 March – Central Hall, York
Jimmy White 5–3 Terry Griffiths
12 March – The Dome, Kelham Hall, Newark
Neal Foulds 4–4 Willie Thorne
12 March – Greenhills Sports Centre, Drogheda
Cliff Thorburn 5–3 Alex Higgins
13 March – Civic Theatre, Barnsley
John Parrott 6–2 Tony Meo
14 March – Swansea Leisure Centre, Swansea
Steve Davis 6–2 Tony Meo
15 March – Rhydycar Leisure Centre, Merthyr Tydfil
Willie Thorne 5–3 Terry Griffiths
16 March – Hereford Leisure Centre, Hereford
Neal Foulds 4–4 Stephen Hendry
18 March – Perdiswell Sports Centre, Worcester
Steve Davis 7–1 Willie Thorne
19 March – Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Stephen Hendry 5–3 John Parrott
19 March – Ostend Casino, Ostend
Neal Foulds 7–1 Jimmy White
23 March – Dundonald Ice Bowl, Dundonald, Belfast
Willie Thorne 5–3 Alex Higgins
25 March – Sands Centre, Carlisle
Steve Davis 5–3 Stephen Hendry
27 March – Crowtree Leisure Centre, Sunderland
Steve Davis 6–2 Cliff Thorburn
27 March – Amsterdam
Stephen Hendry 5–3 Tony Meo
3 April – Stantonbury Leisure Centre, Milton Keynes
Neal Foulds 4–4 Tony Meo
4 April – North Bridge Leisure Centre, Halifax
Tony Meo 5–3 Jimmy White
5 April – Howebridge Leisure Centre, Wigan
Steve Davis 5–3 John Parrott
6 April – Thornaby Pavilion, Thornaby-on-Tees
Neal Foulds 5–3 Alex Higgins
7 April – Mansfield Leisure Centre, Mansfield
John Parrott 7–1 Alex Higgins
7 April – Turku
Terry Griffiths 5–3 Cliff Thorburn
8 April – New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Stephen Hendry 5–3 Willie Thorne
9 April – Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate
Stephen Hendry 5–3 Alex Higgins
9 April – Beach Plaza Hotel, Monte Carlo
Steve Davis 7–1 Terry Griffiths
10 April – Municipal Hall, Colne
Cliff Thorburn 5–3 Neal Foulds
4 May – Northcroft Recreation Centre, Newbury
Alex Higgins 4–4 Tony Meo
5 May – Bath Sports and Leisure centre, Bath
John Parrott 4–4 Jimmy White
6 May – Granby Halls Leisure Centre, Leicester
Stephen Hendry 6–2 Jimmy White
7 May – Towngate Theatre, Poole Arts Centre, Poole
Stephen Hendry 6–2 Terry Griffiths
8 May – St David's Hall, Cardiff
Terry Griffiths 5–3 Alex Higgins
9 May – Meadowside Centre, Burton upon Trent
Cliff Thorburn 5–3 Willie Thorne
11 May – Royal Centre, Nottingham
Steve Davis 5–3 Alex Higgins
11 May – Mulhouse
Tony Meo 4–4 Willie Thorne
13 May – Norwich Sports Village, Norwich
Terry Griffiths 6–2 Neal Foulds
13 May – Marseille
John Parrott 7–1 Cliff Thorburn
14 May – Brentwood International Centre, Brentwood
Jimmy White 6–2 Steve Davis
References
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