1994 Masters (snooker)

Professional non-ranking snooker tournament, Feb 1994 April 2022 http://www.cuetracker.net/Tournaments/Masters/1994/02 Triggered by \bcuetracker\.net\b on the local blacklist Cyberbot II false 1994 Benson & Hedges Masters 1994 02 6 1994 02 13 y Wembley Conference Centre London England WPBSA Non-ranking event £415,000 £115,000 Alan McManus SCO (132) Alan McManus SCO Stephen Hendry SCO 9–8 1993 1995 The 1994 Masters (officially the 1994 Benson & Hedges Masters) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6 and 13 February 1994 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England. Defending champion Stephen Hendry met Alan McManus in the final. Hendry had won the previous five Masters tournaments and was undefeated in 23 matches since making his debut in 1989. By comparison McManus had lost all six of the important finals he had contested since his first final, the 1992 Asian Open. The previous week he had lost to Steve Davis in the final of the Welsh Open. McManus won the first three frames, but Hendry won the next three to level the match, including a break of 115 in frame 5, Hendry's first century of the tournament. McManus won the 7th frame to take a 4–3 lead at the end of the afternoon session. Hendry had breaks of 80, 49, 62 and 58 to win four of the first five frames in the evening and take a 7–5 lead. McManus had missed a simple black to lose frame 10 after he had needed three snookers. McManus levelled the match again by winning the next two frames before losing frame 15 and winning a tense frame 16. In the deciding frame Hendry missed an ambitious plant after which McManus made a 76 break, Hendry conceding with only 59 on the table. McManus won the first prize of £115,000. He also won a further £10,000 for making the highest break of the tournament, a 132 total clearance in the sixth frame of his first round match against Nigel Bond.Daily Mirror 14 February 1994 32 Big Mac – Alan's a Master Newsbank The Times 8 February 1994 40 Nervous Foulds recaptured art of winning Phil Yates Field Stephen Hendry, defending champion and World Champion was the number 1 seed. Places were allocated to the top 16 players in the world rankings. Players seeded 15 and 16 played in the wild-card round against the winner of the qualifying event, Ronnie O'Sullivan (ranked 57), and Peter Ebdon (ranked 21), who was the wild-card selection. Peter Ebdon, David Roe and 18-year-old Ronnie O'Sullivan were making their debuts in the Masters. Wild-card round In the preliminary round, the qualifier and wild-card players played the 15th and 16th seeds: Match Date Score WC1 Sunday 6 February Dennis Taylor NIR (15) 5–1 Ronnie O'Sullivan ENG WC2 Monday 7 February David Roe ENG (16) 1–5 Peter Ebdon ENG Main draw 1994 Masters Results http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/EventResults.aspx?EventKey=78 Snooker Database 4 April 2011 7 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111007102926/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/EventResults.aspx?EventKey=78 deadThe Masters http://www.snookerscene.co.uk/page.php?id=60 https://web.archive.org/web/20130124071627/http://www.snookerscene.co.uk/page.php?id=60 24 January 2013 Snooker Scene 8 August 2012 180 Last 16 Best of 9 frames Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames Semi-finals Best of 11 frames Final Best of 17 frames 1 Stephen Hendry SCO 5 10 Darren Morgan WAL 2 8 Terry Griffiths WAL 4 13 Steve James ENG 5 5 James Wattana THA 5 12 Martin Clark ENG 4 4 Steve Davis ENG 2 Peter Ebdon ENG 5 3 Jimmy White ENG 0 11 Ken Doherty IRL 5 6 Alan McManus SCO 5 9 Nigel Bond ENG 2 7 Willie Thorne ENG 0 15 Dennis Taylor NIR 5 2 John Parrott ENG 3 14 Neal Foulds ENG 5 1 SCO Stephen Hendry 5 13 ENG Steve James 2 5 THA James Wattana 5 ENG Peter Ebdon 4 11 IRL Ken Doherty 1 6 SCO Alan McManus 5 15 NIR Dennis Taylor 1 14 ENG Neal Foulds 5 1 SCO Stephen Hendry 6 5 THA James Wattana 2 6 SCO Alan McManus 6 14 ENG Neal Foulds 4 1 SCO Stephen Hendry 8 6 SCO Alan McManus 9 Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Alan Chamberlain.Wembley Conference Centre, London, England, 13 February 1994.The Times 14 February 1994 24 McManus edges out Hendry to claim first title Phil YatesThe Independent 14 February 1994 32 McManus arrives: Benson and Hedges Masters Newsbank Stephen Hendry (1) 8–9 Alan McManus (6) Afternoon: 46–83 (83), 25–78 (55), 52–63, 83–0, 127–0 (115), 75–43 (67), 21–67 (61)Evening: 80–32 (80), 30–68, 73–61, 72–21 (62), 71–29 (58), 23–62, 1–61, 105–14 (69), 50–72, 0–76 (76) 115 Highest break 83 1 Century breaks 0 6 50+ breaks 4 Qualifying Ronnie O'Sullivan won the qualifying tournament, known as the 1993 Benson & Hedges Championship at the time which took place in Edinburgh between 6 and 10 November 1993.Turner Chris Benson & Hedges Championship, Masters Qualifying Tournament http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/masqual.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120216155348/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/masqual.html 16 February 2012 cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Chris Turner's Snooker Archive 23 December 2010 Century breaks Total: 71994 Masters http://www.cuetracker.net/Tournaments/Masters/1994/02 CueTracker - Snooker Results and Statistics Database 19 January 2015 132 Alan McManus 130, 104 James Wattana 119 Ken Doherty 115 Stephen Hendry 113, 112 Peter Ebdon Peter Ebdon's 112 was scored in the wild-card round. 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